Features Index
by Steven Johnson
Two of the most positively received albums released over recent weeks have been UFOF by Big Thief and Designer by Aldous Harding and both play…
Another excellent selection of festivals takes place in London this year, featuring both established names and promising newcomers. As it’s that time of year when...
These New Puritans are a classic example of a band that gets better with each album they release. Fourth album Inside The Rose was released...
This week’s gigs in London seem to strike a perfect balance between those by new, exciting, buzz-generating artists and those featuring experienced, much-loved outfits that,...
The back end of this week is loaded with gigs we’d like to be at. The Barbican have had an excellent few years on the...
This week sees Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project reach London with a show on Friday at Wanstead Flats. The show is part of Waltham Forest’s...
David Gray is in a chipper mood. There are several reasons for this – the brightness of the cold, wintry morning on which we connect...
It feels like London has been in need of a shot of sunshine and warmth for a while now and the return of Vampire Weekend...
Fully 20 years ago in London, after her time with Cheree and Che Records, Vinita Joshi was taking her first steps towards launching Rocket Girl...
1958 by French-Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy could well be the album released so far this year with the most interesting story behind it. It focuses...
The Prodigy‘s Keith Flint, who has died aged 49, was one of the most recognisable figures in modern music, a pioneering life force of a...
Daniel Lopatin has built up a reputation as one of the most progressive and experimental artists working in the field of electronic music as Oneohtrix...
Late Junction is Radio 3’s flagship music programme for all things experimental, left of centre and below the radar. Now entering its twentieth year it...
Spring has finally arrived in London with lighter evenings and warmer temperatures and the gig scene continues to warm up nicely also. It’s been impossible...
Beginning in 2001 with their debut 604 and continuing through 2002’s Light & Magic, 2005’s Witching Hour, and 2008’s Velocifero to 2011’s Gravity The Seducer,...
This week sees Yo La Tengo return to London to play two shows at EartH. The first is on Sunday 17th and will no doubt...
One of the more notable releases of the year so far has been Mercury Rev’s reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete album, aided by...
This week sees a rare appearance in London by seminal American avant-gardists The Residents. Now into their 45th year the mysterious quartet will be performing...
Shirley Collins is truly a force of nature. Now in her early 80s, the folk singer continues to make music and develop as though she...
After a relatively quiet start it feels like this week is the moment that London gigs get fully back on track in 2019. Our album...
What began as a way for Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley to document their early musical endeavours back in 1998 has developed into a label...
