Collaborative Music Blogging Project
Having loved Pulp as a 90s indie kid, I was gutted to miss out on seeing them in 2012. I really thought that was it for the band, no more gigs, no more albums. So did they. Getting to see them on their 2023 reunion tour was a dream come true, and you could see…
Continue reading [Film Review] Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?
Image by Monica Murray Soccer Mommy, the project of Nashville’s Sophie Allison, has shared “Rings of Saturn,” her first new single since 2024’s Evergreen. Produced by Elliott Kozel (Rosalía, Björk, SZA, Slow Pulp, Indigo De Souza), the track marks the start of a new chapter for Allison. She’s described the song as coming out of…
Continue reading Soccer Mommy Returns With “Rings of Saturn,” Her First New Song in Two Years
Ichiko Aoba has announced a new track, “air,” arriving September 18th as part of the Sounds Right initiative, timed to launch alongside New York Climate Week. The song was recorded at Studio Richter Mahr in the Cotswolds with composer Taro Umebayashi, built around field recordings captured at dawn on a spring morning, and arrives in…
Continue reading Ichiko Aoba Shares “air,” a New Single Recorded in the Cotswolds for Climate Week NYC
Death Cab for Cutie have released the official video for “Stone Over Water,” from their eleventh album, I Built You A Tower, out now via ANTI- Records. The band call it a song for anyone who’s ever tried to convince the world they’re fine when they’re really not. The video, directed by musician-animator Sean Solomon,…
Continue reading Death Cab for Cutie Drop Video for “Stone Over Water,” EU/UK Tour Underway
Experimental collective (and long-time KV favourites) Robocobra Quartet have announced Hundred Pieces, a sprawling 100-track album out 13th November, alongside new single “Haha.” Inspired by Marina Abramović’s durational art, the band began writing specifically for “the hundred” after the idea started as an off-hand joke. At the same time, saxophonist Thibault Barillon grew petri-dish fungus…
Continue reading Robocobra Quartet Announce 100-Song Album Hundred Pieces
Brightening a dull Friday, a new video from Spill Tab, filmed in Sydney by Dan Lesser. “Suckerrr is about being completely crazy about someone who seems not to care (</3) but knows you’re obsessed and loves playing that game… And for some reason, you keep going back to it… :////”
Credit: Kodai Kobayashi The ethereally-talented Ichiko Aoba has reissued her seventh studio album, Windswept Aden, on hermine. Conceived as the soundtrack to an imaginary film, Windswept Adan follows a young girl exiled from her homeland to the mythic island of Adan – a lush, otherworldly place filled with strange creatures, abundant flora and fauna, and…
Continue reading [News] Ichiko Aoba reissues Windswept Adan, headlines the Royal Albert Hall on March 31st
Image credit: Ben Stas Longtime KV favourite Tanya Donelly (fun fact -KV’s partial origins lie in a Tanya Donelly fansite hosted on Angelfire in the 90s) has teamed up with Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine) to release a four-track EP of modern interpretations of medieval music, The Undone is Done Again, out on Fire Records on…
Continue reading [News] Tanya Donelly and Chris Brokaw revisit medieval music
Filmmaking duo Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have a track record of breaking the music doc mould. Their 2014 Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth remains the high watermark for music films. Like that film, Broken English has clearly been made with a deep love of knowledge of a complex and often misunderstood artist.…
Continue reading [Film Review] LFF 2025: Broken English
A film about the life of Pauline Black seems long overdue. The spotlight of the 2-Tone scene is often pointed at her male contemporaries like The Specials or The Beat, so now it’s time for Black to tell the story in her own words. Part biography, and part road documentary of her musical second act,…
Continue reading [Film review] LFF2024: Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
