February 2012
3 posts
Revolution Gospel Choir - The Revolution EP
Revolution Gospel Choir, side project of Low singer and guitarist Alan Sparhawk, give away free Revolution EP.
The internet may have dealt a bitch of a blow to the music industry, stripping artists and labels of their rights, utterly screwing traditional retail outlets – look at poor old HMV (that’ll teach you for marking everything up way beyond its worth for so long) – and fostering the...
Alice In Chains - Dirt - Retrospective #2
Alice In Chains announced a fortnight ago that the grunge legends are entering the studio to record the follow up to 2009’s comeback record Black Gives Way To Blue. For the next instalment in our Retrospective series we re-visit their seminal record Dirt and ask was this actually grunge’s finest record?
Music is full of stories of serendipity and pure chance, without these odd moments in time...
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
The seventh solo album from Mark Lanegan arrives via 4AD Records on February 6th and it’s already causing a stir. We take a listen to Blues Funeral and give you our thoughts on this astonishing record. Read on…
Mark Lanegan is a workaholic. If he isn’t having a folky moment with Isobel Campbell, he’s volunteering some gritty vocals for long time friend and collaborator Greg Dulli’s...
January 2012
2 posts
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - A...
As Siamese Dream approaches its twentieth birthday, and following on from the recent remastered editions of both Siamese Dream and Gish released by EMI, the time seems right to look back at this fabulous record, one of the greatest records of its time. Smashing Pumpkins finest hour, and Billy Corgan’s insurmountable masterpiece.
The date was July 27th 1993 when Virgin Records released...
The Return Of Shoegazing
There is a theory that popular music moves in approximate twenty year cycles, that the trends of one moment in time will become, two decades later, an evolved and opaque reflection of that which went before. Added to this is the idea that musical trends never really go away, they simply lurk in the underground until the kids of twenty years ago, the A&R men of today, sign their teenage wet...