Review: Elbow – ‘The Take Off and Landing Of Everything’
7 March, 2014
Reviews
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 …
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The Best Albums Of 2013: Our Writers’ Picks
23 December, 2013
Features
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 …
Review: The Civil Wars – ‘The Civil Wars’
10 August, 2013
Reviews
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 …
Review: Laura Marling – ‘Once I Was An Eagle’
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, …
SXSW Interview: Michael Des Barres
19 April, 2013
Features, Interviews, News
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 …
Review: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – ‘Specter At The Feast’
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 …
Review: Thenewno2 – ‘Beautiful Creatures’ OST
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 …
Review: Richard Thompson – ‘Electric’
“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 …
Best Albums Of 2012: Our Writers’ Picks feat. Lucy Rose, Beach House, Tame Impala & more!
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 …
Book Review: ‘E Street Shuffle – The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band’, by Clinton Heylin
“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 …
Review: The Lighthouse And The Whaler – ‘This Is An Adventure’
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 …
Review: The Darkness – ‘Hot Cakes’
“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 …