Added on December 13, 2016
Everett True
2016 , Aaradhna , Angel Haze , Angel Olsen , Beyonce , Bowie , Connections , Dexys , Ela Stiles , Everett True , Guerilla Toss , Hinds , Jenny Hval , Kendrick Lamar , Lady Gaga , M. Ward , Macy Gray , Mariza , Massive Attack , Nick Cave , No Sister , PJ Harvey , Porridge Radio , Rattle , Ravioli Me Away , Santigold , Skating Polly , Sophie Ellis-Bextor , Teen , Terry , The Goon Sax , The Nightingales , the tuts , The Wolfhounds
I sat in a convivial pub the other night as around me convivial sorts chattered and laughed. I could barely hear a word. Every so often, the sound of what appeared to be a band tuning up threatened to break down even that little of my personal space. I do not need, not REQUIRE an […]
Added on July 4, 2016
Lee Adcock
50 Foot Wave , Bernard Hermann , Dog Chocolate , Emily Rodgers , Eureka California , Floating Points , Future Of The Left , Guerilla Toss , Massive Attack , Nachthexen , Orchestra of Spheres , Pikelet , Skating Polly , Teen , The Gotobeds , The Poisoned Glass , The Veldt , Witching Waves
Above: The righteous and super-smart TEEN. Photo by Hannah Whitaker. I had a very dreary introduction here when I started writing this article. It involved despair about the US, physical and mental fatigue from my job, more despair for the UK, and similar nagging thoughts. I tried to deny the purging effect that music can […]
Added on November 13, 2015
Lee Adcock
2015 , Curve , Lee Adcock , Massive Attack , Song of the day , SPC ECO
She’s not trying to stalk him. She just doesn’t know how to say hello. He always arrives just before the first bell, dashing in to his locker by the band room. And Chelsea always slips to the water fountain, right at 7:55, just for a little glimpse. Someone’s usually there at the lockers waiting for […]
Added on October 6, 2015
Hannah Golightly
2015 , album review , Beatles , Hannah Golightly , John Grant , Massive Attack
Some say that the job of good music is to elevate living into something more than survival. Some wish they had lived through the sixties… I wish to be living through John Grant’s career. I’d have seen him play Liverpool if only I’d been brave enough to go alone and I wish I had been. […]
Added on August 27, 2014
Lee Adcock
Album Reviews , Bella Gotti , D.A.F. , Francesca Belmonte , Lee Adcock , Massive Attack , Nearly God , Nitzer Ebb , Nneka , The Normal , Tricky , Warm Leatherette
Hey. Guess how many guest vocalists Tricky enlisted for this album. Go on, guess. And no peeking. Because, let’s face it, folks: this Adrian Thaws is essentially this generation’s Nearly God, as the dark lord of trip hop once again hides behind the curtain and twiddles knobs for the modern-day divas who fell into his […]
Added on May 17, 2012
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Cornershop , Hamish McBain , Massive Attack , Music criticism , Neil Kulkarni , NME , Oasis , pop hackery , Pulp
Secretly, what modern mainstream pop-hackery confirms is that there’s a fundamental sadness to the role of music writer, or at least there is if you let it take hold – you are employed to basically be a hanger-on, an eavesdropper, a spod, a geek, someone who won’t shut up about something the rest of the world just get on enjoying.
Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , Acid House , Andy Weatherall , Aphex Twin , Arctic Monkeys , Blur , Bobby Gillespie , Bomb The Bass , Britpop , Cabaret Voltaire , Creation Records , Damon Albarn , Definitely Maybe , Depeche Mode , Derrick May , Fool's Gold , Frankie Knuckles , Gary Numan , Give Out But Don’t Give Up , Happy Mondays , Higher Than the Sun , House , Ian Brown , Jack Your Body , Jimmy Miller , Joy Division , Kula Shaker , Led Zeppelin , Let It Be , Loaded , Love , Massive Attack , Morrissey , New Order , Noel Gallagher , Oasis , Orange Juice , Orbital , Paul Weller , Pet Shop Boys , PiL , Primal Scream , Public Enemy , Sally Cinnamon , Screamadelica , Song Of The Day , Suede , Teenage Fanclub , The Associates , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Black Crowes , The Boo Radleys , The Byrds , The Human League , The Jam , The KLF , The Libertines , The Orb , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Smiths , The Soft Boys , The Stone Roses , The Strokes , The Wild Bunch , Uncle Tupelo , Vince Clarke , Visage , Wallace Wylie , We Call It Acieed , WFL , Yazoo
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
Added on June 10, 2010
Everett True
Andreya Triana , Bonobo , Massive Attack , Ninja Tune , Speech Debelle
The above photograph is of Andreya Triana, the singer on this most excellent and soulful slice of what they used to call trip-hop but probably has some other crap name these days like ‘ethnic groove’ or something. I dunno. I just know that I’m sometimes partial to this groove. Bonobo is the alias of British […]
