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Simple Things Festival – Bristol, 6/5/2012

For a two-year old, Simple Things is probably one of the coolest I know. The Bristol festival was a myriad of snaking queues and mega-hipster revelry in its first year and on this May Bank ...

R.I.P. Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch (1964 – 2012)

May the 4th 2012, Adam Yauch aka MCA from the Beastie Boys has lost his battle with cancer. It would be easy to go off in this article about the type of cancer Adam had ...

Emerging Artists # 35 – Simian Ghost

Latest Music News

Dirty Projectors Announce Single ‘Gun Has No Trigger’

Above is the video for new Dirty Projectors single ‘Gun Has No Trigger’,...

Listen: Two Wounded Birds – To Be Young

Margate’s finest Two Wounded birds has made another track from their forthcoming...

Listen: The Tallest Man On Earth – 1904

The Tallest Man On Earth, aka Kristian Matsson, has made the first track from his...

Single Reviews

La Shark – Mr Modern Man

I don’t understand why La Shark aren’t everywhere by now. This band is the most...

Niki & the Dove – DJ, Ease My Mind (Mercury)

I recall when I first heard about Swedish electro-pop duo Niki & the Dove;...

Jesse Ruins – Dream Analysis (Captured Tracks)

Jesse Ruins kept themselves very secretive until landing a deal with label ‘Captured...

Album Reviews

Niki & The Dove – Instinct (Mercury/Sub Pop Records)

In a climate of mp3 blog hype, fickle fans and easily-forgotten buzzbands, Swedish...

Clock Opera – Ways to Forget (Moshi Moshi)

First impressions of Clock Opera’s debut full-length are not encouraging....

The Dandy Warhols – This Machine

I remember watching ‘Dig’, the 2004 documentary about the rivalry between Courtney...

Live Reviews

Cloud Nothings @ Cargo, 9/05/12

“We’re a band called Cloud Nothings from America”, begins lead...

Simple Things Festival – Bristol, 6/5/2012

For a two-year old, Simple Things is probably one of the coolest I know. The Bristol...

Camden Crawl Festival, 5 – 6/5/2012

The Cribs, by Richard Johnson Sprawled all over Camden town and taking place on May’s...

Features

Hannah and Colette Thurlow are the two sisters who make up new garage rock band, 2:54. Their name comes from the precise moment of a Melvins song that they find irresistible, and their sound from a variety of pop, scuzz rock and punk influences. They’ve been making music together as 2:54 for almost two years, and in that time have played with... Read More of This Article

R.I.P. Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch (1964 – 2012)

May the 4th 2012, Adam Yauch aka MCA from the Beastie Boys has lost his battle with cancer. It would be easy to go off in this article about the type of cancer Adam had or the massive achievements which were had by arguably the greatest hip hop group of all time, but I’m not. Every website around the world is doing that right now, this is more... Read More of This Article

Emerging Artists # 35 – Simian Ghost

Simian Ghost are a Swedish three-piece who make wonderfully frank pop music, and have already shown their musical range within the space of one EP and album release. Released last autumn, their ‘Lovelorn’ EP fit snugly into the general chillwave sound of the time, but the band’s sound took an unexpected and pleasant detour towards Peter,... Read More of This Article