Collaborative Music Blogging Project
With the recent announcement that the Evan Dando has reunited with original Lemonheads co-frontman Ben Deily for a gritty new album to be produced by Ryan Adams, Fire Records are reissuing the band’s first three albums Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988) and Lick (1989). The albums reveal a very different Lemonheads to the…
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30 years on from the birth of The Hacienda; The Happy Mondays and 808 State will be bringing bringing a Manchester double-header to London during the festive season for two shows at Camden’s Roundhouse on 19th and 20th December. Tickets are on sale now, priced £32.50
Directed by Sasha Rainbow Beth Jeans Houghton (who was very good at Green Man) is touring this week and next: Mon 17 Sep – Wheelans, Dublin Tues 18 Sep – Black Box, Belfast Thu 20 Sep – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge Fri 21 Sep – Cockpit, Leeds Sat 22 Sep – Stereo, Glasgow Sun 23…
Continue reading Monday Video: Beth Jeans Houghton ‘Dodecahedron’
The summer of constant downpour is mercifully reprieved for tonight; although the beautiful venue is shrouded in apocalyptic cloud and my raincoat is at the ready. Support comes from Norweigan electronic songstress Susanne Sundfør who is performing with a male associate. The two of them are surrounded by an impressive-looking fortress of equipment. The sounds…
Continue reading M83 @ Summer Series, Somerset House, London 16.07.12
It’s a rare, balmy night in this summer of rain and the residents of Dalston are taking full advantage of the clement weather by gathering in the garden area. Unfortunately for the Mancunian lo –fi types, the garden area also has massive tv screens showing Euro 2012 and most people are jumping up and down…
Continue reading Milk Maid Album Launch, Shacklewell Arms, Dalston 28.06.12
Dear interwebbers, I may not have done a whole lot of scribing of late, but I have been listening and listening some more. Here’s a round-up of sonic nuggets and new discoveries that I’ve been wrapping my ears around recently: Western Affairs – 1999 Washington DC 3-piece Western Affairs deliver perfectly crisp soundscapes. Swooping guitar effects…
Continue reading New sounds: what’s playing on the KV Stere-O-oh!
Somerset House have added a performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg which will be the closing night concert and an additional show by Paloma Faith has been added. The full support bill has also been announced been announced including Alt J and Chet Faker supporting Temper Trap, Emmy The Great opening for Tindersticks and Eugene McGuinness and…
Continue reading Somerset House announce additions to the Summer Series
New video from New Zealand’s Opossom. The track is from the album ‘Electric Hawaii’, out August 6th on Fire Records OPOSSOM – Blue Meanies from fire records on Vimeo.
Pleasing Swedish indie popsters Simian Ghost, who release new single Automation on June 16th, will be in the UK for a brief tour in July co-headlining with Stealing Sheep. The tour is promoted by The Line of Best Fit, and the dates are: 6th July Cardiff – Buffalo 7th July London – The Lexington (Clash…
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy seems to be quite a fan of reinventing his own canon, and this new video for a new version of I See A Darkness, shot in Glasgow and available on forthcoming EP Now Here’s My Plan, made me chuckle.
