Live, a band needs to bring you into their headspace, and into their songs – unfortunately, at a small venue in Leeds, The Longcut can’t quite make it stick.
November, 2009
Zambri – Bang for Changes EP
Matthew Britton reviews the ‘Bang For Changes EP’, a release that should certainly act as a launch pad for one of the more promising acts looking to 2010.
Christmas shows round-up
Here, we pick the best of the bunch from some of our favourite London based promoters. Want us to add in other shows (including regional)? Email us!
TLOBF Show: A Place to Bury Strangers & Sad Day for Puppets!
TLOBF, in association with Green Mind promotions, have a gig double-header to leave ringing in your ears and eyes gazing shoe-wards…
Gentle Friendly – Ride Slow
Gentle Friendly are possibly the best example of musical trial and error, creating a sound that has been described as ‘kaleidoscopic claustrophobia’, whatever that may be…
The Fiery Furnaces to, erm, cover themselves…
Take Me ‘Round Again, is a new album from The Fiery Furnaces… but new in a, kinda OLD way.
TLOBF Interview :: Akira The Don
All set to release his gory new 7-track EP ‘I Am Not Dead (Yeah)’ (complete with compulsory dismemberment flick) it seemed an appropriate time to resurrect this dead lively interview.
[Video] Internet Forever – Cover The Walls
We’ve got the video for the latest single from ace DIY-popsters Internet Forever! View NOW!
Sufjan Stevens / Osso - Run Rabbit Run
‘Run Rabbit Run’ is a rare experiment that due to such care and talent has worked perhaps better than anyone thought possible. Lauren Down reviews.
My Morning Jacket to appear on American Dad
My Morning Jacket are set to appear in an episode of American Dad this month!
[Competition] Win a pair of tickets to see Tortoise & Cluster at the Southbank!
We’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway to the closing night of this year’s London Jazz Festival at the Southbank that’ll feature two legends of modern music collaborating: Tortoise and Cluster!
Nirvana – Bleach
Perhaps the only way to appreciate “Classic” albums undergoing the reissuing treatment, is to roll up your sleeves and look at the technical details of what’s actually being remastered…
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers to release Live Anthology
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers release The Live Anthology, November 23rd, a multiple-disc set of recordings drawn from thirty years of live performances around the world.
The Drums – Summertime! EP
The thing with this EP is that it’s just a gesture at the moment, it’s too early (the material too scant) to really tell what they’re like. But it’s promising.
Kitsune Maison Volume 8
Kitsune is a French music and fashion label so synonymous with quality and so permanently chic that it stands inevitably to reason that Kitsune Maison 8, their latest compilation of achingly on trend bands, is top bloody notch.
Mountains – The Slaughtered Lamb, London 05/11/09
Mountains bring their warm pastoral drones to the city of London and bear aloft a roomful of bearded devotionals. Matt Poacher goes in armed with a rug and a razor…
