CONTEST – Peter Hook & The Light @ The Phoenix – September 24, 2011
FacebookWho: Peter Hook & The Light What: Peter Hook. Hooky. One of the most distinctive bassists of the past few decades and an integral part of two of the most influential rock bands of the past...
View ArticleDaughter, Choir Of Young Believers, and Little Green Cars at The Drake...
Frank YangI guess I should blame Letterman. When it was announced that English trio Daughter were doing a short North American tour around their CMJ appearance, I was quite excited as I figured with...
View ArticleVideo dispatches from Scandinavia and beyond, featuring The Knife
Alexa VachonPresently trying to work out this year’s vacation schedule, which if all goes according to plan will feature a return engagement to Reykjavik and Stockholm in late Summer. Which has...
View ArticleThis is your (new) My Bloody Valentine
last.fmAnd just like that, it was ours. After the years – nay, decades – of rumours, promises, lies, delays, reverbs, reverse reverbs, bankruptcies, breakdowns, break-ups, reunions, side-projects,...
View ArticleI am back in town. Chairlift are coming to town. Coincidence? Absolutely.
Tom HinesSo Chicago was great, thanks for asking. Terrible weather forecasts came not to pass, though storms yesterday did wreak a little havoc on getting out of town. But that’s neither here nor...
View ArticleRIP, Jon Brookes of The Charlatans
thecharlatans.netSad, sad news out of the UK yesterday when it was announced that Jon Brookes, drummer and founding member of The Charlatans, had passed away of brain cancer. The condition first...
View ArticleWhile I was out… featuring Franz Ferdinand and things of a British nature
Andrew KnowlesThe biggest releases of last week both happened to be Scottish in nationality. There was Franz Ferdinand’s fourth long-player Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, which was the...
View ArticleReview of London Grammar’s If You Wait
Paolo ZerbiniI’m sure it’s purely coincidence, but it’s a hell of one that the title of If You Wait, the 2013 debut from London Grammar, is but one word apart from If You Leave, the 2013 debut...
View ArticleReview of CHVRCHES’ The Bones Of What You Believe
Eliot Lee HazelIf hype were actual currency, you could trade in copies of Scottish trio CHVRCHES’ debut album The Bones Of What You Believe for bars of gold, their buzz-versus-time graph having...
View ArticleReview of Lanterns On The Lake’s Until The Colours Run
Bella UnionNewcastle-upon-tyne’s Lanterns On The Lake were one of the more luminous discoveries of SXSW 2011, their intimate yet expansive sounds filling the space-folk void left in my heart by the...
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