Not Forgotten: Brendan Benson – The Alternative to Love
2005 was an odd year for power pop, when three big names released albums of new material. As fate would have it these much anticipated releases by Teenage Fanclub, The…
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See: Ming City Rockers release new video for Twist It
We’ve long been fans of the scuzzy rock and roll of Immingham’s Ming City Rockers. fusing together elements from Chuck Berry to Link Wray and the MC5 via New York…
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Track: Roddy Frame – Forty days of fame, plus new album news
Scottish songsmith Roddy Frame is back in the album business, with a new LP set for release in May. Three records on from Aztec Camera’s last, Frestonia in 1995, “Seven…
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DVD Review: Wake in Fright (Masters of Cinema)
As the opening credits roll over a rural Australian backwater, don’t let the jaunty music lure you into a false sense of security. There’s an uncomfortable ride in store for…
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Album Review: Jakob Skott – Amor Fati
Hello. It’s good to be back from my mission to the fourth realm of Garzan. It was a rough flight, flying through the Araucaria Fire, just past the Eastman Oyster…
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Gallery: The Stranglers, Ruby Tour, Leeds. 21.03.2014 – view from the pit.
Riots. Hard drugs. Strippers. The Stranglers have been there worn the t-shirt ripped it off their backs and thrown it back for another go many many times. 40 years. 40…
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DVD Review: The Borderlands
I’m struck by the thought, after the first five minutes of The Borderlands, that I may be about to watch another sub-par found footage film. It’s a genre which periodically…
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Premiere: Geno Carrapetta releases new video for ‘Éternité’
We’ve been loving London psych-upstarts for sometime now, so we are very excited to premiere the video for ‘Éternité’, the lead single from the drummer of Gentlemen, Geno Carrapetta., He…
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Track: Hunck – Toy Trucks
Hunck could be described as a side project, you know, one of one things you do for fun, or when things are quiet, or something you can be a little…
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Film Review: Starred Up
Prison dramas are not my cup of tea in all honesty, but there’s been a few impressive exception in the last year years from Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet to the…
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