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Image can deceive; a gander at Sundara Karma’s leather coats, eye-liner and reams of hair and you’d expect their sound to slobber down on us from the coarse acropolis of old-time rock and roll.
While you’re busy squinting up there, in reality the Reading four-piece are at ground level, yakking…
To round off our Best Of 2016 series, some of Live4ever’s writers have picked out their own favourite albums from the past year, ranging from the return electronic of legends after over a decade away to one of the year’s brand new collaborations.
You can revisit our entire Best Of…
Just past the halfway mark on Peter Doherty’s second album Hamburg Demonstrations, a song called A Spy In The House Of Love embodies the Libertines man.
The archaic tap of a typewriter preludes the literary-referenced music; an addled Doherty calling out to the album’s producer ends it. You might as…
Politics and comedy have been fornicating together so much of late that the timing of Man & The Echo’s eponymous debut album couldn’t be more ripe.
Until now, the Warrington foursome had only scattered out a handful of singles since a name change and complete oeuvre overhaul in 2013, and…
White Room playing This Feeling’s 10th anniversary in London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Not long after midnight, Carl Barât casually appears on stage and takes control of the DJ decks as the Style Council’s Shout To The Top! plays; for the next couple of loud hours, he hurls out what…
Listen closely to TOY in chronological order and by the time you reach their third album, Clear Shot, you’ll notice the subtle jettisoning of the psychedelic pretensions that first buoyed them.
The Brighton bunch, reshuffled slightly with Max Oscarnold replacing Alejandra Diez on the keyboards, still aren’t completely impervious to…
Everything Everything playing London Roundhouse for ‘Fightback’ (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
For nearly 15 years, during the latter part of the last century, London’s Roundhouse venue entertained dust motes rather than music fans due to a lack of funding.
That is until in 1996 when the abandoned bubble was…
You wouldn’t usually slap a Jagwar Ma track next to Macarena and Gangnam Style, but if you must, on the band’s second album Every Now & Then your excuse has come.
The ‘amoeba dance’ pads the last minute of the lengthy Give Me a Reason, with Gabriel Winterfield timing…
Depending on whether you prefer surprise or consistency in your life, Sheffield’s Slow Cub are either insatiably experimental or frustratingly fickle.
Over three albums (discounting last year’s covers album) Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson have juggled through sonic balls of folk, skiffle, country, indie pop and soul, but even if…
Back in 2008, Hayden Thorpe’s vocal gymnastics leaped effeminately all over Wild Beasts’ vaudevillian debut ‘Limbo, Panto’.
Eccentric music dovetailed with outlandish phrases such as “with wantingly wet lips I suck, remind me of your gentle f**k” and set them apart from other indie pluggers at the time. The Cumbrian…
Nothing tames the anarchy of rock and roll yore more than its retelling through a taut musical spoilt by bronzed Oliviers.
Joe Penhall’s Sunny Afternoon, an award-winning musical biopic of The Kinks that started life at Hampstead Theatre two years ago until a swift resettlement into the West…
To lighten up the otherwise solemn trade of regularly assaying strangers’ musicality, here’s an attempted joke: what does a cowboy eating a psychoactive cactus sound like? Chomp chomp then Psychic Ills’ fifth album ‘Inner Journey Out’.
It wasn’t always like this. The New York duo’s formative years were mired, lost,…
In the news last month was a story about an alleged ‘lost’ Caravaggio painting found in an attic in France that sent art critics’ cravats into a twist over its genuineness. Real or not (there’s only a negligible £94m difference), Baroque’s bad boy won’t shiver a shiny hoot either way…
Pennie Smith
Are some things better left alone? Maybe, but an insatiable curiosity for what might be possible can often trump one’s protection of a legacy.
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The Boxer Rebellion live at the London Oslo. May 2016. (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
The one person you really don’t want to piss off before playing a gig is the guy that operates the smoke machine. The dark movers on stage sure look and sound like The Boxer…
Where to go next when your last album swilled so poetically on the bruised blood of your motherland’s warring past, and was subsequently flowered heavy in critical praise like a bed of English roses glowing on a blue summer’s day?
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PJ Harvey‘s case, following on from her 2011…
