“The next thing always has to be 10 times better than the last or else what are we doing?” says Eoin French. You get the idea that he’s facing the ‘difficult second album’ cliche head-on. The Corkman is talking […]
Sleaford Mods: We don’t need nobody else…
The 2017 Sleaford Mods documentary Bunch of Kunst followed the post-punk minimalists’ rise from the sticky carpet pubs of UK satellite towns to the Glastonbury Pyramid Stage and a deal with legendary label Rough Trade […]
Shabazz Palace: True cosmic hip-hop outliers
Seattle hip-hop duo Shabazz Palaces’ journey from avant-garde rap to the astral plane outer limits got a cosmic turbo boost with their most recent album project. Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star and Quazarz vs […]
The Messthetics – way more than half of Fugazi
Post-hardcore punk experimentalists Fugazi are the least likely band to reform for a cash grab — after 16 years as the ultimate DIY act and capping gig tickets at barely break-even prices. But even if […]
Elvis-fronted Nirvana is like a drunken idea that even made sense the morning after
It’s the kind of drunken idea that rarely gets past the wtf checking your texts hangover stage — but Elvana really are a band of Geordies who play Nirvana covers — with an Elvis impersonator […]
Sound minds: January 2019 in 21 tracks
Thank u January, next. Here’s some music you might’ve missed under the deluge of shit memes about how long it lasted. Last month was powered by street meat, desert synthwave, dank dub, DIY minimal wave, […]
Dead To Us: A fond Girls Names obituary
Girls Names have decided to call it quits. The full stop came with a post on Instagram, just 11 days shy of a decade since their first ever show. With that announcement ends a journey […]
Surely Time’s Up for Steel Panther?
Cock-rock parody act Steel Panther have always been a joke that kinda got outta hand, but who knows where they fit in the post-MeToo era. Seriously, though, they sold out the Academy in Dublin last […]
A big Shout-out to Tears For Fears
Too often, the shorthand for 80s pop is a few lazy pointers like frizzy perms, shoulder pads and cheap Casio preset production line hits. But when you dig underneath the anthemic choruses and tinny synth […]
Azealia Banks: If you’ve run out of celebrities to troll, just troll half a country
It takes some serious effort to be the most controversial person on the cesspit of humanity that is Twitter, but Azealia Banks has been there, done that, and she’s been racking up the troll points […]
Yes we Can: Tronik Youth – Moreish
In a recent interview with Bandcamp Daily, Tronik Youth aka Berlin-based producer Neil Parnell addressed his label Nein’s prolific output, admitting: “I keep saying, ‘I’m going to slow down, I’m going to slow down… but […]
Anything’s Humanly Possible: Stratis – New Face (1983)
For the last 10 years, San Francisco label Dark Entries has been unearthing rusty and out of circulation cult electronic records and giving them a new life outside their few hundred plays on YouTube or […]
Fucked Up: Stretching hardcore to the limit
Toronto act Fucked Up have transcended their hardcore punk roots without selling out in the slightest – on their 80-minute concept album Dose Your Dreams last year. Loosely, it’s a story of a factory worker […]
Enjoy the silence: Laibach ‘cover’ John Cage’s 4’33”
Mute Records has just announced a box set with 50 acts ‘performing’ John Cage’s infamous 1952 avant-garde composition 4’33” – which directs musicians not to play any instruments. It’s just the kind of high-concept piece […]
DJ Stingray is always the sound of the future
A key figure in the Detroit techno underground, Sherard Ingram aka Stingray has been DJing for over 25 years, as well as producing futuristic hyper-speed electro and conceptual ambient and downtempo works – the latter […]
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