Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Great Quails’ Eggs, But a Bitter Taste in the Mouth: The Pips

Metropolitan and erudite in other ways, why do great venues insist on pastiche music?...

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Cambridge Folk Festival Twins With Newport

Two titans of the folk festival landscape team up across the Atlantic...

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And Time, and Fashion, and Fads: Defying Gravity (Mr. Big)

Age will not wither them, nor gravity hold them down. No frills hard rock from Mr. Big...

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Infintissimal to Infinite: Unparalleled Universe (Origin)

Speed, precision and ferocity: Prepare to be overwhelmed...

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Waiting on the Sun (Jule Vera)

While Jule Vera wait for summer, the listener waits for an original hook....

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Dying Swans? Gira Calls Time at the Roundhouse

The raging soul beneath the dust and disaster. Swans sing their swansong....

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Loitered Lens: The Skids

Playing out their first new album in 35 years, The Skids grip Camden's Roundhouse...

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Music, Suspense, Noodles! Sharks on Film Rampage

Do not go gently into that dull, safe middle way. The Sharks rage, pedal down, into the Rock 'n' Roll sun...

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Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)

Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now...

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Loitered Lens: Skinny Puppy

Set Phasers to Pulverize! Iconic photography of Skinny Puppy at Kentish Town Forum...

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The End is Nigh (Apocalypse Orchestra)

Here be monsters, here be hurdy gurdy. Folk metal, doom and drone, arr harr!...

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It’s Real, Darling! Real Estate (Roundhouse, 13 June 2017)

Summer energy (of the welcome kind) comes to Camden ...

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Broken Beats, Split Personalities: Stranger (Joanne Pollock)

Frosty and frantic - there are two sides to the iceberg that is Joanne Pollock's debut...

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Farewell Tim Hall. Writer, Superfan, Friend

A fond farewell to a most eclectic of souls. Safe journey, Tim....

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Genres: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Box

Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox...

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Loitered Lens: Black Star Riders (2017)

Black Star Riders bring their own negotiating power to Europe on an extensive Spring tour. Photos from the Forum...

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Mega Ran, Illerstate, Razorrawks and more. Lancashire’s Other City Steps Forth

Rock, hip-hop and crossover grooves - urban stylings meet retro gaming geek culture ...

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Glug! No Grave But the Sea (Alestorm)

Duelling keyboards, high energy rhythms, infectious vocal hooks, tales of wenches, mead, rum, beer, tequila, tacos, donkeys and nautical naughtiness... Alestorm bring the fun...

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Part Time Punks Sessions (Inhalt)

Is contemporary artists carrying on the electronic traditions of the 1980s: a cultural ourobouros or just clean fun?...

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Loitered Lens: Frankie Ballard

Heart-pumpin' high energy country. Photos of Frankie Ballard at Islington Assembly Rooms...

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A Little Country, A Little Rock ‘n’ Roll. (Frankie Ballard, Islington Assembly Hall)

Leopardskin body, tiger feet? Frankie Ballard glams up country at Islington Assembly Hall...

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Mutiny on the Continent (Math-Rock Colour in Grey Berlin)

Berlin's gig scene is vibrant. Mutiny on the Bounty and Mouse on the Keys are ample reward....

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Music shouldn’t be easy to listen to: Lisbon Kid (Interview)

Lisbon Kid talk sounds, scenery and saudades...

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Loitered Lens: Hayseed Dixie

Photos of Hayseed Dixie stomping the Garage in a wide-ranging and perfectly executed swamp-a-billy nature...

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(Other People’s) Hooks in the Millions (Olsson)

Destined to be discarded, Olsson pushes the right buttons with Millions. Just not hard enough....

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Death, Thrash, Horror. No Garlic: With Primeval Force (Vampire)

Vampire's second album, With Primeval Force, has all the fangs it needs...

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Black Star Riders Announce New Sticksman (and Tour Dates)

New drummer, new dates. Black Star Riders bother Europe with a slew of live gigs ...

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Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)

Perc's Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end...

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Please Stomp on the Grass: Hayseed Dixie

Tie-dyed dungarees, banjos and beards - Hayseed Dixie prove that beauty's all in the ear...

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As the Stages Burn: Arch Enemy Live at Wacken

Arch Enemy nail the always-tricky task of putting a live performance onto wax...

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