Wilco – Country Disappeared
Recorded at the End of the Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, on Sunday 12th September 2010.
Author: Joe
The Miserable Rich – Pisshead
Recorded at the Willkommen Collective mini-festival, at the Union Chapel London, on Friday 12th June 2009.
Revere – Hey! Selim
On Hey! Selim, Revere’s debut album from Albino Recordings, we find the band in epic mood. Continue reading
Various Artists – Under The Bus Station Clock
Philophobia Music in Yorkshire has provided us with a mine of new tracks to sift through with their latest collection from Wakefield area bands. Continue reading
Special Benny – Toys
There are so many influences on this unusual and eclectic debut album that it’s hard to know where to start. Continue reading
Mission of Burma – The Obliterati
Just a look at their first 1979 line up shows they were no mere spirit-of-1977 wannabes, Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass), Peter Prescott (drums) and Martin Swope (tape manipulator). How many bands of that era could boast a manipulator of tapes among their ranks? Continue reading
Dag Nasty – Can I Say
Formed in 1985 by among others former Minor Threat guitarist Brian Baker; the band’s original line-up also featured bassist Roger Marbury, drummer Colin Sears and singer Shawn Brown. Continue reading
The Dukes of Stratosphear – Psonic Psunspot
As a callow teenager, XTC’s Andy Partridge dreamed of one day being in a band that sounded ‘just like what I could hear coming out of the radio’ – which, at that time, meant the most unapologetically out-there material of Pink Floyd, the Small Faces, the Byrds and the Beatles Continue reading
The Fatima Mansions – Viva Dead Ponies
The band was known for Coughlan’s vitriolic lyrics, aggressive stage persona and eclectic musical style. The band sums themselves up best with their t-shirt slogan “Keep Music Evil”. Continue reading
They Might Be Giants – Lincoln
They Might Be Giants (TMBG) are unlikely to ever escape their reputation as over-clever novelty hit makers. And given their primary career these days is writing music for children, I doubt they care too much what the mainstream musical audience thinks of them. Continue reading