While this may not sound much like a match made in heaven, Rouse is a deft and charismatic writer, confidently intertwining influences as far-ranging as Neil Young and Sly and the Family Stone to produce yet another assured record.
After what feels like a long period of inactivity it seems the immediate future for Garbage is resolved. This best of marks their first release for two years, yet by reawakening interest in the band i...
The chunkiest beats roll, wobble and thud from the speakers in this beautiful 'homage' to the glory days of early dub reggae. The experiments of audio pioneer King Tubby, Scientist, and more r...
Not even a British Airways handler could lose the baggage that comes with the Smashing Pumpkins. I lost faith in the idea of the Smashing Pumpkins after their farewell tour in 2000. It was a crushing ...
Granted, it isn't quite a complete change of weather - Most of Our Love To Admire is still draped in the same perma-drizzle atmosphere which throttled Turn On... and Antics - but when Paul Banks s...
The debut album from Coventry's new young guns-cum-Jam-copyists is the self-assured, polished slice of major label 'indie' promised by their previous four singles, all of which - 40 Days &...
There's every chance that NYPC will be one of the bands that are on everyone's lips this year. After the considerable success of CSS and the sudden (and frankly surprising considering their ba...
The opening title track is a great introduction to the Bolton boys. Straight in with an uplifting chorus and its Texan guitars and a chorus that stays in your head for days ' a good ploy to rememb...
It's got to the stage that it's more surprising for a band to now stay split than reform: groups that parted with daggers drawn and muttered reasons of 'compromised artistic integrity'...
I discovered Drake via the stunning early-1990s retrospective Way to Blue. It was a beautifully curated record and one which was played constantly during my formative years and beyond. His work is inf...