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Live Review: Wolf Alice / Bria – Bowery Ballroom, New York City 12.11.2021

It had been way too long. The door leading to the downstairs bar at the Bowery Ballroom was waiting like a time portal back to life before March 2020. So…

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EP review: Deca – ‘Source Material’: mining the library crates for instrumental breakz

LIBRARY music. It’s the crate-diggers’ crate-dig, the study of the deep connoisseur; that (formerly) unloved, workaday, copyright-free realm of production music, originally only of use and interest to the makers…

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The 4 members of band Pillow Queens onstage

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Live Review: Pillow Queens / Teose – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 12.11.2021

Dublin’s Pillow Queens self-released their debut album In Waiting in 2020 setting up their own record label to do so. The success of the album has been phenomenal and it…

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News: Roedelius and Tim Story will enter into a four-handed piano conversation for Erased Tapes in January; hear ‘Spirit Clock’

A GENUINE, gilt-edged musical legend, German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into his eighth decade with us, is to enter into a two-way piano conversation with American…

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Track: Former Zun Zun Egui sonic traveller Yama Warashi steps up and out with the space-jazz chant of ‘Dividual Individual’

BASED in Bristol for a decade and more, since she, Kushal Gaya, Matthew Jones and Luke Mosse first fell upon the complex high-life meets psych meets Deerhoof grooves sound of…

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Live review: Paddy Steer, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, November 12th, 2021: outsider electro genius charts a path to the future we were promised

THE ERSTWHILE packet port, maritime centre and now university hub of Falmouth-Penryn, down on the south Cornish Coast, has been consistently punching above its weight this past decade and a…

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Film Review: Drive My Car

Since the advent of moving pictures there have always been long films. Abel Gance’s 1927 classic Napoleon, for example, clocked in at well over five hours. However, what is often…

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Track: Melbourne’s Tina and the Hams release a double barrelled blast with singles ‘WAY’ and ‘PetRicHor’

Melbourne outfit Tina and the Hams have released their debut double single ‘WAY” and ‘PetRicHor’: a diverse yet completing engaging double hit. “WAY’ enters the fray with a punky thrashing…

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Premiere: Iain T. McKelvey and the Midnight Tangos release lush, evocative video for the slow burning track ‘Who I Was’, and announce launch gig.

We are honoured to premiere the new video from Sydney band Ian T. McKelvey and the Midnight Tangos, created for the languid and slow burning track that is ‘Who I…

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Album Review: Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O – ‘UMDALI’

Sometimes the narrative surrounding a record can make listening seem too intrusive. This prospect might have been a very real challenge for the revered South African jazz composer, Malcolm Jiyane…

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Live Review: Wolf Alice / Bria – Bowery Ballroom, New York City 12.11.2021

EP review: Deca – ‘Source Material’: mining the library crates for instrumental breakz

Live Review: Pillow Queens / Teose – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 12.11.2021

News: Roedelius and Tim Story will enter into a four-handed piano conversation for Erased Tapes in January; hear ‘Spirit Clock’

Track: Former Zun Zun Egui sonic traveller Yama Warashi steps up and out with the space-jazz chant of ‘Dividual Individual’

Live review: Paddy Steer, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, November 12th, 2021: outsider electro genius charts a path to the future we were promised

Film Review: Drive My Car

Track: Melbourne’s Tina and the Hams release a double barrelled blast with singles ‘WAY’ and ‘PetRicHor’

Premiere: Iain T. McKelvey and the Midnight Tangos release lush, evocative video for the slow burning track ‘Who I Was’, and announce launch gig.

Album Review: Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O – ‘UMDALI’