New music
Public Image Limited, HeavenWednesday, 04 April 2012
Ever since he walked out on the Sex Pistols in January ’78, John Lydon’s music has divided opinion. In the shadow of reductive three-chord punk, his first incarnation of Public Image Ltd was fabulously exploratory and musical, blending fathoms-deep... Read more... |
Interview: Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström of e.s.t.Wednesday, 04 April 2012
“I guess it's jazz, but it's not what jazz was... if you have to call it something... " Esbjörn Svensson was the leader, pianist and main composer of e.s.t. and at the time of his death in a scuba-diving accident on 14 June, 2008, it would seem the... Read more... |
Who Do You Think You Are? USA: Lionel Richie, BBC OneWednesday, 04 April 2012
“It's about as close to a spiritual awakening as I’ve had in my entire life,” said Lionel Richie. He was standing close to the unmarked grave of his great-grandfather, in the pauper’s section of an overgrown Chattanooga cemetery. Richie began the... Read more... |
CD: The Time And Space Machine - Taste The LazerTuesday, 03 April 2012
Richard Norris has been mucking about making strange noises and joining the dots (and sometime microdots) in electronic dance music’s shadowy regions for 25 years. He's had multiple incarnations, from NME writer to creator of proto-acid house with... Read more... |
CD: Amadou & Mariam - FolilaTuesday, 03 April 2012
With the subject of the legitimacy of the label “world music” having just had another airing in The Guardian, it seems fitting that Mali’s favourite musical couple should be releasing their least “world music” album to date. For essentially, ... Read more... |
CD: She Makes War - Little BattlesTuesday, 03 April 2012
Alright, I admit it - I fell halfway in love with multi-instrumentalist Laura Kidd, the London-based artist known as She Makes War, from the first time I met her heavily made up panda eyes in the Groundhog Day-esque horror video for “Exit Strategy... Read more... |
Giant Giant Sand give away mp3Monday, 02 April 2012Maverick songwriter Howe Gelb has launched Giant Giant Sand - the new incarnation of his loose collective Giant Sand - and previewed their new album Tucson with a track giveaway. Gelb describes Tucson as "a country-rock opera" revolving... Read more... |
Patti Smith album in JuneMonday, 02 April 2012On 5 June Patti Smith releases Banga, her first album of original material in eight years. Preceded by the single "April Fool" featuring Television's Tom Verlaine, the album follow's 2007's 12, a collection of cover versions. Smith made her name... Read more... |
CD: Phronesis - Walking DarkMonday, 02 April 2012
This fourth album from Scandinavian/British jazz trio Phronesis is the follow-up to their much-lauded 2010 release Alive, chosen as 'Jazz Album of the Year' by both Jazzwise and MOJO magazines. It's also the first in which all three of its members... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Biz Markie, Iron Maiden, Wendy ReneSunday, 01 April 2012
Biz Markie: The Biz Never SleepsJoe MuggsThere are plenty who talk about hip hop's “golden age” as being circa mid-1980s to mid-1990s. This tends to be done out of snobbery or nostalgia and ignores all kinds of incredible musical developments that... Read more... |
CD: Graham Coxon – A+ESunday, 01 April 2012
Not sure about the title. Is it inspired by the place Graham Coxon used to finish up in each night during his drinking years? Not sure about the cover. Who wants to see a scabby knee? But there are no quibbles about the music. While Damon Albarn... Read more... |
CD: Orbital - WonkySaturday, 31 March 2012
In 2009 Orbital returned too soon. Dance music icons Paul and Phil Hartnoll only called it a day a little over four years previously so it was hardly a magnificent comeback. The resulting live shows smelt more of tax bills than art. Fair enough, we... Read more... |
