When it comes to ambient post-rock, you seem to hear the same few names bandied around time after time. Sigur Rós. Mogwai. God is an Astronaut. So what happens when you come across something a little bit different? It would seemingly be all too easy to smite them down with accusations of copying the heavyweights [...]
This latest track from Boltonite Janine Rostron’s Planningtorock really struts its stuff. In the video she glides around with dark grace and some menace like a disco queen gone berzerk. Janine Rostron looks like the kind of character you wouldn’t want to cross. The staccato riff that drives this song becomes a pulsing dirty epic [...]
Around a year ago, Ruban Nielson was ready for a comfortable life of anonymity, ‘searching through the job listings’, and paying the bills. Following the explosive onstage breakup of his former band, The Mint Chicks, the world, and indeed Mr. Nielson himself, expected nothing more. Yourstru.ly Presents: UMO “How Can You Luv Me” from [...]
Planningtorock is the stage persona and creative form of Bolton-born Janine Rostron, whose powerful and haunting electronica was born in Berlin where Janine has lived for the past ten years. Rostron has been playing an array of instruments since she was eight and has been writing music since she was sixteen. And now she [...]
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