Luke Haines is one of the lost figures of modern British music. His first album with The Auteurs, New Wave, was as good as anything else that came out of the British pop explosion in the mid-90s and he released… Continue reading
Ladies and gentlemen please be upstanding for Real Estate, the latest average band to be trumped up beyond reason by the online music behemoth that is Pitchfork. According to Pitchfork New Jersey band Real Estate’ self-titled debut is different “from… Continue reading
‘Let It Rest For A Little While’ song 36 on Zero To 99, the latest release by Robert Pollard’s Boston Spaceships, is actually song 6 but subject to an eccentric numbering system. It is also possibly the best thing that… Continue reading
The 30th anniversary re-issue of The Clash’s London Calling offers nothing new in terms of extras (the same set of ‘making of’ documentary and videos that were released for the 25th anniversary release) but does offer a welcome chance to… Continue reading
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Humbug, the Arctic Monkey’s third album is the band’s darkest to date. Their trademark style of new-wave, choppy indiepop is undoubtedly still there but it has been significantly beefed up with a mature, epic edge. Moody and grand-scale recording locations… Continue reading
Reviewing a Robert Pollard album is a difficult business for me. Given that I own more records by him (predominantly with Guided By Voices) than any other artist I find it hard to give even a semi-objective account, but I’ll… Continue reading
In a perfect world every town would have a band like Box Elders. A ramshackle rock outfit, made up of brothers Clayton and Jeremiah McIntyre and drummer/keyboardist Dave Goldberg, that revels in every gloriously fun moment of being in a… Continue reading