News
The Big Pink – New Single and UK Tour
Having released one of Webcuts favourite albums of 2010, The Big Pink begin the new decade with another single, this time a reworking of album track “Velvet”, set for a full commercial release on February 15th.
Live Reviews
Where The Wild Beasts Are
Having given us one of the most lurid and arresting albums all year in Two Dancers, the Leeds-based Wild Beasts are let loose on London and give us such a performance that we (as they say) still got the taste dancin’ on our tongues.
Interviews
We Step Inside Dappled Cities Wall of Zound
Sydney art-pop quintet Dappled Cities have steadily grown in status in the last ten years with 2006’s Granddance and their most recent psyche-pop opus Zounds. Last year, we spoke to Dave Rennick, guitarist and vocalist of Dappled Cities about birthing and touring the album.
Features
Secret History of Australian Music Returns!
..with a rejuvenated reappraisal of the career of Melbourne psyche-drone-pop quartet Ripe and their space-rock epic “Moondriven”, now with 33 1/3% more added insight courtesy of an exclusive interview with guitarist and vocalist Peter Moran who talks about the making of their landmark Australian debut The Plastic Hassle. Fans of Sonic Youth, Swervedriver and Dinosaur Jr take note.
Album / EP Reviews
Atlas Sound – Logos
Bradford Cox of Deerhunter makes us seem like we’re slavishly supportive of everything his hand touches, but we mean every word. Honest.
Magic Dirt – White Boy (EP)
Standing tall in the face of tragedy, Magic Dirt compile a lucky dip of new, rare and unreleased tracks to coincide with their recent tour.
Pama International – Pama Outernational
A fusion of dub reggae, ska and soul, the brilliance of Pama International comes to the fore with their seventh album Pama Outernational.
Bad Lieutenant – Never Cry Another Tear
If New Order and Doves made a record, how would it sound? Something like this, we think…
The Gun Club – Miami / Death Party / The Las Vegas Story
Load the chamber and light a candle for Jeffrey Lee Pierce, it’s rockabilly blues-a-go-go with The Gun Club.
Merge Records recently announced the long-awaited April 20 release of The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs box set on limited-edition 10” vinyl. Story has it that Stephin Merritt came up with the idea for while sitting in an elegant midtown Manhattan gay piano bar, and originally planned for it to be a live musical revue, with a rotating cast of singers in plush hotel bars and cabarets of NYC. Well, there you go Magnetic Fields facts fans. Download a remastered version of “Book of Love” from the album here.
