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  • What the folk?

    Recently I was reminded of how strongly the debate still rages – what is folk? I was at the No Direction Home festival at Welbeck Abbey, and Will Hodgkinson had been asked to come and talk about his book The Ballad of Britain. In 2009 he took a trip round Britain to cast his eye on the…

  • Singles Reviewed – Everyone an army, Silent Front, A Clean Kitchen is a Happy Kitchen, Collider, The Lucid Dream, Torches

    Greetings, readers who know that I am the eye in the sky, looking at you, I can read your mind. I am the maker of rules, ok? Welcome to another edition of our “off again, off again, hey it’s on again!” single reviews column. Granted, some of them aren’t singles, but I liked them and…

  • EP Round up: Great Deeds, Bayone, Dead Sea Navigators, Zahed Sultan

    Hullo hullo, it’s your editor-in-training, Orestes P. Xistos and I’ll be doing this week’s EP round-up. In honour of how good The Avengers are doing, I’ll be assigning some cheap ass nerd taxonomy to these bands. Apologies in advance. Shyeah right.

  • Master and the Mule – The view from nowhere

  • From The Outside Looking In – a Gold Flake Paint compilation

  • The Life & Times – Live DVD

    We love the Life & Times. Not only did they release one of the best albums (so far) of 2012, the criminally great No one loves you like a do, but they also gave us a very honest and complete interview. They are on tour on the USA, so those of us not there will be missing…

  • WrdsBtwnWrds – CS​-​L 9

  • Peace in the Park 2012

    EDIT: There was a spot of a misunderstanding. “Shithole of a site” refers to Sloucher, not the festival. “Why the fuck would I want to go to Peace in the Park, panzón? No Renegade Brass Band and no Screaming Maldini equals no mojo and no Orestes, geddit?” A solo review, then. For all the haranguing that…

  • Invitacion: Urss Bajo El Arbol en el Club Atlantico

    Los compas de URSS bajo el árbol (quienes reseñamos hace algunas lunas) tocan mañana con un cartel buenísimo en el Club Atlántico. Por 80 pesitos (preventa: 60 en Rebel Shop), tienen este cartelazo: Mr. Racoon (¡freak folk de Monterrey!) The Polar Dream (¡post rock tapatío!) Lady Lane (¡shoegaze!) Suave as hell (¡dream pop!) URSS bajo el árbol (¡experimental…

  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania

    Oceania. I’d hate to say this is a return to form because… who the fuck knows what is the “form” of Smashing Pumpkins? They’ve changed in every single album, tackling psychedelia, shoegaze, prog, experimental, concept albums and metal. No album resembles the previous and I for one am grateful of a band that always mutates so much…