electric-guest_features

Interview: Electric Guest

by admin

LA-based duo Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton are Electric Guest, whose debut album Mondo was produced by Danger Mouse and is out now. Asa answered…



Obituary: Donna Summer

by Michael Hubbard

News arrived today (17 May 2012) of disco legend Donna Summer’s death at 63, from cancer, at her Florida home. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, Summer...

Why I Started… Independent Label Market

by Michael Hubbard

In the first of a new features series on why people in the music industry do what they do, musicOMH founder Michael Hubbard fires some...

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless / Isn’t Any...

by Mic Wright

My Bloody Valentine are like The Grail in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. They can be the source of ultimate power or render you...

The Great Escape 2012 @ Various Venues, Brighton

by Michael Hubbard

The Great Escape is a chance, above anything else, to see bands and artists for the first time. It’s this sense of discovery that draws...

Interview: Cate Le Bon

by Ben Hogwood

Cate Le Bon’s love of the Welsh outdoors has already been made clear by the fact that she works on a farm, but it still...

Spotlight: New Order – Technique

by Laurence Green

One For Keeps is a new features series in which musicOMH writers wax lyrical on albums they’d just not be able to cope without. Laurence...

Festivals 2012 Season Preview – UK One-Da...

by Steven Johnson

The number of music festivals continues to present a potentially bewilderingly large range of opportunities to travel to far-flung locations, forget your day to day...

Festivals 2012 Season Preview – UK Multi-...

by Steven Johnson

Arguably all multi-day, multi-venue, city-based music festivals have the Camden Crawl to thank for establishing the concept back in 1995. It returns once again in...

Festivals 2012 Season Preview – UK Boutiq...

by Steven Johnson

Economic factors and other cultural events may had adversely impacted some festivals this year but you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you look...

Festivals 2012 Season Preview – UK Large ...

by Steven Johnson

The UK festival scene may be missing two big names this year (Glastonbury and The Big Chill are both taking well deserved breaks) but the...

Festivals 2012 Season Preview – European ...

by Steven Johnson

The pick of the European festivals this year may (as usual) take place in the Iberian Peninsula but 2012 also offers proof of the extent...

Interview: Rufus Wainwright

by Ben Urdang

After all the turbulence that has dogged Rufus Wainwright’s adult life, the rock at the centre of his universe was ripped away at the start...

Spotlight: Lifter Puller – Fiestas + Fiascos

by Mic Wright

One For Keeps is a new features series in which musicOMH writers wax lyrical on albums they’d just not be able to cope without. Kicking...

Interview: Marina And The Diamonds

by Martyn Young

The second album is, as the clich goes, an incredibly difficult and daunting prospect for any artist, particularly an artist working in the hyperspeed world...

Interview: Sweet Billy Pilgrim

by Daniel Paton

Tim Elsenburg is in bright, upbeat mood, a frame of mind not entirely familiar from his reflective and contemplative songs. “Yes,” he confesses, “Im generally...

Interview: Loudon Wainwright III

by Ben Hogwood

For his 22nd album, Loudon Wainwright III has taken stock of his own mortality, so when we speak to him at his New York home...