Clubs :: Feature 15 Nov 2008
Omar Jenning: Legend, pioneer, trendsetter. A few words used to describe UK hip-hop goliath Blak Twang, aka Tony Rotton. With a string of five albums dating back to 1995, you would be hard pressed to find another UK hip-hop artist with as much longevity and relevanc...
Music :: Feature 02 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: “People always call into question your authenticity,” sighs Jenny Lewis. “I refer them to the great tradition of bands like the Stones doing country songs. Fuck it, you just have to sing the songs that come from your heart and soul. I...
Music :: Feature 25 Sep 2008
Tobias Kahn: It’s strange to think that it’s been a mere matter of months since the release of Foals debut album Antidotes. The Oxford based quintet have enjoyed a stratospheric level of hype for some time now; such things as albums don’t seem to ...
Music :: Feature 05 Sep 2008
Nick Mitchell: Yeasayer have been touring their debut album All Hour Cymbals relentlessly for the past year, so have Brooklyn's finest experimentalists had time to even contemplate the follow-up? Nick Mitchell tracks down singer Chris Keating to find out the latest. ...
Music :: Feature 24 Jun 2008
Paul Mitchell: Through a veneer of well-practised diplomacy, bassist Mike Mills obliquely concedes that R.E.M.’s last studio album, 2004’s Around The Sun, might just have deserved the critical apathy and unremarkable sales figures it received. “We t...
Books :: Review 08 Sep 2007
Keir Hind: Barack Obama, the US Senator from Illinois, is at present hoping to get the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States. If he succeeds he would be the first African-American President. This book, first written twelve years ago whe...
