Music :: Feature 23 May 2008
Ian Williams: “I’m not bad, I can fend for myself” says Battles guitarist Ian Williams of his culinary skills. “I’m an intuitive person so I can usually make something work when I have no idea what I’m doing, that’s the way ...
Music :: Live Review 13 May 2008
Darren Carle: RememberRemember (**) start off today’s Triptych send-off promisingly enough, opening with Fountain Mountain, a woozy, daydream of a song, in sync with the early afternoon, lunch-satiated crowd. Utilising office stationery as percussion, they pro...
Music :: Review 01 May 2008
Darren Carle: David Longstreth is clearly Dirty Projectors' guiding light, both on paper with his fluid grab-bag of ideas, as well as on-stage, as furtive glances for nods of approval are directed at him throughout. But the rest of the band are no mere stooges, inst...
Music 25 Apr 2008
Adam Green, Finbarr Bermingham: New York will always be home to the coolest cats in music, but every so often (almost cyclically) a new wave of bands emerge to remind us where it's at. Over the past few months we've had another explosion. MGMT are certainly one of the leading lights,...
Music :: Preview 01 Apr 2008
Billy Hamilton: Dave Longstreth is nothing if not obscure. A Yale dropout with a history of dazzling sonic conceptualisations to his name, Dirty Projectors' 2007 release, Rise Above, was a stirring reprisal of its awkward honcho's favourite Black Flag LP Damaged. Litt...
Music :: Feature 05 Feb 2008
Sean Michaels: 1. The Main Drag - All My FriendsLCD Soundsystem's All My Friends was one of the finest songs of last year, strident and funky and shot through with a sage thirtysomething sentimentality. Here the Main Drag ditch the piano and instead grab every instru...
