100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #30 The Hives – Hate to Say I Told You So

Released: 2000 It was time for mouth-to-mouth, it was time for CPR, it was time for the defibrillator. By the … More

Goat – Medicine review

However you take it – acid, stoner, psychedelic – the rock of the late sixties or early seventies always came … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #31 MGMT – Time To Pretend

Released: 2007 Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden as legend – a bit of their own, a bit of other people’s … More

Sufjan Stevens – Javelin review

Our lives are so public these days, so that whenever anyone who gathers the attention of more than a few … More

New Order – Live at Leeds review

It’s been more than fifteen years since New Order and their ex-bassist Peter Hook went on their separate paths, and … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #32 The Rapture – Get Myself Into It

Released: 2006 There is no greater motivation than revenge (exclamation mark!!). When The Rapture came to prominence in 2003 with … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #33 Dr. Dre – Forgot About Dre

Released: 2000 Don’t make that mistake, the one so many do, of having to accept that a classic song has … More

Animal Collective – Isn’t It Now? review

Whenever a press release arrives with a record that talks about the artist having a little fun (Or words to … More

A Flock of Seagulls – Live in Leeds review

Queuing behind us for the bar at the Brudenell Social Club are a boy and a girl, the latter of … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #34 Phoenix – Fences

Released: 2009 You didn’t have to convince anyone that French music had been fully revitalised by the time Phoenix’s fourth … More