New music
Album: 100 gecs - 10,000 gecsSaturday, 18 March 2023
If popular music is dead and done and there’s nowhere left to go, rising duo 100 gecs, from St Louis, Missouri, are here to prove there’s still deranged fun to be had cannibalising the corpse. The second album from the pair, both in their late... Read more... |
Album: U2 - Songs of SurrenderFriday, 17 March 2023
U2 are better than their many critics make out. Their Stakhanovite work ethic in creating huge sonics, not-a-bolt-out-of-place songwriting and stagecraft that could reach every corner of the biggest venues long before the days of giant LED screens... Read more... |
Album: Islandman Feat. Okay Temiz and Muhlis Berberoğlu - Direct-to-Disc SessionsThursday, 16 March 2023
Turkish traditional music lends itself for marriages with other genres, not least rock and jazz: something about rock’s deep roots in African trance music and Turkey’s soul connection to the shamanic music of Central Asia.Although at times, the... Read more... |
Album: Lana Del Rabies - Strega BeataWednesday, 15 March 2023
Lana Del Rabies, the provocatively but humorously named alter ego of Phoenix-based multi-media artist and producer Sam An, is a musical sorceress who makes hallucinatory and experimental sounds in much the same vein as the UK’s haunting and trippy... Read more... |
Kreator, Chalk, Brighton review - an invigoratingly relentless assaultTuesday, 14 March 2023
Mille Petrozza is roaring into the mic, teeth gritted, black hair flailing. Behind his growl-screeching a triumphant martial riff is holding the “tune” and behind that, never-ceasing drum beats, an exercise in pure velocity.“The failed, the outcasts... Read more... |
Ladytron, SWG3, Glasgow review - synth stars show time hasn't diminished their relevanceMonday, 13 March 2023
It is a sign of Ladytron’s longevity and relevance that their support acts are now performers clearly inspired by the quartet. Elisabeth Elektra, here picked for opening the night in her home city, may not have the icy cool of the evening’s... Read more... |
Album: M83 - FantasyMonday, 13 March 2023
It’s easy to forget in the age of TikTok and trending that “virality” doesn’t always cement a lasting mainstream awareness. This can be said of M83, the cinematic music project started in 2001 by French musician Anthony Gonzales.A symphonic blending... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Heavy Metal Kids - The Albums 1974-76Sunday, 12 March 2023
The booklet coming with The Albums 1974-76 notes Johnny Rotten saw Heavy Metal Kids live and that the Sex Pistol “ripped off” their frontman Gary Holton. It's an assertion in keeping with a default option where the HMKs are referred to as a... Read more... |
Lucia and the Best Boys, SWG3, Glasgow review - a celebratory homecoming for rising starSaturday, 11 March 2023
Jessica Winter is clearly a hardy soul. The Portsmouth singer made a point of shedding her jacket and top as her support set went on, a bold choice given the typically unpredictable Glasgow weather was serving up freezing snow outside at the time.It... Read more... |
Album: Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer VacationSaturday, 11 March 2023
Being a few years more marinated in life than Miley Cyrus, it’s taken me a while to come around to her music. From the periphery, I’ve traversed the annoyance of small folk watching Hannah Montana and the "Hoedown Throwdown", to the bemused horror... Read more... |
Album: Nia Archives - Sunrise Bang ur Head Against the WallFriday, 10 March 2023
We are way, way past the point where it makes any sense to talk of jungle or drum’n’bass “revivals”. Thirty years from the emergence of jungle from the rave scene, its tempo and tropes have remained a staple sound for generation upon generation of... Read more... |
Album: Sleaford Mods - UK GrimThursday, 09 March 2023
Our very own prophets of rage are back and their anger is – quite understandably – off the scale. Even these hardened cynics couldn’t have dreamt that the country would have deteriorated even further since the release of their most successful album... Read more... |
