Category: Sound

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

Offset by Portico Quartet [Video]

Portico Quartet: capturing "the identity of the quartet, about the records we’ve made before, and the memory of them” - Video 'Offset' from Memory Stream...

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Chapters by Penguin Cafe Orchestra [Video]

The captivating new single-shot video for ‘Chapter’ was filmed in New York on The Roosevelt Island Tramway at Queensboro Bridge. ...

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An Inoculation That Never Quite Gets off the Ground

Tool's Fear Inoculum has some gorgeous moments, however, much of the album feels like promising intros which never quite get off the ground....

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Abstract Formalism and Grafisk Världsbyggnad

Understanding formal tendencies in Ambient Drone music through the work of France Jobin (Solitude) and Ager Sonus (Mithra)...

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Lauren Spiteri – Pretty

"Lust can often be a greater, more damaging force than love" Scottish singer-songwriter Lauren Spiteri ‘Pretty’ Video Exclusive ...

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Lone Star State Of Mind – Peeking Behind The Curtain With Jarrod Dickenson

There are certainly things to be avoided in Nashville as far as I’m concerned. But to me that’s a different business altogether and it’s a different thing, it’s really the entertainment...

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A Warrior Soul Cradled In Tradition – Amy Montgomery

My music has a powerful message behind it and I think that the Celtic tradition cradles that. The stripe is a symbol to remind me of the warrior within me and when people look at it, it reminds them...

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More Authenticity, Less Plastic – Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 Delivers On All Fronts

CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it...

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Lost In The Trees: 2000 Trees 2019

Trebuchet sets out to break our 2000 Trees virginity with their excellent 2019 instalment....

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The Ramones Will Never Die: Marky Ramone

Marky Ramone - brings the iconoclasm of Ramones Punk to your town. Interview 2019...

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TRA: Tenor

Tenor Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019...

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Any Port in A Storm – Brothers Osborne Make Land

Drunken shanty renditions of Drank Like Hank would be heard throughout the streets of London into the early morning....

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Jonesin’ For Home – Dale Watson Has A Sting In His Tail

Country music is a snake that started eating its own body. I suspect in that time, it will eat its own head. There’s no identity to the sound anymore. You used to know when you hit the Country...

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Apollo Junction – In Your Arms [Video Exclusive]

Dark pop with nods to New Order and Kurt Weill - Apollo Junction In Your Arms...

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A Beer Drinking Fender Bending Duck-tailed Buckaroo

On CALL ME LUCKY, Watson sings with fondness about his girlfriend, rockabilly singer Celine Lee, on “You Weren’t Supposed to Feel This Good,” while “Mama’s Smile” would have been...

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Keith LeBlanc on Time & Space in Music

Interview with Keith LeBlanc - Ministry, Tackhead, Sugarhill Gang, Nine Inch Nails...

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Cracking Nuts Under The Apple Tree

Their music has an underlying groove combined with an earthy spirituality that makes you want to kick off your boots and dance around the nearest stone circle. ...

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Well Hi There Jazztronica

The new EP captures the essence of what made Xover so memorable while also pushing the Blue Lab Beats sonic into new territory. ...

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“Every Song was a Little World in Itself”

Interview with industrial music shamans The Youngs Gods - Franz Treichler ...

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The Grabbing Girlis

Her constant refrain of ‘eat my *stuff* like lunch’ was wasted on me as I’d been snacking before the show....

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Compressing Parliamentary Love Time with Actress

Interview with electronic musician Actress: Reworking Stockhausen around a contemporary issue ...

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There Is A Fairy Light That Never Goes Out

The obvious musical comparisons are The Smiths and Morrissey’s early solo stuff, an influence which also makes itself known in their video imagery of canal walks, tower blocks and seaside towns on...

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Monoloc: Drought

A magic EP of two instant classics...

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Asian Dub Foundation

Live review and photos of Asian Dub Foundation in London 2019...

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The Young Gods in Focus 2019

Live photographs of Seminal industrial band The Young Gods. 23rd March Islington UK...

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Delight In Neon, Glitz And Reconstruction

Live review of seminal industrial group The Young Gods March 23rd 2019 Islington, London. ...

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Desperately Seeking The Miraculous

Clad in black, with a grave yard bottle of Cherry B. Eyeliner tears streaked our faces as we listened to 'What Difference Does It Make'. Do you remember? Desperate Journalist takes us back there....

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Hair Of The Dog – Or Not?

Ferocious Dog shave the Mohawk and unleash the hell hounds on Highbury's Garage....

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Someone I love [Video] Daxx and Roxane!!

Video Exclusive - Dax & Roxane - Someone I love...

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Black Sabbath: Master of Couplets

The Doom Duo, of course, is Black Sabbath and Paranoid. “Black Sabbath”’s first minute is THE ore of all metal. ...

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