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 Caspar Jacobs

“Rock n’ Roll Soldiers”: An interview with Carlotta Cosails of Hinds

“Rock n’ Roll Soldiers”: An interview with Carlotta Cosails of Hinds

It is Wednesday morning and I am in the same country as Hinds. From Oxford I am skyping with Carlotta, who is in a non-specific hotel in Birmingham. A small room with white walls. Carlotta looks tired, but happy nonetheless, ready for the next gig in Bristol. I tell Carlotta I’ve already missed two of […]

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Good Morning – Glory EP (Solitaire)

Good Morning – Glory EP (Solitaire)

By Nick Kennedy To hear Good Morning tell it, Glory – their second EP from Solitaire Records – is about desperation. Not just any desperation though – the kind of desperation so vividly portrayed by the pathetic form of eternal downtrodden failure that is Kirk Van Houten from The Simpsons. Truth be told, I’m not […]

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In Photos: Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 3

In Photos: Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 3

Part 3/3 of photos from this year’s Laneway Festival in Brisbane, featuring Pond, Mac Demarco, Banks, Future Islands, St Vincent and FKA Twigs.

 Lee Adcock

Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)

Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)

Music on the American college radio waves lately tends to fall into three basic camps – garage rock revivalists (Perfect Pussy, Bleeding Rainbow, and I think that most unfortunately named Dry Heaves fall here, too); vague, endless beats (DJ so-and-so); and distracted abstract dreaminess (that’s you, Fear of Men). The good stuff slips between those […]

 Scott Creney

John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union)

John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union)

Pale Green Ghosts is an album as diverse and hilarious, as dying and alive, as life itself. What more could you ask for? Prior approval? Grow up. The music world is a lot bigger than Pitchfork, and there are far more interesting journeys to go on than the path from a publicist’s e-mail to a writer’s inbox.

 Mike Turner

2012 & the Abysmal Company You Kept

Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.

 Scott Creney

Mac DeMarco – Rock And Roll Night Club (Captured Tracks)

If you can’t be great, you can at least be interesting.