Music :: Feature 05 Jan 2009
Music: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Title: The Century of Self (Richter Scale) Release Date: 16 February Trail of Dead were one of the few bands to deservingly defy the indie-to-major sell-out cliché. That is, until 2006’s some...
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 30 Jul 2008
Megan Jasper: Tad - Central Tavern, Seattle (1990) Un-fucking-believable; just this heavy motherfucker making the heaviest music I’ve ever heard. I remember watching him play and thinking ‘I so desperately need to live here and stay here’. I moved...
Music :: Live Review 07 Dec 2007
Finbarr Bermingham: Despite their global fanbase and nigh on universal appeal, The Shins will always be a loveable indie band. Having seen them stranded on the unforgiving main stage at Leeds Festival this summer, and read the lukewarm report that emanated from these shee...
Music :: Live Review 08 Oct 2007
Nick Mitchell: Now that 'indie' music has jostled its skinny frame firmly into the pop charts, the term itself has lost all meaning. But if any of the old strain survives, it is to be found in the music of The Shins. The Portland band ooze indie-ness through every ja...
