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Loitered Lens : Mick Harvey

12/05/2013

His apology for the newer songs being under rehearsed was unnecessary - their rawness captured the essence of the songs in a more stripped down and tenderly passionate manner than the album versions....

Mick Harvey + Duke Garwood + Brous – The Lexington

10/05/2013

His apology for the newer songs being under-rehearsed was unnecessary - their rawness captured the essence of the songs in a more stripped down and tenderly passionate manner than the album versions...

Make Better Music 70 : Time

10/05/2013

There is no aural analog of the photograph or still frame from a film. Sound is, at its core, inherently a time-dependent phenomenon. ...

Helloween : HMV Forum

08/05/2013

Hi-jinks and Helloween metal energy = Win....

Loitered Lens: Link Wray

08/05/2013

I said, “Let me give you a hand” and proceeded to walk arm in arm with Link Wray, dodging the traffic, across Camden High Street...

Loitered Lens : Ruen Brothers

05/05/2013

Ruen Brothers light up the stage at XOYO...

Volbeat : Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies

03/05/2013

Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies is definitely a triumph for Volbeat and exhibits an underlying confidence and joy in writing good songs. ...

Rebekah : Reconnected 03

02/05/2013

If you can get past the lifestyle techno corporate packaging, CLR releases some very good work...

Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

01/05/2013

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

Mark Latham, Photographer [Interview]

30/04/2013

Aggression is probably the biggest emotion because a lot of the stuff I shoot is aggressive music and it comes across in the shots....

Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

29/04/2013

Despite the bands occasional use of the term "prog" in promotion, they don't go in for grandiose epics. ...

Simian Mobile Disco : Delicacies

27/04/2013

Maybe you had to be there' Dave Rush reviews Simian Mobile Disco's live album...

Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Part 2]

26/04/2013

'I was in and out of the closet. I was a very flamboyant gay teenager and became a rock ‘n’ roller'...

The Shaking Sensations : Start Stop Worrying

25/04/2013

This is an album to induce a trancelike post-rock euphoria, rather than one to focus on. ...

Jaga Jazzist : Live with the Britten Sinfonia

25/04/2013

A crazy band who make crazy music, then. And their latest album is suitably mental....

Reverend Elvis : Desperation

24/04/2013

Think Death/Psycho/Gospel/Blues/Country Billy and then some. Everything Psychobilly should be, but isn’t. ...

The Icarus Line on Giant Drag

23/04/2013

Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line talks about producing the 2013 release by Giant Drag - Waking Up is Hard to Do....

Loitered Lens: Mala Rodriguez

21/04/2013

Mala Rodriguez brings some Latin smoulder to the Village Underground....

Swans Review : Mouth to Mouth

20/04/2013

Review of Mouth to Mouth Festival. Curated by Swans leader Michael Gira news of Mouth to Mouth bolstered expectations of an loud night of outsider noise and insider musical elitism. ...

Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Pt.1]

19/04/2013

When The Cramps asked me to be in The Cramps, I quit everything, threw my shoes in their air and my books out the window and said, I’m going with you!...

Counterfeit i : Mindfulness and Music

16/04/2013

'Dark' music can be empowering because in listening to it, your mind is brought through some places that you may not go on your own....

Ian McCulloch : Holy Ghosts

13/04/2013

Mac's voice has aged with the same sweet languid complexity as an oak-barelled Sauternes....

Troller : [Album Review]

11/04/2013

Troller seem undecided which direction to go in – sepulchral or affirmative and this seems to be the sound of a group still in transit....

Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs [Live Review]

09/04/2013

Essentially, they need to be detained Clockwork Orange-style with their eyelids clamped open and forced to watch the New York Dolls until their guyliner runs...

Feeding People : Island Universe

06/04/2013

Youth shouldn't be safe, it should be more exploratory, it should shock and offend, and demand a better world....

Hank Ray : Interview [Pt. 2]

04/04/2013

Berlin sightseeing? Guess I would take you on a “Dining ‘n’ Drinking with the Dead” roundtrip. John Heartfield, Bertholt Brecht, Nico. Something like that! I don’t dig tourists’ hotspots....

Apples & Eve [Live]

03/04/2013

Apples & Eve :close your eyes and they could be opening for Edith Piaf framed by a velvet curtain while the audience drink pink champagne and blow smoke rings...

Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds [Live]

03/04/2013

Kid Congo Powers, once guitarist for The Cramps, (and Nick Cave), unleashes his six-string on Brighton's Green Door Store...

Lost Elvis Duets

01/04/2013

'the presumably bouffant Miss Springfield replies tartly: ‘I think we are ready to work now Mr. Presley.’ SWP reviews the legendary lost Elvis duets....