By Stef Siepel
May 03, 2013
The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. … Continue Reading
By Charlotte Stones
May 2, 2013
However much we listen to folk-pop, waiting for hidden messages to materialise, anticipating a track that screams with meaning that drags you into self-reflection, there never seems to be one. We listen intently, in hope even, but mostly it remains prosaic; a lost sound that only returns through blasting headphones as a night-time escape from neighbourly noise. … Continue Reading
By Kenny McMurtrie
May 02, 2013
Following a label move to Merge Mikal Cronin, who’s had a quiet couple of years after a very productive time in the previous decade, is back with his second solo album MC II. … Continue Reading
By Richard Wink
May 2, 2013
!!!’s deliberate career suicide has spanned five albums. Trying to recommend a !!! release is a blooming nightmare. You tell a pal “I’d like to recommend a band to you, but I’m going to have to write down their name”. Your pal probably thinks you’re going to tell them about Einstürzende Neubauten. You write it down for them and they say “Exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark?” No, you then write Chk Chk Chk. “Wait, what? How do you say Chk Chk Chk?” Is it chick chick chick or check check check? I don’t know, but it’s problematic. Later on, your pal Googles ‘!!!’ and gets nothing. … Continue Reading
By Kenny McMurtrie
May 02, 2013
Edinburgh’s Electric Circus plays host, this Bank Holiday Sunday (May 5th), to the Big Day In event. The full line-up is handily displayed on the image to the left and you can obtain tickets by clicking here.
John-Paul Mason and Tallah Brash, the dual brains behind the day’s goings on, were good enough to answer a few questions that we put to them:- … Continue Reading
By Julia Stryj
May 02, 2013
Touring in support of second album Beacon Two Door Cinema Club (with opening act Chvrches) recently took to the stage of Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange. Julia Stryj was there for Muso’s Guide to record the even for those of us that couldn’t make it. … Continue Reading
By Kenny McMurtrie
May 01, 2013
The Primavera Sound festival has been around for over a decade in Barcelona and is now in its second year in Porto. Offering a consistently high level of acts from around the world it is also an important platform for acts from Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries, proof of which is seen this year with such acts as Blur, Bob Mould, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Woods rubbing shoulders with The Suicide Of Western Culture, Los Planetas and Guadalupe Plata and many others.
The Barcelona event runs over May 22 – 26 whilst Porto plays host May 30 – June 01 and we were lucky enough to have a few questions about the organisation of the shows answered by the promoters:-
By Thomas Bolton
May 1, 2013
Gruff Rhys is an unstoppable force. A selection of his recent activities include a quest for the lost Welsh tribes of Patagonia; a collaboration with home-made Brazilian noise merchant Tony da Gatorra; and an album based on his collection of miniature shampoos. In another sideline, or possibly mainline, he is engaged in a two-man quest to revive the concept album as Neon Neon with Boom Bip. It is five years since Stainless Style, Neon Neon’s synth groove album about buccaneering car designer John DeLorean and now they’re back, with a mini-opera even less predictable than the last. … Continue Reading
By Kenny McMurtrie
May 01, 2013
At 18:00 on May 09, prior to the WHY? show at the Islington Assembly Hall in London, the band’s leader Yoni Wolf will take 30 fans on a mile-long run followed by a warm-down session in a local park. … Continue Reading
By Tom Fake
May 01, 2013
The Hot Five – My views on five tracks that have attracted my interest in any given week, usually with an older track thrown in the mix for something a bit different. Tracks usually concentrate on guitar-based releases, but really focusing on anything and everything that comes to my attention. Shameless – follow me on twitter @tomfake … Continue Reading
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