New music
An Open Book: Laurent GarnierSaturday, 26 September 2015
Laurent Garnier, 49, is a key figure in the development of French electronic dance music. A DJ at the Haçienda in Manchester just as house music began to explode in 1987, he went on to helm nights at the Rex Club in Paris in the Nineties. These... Read more... |
Loose Tubes, Ronnie Scott'sSaturday, 26 September 2015
Loose Tubes go hand in hand with Ronnie Scott’s. This was the setting for their fabled residencies back in the Eighties, the scene of their farewell gig in 1990 and of their comeback last year (both of which feature on new live album Arriving). The... Read more... |
CD: Yppah - Tiny PauseSaturday, 26 September 2015
This is Yppah’s fouth album. It’s being reviewed here today because Janet Jackson won’t let us listen to her album yet. theartsdesk heard yesterday that it’s still under wraps, fearful of piracy. This is a regular occurrence, especially with big US... Read more... |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, O2 Shepherd's BushThursday, 24 September 2015
Stylistically, they’re a psychedelic kaleidoscope of a band, but that didn’t stop Unknown Mortal Orchestra getting the O2 Shepherd’s Bush swaying hypnotically last night. Their jagged, breaking grooves, burnished analogue synth and drone-like... Read more... |
CD: Don Henley – Cass CountyThursday, 24 September 2015
The title of Don Henley's fifth solo album refers to the rural area of East Texas where he grew up, listening to country music stations like Shreveport's fabled Louisiana Hayride and absorbing the building blocks of the country-rock sound he forged... Read more... |
CD: Lana Del Rey - HoneymoonWednesday, 23 September 2015
Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough single “Video Games” and its parent album, Born To Die gave the impression of a modern day Nancy Sinatra with added hip hop production, while its follow-up Ultraviolence added a bluesy twist to her sound. Honeymoon,... Read more... |
Florence + the Machine, Alexandra PalaceTuesday, 22 September 2015
There’s a new book out called Red: A Natural History of the Redhead, which gets to the heart of what it is to have the ginger gene, be it Boudicca or Jessica Rabbit. It says coppertops are more prone to bee stings, and perfume gives off a different... Read more... |
CD: New Order – Music CompleteMonday, 21 September 2015
New Order's first album of new material since 2005's Waiting for the Siren's Call reveals a band sounding rejuvenated and fighting fit, despite the fact that they're halfway through their fourth decade. The current lineup is original members Bernard... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: FacesSunday, 20 September 2015
Faces: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything… 1970–1975Faces were always about more than just the music. From the moment they were formed by ex-members of The Jeff Beck Group and Small Faces in June 1969, tension was integral. Their front... Read more... |
theartsdesk at the Chicago Jazz FestivalSunday, 20 September 2015
The Chicago Jazz Festival is a freebie extravaganza, held over the Labor Day holiday weekend, its massive crowds welcomed by the looming chromium jelly bean that is sculptor Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate. Onward into Millennium Park, right on the shore... Read more... |
CD: Peaches - RubSunday, 20 September 2015
As the year in which Jenny Hval has already declared war on “soft dick rock”, 2015 seems perfect for the return of Peaches: the electroclash shock-rock pioneer’s bass-heavy, provocative music is the diametric opposite. Rub, her first album in six... Read more... |
CD: Sexwitch - SexwitchSaturday, 19 September 2015
Natasha Khan has taken a fascinating trajectory through the music world. As Bat For Lashes she first came to public attention as part of an early-2000s wave of psychedelia, allied in particular to the furry starchild Devendra Banhart. But her high... Read more... |
