In a time when it’s easier than ever to create bad music, are true innovators harder to discover and are potential great innovators in sound and music being discouraged by the ease of which a record can now be cut? Gareth Main ponders in his latest column.

RR #5 – Leave those Freaks Alone
Gareth Main discusses the positives, and the negatives, of 6Music and why the BBC Review was a good idea.

RR#4 – Independent Music Podcast
April has been a long month, with little in the way of joy on the musical front, but Gareth “Bearded” Main finds something to recommend…

RR #3 :: Texas Time
Rubbish Recommendations #3 :: As I write this, I’m somewhere over the Atlantic ocean. It’s either 1am or 6am depending whether I’m on Texas or UK time, and I’m on my way back from completing a long-time goal of mine, South by Southwest festival in Austin.

Rubbish Recommendations #2 – Genius
Gareth Main returns for another month of recommendations… this time straying between iPhone’s, Joanna Newsom and the classification of “genius”.

Rubbish Recommendations #1 – An Introduction
The Bearded one, Gareth Main, begins his new monthly column for TLOBF with a brief introduction about what we can expect…
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










