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  • Interview : Adi Carter

    Like most of the nice folks in Sheffield, I met Adrian Carter through a combination of Twitter and musicians. The first time we had a long conversation was about Peter Davison‘s stint in Dr. Who. I can’t really recall how much we trashed or lauded the one in the cricket gear, but our usual conversations,…

  • Review: Correatown – Sleep and other drugs

    The first time I met Angela Correa, she was part of a lovely acoustic duo called Les Shelleys. The second time I met her, she was performing as Correatown, a more dream pop oriented outfit that created gorgeous warm songs that delved into C86 and a spot of electronics. Then I saw her live in…

  • Gig Review: The National @ The O2, London, 26/11/2014

    Tonight was a special night for The National. It was the culmination of two years worth of touring on their Trouble Will Find Me LP, which has seen them play across the globe to thousands and thousands of adoring fans. The National are not a stadium band. They write music which works its way into your…

  • Review: Owen – Other People’s Songs

    In every reviewer’s career, there’s always a very sharp axe inside a glass case. This case has a little chain with a Rod Stewart shaped hammer attached, ready to smash it. It’s the golden axe +5 reserved for cover albums. Many an artist resort to the “classics” or “the great American notebook” when they are…

  • Review: Down the Lees – Wear Me Out

    There’s the (maybe apocryphal) quote by Jorge Luis Borges where he declares that “novels are a waste of time; if you can’t say it as a short story, don’t say it at all“. Maybe LL Schultz has been following this advice lately, as the EP Island series of EPs have been nothing but solid. Now…

  • Review: Gum Takes Tooth – Mirrors Fold

    I suspect that a few of you lot have been looking for a bit of a change, if not a rest. You’re probably sick of your daily commute and crusty old headphones. What are you doing, still using those waxy inner Sol Republic Jax when you’ve been dreaming about some outer ear Griffin Woodtones? I…

  • Reseña: Alan Parsons Project @ Pepsi Center

      Más vale tarde que nunca records, presenta:   “Sobre cómo me encontré (viendo a Alan Parson´s en la Ciudad de México y a Primus en Dallas en menos de 7 días)” – Parte 1.   No soy muy afecto a la frase “las cosas que no se planean son las que salen mejor”. De…

  • Vast Robot Armies’ Studio Diary – Day Six

    “I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.” – Grace Slick Some of the things I will remember about the Air B&B condo we stayed at. It was a beautiful condo. Exposed brick and high ceilings are a sure way to win me…

  • Regression therapy & Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe (‘)

    México City, late nineties, any given Saturday. On the rare occasion when I convinced my brother to go second hand music shopping and swapping to a cultural bazaar by the name of Tianguis del Chopo, we would swim amidst the ocean of black t-shirts, bad hairdos, smudgy tattoos, horrible speaker systems, stolen goods, emos (I…

  • Podcast: Radio Chaneque – Guarriors and Dragons