Music Article by Daniel Lennard Jherek Bischoff is a man with a mission. His most recent concept has been his most ambitious yet and a real labour of love. The songsmith & producer has traversed the globe to hook up with some of the most respected singers on the planet to collaborate on ‘Composed’ which [...]
If you like us love both innovative independent fashion and the best emerging music, this is a collaboration for you. Boutique fashion marketplace, farfetch.com, is working with six of the world’s most prominent independent music stores and two emerging bands to bring you ‘The Playlist’, a music and fashion crossover that celebrates the ever-evolving relationship [...]
Music Article by Richard Unwin Ever since the surprising turn of following the bold, guitar-led rock of OK Computer with Kid A’s ambient electronica, Radiohead have established themselves as one of contemporary music’s most experimental bands. Nestled behind the quirky front-man genius of Thom Yorke, lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood has been at the [...]
Farmers might applaud but animal lovers beware. This video for Susanne Sundfør’s new single release contains dead foxes – plus scalpels and brain surgery. So if you’re squeamish maybe give it a miss. For the rest of us though – what a majestic song – and the video does its best to back it all [...]
New Album Review – Grimes ‘Visions’ Man has always had a fraught relationship with machines. The middle of the twentieth century must have been a peculiar moment in human history as beeping robots started to invade the home. Suddenly, there was a metal box in your kitchen that could make food hot in a matter [...]
Last month, Canada played host to the 10th anniversary of the world-renowned festival, POP Montreal. Don’t be fooled by the ‘pop’ half of the festival’s title; POP Montreal is a platform for rock, folk, electro, rap, as well as the prominent experimental music scene that Canada is becoming hailed for. Many of the young artists [...]
European Cultural Congress, Wroclaw, Poland As EU finance ministers exchanged pleasantries at the weekend over the fate of the Euro, national economies and the plight of Greece, the thought of their compatriots coming together only a week before to celebrate the continent’s cultural wealth may stir thoughts of Nero strumming his lyre while Rome burned. [...]
I was feeling kind of sick of all the retreads, re-styles and polite but somehow dull indieshmindyness that pervades the alternative airwaves nowadays. BBC 6 Music is settling down with its pipe and slippers giving us what we want but not necessarily what we need (or is it the other way around). So I was [...]
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 [...]
Since its first edition in 2007, THE1234 festival has established itself as one of the best places in London to catch up-and-coming bands alongside established cult talent. This year’s festival, taking place in Shoreditch Park on July 9, is as diverse and challenging as ever with headline performances from Black Lips, The Raveonettes and Lydia [...]
Imagine you’re a magician and being allowed to bring through some hocus-pocus, a new type of music into the world. So you’re chucking ingredients into your cauldron, a leg of a frog, some wolf spit, the venom from a Black Rattlesnake. A puff of smoke and an eggy smell. The results? This song sounds like [...]
Plastic Fairy Liquid bottles and Django Reinhardt’s finger tips are things unlikely to be associated with the birth of Heavy Metal, that brashly grinding, cherished Brummie drone which has afflicted, or violently garnished, depending on your viewpoint, our airwaves for years. Django famously burnt his hand after his caravan, (shared with Florine Bella, and stuffed [...]
That enigmatic, gothic soulstress PJ Harvey is doing some very special shows later this year. This is following on from the release of her critically acclaimed eighth studio album ‘Let England Shake’. PJ Harvey has announced two new UK live shows for September, coming to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 4th and Manchester O2 Apollo [...]
Gaggle is a very onomatopoeic group name. They have been called a choir, and they do sometimes chant. Their performances are characterised by their collective masse and unapologetic, basic need to evacuate something. Some might see their multitudinous inputs and outputs as some sort of postmodern ironic jolly, but just perhaps they prove that we [...]
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