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  • Coffee with Orestes: An in depth analysis of Katy Perry’s Dark Horse

    Hey ho dee ho dee da, followers, I’m Orestes Xistos, I was told that Sloucher doesn’t speak often about popular-popular music, so I drank a fifth of vodka (DARE ME TO DRIVE?) and listened to Katy Perry’s smash it about his break up with Russell Brand. No, not that one. No, not the other one.…

  • Review: Bad Grammar – Forced Fun

  • Jim Ghedi “Satori” album launch, 5.4.13 Bank Street Arts Sheffield.

    A digital projection (Jade Crowe) Live improvisational painting (Keith How, Sampa Mulenga, Edith Rothwell) and Jim Ghedi’s band constructed a multi media happening to celebrate the release of the Satori album.

  • Xiu xiu – Angel guts:Red classroom

    For the most part, one can escape the noise of a day. Xiu Xiu though seem to have a different approach – encapsulate that noise, distort it, include lyrics, and then force the listener to endure it.

  • SXSW Diaries Saturday – Possible Kill Screen

    Note/Warning: My proper reviews for SXSW will be on La Pop Life and Gold Flake Paint soon(ish). For Sloucher, I’ll be posting diary-style stuff, mostly unedited (barring a few typos that had to go away, replaced by more typos. Most of these diaries were written late at night and honest to God, this is how…

  • Singles Review: Black Feet Revolution, Fear of Men, A. Mountains, Dead Stars, The Mercy Beat

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT! I’m back, ladies and germs and… you know what? Screw that binary gender malarkey. HI READERS. That’s better. Welcome to another edition of our “reviewing releases late again” single reviews column. This week’s singles come courtesy of a lifelong depression triggered by the ending of Stalker: Clear Sky. That was some Bible-calibre…

  • SXSW Diaries – That Friday I sorta met a hero of mine.

    Note/Warning: My proper reviews for SXSW will be on La Pop Life and Gold Flake Paint soon(ish). For Sloucher, I’ll be posting diary-style stuff, mostly unedited (barring a few typos that had to go away, replaced by more typos. Most of these diaries were written late at night and honest to God, this is how…

  • SXSW Diaries – One fine Thursday at Todd’s Mansion…

    Note/Warning: My proper reviews for SXSW will be on La Pop Life and Gold Flake Paint soon(ish). For Sloucher, I’ll be posting diary-style stuff, mostly unedited (barring a few typos that had to go away, replaced by more typos. Most of these diaries were written late at night and honest to God, this is how…

  • Podcast: An Americana Mixtape for your Datsun Saloon

    When I was a kid, my mother drove us around everywhere in her Orange(later Crimson) Datsun car. I can’t recall the exact model (looked like a Laurel) but I remember the button controlled stereo and that the music we heard was this station that played 70s rock and Americana. Stuff like America, Bread, Gram Parsons,…

  • News: Arctangent announces MONO as headliner

    Great news to every single one of you lucky people going to ArcTangent, as Mono has been announced as headliner. Alongside legends This will Destroy you, Russian Circles and God is an astronaut, this elevates the festival to a higher, rarefied atmosphere. This is Mono’s ONLY European Festival gig for 2014. Fret not, there’s an…