Released: 2000 When asked by Ben Thompson of Mojo about a potential scene developing in the West Midlands made up … More
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Disclosure – Alchemy review
Life in the music industry is a precarious one in the twenties, and to paraphrase the venerated British character actor … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #53 – B15 Project – Girls Like Us
Released: 2000 By the start of the 21st century what had become known as UK Garage had been totally commercialised, … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #54 Trashcan Sinatras – Weightlifting
Released: 2004 In a game stuffed full of liars telling their lies the biggest one is always the false piety … More
PJ Harvey – I Inside The Old Year Dying review
For Polly Jean Harvey repetition is the scourge of creativity. During the process of making her last album, 2016’s The … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #55 Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At?
Released: 2001 Pop culture history has revealed one truth way more times than any other: what goes around, comes around. … More
Django Django – Off Planet Review
You could almost feel the eye roll whoever wrote the press release which accompanied copies of Off Planet landing people’s … More
Kraftwerk – Live In Dublin review
Responding in 1998 to criticism of The Fall’s promiscuous line up changes, singer Mark E. Smith famously quipped, “If it’s … More
July 2023’s New Music Playlist
Get the playlist here. Update 14.07.23 More, more, more from Disclosure, Beck, Little Dragon, The Streets, Troye Sivan, Cherry Glazerr, … More
bdrmm – I Don’t Know review
That’s the thing about expectations – if you don’t really have any, it’s very hard to undershoot them. bdrmm started … More