Music | Live Review
Nick Mitchell: This billing is surely an indie purist's dream. And tonight's purists could be forgiven for leaving daytime reality at the door as Beach House cast th...
Music | Preview
Mark Shukla: You probably don't need me to spell it out to you but The Phenomenal Handclap Band really want you to have a good time. Don't get me wrong, there's a ...
Music | Feature
Ally Brown (with Dave Kerr): 2. GRIZZLY BEAR - VECKATIMEST Through no fault of their own, sometimes great bands acquire unhealthy legacies: Nirvana, I'm looking at you particularl...
Anna Meldrum: From the moment Annie Clark – A.K.A St. Vincent – steps onstage, her moniker makes poetic sense. Her presence hushes the crowd, as though ...
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...
Nick Mitchell: So will Veckatimest be in your top ten for 2009? That depends whether you can stomach arch indie austerity, sparse, loping, minor-key chamber pop, or ...
Records | Album Review
Finbarr Bermingham: There are few rock and roll stories as tragic and downright fucked up as that of Judee Sill. She fled home as a teen, having lost her brother and fath...
Jamie Scott: The Pitchfork Festival promises to "do things right". Treating audience members to a comfortable, enjoyable all round experience that extends far beyo...
Records | Single Review
Nick Mitchell: Grizzly Bear - not the wildly esoteric beast we took them for then. The Brooklyn (yes, another one) four-piece broke on to the international stage wit...
Darren Carle: Reading between the lines of praise bestowed upon 2006’s Yellow House, it seemed there were just as many listeners left indifferent to its slow-...
Milo McLaughlin: Come May we ought to be preparing ourselves for four months of long hot days lounging about in beer gardens in a sun-drenched reverie, complemented by...
Darren Carle: Plenty of artists trade the luxury of a traditional recording studio in favour of something a little more homely, but not all come with the calm, idyl...
Darren Carle: The backstory to Grizzly Bear’s 2006 ‘sort of’ debut seemed to fill as many column inches as anything else about the band. As mundan...
Records | Feature | Round Up
Nick Mitchell: Lily Allen’s continuing success is a mystery to this writer. Granted, when she first emerged with her headstrong girl-about-town shtick, she see...
Music: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Title: The Century of Self (Richter Scale) Release Date: 23 February Trail of Dead were one of the few...
Records | Album Review 
