Music | Feature
Jamie Scott: The Field is Axel Willner: a Berlin based Swede whose pulsing minimal tracks ring with obscured, wordless samples, fluttering two-note melodies and in...
Bram Gieben: As Warp enters its third decade, it is increasingly difficult to imagine what the musical landscape of the UK would look like without the label and it...
Bram Gieben: Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children Filtered vocal loops and found sounds echo hypnotically over dubbed-out electronic soundscap...
Film | Review | DVD Review
Alastair Roy: From the humble origins of Pontin’s holiday camp, the now global All Tomorrow's Parties festival continues to stay free of corporate sponsorship...
Music | Film | Preview
Chris Buckle: Ever drunkenly pumped coins into a 2p machine to the sound of Deerhunter playing Butlins, or spotted Steve Albini fleecing fans at poker while watchin...
Records | Album Review
Jamie Scott: An artist pushing the envelope when the audience least expects it can make for some astounding results. Like a techno Ys, Yesterday and Today immediat...
Music | Live Review
Jason Morton: When Australian math rockers Pivot take the stage at Nice ‘N' Sleazy, it’s almost a challenge to the audience. Addressing an assembly of h...
Finbarr Bermingham, R.J Thomson, Nick Mitchell, Dave Kerr & Ally Brown: After breaking the undercarriage of the Skinnymobile on its rocky exit from T in the Car Park last year, much to the peculiar amusement of an onlookin...
Dave Kerr: “I’d like to see the Pogues…never seen them!” Speaking from a tour bus en route to Minehead for All Tomorrow’s Parties ...
News | Lifestyle | Heads Up
Dave Kerr: Hot on the heels of the news that there's still an opportunity to do Glasto this Summer, it seems that frustrated Scottish festival fans who can't be ...
Ian Williams: “I’m not bad, I can fend for myself” says Battles guitarist Ian Williams of his culinary skills. “I’m an intuitive perso...
Sounds: 5. Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris (Polydor)It's never easy on the ego when the fruits of your labour take a kicking. That probably count...
Dave Kerr: This support slot fits Dave Longstreth and his Dirty Projectors like a glove designed for an awkward hand. Encountering a fair few what-the-fucks in r...
Music | Preview
Ally Brown: Battles really broke through this year - the Warp-signed supergroup-of-sorts blew 2007 apart with their debut single Atlas in February, and first albu...
Jay Shukla: Listening to Battles' debut album, Mirrored, it's hard to imagine that any band could even approximate such a complex and layered sound in the live se...
