In spite of ‘Spinal Tap’, Tommy Lee and Ted Nugent there are employees in the rock ’n’ roll sector who favour Maracana-sized riffs and yet don’t conform to beer...
Rio-born bossa adventurer edges closer to the middle ground after the comparatively leftfield ‘Horse And Fish’ (2004). On the surface at least. Under the pretty arpeggio and gentle...
With an output seemingly proportionate to the notches on his bed post and a lyrical style best summed up as spunk-stained, many have assigned Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat to the ‘look at...
Chan Marshall has undergone a surprising transformation. More or less universally lauded since the broken blues of her 1995 debut, she’s always been an especial favourite with the sort of...
All of the press surrounding the physical release of Radiohead’s latest, which sticks a further finger up at EMI, once more celebrated their starting a music industry revolution. That so much...
Krautrock veteran and hippy philosopher Hans-Joachim Roedelius has enjoyed something of a fashionable resurgence in recent years as the elastic rhythmic landscape of the likes of Ulrich...
Too clever for pop music by half, Stephin Merritt always likes to set himself an additional challenge. With the same spirit of playful intellectualism/obsessive compulsion that saw Ernest Vincent...
The third offering from Chicago’s The Autumn Defense (the third side project of Wilco instrumentalists John Stirratt and Pat Sansone) is not a cool record. This is immediately clear from...
It’s only Johnny Trunk – the man who released ’70s sex tapes and the theme from ‘Bod’ in the name of exotica – who provides Twisted Nerve chief Andy Votel with...
Through their 18-year career, husband-and-wife team Don and Karen Peris have trodden a path of hushed and achingly beauteous songcraft with a devastating purity at its heart. TIM’s religious...
