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BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar 'Chapters' review - somehow, it workedWednesday, 13 August 2025
You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and utters a welcoming, exploratory, London-ish “Hi... welcome to my Prom… Oh, my God!”, a friendly... Read more... |
Gibby Haynes, O2 Academy 2, Birmingham review - ex-Butthole Surfer goes School of RockMonday, 18 August 2025
Gibby Haynes is the wild-eyed crazy man who used to front the Butthole Surfers back in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, there was none weirder or more out there than the Texan psychedelic punks – and even Ice-T was then prepared to step back and... Read more... |
Album: Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of EverythingMonday, 18 August 2025
UK dub maestro and producer, Adrian Sherwood is hardly what anyone might call a slacker, but it’s 13 years since the release of his last solo album, Survival and Resistance. Those who have been eagerly anticipating more of his particular take on one... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Residents - American Composer's SeriesSunday, 17 August 2025
George & James was originally released in March 1984. Stars & Hank Forever! emerged in October 1986. The two LPs were parts of – and, as it turned out, the only entrants in – a series of albums their creators, San Francisco’s Residents,... Read more... |
Album: Dinosaur Pile-Up - I've Felt BetterSaturday, 16 August 2025
The history of popular music is littered with bands who fulfilled everything needed to make it. Then fate kicked them in the teeth. Goofin’ good time Brit heavy rockers Dinosaur Pile-Up have had some rubbish luck.In 2019, after slogging the circuit... Read more... |
Album: Tom Grennan - Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Didn't Want To BeFriday, 15 August 2025
Who’d have guessed that a dude who first came to attention a decade ago guesting on a cheesy Chase & Status drum & bass track would likely now be heading for his third chart-topping album? Tom Grennan’s done well.His first two albums lent... Read more... |
Album: Emma Smith - Bitter OrangeThursday, 14 August 2025
Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now signed to hip Brooklyn label La Reserve, with Bitter Orange, a new album of classics from the Great American... Read more... |
Album: Marissa Nadler - New RadiationsWednesday, 13 August 2025
“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song is about a farewell. The album ends with “Sad Satellite,” where the titular heavenly object is used as a metaphor... Read more... |
Album: Rise Against - RicochetMonday, 11 August 2025
Ricochet is Chicago punk veterans Rise Against’s 10th album and, unfortunately, one which suggests that despite a four-year break since Nowhere Generation, that they have hit that point where they are seriously struggling to maintain relevance. In... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Final Solution - Just Like GoldSunday, 10 August 2025
The booklet coming with Just Like Gold - Live At The Matrix frequently refers to the band as “The Solution.” It will be the same here.With respect to the name this pioneering San Francisco psychedelic outfit did choose, their drummer John Chance is... Read more... |
Mogwai / Lankum, South Facing Festival review - rich atmospheres in a south London fieldSaturday, 09 August 2025
Running as part of the South Facing Festival in Crystal Palace Bowl, Thursday’s headliners, Mogwai, and their friends across the water, Lankum, were an excellent pairing, both atmospheric, wonderful musicians whose instrumental (and vocal, in the... Read more... |
Album: Alison Goldfrapp - FluxSaturday, 09 August 2025
It’s impossible to overstate how much the early 2000s records of Goldfrapp – the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory – set the tone for the whole rest of the 21st century. The electroclash scene had already ushered in an Eternal Eighties... Read more... |
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