Collaborative Music Blogging Project
A wondrous new track from longtime KV favs Land of Talk dropped this week, from the forthcoming album Indistinct Conversations on Saddle Creek, showcasing Elizabeth Powell’s newfound laid back singing style. The album drops on July 31st,
Lovable Bristol band IDLES last week trailed their third album with a new single, Mr. Motivator, backed by an amazing lockdown video: IDLES frontman Joe Talbot says of the song: “We want to start this journey with a means to not only encapsulate the album’s sentiment, but to encourage our audience to dance like no…
Continue reading IDLES release lockdown video for Mr Motivator + guitar tutorial
Showing a marked taste for red offset Fender guitars, French quartet Unschooling begin proceedings tonight. A side project of Rouen-based musical polymath Vincent Fevrier, the band play a rhythmic post-punk that dives between time signatures and skirts around the edges of dissonance. This is unexpected and exciting stuff. New Yorkers The Wants are also a…
Continue reading [Live Review] The Wants and Unschooling, The Lanes, Bristol, February
Self-styled space surf rockers Japanese Television launched 2020 with a release of EP1 and EP 2 with their Marc Riley BBC 6 Music session, and celebrated with a UK headline tour, which stopped at The Lanes in Bristol for a free show in early Feb. Space surf rock is a good description, although the band…
Continue reading [Live Review] Japanese Television, The Lanes, Bristol. February 7th 2020
Our first podcast episode of 2020, playing Knife Wife – Dogs Jaunt – Nostalgia for the Present Moment Pictish Trail – Lead Balloon Mitchell Museum – Hold Me Up Asgeir – Pictures Hosted in Bristol, UK by Matt
Just last week, a colleague and I were discussing the high calibre of gigs in Bristol being promoted by 1% of One, and how well their opening acts suit the headliner. Tonight seems like a perfect example. Openers, Bristol band SANS – who are really loud – play rhythmically complex music that defies predictability and…
Continue reading [Live Review] – 1% of One presents Pile and SANS, Crofter’s Rights, Bristol 18th September 2019
Our new podcast episode is now online, playing amazing new tracks from Naytronix, Playing House, Jane Weaver, Grebes, and Moon Panda. Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify etc (I’m trying to be good about doing this every month), or listen below
Wasuremono on stage (l-r Madelaine Ryan, Will Southward & Phoebe Phillips). Photo by Matt Law (CC-BY-SA 3.0) With a healthy amount of airplay and buzz surrounding recent singles ‘Are You OK?’, ‘Lonely Type’ and ‘Self-Help’, Wasuremono find a receptive and full Bristol crowd for their short set as part of this year’s Dot to Dot…
Continue reading [Live Review] Wasuremono, The Fleece, Bristol 25th May 2019
Drahla – ‘Stimulus for Living’ This month saw the release of Drahla‘s debit album Useless Coordinates on Captured Tracks, to widespread warm reviews hailing their mastery of a jagged post-punk sound. Mastery really is the word, and it is no less apparent live tonight. With minimal banter, the band exude poise and a sense that…
Continue reading [Live Review] Drahla, The Lousiana, Bristol, May 10th, 2019
A new episode of our podcast, for May 2019. Hosted by Matt, and playing new music from Drahla, Wasuremono, Empath, Sebadoh and Deliluh. Subscribe in iTunes
