Book Review – The City is Ablaze! The Story of A Post Punk Popzine 1984 – 1994
It costs the same as 3 issues of Mojo, or 6 weeks’ worth of NME’s, and it’s a dozen times more likely to change your life.
Throwing Muses @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 01.11.11
The evolved Throwing Muses is a mighty force indeed, worthy of the name and the legacy
Tunabunny – Minima Moralia (HHBTM)
Wrongness is an underrated virtue. Tunabunny revel in wrongness with all the grubby enthusiasm of a puppy rolling in mud and, puppylike, they come up bouncing.
Kristin Hersh – Paradoxical Undressing
She writes of being haunted by songs, battered and tormented and bullied until she can get them down and safe. It’s not craft, it’s alchemy.
The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Atlantic)
It’s a discipline and a belief, this kind of guitar music and those who have tramped along to The Joy Formidable’s live shows the past couple of years, hungry for this debut, know this.
