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The Zolas: Ancient Mars

29/11/2012

Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It's funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect...

Sigha: Living with Ghosts

27/11/2012

'Keeping the toxic new-age cliches at bay entails a danger of entirely immersing yourself in self-conscious gloom', Sigha manages to avoid the pitfalls....

Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

25/11/2012

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

SWN Festival

17/11/2012

A brilliant little festival. Lots going in on, all within a stone's throw....

Perhaps Contraption:Interview

16/11/2012

When I play music, and connect with other musicians, I want to be transported away from the tripe the world churns up....

The Raymen: Death’s Black Train EP

16/11/2012

If you don’t buy it you will die, if you do buy it you will die. You may as well buy it and die happy....

Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...

Stabbing a Dead Horse

14/11/2012

"We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!". Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour....

Loitered Lens: Zulu

11/11/2012

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

DELS: Black Salad [EP]

10/11/2012

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

Nightwish: Brixton Academy [Live]

09/11/2012

Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it. Floor Jansen made a very strong impression,...

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Electric Ballroom [Live]

09/11/2012

As they launch into the second song of the set, the filthy 'Celebrate Your Mother', members of the audience are already flinging themselves around and being dragged, sometimes minus footwear, over...

Syd Arthur: Dorothy [Stream]

08/11/2012

A scruffy bunch of Canterbury hair-farmers they may be, but Syd Arthur certainly nailed that awful hopelessness of pavement cafes and flimsy sundresses giving way to the slate-grey gloom of November....

Panic Room: On Performance

08/11/2012

'It's always a balancing act when you're drawing up a set list; I think people would be surprised to know how many hours we literally spend agonizing over it'. UK rock band Panic Room talk about live...

Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya

06/11/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphomas Köner is an audiovisual artist whose name is indelibly associated with the chilling sub-genre sometimes known as Arctic...

Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay

05/11/2012

Trebuchet reviews the atmospheric tribal militarism of Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay...

Loitered Lens: Jim Jones Revue

04/11/2012

A raucous night of leather-larynxed rock 'n' roll played to a crowd packed with music writers only too delighted to be blown away by a power act deserving of its hype. Jim Jones Revue....

RIP: Mitch Lucker 1984-2012

02/11/2012

RIP: Mitch Lucker 1984-2012 - Trebuchet remembers...

Trouble at t’Mill: Radio 2 Axe Mike Harding

31/10/2012

Folk. An English lower middle-class museum music. Ouch....

Loitered Lens: Rival Sons, Electric Ballroom

28/10/2012

Rival Sons, live at Camden's Electric Ballroom, photographs. No wrongness....

Forgotten Tomb: …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

26/10/2012

'if it’s a pastiche, it’s a well-written, executed, and compelling pastiche that could almost be mainstream-friendly, were it not for the grim chords and screams'...

JKutchma: Interview

24/10/2012

He held himself like a man of another era. Like he had a shed full of tools and knew how to use them....

Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

Various Artists: Stellate 3 (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

22/10/2012

The Stellate series can be recommended not just as a collectors' wet dream or a dealers' safe bet but as an experimental series producing consistently interesting music that might not otherwise have...

Twelfth Night: Live and Let Live

20/10/2012

Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their...

Bruce Cockburn: Bush Hall

17/10/2012

Back in Bush Hall, Cockburn preceded one song by saying, “the way to avoid dashed expectations is not to have any.” It was however clear that expectations were high as he took the stage...

Chris Isaak: Hammersmith Apollo

16/10/2012

Deliver us from surly musicians in jeans and baseball boots. Let us be blinded by mirrored suits and touched inappropriately by covers of seemingly untouchable songs. Chris Isaak Live...

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