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Playlist: Sparks’ Dieter Meier picks out some of his favourite music videos for Backseat Mafia
It’s been quite a journey. As he approaches his seventh decade, Dieter Meier can look back on a life well lived. Conceptual artist, lyricist, singer and one half of influential electronic band Yello, that is only one string to his bow. Add to that video director, billionaire industrialist, member of the Swiss national golf team, …
Album Review: Martin Austwick – Through Intermittent Rain
Martin Austwick is a man of many talents. Not only is he a supremely talented singer and songwriter, but he’s a physicist and university lecturer, and is also known as “Martin the Sound Man” on the hugely popular comedy podcast Answer Me This!, as well as the Brain Train, Global Lab and The Sound of …
Track: The Diamond Age release new single, Seas Happen
Following on from debut single ‘I might just be’, which received not only critical acclaim, but 10k plays on soundcloud, and led to an appearance at The Great Escape in Brighton, comes a new single Seas Happen, out on September 15th. Better still the Southampton duo, aka Matt Canning and Bill Acharjee, are giving the …
Album Review: U2 – Songs of Innocence
It’s not even 72 hours since its (surprise) release, but already U2’s latest album has become one of the most widely distributed, most talked about and oddly controversial albums in living memory. Which is odd, because it’s just a U2 album. Okay, so beyond the music itself, there’s a few talking points here – It …
See: Stephen “Ragga” Marley released video for Rock Stone
Although of course always overshadowed by his father Bob, it shouldn’t be forgotten that son Stephen “Ragga” Marley is an artist of some repute in his own right. Indeed, he is an eight time grammy winner, his last one coming for 2011 album Revelation Pt.1 – The Root of Life (Best Reggae Album in 2012.) The follow-up …
Not Forgotten: Humble Pie – Smokin’
Humble Pie are a band I had certainly heard of, but beyond knowing that they were the band that post-Small Faces Steve Marriott formed with pre-Frampton Comes Alive! Peter Frampton and that they were a harder-rocking proposition than both, I knew very little, beyond the fact that Smokin’ was reputedly their best studio album. Within …
See: Cymbals Eat Guitars release video for “Laramie”
Following the releases of their much anticipated album Lose, out now on Barsuk in their native US and tough love across the pond, comes the Milton Ladd directed video for the bands track Laramie. As the band explain “Our friend Milton Ladd is an awesomely talented artist and filmmaker who we were really keen to …
Say Pstch: Live – Moon Duo, The Harley, Sheffield, 02.09.14
This is the third time I have seen Moon Duo live. The previous two times were under quite different circumstances, but both in their own way were exceptional. I first saw them at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds when Sanae had some really serious technical problems with her keyboards, to the extent that it …
News: 3TEETH announce new release – 3TEETH Remixed
3TEETH the industrial overlords that made a big impression with their debut album earlier this year and have been making waves all over the internet have a new imminent release – 3TEETH Remixed. Anyone who has been following the band will know that a whole host of different artists reworked and remixed their material. Previously …
Meet: Opal Onyx Interview
Brooklyn based duo, Opal Onyx, are one of the bands at the forefront of the new wave of electronic-experimental acts to surface from the city’s underground scene. Opal Onyx create a sound made up of reverb loaded guitar, the resonance of a cello and captivating, slightly haunting vocals all layered above selective sampling, and some …