Mid Year Best Of – track selection…
Zola Jesus gets all goth and electro-sensual on this track from her excellent Stridulum EP… Continue reading Mid Year Best Of – track selection…
Category: Opinion
Mid Year Best Of…
Yep, we’re halfway through 2010 already, crazy huh? For the first few months it seemed like there weren’t many big records coming out that were instantly going to make the end of year best of list but all of a sudden our list in progress started filling up. Here then is a list of 13 releases, in no particular order, that have caught our attention … Continue reading Mid Year Best Of…
MID YEAR BEST OF… The goodies from the 1st half of ’10
We are currently in the middle of compiling our favourite releases of 2010 so far. How has the year been for new music, deluxe reissues. Has there been anything that has blown you away or a new album from a favourite artist? Let us know what has been floating your boat and we’ll include a readers list as well…. Leave a comment below Continue reading MID YEAR BEST OF… The goodies from the 1st half of ’10
ARTICLE: Paste Magazine – Is Indie Dead?
Is Indie Dead? :: Culture :: Features :: Paste. Continue reading ARTICLE: Paste Magazine – Is Indie Dead?
A COUPLE OF INTERESTING COVERS…
Cover versions can either be uninspired facsimiles or they can add something to the original via different instrumentation, mood or a vocal reinterpretation. Here are two examples of songs taken to completely different and pretty awesome places while still sounding like the originals… Continue reading A COUPLE OF INTERESTING COVERS…
CIRCLE – KINGS OF THE FINNISH UNDERGROUND
How many bands from Finland can you think of apart from Hanoi Rocks and The Leningrad Cowboys? Sure there are a million nordic metal bands out there with names like Children Of Bodom, Nightwish and Apocalyptica but one in particular has burnt its own path as the self-proclaimed leaders of NWOFHM (New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal) – Circle. Since releasing their first album Meronia … Continue reading CIRCLE – KINGS OF THE FINNISH UNDERGROUND
on the turntable today…
The Cult – Love (Expanded) Midlake – The Courage Of Others On Fillmore – Extended Vacation Hole – Pretty On The Inside Beak> – Beak> Continue reading on the turntable today…
2009 Top 25 Albums
Another year, another shitload of great albums. As soon as you start thinking it is feeling like a quiet year they come tumbling out of the woodwork and the end of year culling process becomes as tricky as ever. Honorable mentions must go to two outstanding EPs: Bon Iver’s Blood Bank and Witch Hats’ Solarium Down The Causeway as well as the following reissues: Neil … Continue reading 2009 Top 25 Albums
On the turntable today…
Nadja – Skin Turns To Light Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum The Horrors – Primary Colours Telekinesis – Telekinesis! Black Lips – One Hundred Million Thousand Continue reading On the turntable today…
ARTICLE: THE ENIGMA OF MORRISSEY
Steven Patrick Morrissey is best known as frontman for influential 80s band The Smiths yet many people know little else about the singer. He inspired a generation of disaffected youth with his literate and black humored lyrics and the way in which he reconstructed the image of the masculine singer in a rock band. Looking behind that persona gives some clues as to who the … Continue reading ARTICLE: THE ENIGMA OF MORRISSEY
OPINION: GUNS N ROSES
Back in 1988 I was a 16 year old youth with testosterone running through my veins, pimples on my face and the world ahead of me. After being raised on New Wave and Synth Pop I was ready for something new and exciting and GnR filled that void. Danger was back in music, there was a new gang in town and they destroyed the vacuous … Continue reading OPINION: GUNS N ROSES
OPINION: FAVOURITE SONGS OF 2008
1. The catchiest album of the year gave us the single She Doesn’t Belong To Me… 2. The ever elegant Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds produced the slo mo wordy swagger of More News From Nowhere… 3. Bon Iver was the shooting star of 2008 and this was one of the most beautiful songs of the year… Skinny Love…. 4. M38 delivered a convincing … Continue reading OPINION: FAVOURITE SONGS OF 2008
Doubtful Sounds 