Month: June 2015
- Garage
The Computers – This Is The Computers
The Computers – This Is The Computers (album, One Little Indian). Some bands have names that match how they sound.…
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The Raveonettes – Raven In The Grave (album, Vice)
Throughout the last decade Danish duo Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo have issued a string of albums of genuine…
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Ringo DeathStarr – Colour Trip (album, Club AC30)
Occupying a kind of salted soil middle ground between My Bloody Valentine and late era Jesus and Mary Chain, Texan…
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Thee Hypnotics – Come Down Heavy (album, Situa)
Come Down Heavy is a behemoth of an album that presses down upon the senses like 20,000 leagues of heavy…
Read More » - Cinema
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
The food! There’s just so much damn good food there. Last summer I gained 5 pounds just in one long…
Read More » - Design
The Short Happy Life of Joe Colombo
Modern life and the future in the vision of an enlightened designer. But in the very same year there’s not…
Read More » - Genres
My Chemical Romance – Live
PROCESSION MOVES ON, THE SHOUTING IS OVER My Chemical Romance, Hammersmith Apollo It’d been a long cold wait for the…
Read More » - Punk
The Crassical Collection: Penis Envy – Crass (Southern)
Despite the paucity of new Crass music emerging from Dial House, the group’s profile continued to grow as their gigging…
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The Crassical Collection: Stations of the Crass – Crass (Southern)
There were two main reasons why reactions by the music press were largely irrelevant to Crass. Firstly, they had little…
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The Crassical Collection: The Feeding of the 5000 – Crass
In terms of punk rock’s political legacy, it’s difficult to overstate the primacy of Crass. Whereas the class of ’76…
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Flats: Kick It ‘Til It Breaks
With two blistering EPs and their eardrum shredding new single ‘Never Again’ behind them, Flats have established the most credible…
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Mick Farren: Front Line Shaman
Mick Farren has been many things in his time; author, activist, agent provocateur, anarchist... and that’s just getting warmed up…
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