Music
Live Review: Calexico / Alejandro y Maria Laura / Mariachi Las Adelitas – Paradiso, Amsterdam 10.5.22 – Le Trianon, Paris 12.05.22 – 02 Kentish Town Forum, London 14.05.22
Calexico finally returned to Europe after a 4-year hiatus (apart from the collaborative Iron and Wine tour of 2019) with a full 7-piece band and celebrating their hugely anticipated 10th studio album-‘El Mirador. Recorded in Tucson in 2021 at the studio of Sergio Mendoza, long time band member, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Full of cumbia influences …
Live Review: Kate Nash – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 27.05.2022 Plus Gallery
Kate Nash steps on to the stage of Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms ready to give 110%. Starting with a tease of her 2007 hit “Foundations“, we’re given a whole lot of energy and a whole lot of fun from start to finish. Kate won’t been seen dead standing still and her audience are clearly a dedicated …
Album Review: José Medeles – Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems : a stunning ‘tribute’ to John Fahey’s musical spirit.
So what do you make of tribute albums? Are they places to be seen, a rag bag of cover versions by a bunch of people who have nothing in common except convenient admiration? Well ‘Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems’ by José Medeles may pay homage to John Fahey but there’s a gulf between this album …
Track: The enigmatic and über cool Horsegirl release another brilliant single ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ and announce more shows ahead of sell out dates in Europe.
Horsegirl are cooler than anyone on the planet at this moment in time and their slew of singles, thus far released, place this statement in bold and highlighted. We’ve already salivated over the louch fuzz of ‘World of Pots and Pans’ and ‘Anti-glory’. Now, in anticipation of their debut album ‘Versions of Modern Performance’ (out …
Track: Toronto’s perfect Housewife (fka Moscow Apartment) are back with the shimmering track ‘Patrick Bateman’.
Due to unfortunate connotations, the brilliant duo Moscow Apartment who released, in my opinion, one of the most outstanding albums of 2020, the EP ‘Better Daughter’ (reviewed by me here), have decided to change their name and reemerge as Housewife – a somewhat delicious irony given their strong feminist stance (they proudly call themselves ‘opinionated …
Live: Darwin Deez – Belgrave, Leeds 15.05.2022
Picture this; it’s Summer 2010, Strongbow Dark Fruits hasn’t been invented yet, everyone is wearing boat shoes, chinos and that Rhianna shirt and Darwin Deez are the soundtrack to your summer. The debut album by DD took the entire UK scene by storm and you couldn’t go to an indie clubnight without hearing Radar Detector. …
Live Review: Softcult, The Key Club, Leeds – 19.05.22
If you like your alternative indie with a serious helping of social comment and conscience, you could have done much worse than getting to Leeds on Thursday night to see Canadian twins Softcult as they wrapped their first headline UK tour. Having formed in Kitchener, Ontario in 2020, Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn have spent the …