New music
The Arts Desk Radio ShowThursday, 29 March 2012
Welcome to theartsdesk's first radio show with Peter Culshaw and Joe Muggs, recorded with the extremely able help of Brendon Harding at Red Bull Studio London.In the course of this show, Peter and Joe take a look at the depth and breadth of music... Read more... |
CD: Lostprophets - WeaponsThursday, 29 March 2012
Before I came to what I was surprised to discover is a fifth album from hard-rock six-piece Lostprophets, there were two things I knew about the band: firstly, that they are Welsh; and secondly, that they showed up in magazines like Kerrang! a lot... Read more... |
Garbage stream new singleWednesday, 28 March 2012Shirley Manson-fronted alt.rock legends Garbage are streaming "Battle In Me", the official single ahead of their first album in seven years, on YouTube. Take a listen below.Not Your Kind of People is released on 22nd May on the band's own Stunvolume... Read more... |
Drake, O2 ArenaWednesday, 28 March 2012
Drake’s routine is divisive; he’s attracted hip-hop’s most loyal following in a somewhat unconventional way. By using self-doubt as his signature complex, he’s taken something traditionally uninteresting and made it his calling card. The cringe... Read more... |
CD: Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The 1972 Jethro Tull opus Thick as a Brick was offered by Ian Anderson as a parody of progressive rock concept albums. Its sub-Pythonesque packaging proclaimed the record’s lyrics to be an epic poem composed by an eight-year-old swot, Gerald Bostock... Read more... |
Ambrose Akinmusire, Colston Hall, BristolWednesday, 28 March 2012
Ambrose Akinmusire is the new jazz sensation, the messiah of the post-bop trumpet. With his hyper-talented and youthful quintet, the 29-year-old Californian delivered a set in Bristol that rang all the changes from the soft and lyrical to high-... Read more... |
Punk's not dead: Moscow's Pussy Riot answer back to PatriarchTuesday, 27 March 2012
The Moscow girl punk band Pussy Riot say their impromptu performance inside Russia’s major cathedral of their song “Holy Shit” was a prayer. They were replying to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill who called it “blasphemy”.Speaking at a... Read more... |
Blood Red Shoes announce biggest show to dateTuesday, 27 March 2012Last week's Disc of the Day graduates, Blood Red Shoes, will play the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 18th October in their biggest show to date.Presale tickets are available from 9am tomorrow, with tickets on general sale from Friday.The Brighton boy-... Read more... |
Afrikan Boy Hard Times video unveiledTuesday, 27 March 2012After some time as a cult favourite thanks to diverse DJ play, the reworking of reggae classic "Hard Times" by Afrikan Boy with grime producer Darq E Freaker and country/soul singer Jeb Loy Nichols has a video.Afrikan Boy, South London rapper and... Read more... |
Casiokids: Interview & Video ExclusiveTuesday, 27 March 2012
Norway’s bouncy electropoppers Casiokids release their new single “Kaskaden” next week. They’ve chosen to premier the video on theartsdesk. Directed by their long-term collaborator Blank Blank, the fantasia takes in Kung Fu films and the Hollywood... Read more... |
Roberto Fonseca, BarbicanTuesday, 27 March 2012
The dazzling Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca delighted a packed Barbican last night – but part of the fun was seeing him negotiate the balance between more soulful, minimal playing and sheer technically brilliant extravagance. Is he more an heir to... Read more... |
Korn, Brixton AcademyTuesday, 27 March 2012
To dubstep or not to dubstep, that was the question perplexing the nearly 5000 metalheads jammed into the Brixton Academy to see Korn.The California four-piece made their name as purveyors of "nu metal" in the mid-Nineties (like old metal - but with... Read more... |
