Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Kenny Wheeler The Long Waiting Cam Jazz 2012 There's a kind of magic about Kenny Wheeler, both his playing and his composition. Everything he invents, even the most abstract...
View ArticleAustra: Olympia – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Austra Olympia Domino 2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album Austra are an electro-pop band from Toronto whose music, though beset by hot...
View ArticleJon Hopkins: Immunity – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Jon Hopkins Immunity Domino 2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album The fourth solo album from Jon Hopkins (who, since 2009's Insides, has collaborated with...
View ArticleMark Stewart: The Politics of Envy – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Mark Stewart The Politics Of Envy Future Noise 2012 Mark Stewart's eighth solo record is not an easy listen, and I'm almost certain he would take that as a...
View ArticleEsperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society Decca 2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album At first it sounds like someone idly spinning a radio dial –...
View ArticleA room of my own: Mervyn Conn
"Irrepressibly energtic" music promoter Mervyn Conn at his home in Wimbledon. Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer The irrepressibly energetic Mervyn Conn gave retirement a go, and then thought:...
View ArticleThe Child of Lov: The Child of Lov – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Child of Love The Child Of Lov Domino 2013 A composite of Gnarls Barkley, the Weeknd and, physically, footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the Child of Lov is Cole Williams, a...
View ArticleKodaline: In a Perfect World – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Kodaline In A Perfect World B-UNIQUE/RCA 2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album With the titans of OOs sob-rock on sabbatical or drifting into...
View ArticleBeatles for celluloid: unseen photos of Fab Four up for auction
The Beatles on the closed set filming A Hard Days Night. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA Unseen photos of The Beatles are to go on sale after lying in a family album for nearly 50 years. The 20...
View ArticleMilagres: Glowing Mouth – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Milagres Glowing Mouth Memphis Industries 2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album The adage "no pain, no gain" could have been coined for Kyle...
View ArticleRutherford Chang: can't get enough of the White Album
Rutherford Chang, photographed with one of his beloved collection at his show, We Buy White Albums. Photograph: Eilon Paz for Dust & Grooves Imagine a vinyl collection consisting of 693 first...
View ArticleMikal Cronin: MCII – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Mikal Cronin mcii Merge 2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album Residence in the US garage-pop underground is usually predicated on a certain level of refusenik...
View ArticleSyria: dozens killed in air strike on bakery
Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi on Sunday equated the rebels with al-Qaida and denied they had taken over any territory. Photograph: Hopd/AP Dozens of people have been killed in an air...
View ArticleThe Great Wee Band: Light Blue – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Henry Lowther, Jim Mullen, Dave Green, Stu Butterfield, Stan Sulzmann, The Great Wee Band Light Blue Trio Records 2011 Never was a band more aptly named. These four – Henry...
View ArticleAngel: About Time – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Angel About Time Island 2013 Despite the title, Angel's debut album isn't exactly about the time this up 'n' coming UK R&B singer spent on remand before...
View ArticleM Ward: A Wasteland Companion – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 M Ward A Wasteland Companion BELLA UNION 2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album He might be best known for his work with Zooey Deschanel (as She...
View ArticlePoly Styrene remembered by Boy George
'Ironic and iconic': Poly Styrene in 1991 Photograph: Ian Dickson /Rex Features For the punk generation, Poly Styrene, the late punk songstress and poet, was a true legend, her style ironic and...
View ArticleMatias Aguayo: The Visitor – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Matias Aguayo The Visitor Cómeme 2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album He is 40 now, but Chilean-born, German-raised guerrilla rave instigator...
View ArticleMemory Tapes: Grace/Confusion – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Memory Tapes Grace/Confusion Carpark 2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album Memory Tapes made his name – or his various names (he's also...
View ArticleSix. By Seven: Love and Peace and Sympathy – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Six By Seven Love And Peace And Sympathy Borrowed Tune Motion Pictures 2013 Predicted for great things in the late 90s/early 00s, Nottingham-based Six. By...
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