It’s been a long three years since the relase of BFMV’s debut album, ‘Poison’. During that time they’ve been lauded as Britain’s leading metallers, toured the...
Cool and supple, Dawn Landes’ immaculate voice could prove her chief shortcoming. Acting on the New Yorker’s second, self-produced album like pink top-coat, it misleadingly suggests...
Chris Clark’s latest should come with a warning: ‘Do not adjust your stereo’. Gone is his lullaby electronica, in its place a messy, distorted energy flash that will have Justice...
This young Dubliner is so tuned into the blues that unless he’s got a guitar in his hands he probably sits fringe-over-face and surly like Kevin The Teenager. With a six-string at his...
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...