Nick is the author of 'I Found My Friends: the Oral History of Nirvana' (St Martins Griffin) and 'Cobain On Cobain: Interviews and Encounters' (Chicago Review Press - February 2016). He lives in Bristol.
Listening to Loscil’s album, Monument Builders, I came to view it as a counterpoint to the equally intense dark ambient record Towards A Bleak Sun by Mesektet. While [...]
Sacred Bones Records is a label, the way labels should be: a starkly rendered visual identity and a tangible presence behind the bands and music they release – one which, [...]
Months back, Melvins’ Basses Loaded album promised a bassapocalypse then sorely under-delivered. It’s a thrill therefore to hear Obake’s new release, Draugr, which [...]
Late 2012, gambling on The Weeknd’s Trilogy was the best ten quid I’ve ever spent – swear to god, the BEST. It felt like a long-shot; I’m generally no RnB fan, but [...]
In August, Dumb Numbers (AKA Adam Harding And Friends) dropped their second album, II. A warm blur of genres and sounds, the album built on the expansive template of the [...]
I feel nothing but affection for the Oasis of 1993-1997. It was refreshing, at the time, to hear songs of gentle hope and fortitude that spoke to any small town/inner [...]
The name is a complete misnomer: The Sweet Release of Death is a band, and self-titled album, buzzing with late-night energy. They give off the kind of head-nodding, [...]
September. St John at Hackney church. My faith in live music as an opportunity for fresh discoveries is renewed with Naked, the duo of Agnes Gryczkowska and Alexander [...]
There was something in the water in Nineties Scotland; a stellar wave of talent – ranging from Idlewild to Mogwai, the Delgados and Arab Strap – arrived onto the [...]
Dumb Numbers, the brainchild of Adam Harding, casts its arms wide, drawing in the talents of diverse musicians – including David Yow, Dale Crover and Lou Barlow among [...]
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