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If Elbow know anything, they know how to build atmosphere. They know how to craft a world with sound, how to populate it with echoes of reality, where and …
With another series of essential music videos, gigs, tracks and albums in the bag, now it’s our writers’ turn to pick their own favourite album of 2013 – across …
If the thought of packing up your life in a knapsack and setting out on the open road ever appealed to you in the least – good news. The …
Whatever we expected of Laura Marling after ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’, wherever we thought that jazzy folk jam sound of hers was heading, we were wrong. Wonderfully, presumptuously, …
Rock and roll, some numpty once said, is a young man’s game. Whoever they were, they’d clearly never heard of Lord Michael Des Barres. He’s been in more bands …
There’s something about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, you know. They shouldn’t be this cool. Sometimes they play like angry, dirty punks; sometimes they play like they’re in a psychedelic …
There are so many ways to enthrall and overwhelm an audience with your film’s soundtrack. Do you raid your obscure vinyl collection, Tarantino style? Do you hire Hans Zimmer …
“I think we’ve invented a new genre. Funk folk. I’m not sure the world is ready for it, but we’ve done it anyway.” – RT. Ready or not, Richard …
Now you’ve been through our extensive Essential Listening 2012 series, which includes all our top choices from a past twelve months of albums, gigs and tracks, here some of …
“I’m always going to trust the art and be suspicious of the artist because he’s generally…a stumbling clown like everybody else.” – Bruce Springsteen, 2006. Clinton Heylin starts his …
Take a trip back in time with us. We’re going back to when summer holidays lasted an eternity and it seemed like growing up was a lifetime away. Fret …
“I am no messenger. But I will give you a message. The message…OF DEATH!” Only The Darkness would have the balls to kick off their record with a Hawk …