New music
theartsdesk in Budapest: Sziget to CitySunday, 31 August 2014
In Budapest, when your building turns a century old, you’re invited to be part of Budapest 100, a city-wide birthday celebration-cum-open-house invitation. It’s a direct way of experiencing the applied, lived-in artistry of the city, past and... Read more... |
CD: The Pierces - CreationSunday, 31 August 2014
Five albums down, and it seems that The Pierces are yet to stop dressing up their music in different, albeit recognisable, clothes. If 2011’s You & I was the big pop album that with any justice would have made Allison and Catherine household... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: The 13th Floor ElevatorsSunday, 31 August 2014
The 13th Floor Elevators: Live Evolution Lost“I lost control of my body. I looked up and Tommy and Roky were turning into wolves, hair and teeth. And in my mind I was hearing the echo of space, and rays of light were shooting through the roof... Read more... |
Kate Bush, Eventim Apollo, HammersmithSaturday, 30 August 2014
Ms Bush walked on in a black, tasselled tunic with the slight air of an aging hippy. Her feet were bare and her tousled hair was half tied-back. And that – for anyone who had managed to avoid the papers all week – answered the first question: what... Read more... |
Blondie’s New York and the Making of Parallel Lines, BBC FourSaturday, 30 August 2014
“It looked like Dresden after the bombing.” Blondie’s Chris Stein may be a member of one of pop’s most-loved bands, but he also has a way with words. Describing 1970's New York City in this way is offensive to the memory of the 25,000 who died in... Read more... |
CD: Dr John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of SatchWednesday, 27 August 2014
To most people, Louis Armstrong wasn’t the young jazz firebrand of “St James Infirmary” but the smiley old bloke who sang “What a Wonderful World”. Unfortunately, Dr John’s latest album – a tribute to Satchmo – isn’t going to change this perception... Read more... |
CD: Simian Mobile Disco - WhorlWednesday, 27 August 2014
For their fourth album Simian Mobile Disco - AKA London producers James Ford and Jas Shaw – have taken electronica to the Joshua Tree. The area in the South Californian desert where Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg and Gram Parsons bathed their... Read more... |
CD: Andy Milne & Dapp Theory - Forward In All DirectionsMonday, 25 August 2014
Andy Milne cut his teeth in the 1990s playing with the influential saxophonist and musical theorist Steve Coleman, whose structurally experimental improvised music was so strongly opposed to any kind of commercial influence he became virtually an... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Popcorn GirlsSunday, 24 August 2014
Various Artists: Popcorn GirlsAlthough the sole single by troubled American televison and film star Tuesday Weld seems an unlikely dance floor filler, 1962’s cute and gently shuffling “Are You the Boy” became a staple with one of continental... Read more... |
CD: J Mascis - Tied to a StarSunday, 24 August 2014
When you listen to J Mascis’ solo work – 2011’s Several Shades of Why in particular, and now this follow-up – it’s hard to imagine him doing anything else. Which is ridiculous, of course: as frontman of still-active slacker-rockers Dinosaur Jr.... Read more... |
CD: Basement Jaxx - JuntoSaturday, 23 August 2014
It’s been five years since British duo Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe released their last studio album after deciding to take a few years out in a bid to not get jaded. In the interim they worked alongside Steven Price to produce a pulsating score... Read more... |
CD: Roni Size - Take KontrolWednesday, 20 August 2014
Bristolian Roni Size was a leading light among Nineties drum & bass originals. By 1997, like many of his contemporaries, he was feted by the media as an artist about to supernova, to lead pop in wild new directions. It was all very exciting and... Read more... |
