Music :: Feature 08 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: As well as procuring the usual track list for a desert island mix-tape, this month we asked former Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails axe man Aaron North to envisage a post-apocalyptic future where he chooses the opponents and selects the conditions for c...
Music :: Feature :: Label 07 Oct 2008
Billy Hamilton: If variety is the spice of life then FatCat Records are piquant enough to have even the most resistant tastebuds burning. Established almost 20 years ago by Dave Cawley and Alex Knight, the label has developed into one of the UKs finest purveyors of m...
Music :: Feature 06 Oct 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: A conversation with Kurt Wagner is a lot like listening to him sing. His voice wavers between a deep throaty growl and a gentle higher pitched whisper, depending on how interested he is in the question. From time to time he'll get excited, but since un...
Music :: Feature :: Preview 06 Oct 2008
Jason Morton: Judging them on a purely cosmetic level, one could make the mistake of thinking Noah and the Whale had somehow crossed into the third dimension from a classic kids cartoon: The group consistently dress in similar outfits - eye-catching blue-and-yellow ...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 03 Oct 2008
Ally Brown: Like the eligibility rules for international football that see Nigerians playing for Poland, Englishmen playing for Scotland, and Brazilians playing for just about everyone, the conventions for deciding where a band originates from are haphazard at bes...
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...
Film :: Music :: Feature :: DVD Review 01 Oct 2008
Ewen Millar: The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the house and release the DVD. Produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty, each DVD is rigidly formulaic ...
Music :: Feature 01 Oct 2008
Milo McLaughlin: Last month's issue featured an interview with Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote but the first podcast in this two part special on the Fence Collective cruelly left out any of his tracks. This month we make up for it with an absolute belter of a tune ca...
Nick Mitchell: Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys have differing memories of the DeLorean DMC-12, the fabled supercar that moonlighted as a time machine in Back to the Future. Bip (real name Bryan Hollon) recalls that, in the American Mid-West of his youth, "it was always like ...
Music :: Heads Up :: Feature :: Features 30 Sep 2008
Paul Mitchell: This month sees the launch of Ten Tracks, a new platform for the marketing and retail of music for which ten bands provide a track each per month. All ten are available to listeners for £1 per month (or £10 per year, with the added option ...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 29 Sep 2008
Emma Smith: With all the majesty and wisdom that their title evokes, Eagleowl create stripped back, modernised folk tunes of a quiet intensity. Their sparse yet warmly atmospheric sound is the culmination of varied instrumentation: double bass, violin, ukulele and...
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Music :: Feature 28 Sep 2008
Paul Mitchell: “He just showed up with Damien Hirst of all people, they both started dancing around the studio for a bit then buggered off.” Thus Tim Simenon describes his first and only meeting with David Bowie, whose brooding track The Heart’s Fil...
Music :: Clubs :: Feature 26 Sep 2008
Colin Chapman: Marcel Dettmann was born in the Berlin satellite town of Fürstenwaldem, not the most stellar of origins by any means. But the recent release of his debut mix CD, Berghain 2 (which offered a musical snapshot of his residency at the famous German cl...
Music :: Feature 26 Sep 2008
Paul Mitchell: Kris Drever explains his view of the differences between musicians from the “folky scene” (his words), and those who ally themselves to the rock/pop world. “There’s a general camaraderie among folk musicians; a lot of shenanigan...
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 24 Sep 2008
Jason Morton: Back in the mid-80s - before III, before Sammy Hagar - Van Halen shot a video for a soon-to-be hit single entitled Hot for Teacher. In that clip, Eddie and Co. infiltrate an American primary school, allowing the kids - and the band members themselves ...
Wilbur Kane: The coming together of Drever, McCusker and Woomble inspires a brief look at the recent (and not so recent) history of the threesome. No sexy stuff, unless you count the Charmed ones... - 1. The Supremes: Hands up who’s ever heard of a four-pie...
Student Life :: Music :: Feature 23 Sep 2008
Ally Brown: In Scotland we like to boast about how brilliant we are at just about everything. We invented pretty much the whole modern world, including television, the telephone, antibiotics, the steam engine, and probably sliced bread and dogs and football and se...
Music :: Feature 19 Sep 2008
Paul Mitchell: With one sentence John Maclean denies any extra-terrestrial motivation behind the naming of his band, The Aliens, instead suggesting the moniker as metaphor for their craft; “We’re not really interested in the ‘little green men’...
