• Video premiere: Black Walls – Field Two

    Black Walls sound is a mean, dark cocktail mixed from equal servings of black metal, post rock and drone-folk. The mystical soundscapes lend itself to visual companions and we are very happy to host the brand new video for ‘Field Two’, from their album Communion (out in the UK on September 15 –  Little Crackd Rabbit Records.)…

  • Footbah! – Seattle Seahawks vs Green Bay Packers

    Well, time to start piling up some fat before Christmas, the first bell has rung and we have stopped dipping our toes in the water: the NFL season has started. Warm up was essential and it came with musical guests. Soundgarden delighted fans with ‘My Wave’, ‘Rusty Cage’, ‘Spoonman’ and ‘Outshined’. Sadly, we mortals on tv…

  • Columna: Sobre cómo me encontré (corriendo un Medio Maratón)

    Hace poco más de 5 años no corría más que al baño después de una fuerte comilona. Pero en algún momento de esos en los que muchos cambios de vida se conjugan (nuevo trabajo, nueva casa, nuevo sistema operativo), decidí comenzar a correr como una actividad física y metafísica que me llevara a un mejor balance…

  • Review: Os Noctambulos – Corsica Garden

    Listening to Corsica Garden made me laugh and made me cry. “Why?” I hear you ask. Well in my early years, my constant companion was a tiny transistor radio with an ear-piece (no stereo in those days). The radio was hidden under my pillow and in the depths of the dark early 1960’s night I…

  • Review: Sun Glitters – Fading Days

    Victor Ferreira a.k.a. Sun Glitters uses the full extent of his armoury on this excellent new EP. The signature panning and fading is prevalent in abundance and the sound mix is full leaving you submerged in a bed of fuzz. Add to this the introduction of vocal samples, a new departure for Ferreira and you…

  • Review: Ace Frehley – Space Invader

    Ace Frehley is the least unbearable member of KISS, his solo forays always look a bit overshadowed by both his career both inside KISS, and their most notable single ‘New York Groove’  which, by the way, I have some special affection because it accompanied me several times back to México D.F. Having said this, I…

  • Review: Beach Day – Native Echoes

      From the book of “How to deftly avoid a sophomore slump” comes another example, filed under “B”. It’s Beach Day and now they are back with their sweet American rock, distilled in funky waterin’ holes in Hollyweird, Florida. The new album is Native Echoes and it sounds like, ah, well, we need to cover the songs…

  • Lisa Gerrard – Twilight Kingdom

    Where do you start in the discussion group  “ambient music – is it just boring?” Let’s be fair, “New Age Music” mostly holds up is its angelic faerie hands freshly washes in meaningless synthesiser soap. But then Post Rock, NeoClassical and Ambient are always open for debate. Those of us who have a penchant for…

  • Beacons: a playlist review

    A Festival For Pals In the unlikeliest move of 2014 I somehow managed a free ride and entry to Yorkshire’s premier musical hotspot. I don’t know how I was deserving of such luck but rather than drawing modest cocks in customers lattes I’d been freed from work for a weekend, got a last minute ride…

  • Reseña: Godsmack – 1000 HP

    El más reciente disco de Godsmack, 1000 hp llega 4 años después de The Oracle, y aunque 4 años pueden sonar a mucho tiempo, creo que los fans de la banda apreciarán que se hayan tomado el tiempo suficiente para realizar un disco que no desmerece la reputación ni pierde el estilo de la banda.…