Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Hailed as a success at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, We Need to Talk About Kevin has taken its time to filter over to UK screens. But it has been worth…
Little Dragon – Ritual Union
It is a crying shame that Little Dragon are quite possibly the most famous electronic outfit that no-one has ever heard of. They – or at least frontwoman Yukimi Nagano – has appeared…
New Blood – Look Stranger!
Take half a cup of Scritti Politti, add a dash of Antony & The Johnsons, top with a Stereolab crust and gently simmer in Trip Hop and you will have yourself a taste…
Life In A Day
80,000 Lives…. 4,500 Hours of Footage…all uploaded to YouTube then slapped together by Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) and Kevin Mcdonald (State Of Play, Last King Of Scotland) to produce a “cinematic experience” unlike…
Wu-lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
Forget about the media frenzy, forget the lack of interviews, forget the little online presence and the air of apparent ‘mystery’ drummed up by the band in order to gain our attention. It…
Review // Aaron Wright – Aaron Wright
Not that we’re complaining, but it’s certainly noticeable that the early days of Spring have a habit of bringing folk-y popsters and singer-songwriters out from whichever twee haunts they’ve been hibernating in, with…
Review // The Strokes – Angles
If ever a band has less need of an introduction, it is The Strokes. It’s understandable, considering that with the release of Is This It in 2001, the five New Yorkers had come…
Review // Rainbow Arabia – Boys and Diamonds
Some people might remember that Rainbow Arabia appeared a couple of years ago back at the height of Brooklyn-mania: those psychedelic, world music-inspired offerings helped to place Rainbow Arabia in some sort of…
Preview // Super
When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler) willingly charmed by a seductive drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he…
Review // Chapel Club – Palace
Having a few brain cells and doing some genuinely intelligent referencing has been something of a dirty thing in recent British indie: okay, we’ve had Foals and their clever take on the genre,…
Review // Joan As Policewoman – The Deep Field
No-one can accuse Joan Wasser of not being dark – her last two albums were informed by death, and it showed in the sorrowful lyrics and, on To Survive, the haunting use of…
Review // The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
It’s been a few hard years in the making, but The Joy Formidable have finally released their debut album after periods of being a continual support band and numerous teasers on their MySpace…
Review // Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Britain has had its decent share of women dabbling in dark rock: Anna Calvi is just the latest in this line. With her debut album she treads ground that is familiar to fans…
Review // Monsters
Monsters is a cross between District 9 & Cloverfield…or that’s what the trailer would have you believe. In the world of misleading trailers this would be fairly high up its ’best of’ charts; but this…
Review // Enslaved: ODYSSEY TO THE WEST
Platform and adventure games have long since outgrown their mass appeal. In the last five to ten years there’s been a massive shift in what type of video games we play, moving from…
Review // Glasser – Ring
It’s a shame gothic is most closely associated with moody rock and alt acts like Salem. After all, sorcery isn’t just confined to black magic. It seems numerous dark artists have all been terribly overlooked or undermined…
Music // Sleigh Bells – Infinity Guitars
Sleigh Bells return on November 8th with ‘Infinity Guitars’ the next single from their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Treats’. The video has just been released and depicts the duo tearing their way through…
Preview // Catfish
Catfish is a controversial, heavily praised, highly original documentary from Henry Joost and Nev & Ariel Schulman. This preview is going to be really hard to write, as the power of the film is in spacing…
Live Review // Leeds Festival 2010
The weather forecast looked bleak but with a line up of Guns N’ Roses, Blink 182, Arcade Fire and The Libertines, it hardly seemed to faze the 70,000 revellers. So out came the…
Review // Eels – Tomorrow Morning
Martyn Cooling reviews the last in the trilogy of concept albums released by Mark ‘E’ Everett’s Eels – ‘Tomorrow Morning’.
Live Review // Slow Club
Emily Solan reviews Slow Club’s final show of their tour with Summer Camp at Leeds Cockpit.
Review// Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
Mike Coleman reviews Distant Relatives, the long awaited collaborative album from Damian Marley and Nas.
Review // HTC HD2
Liam Haynes reviews the HTC HD2, the latest and greatest fully touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.5 phone from HTC.
Review // Apple iPad
Finally we got our hands on the Apple iPad, this years hottest piece of technology. Steve Jobs and the boys at Apple are hedging their bets and invented themselves a brand new tech…
Review // Joshua Ferris – The Unamed
You would be forgiven for not knowing who Joshua Ferris is. His is not a literary name so synonymous with fiction that you cannot ignore it, you could quite easily ignore it but…
Review // Nokia N900
Martyn Cooling takes a look at Nokia’s latest handset, the N900, and judges if it’s worth binning your iPhone for.
Review // Visions Of Joanna Newsom
Whether or not you are familiar with her haunting, captivating sound, Visions of Joanna Newsom is worthy of a read, if only as an exploration of the many ways music and musical artists can effect…
Review // Dimbleby & Capper – Slick Maturity EP
Sophie Stones reviews the debut release from Dimbleby & Capper; the Slick Maturity EP.
Review // Frightened Rabbit – The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
Darryl Marsden reviews the latest album from Frightened Rabbit and discovers a new found optimism in their work.
Review // Yeasayer – Odd Blood
Tom Revell reviews Yeasayers latest LP, discovering an album of peyote-induced campfire anthems.
