News: Orbital to split after 25 years
They’ve managed to eek out eight albums, some of them amongst the most influential in electronic music, over the course of 25 years, but brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll have…
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Incoming: Time is Illmatic
Twenty years after its release, Illmatic has become a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the socio-political outlook, enduring spirit, and collective angst of a generation of young black men searching for…
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DVD Review: Pritchard and Dainton – ‘The Rise and Falls’
‘“From zero to hero to zero again” is Lee Dainton’s summation of the crazy, roller-coaster world he has shared with his long-standing partner in crime Matthew Pritchard. ‘The Rise and…
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Album Review: Atomikylä – Erkale
Dark, deranged, desolate and darkness are all words that came to mind listening to this first album from Atomikyla, a Finnish band comprising former members of Dark Buddha Rising and Oranssi…
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DVD Review: Le Jour se lève
Considered by some to be one of the greatest films ever made, Le Jour se lève is definitly the most famous example of poetic realism movement. Marcel Carné’s film was…
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LIVE: Lonely The Brave / Marmozets / Allusondrugs- Corporation, Sheffield 13.10.2014
What could be better to blow away the Monday blues than three great up-and-coming bands in a tiny little room in Sheffield? Well, nothing would be the answer to that.…
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Incoming: Serena
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to…
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DVD Review: The Visitor
Italy has produced some great film directors and cinema. Fellini, Argento, Leone, Antonioni and Zefferelli were all considered masters of their oeuvres. There was a lot of Italian money floating…
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New Music: Loose Joints – Quattro Amigos
I really, really, fervently hope that the title is a nod to one of my favourite silly films of all time, the Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short triumph ‘¡Three…
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New Music: Light Club – Youth Is Fading
In amongst the days and places that I’ve been listening to this, the debut from Portland, Oregon’s Light Club, I think I’ve found the perfect accompaniment: bright early autumn sunshine…
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