• Track by track : Lumiere’s Coloso #2

    We invited Lumiere to write a few blurbs about their long-in-the-making upcoming album, Coloso. One every day for the next forthnight. Here’s ‘Almadoble’ Almadoble: Dicen que la vida es un vestido de noche y que todos tenemos un ALMADOBLE. Dicen también que para componer esta canción se requirió un demo electrónico pop y muchas ganas de…

  • Wild times with burgers at The Harley…

    It seems that we’ve taken a turn as of late. Besides the usual music and art shenanigans, several stories about alcohol have been creeping in. Maybe it was because of this or simply because they took pity on us being skint, but we got invited to a Press launch for the new range of Burgers…

  • Singles Reviewed : Maybeshewill, URSS bajo el arbol, Mooi, The Bedford Incident, The Narrows, Spring Offensive, Athena, Funeral Suits, Thelonius Rex, Partly Faithful

    Greetings, readers who went to Vive Latino 2012 and fell in love at the party pit while being showered by plastic cups containing Cerveza Sol (and if it wasn’t beer, then fúchila)! 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…

  • Track by track : Lumiere’s Coloso #1

    We invited Lumiere to write a few blurbs about their long-in-the-making upcoming album, Coloso. One every day for the next forthnight. To start things up, ‘Elefante’. Elefante: La memoria amorosa del animal en cuestión en contraste con la memoria conjunta de dos individuos en éxtasis al observar una estatua a orillas del río Támesis (en diferentes…

  • Dia de Puente

    Aske Gardens is a park in that lil’ London Borough called Hackney. The park is petite sized and it reminded me of the one from the film Pi. The lonely bounce of a basketball and the odd gust of wind were the only noises on that Monday, March 19th.

  • Interview – The Fervor

    Wow, has it been a year already since we reviewed The Fervor‘s Arise, Great Warrior ? Well, it’s been a little more, but we certainly enjoyed the album (link!). What’s a website to do but manage to squeeze in their very busy days (they’ve been playing a lot of shows) and managed to get an interview via email…

  • A Thursday, too many lifetimes ago…

    “The trick is to keep it steady” says Valerie as the camera’s LCD display keeps showing a steady flow of blurry, grainy messed-up photo ops.

  • Wrongpop Presents: Volume 1

  • Review – X Ray Horse w/ Low Duo, Empty Churches, The Kickliner & Don’t Sleep Dream

    They say that necessity is the mother of invention. They also say never start a review with a cliché. I guess sometimes it’s better to go with your gut instinct.

  • The Active Set – 11