Stereotypes of video games and technology might be crude, but they’re not baseless – Japan is rich in culture and...
If you meet anyone who tells you that Bone Zeno is NOT inspired by the likes of Tom Waits and...
It might sound like a strange collaboration, but Aussie Courtney Barnett, winner of the 2015 Album Of The Year poll...
Given that Portland, Oregon, continues to be a hotbed of all things creative and progressive (veganism, gay softball, pedicabs), whatever...
There is more energy, invention and inspiration in ‘Dream Thief’, the opening track from Mass Datura‘s startling debut album Sentimental...
MASSEDUCTION arrives 10 years after St.Vincent’s (Annie Clark’s) enchanting debut, Marry Me. She’s spent the last decade evolving by mixing...
Michael Head’s reputation as Britain’s greatest living songwriter rests on that stunning five-album run from 1995’s Waterpistol, through 1997’s The...
Pontvane is a picturesque and pretty album proving that romance is not dead. The product of two years’ of collaborative...
The world of pop music, both fans and media alike, sometimes has a maddeningly short attention span. New bands can...
This week of course my Facebook feed has been full of people eulogising the late Tom Petty (note: in ten...
For once, a record where slipping in the adjective ‘cinematic’ is fully meritted. Amplify Human Vibration by Nordic Giants is...
Lean Year is Richmond, Virginia based singer Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson. When filmmakers and songwriters collaborate it usually...
“An alien with extraordinary abilities”. A peculiar description to be found on an American visa. A British musician who’s voice...
A mere two months after the release of Acoustic Classics II, Richard Thompson has given us a third collection of...
Giant steps are what you take, respectively, either when you’ve finally embraced the work of John Coltrane, when you’re walking...
