Posts In Category Music
The Gin Riots
on November 20, 2007 by Jimmy in Interview, Music, Comments (0)
Indie rock n roll with Hogarthian influences storming the streets from Shoreditch to Peckham? Yes please. Jimmy Tidey catches up with The Gin Riots just before their next appearance at MySpace’s unsigned heroes concert. Anyone who’s seen TTI’s languishing MySpace presence knows we don’t think much of the Evil Empire, but The Gin Riots, we like. Lots.
tti… Speaks to Underground Resistance
on October 20, 2007 by admin in Interview, Music, Comments (1)
The legendary Detroit techno label Underground Resistance talks to the thing is… As well as being home to some of the biggest names in techno, UR is committed to the welfare of their home town. They have little truck with the mainstream music establishment and see their output as a unifying voice for the disenfranchised of Detroit.
Darren Hayman: "5 tunes you should have heard but probably haven't"
on October 9, 2007 by admin in Interview, Music, Comments (0)
Darren Hayman of Hefner gives us his “5 tunes you should have heard but probably haven’t”.
Sonar or Later
on September 27, 2007 by admin in Music, Review, Comments (0)
Everyone has been to a festival this year. If you haven’t grappled with a chemical toilet, on acid and with welly boots full of mud, then you’ve wasted your summer. the thing is… reviews two of less mentioned festivals, neither of which involve camping in a puddle or taking out a mortgage to cover the burger bill.
Latitude Festival 2007
on September 18, 2007 by admin in Music, Review, Comments (0)
“We had two bags of grass, seventy two pellets of mescaline, five sheets of highly powered blotter acid…” not a sentence oft uttered at the very genteel Latitude Festival, according to this review by Richard Allday.
5 Tunes You Should Have Heard – Max Tundra
on September 12, 2007 by admin in Interview, Music, Comments (1)
Domino Records’ Max Tundra offers us the first sweets in his current box of musical confectionery.
Dubstep: The New Black
on by admin in Music, Opinion, Comments (17)
Chad Fanstor surveys the music of South London from an ivory tower. And then invites it round to his dinner party as a novelty guest.
Music Without Culture
on September 6, 2007 by admin in Music, Comments (0)
Musical genres used to be about much more than grouping music that sounds the same, but does the exchangeability of music online mean the end of the relationship between music and culture?