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  • Interview: Monuments

    I ran into the music of Monuments a couple of years ago, thanks to that old recommendation engine Last.fm. It was hard tracking them down because there are six bands under the same name on that site (sort it out, CBS!) but eventually managed to get ahold of them, especially after listening to their latest…

  • Review: John Hiatt – ’Terms of my Surrender’

    ‘Wow. Did I order a smoky barbecued steak and a shot of bourbon? Surprising. Especially because I am a vegetarian.’ That was my first thought upon hearing John Hiatt’s voice rumbling through the opening lines of ‘Long Time Comin’, the opener of his 22nd studio album Terms of my Surrender. Despite a career spanning 30…

  • Podcast: Radio Chaneque – Copeando con los Guarriors y su conteo mamachueco de terror

  • Lollygagging in Sheffield – November gig list

    It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these – a combination of stress, fatigue and general lack of zest were some of the causes. Also, not being in Sheffield now, it’s hard to be “in the know”, even if well-meaning insiders are kind enough to send us their stuff. This one is for…

  • Review: Neil Young – Storytone

    It’s a wonder Neil Young’s ego and a 92-piece orchestra fit into the same chamber. Despite 34 differing albums before him, Neil Young found enough self-focused desire to pursue an orchestral album. A bold turn, one which Young himself told Rolling Stone is the “most different thing I’ve ever attempted”. Yet different does not always…

  • Interview – Emma Swift

    A couple of years ago, while I still lived in Sheffield, I serendipitously ran into Emma Swift. She was living in Nashville but was from Sydney. Heard her music, mostly Americana based, and found a sort of kindred spirit: a stranger in a strangeland, doing something close to the heart. Flash forward a few years, a…

  • Review: Jackson Browne – Standing in the Breach

    Browne’s first new material in six years recycles old ideas and refreshes them with modern presentation. Though touching in places, Standing in the Breach is an uncomfortable fit akin to cocktails of confusion drunk in his past. Throughout the album, Browne understands and illuminates how immoral human values – greed, violence, hatred and more –…

  • I’m less metal than you – a day at Mexico’s Hell and Heaven festival

    “But I don’t even like metal” I said before seeing it was a free ticket. Then I donned a Wet Nuns tee and hoped for the best. In this case, the best case scenario was the festival actually taking place and not getting surreptitiously cancelled by some government prick. Even if I got a free…

  • Review: Thurston Moore – The Best Day

    Sonic Youth. There, I said it. Yep, the parents of a hundred bastard art rock protagonists (will someone PLEASE explain that term?) Mommy Kim and Daddy Thurston have fallen out and dad has moved to London and he has a new band. The Best Day at first listen kinda flattens you after the first two…

  • Review: Forest Swords – Engravings

    Earth Mysteries abound. On the Wirral, Merseyside there is a demolished Churchyard that was part of a now nonexistent village once named Overchurch. While nothing of Overchurch seems to remain in what is left of the old graveyard lays the Overchurch Rune Stone which dates back to Anglo Saxon times. Engravings feels as though it…