Night Beats – Outlaw R&B review

The backstory to Outlaw R&B reads like a passage from some dystopian novel: an recent emigre to Los Angeles from … More

Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods review

Aliens. Environmental disaster. People out to get you. Sources of material for the concept album – an idea which on … More

It’s hard to escape the notion that Annie Clark recently has been from a media perspective heading towards the Del … More

Music is a brutal game, never more than in the last year or so for reasons in the northern hemisphere … More

If folk was one of the original forms of storytelling, some of it’s charachter was leeched away in the last … More

If you’re of the belief that not very much of anything makes sense any more, then the art of the … More

Sometimes the line between artist and individual is easy to see; stardom and being famous are after all in an … More

The emotional pulls of your history – nostalgia, regret, guilt – are some of the most powerful that can be … More

An American comedian called Bill Hicks once did a whole segment of his routine on the positive effect artists being … More

Not everything the world waits sixteen years for ends up being worth the anticipation: Godfather III springs to mind, but … More