Music :: Feature 01 Dec 2008
Milo McLaughlin: London-based Wichita Recordings are home to a dizzying array of bands that practically define contemporary indie cool - Espers, Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst, Bloc Party, Los Campesinos, Saul Williams, Those Dancing Days - and as if they needed the bonus ku...
Music :: Live Review 11 Sep 2008
Jorge Marticorena: About five seconds into San Franciscan duo The Dodos' opening number - Trades and Tariffs - things go wrong; the tambourine/snare drumbeat is nice and steady but singer Meric Long's guitar shuts off. Something about "a damn cable" somewhere. Long tells...
Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Sep 2008
Nick Mitchell: The Dirty Dozen does like a band to seduce it a bit. So when newly-formed Londoners Rock City Sixteen send in a 7" of Lunettes Noires Pour Nuits Blanche (****, 8 Sep) in appropriate black and white design with creative press release, I am easily swayed...
Records :: Album Review 29 Jul 2008
Jason Morton: To describe Visiter by The Dodos as folk rock is a bit of a misnomer, but it’s about the quickest, closest-to-centre punch to pull. They’ve also garnered some attribution as psychedelic pop, but that doesn’t seem to fit either. There&...
