by Simon Evans
Natacha Atlas’s previous work, both with electro-world-dance alchemists Transglobal Underground, and on solo albums like Ayeshteni and Diaspora, has mostly combined the chugging rhythms of…
by Andrew Burgess
Among buzz like a beard of bees, Interpol have ushered in the next wave of New York City rock ‘n’ roll groups touted to reinvigorate...
by Claire Simpson
Pint-sized Scottish singer Dot Allison is only just beginning to get recognition as an artist in her own right, despite having just put out album...
by Michael Hubbard
Something a little different appeared at the tiny, uber-cool venue that is The Spitz. It was called Venus Hum. This Nashville-based trio consisted of two...
by Daniel Mumford
If you are, or ever have been, a fan of’electronica’, then it’s pretty likely that you own arecord by Future Sound Of London. Their 1992album,...
by Nick Dawson
It was the reunion that no one was expecting. Their first album, ‘The Soundof McAlmont and Butler’, met with no great interest, despite coming right...
by Simon Evans
Entertainment industry suits call it synergy – using films to sell music to sell films, and so on, in a constantly circulating – and, when...
by Michael Hubbard
Paul Harris, Steve Smith and Ben Harris, together Dirty Vegas, have begun to emulate Moby‘s success with car ad soundtracks. Their first single Days Go...
by John Power
In an age when every new-jack rock band lays claim to be the spiritual heirs to the likes of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, it’s...
by Simon Evans
Since leaving the ’80s retro-rock outfit The Weather Prophets, Pete Astor has reinvented himself as an ambient remixer par-excellence. For the past few years, in...
by Michael Osborn
In 1990, Primal Scream burst upon the scene with their exuberant, funky and utterly infectious song Loaded, which was an essential cut from the year’s...
by Michael Hubbard
From the beginning of Things To Remember it is clear that ex-Bauhaus front man Peter Murphy has done more than just move to Turkey. On...
by Michael Hubbard
The Union Chapel is without a shadow of a doubt London’s most atmospheric venue. As it is also an in-service church, it has a certain...
by John Murphy
Norfolk’s biggest export since Bernard Matthews’ frozen turkeys, Beth Orton, appears to be on the verge of something very big in America right now. Whether...
by John Murphy
It’s clear just from looking at the cover of the debut album from The High And Lonesome that main man David Blayze sees himself as...
by Daniel Mumford
Circo Loco at DC-10 is Ibiza’s most legendaryall-dayer. Officially the after-hours party of theisland, it’s the first club to open and the last clubto close...
by Daniel Mumford
It’s been two years since his departure fromUnderworld and, far from taking it easy, DarrenEmerson has been hard at work, running the successstory that is...
