Formed in 1993 from members of Big Audio Dynamite and Julian Cope’s band, Londoners Dreadzone explored the dub, reggae and new wave avant-garde of their earlier bands and added more breaks and emerging electronics for […]
Orbital: When Chime becomes a loop…
A few months ago, Phil Hartnoll lit up Tengu in Dublin with an Easter Sunday DJ set of Orbital classics, with a few deep cuts and exclusives, including an amazing new cosmic krautrock jam remix […]
Kerbdog Turn it on again
When Kerbdog played a full-band reunion tour in 1996, frontman Cormac Battle called it the “midlife crisis tour”, but it seems like the crisis has been averted. The Kilkenny band have been buzzing on social […]
Who’d spend an evening with Shaun Ryder?
An evening with Shaun Ryder could go off in any number on tangents, but you know it won’t be boring. This is an interview with the Happy Mondays kingpin and the scallywag surrealist behind the […]
Fuck, that’s sweaty: Action Bronson in the club
There’s a danger that Action Bronson’s gonzo cookery travel show Fuck, That’s Delicious has started overtaking his music, but he’s still one of the most colourful rappers in the modern game. He got involved in […]
Girlschool’s out for summer
Girlschool are the longest-running all-female rock group — still sticking their fingers up to metal conventions after 40-odd years. Formed in 1978, the English act added a punky, poppy spin to the so-called New Wave […]
A lost treasure of cosmic Americana: Jim Sullivan – UFO (1969)
I never cease to be amazed at the breadth of incredible music from the past that’s out there to be discovered. The rarities that get excavated by musical archaeologists like Light in the Attic, Numero, […]
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salibury’s DROKK: A bleak, minimalist synth masterpiece
One of the best soundtracks of the decade doesn’t even have a film attached. It nearly did, though. Geoff Barrow (of Portishead and BEAK>) and the BAFTA and Emmy-winning score composer Ben Salisbury were approached […]
An epic polar journey on Chris Watson’s Glastonbury Ocean Soundscape
Poor Stormzy. The young grime kingpin woke up on Sunday after one of the most memorable, defiant and defining Glastonbury headline shows in years – a peak moment for UK hip-hop and urban music that’ll […]
All the right noises: June 2019 round-up
Rave mutations, No Wave and hardcore punk, ambient solitude, EBM malevolence, a Slovenian take on North Korean opera propaganda and the return of the greatest hip-hop duo since Madlib’s last greatest hip-hop duo. The soundtrack […]
Colossal rave mutations on Varya Karpova & Vanya Koreya – Extrapolation
Dutch label New York Haunted released a free download compilation last week called In Debt To the Preset, a warm-hearted tribute to famous synth presets, warning: “This is not some ironic hipster joke, this is […]
New wave synth pirate tales on XUXA SANTAMARIA – Rudos del Mar
Finding an unlikely sweet spot between dance music, mythology, political theory, fine art and feminism, XUXA SANTAMARIA’s new track ‘Rudos del Mar’ kicks against the pricks in a swirl of synth euphoria. The Oakland-based duo […]
Perforated Cerebral Party and a new wave of Russian “ghettopsychedelic futuristic music”
Russian duo Perforated Cerebral Party had the recent honour of being the very final act at Estonia’s showcase festival Tallinn Music Week, closing the techno venue HALL on the outskirts of the city. They were […]
The hungry and the hunted: Bruce Springsteen the storyteller in 10 songs
In a memorable episode of his Revisionist History podcast, Malcolm Gladwell asks why the greatest country music is so sad, and came to the obvious answer that it’s all about the details. “We cry when […]
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