Way Out West could be regarded as two, overlapping festivals. When the forest closes at midnight, it passes the musical torch to a number of clubs around the city centre. This divide between Way Out West and Stay Out West (the club gigs) are both the festival’s forté, and it’s biggest problem.
Harlem

The Primavera Sound Diaries 2010
This time last week I was a sweaty mess of half wrecked excitement somewhere in the centre of Barcelona. Now I’m sitting with the sniffles alone in my bedroom trying to figure out how to consolidate one of the best festivals of my life into a word count below that of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Harlem – Hippies
If you aren’t able to even crack a smile over the jocular first verse of Hippies, Harlem’s animated new release, perhaps this album isn’t really for you.

The SXSW Diaries // Day 1
Straight from the frontline, Jen Long starts her daily SXSW blog in style. With words, videos, photos and music from jj, Happy Birthday and The Smith Westerns.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










