Music
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FestivalsBeacons festival: Lighting the Way
Beacons festival's second outing amps it up in terms of both acts and art Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – August 2013
If history teaches us anything, it’s that not many people have had a month named after them; props to Emperor Augustus for achieving this feat some two thousand years ago. Here's our pick of the hottest gigs this month – a selection to make Gus proud Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsThe Lucid Dream – Songs of Lies and Deceit
The debut from this Carlisle psych-rock quartet makes no attempt to hide its influences, but in its drawing of links across some impressively disparate terri... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Crocodiles – Crimes of Passion
Since the lo-fi guitar fuzz of early albums Summer of Hate and Sleep Forever, San Diego's Crocodiles have cleaned up their sound immensely. Their shoegaze le... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsThe Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 26 July
In this week's Bulletin: All the Superman vs Batman, Avengers and X-Men news from San Diego Comic-Con; the latest Festival news; new music from Franz Ferdinand, Washed Out, PINS and others; plus: design a poster for Irvine Welsh movie adaptation Filth Read more »| 26 Jul 2013
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Reviews
Acid Washed – House of Melancholy
On paper, Acid Washed sound like a fairly generic Parisian revivalist disco/house duo; yet the second LP from Andrew Claristidge and Richard D’Alpert e... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Fat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird
The third album proper from super-tight New Zealand outfit Fat Freddy's Drop achieves what it sets out to in spades. From the title track onwards, its blend ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsGrant Hart – The Argument
It opens with a squealing loop, tribal percussion and spoken word dramatics. A fat twenty tracks later it exits with an extended coda fashioned from little m... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live MusicGig Highlights – Scotland, August 2013
Song, By Toad's inaugural Pale Imitation Festival offers respite from flyer dodging, plus gigs from King Creosote, Swans, Patti Smith, Tame Impala and The Twilight Sad, and an unmissable live outing for David Byrne & St. Vincent Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Mogwai perform Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait @ Albert Hall, 19 July
It's impossible to question Manchester's heritage when it comes to either football or music, so it always seemed a sensible choice for Manchester Internation... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Stealing Sheep / All We Are / Prides @ East Village Arts Club, 17 July
It’s hot. Everyone in this sweltering Victorian loft knows it’s hot. Right now, a gig is a tiring proposition, but we soldier on because it&rsquo... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
The New Mendicants @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 13 July
Supergroups are a risky business. For every Gutter Twins-style success, there’s a Broken Bells – a set of mouthwatering ingredients that just tas... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Medicine – To The Happy Few
Reunited by Captured Tracks to release their back catalogue, 90s LA shoegazers Medicine decided to record a new album, and the result is far from the wall-of... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Moderat – Moderat II
There were seven years between Moderat’s first EP and album, with the Modeselektor duo and Apparat’s Sascha Ring putting the gap down to “a... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013