Lush announce Record Store Day box set
Lush are to release a limited LP box set, Origami, to coincide with their first live shows in almost 20 years. It collects the band’s five 4AD albums released between [...]
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Beth Orton to release Kidsticks in May
Beth Orton releases a new album, Kidsticks, on 27th May via ANTI Records. It was co-produced by Beth and Andrew Hung (Fuck Buttons) and mixed by David Wrench (Caribou/Hot [...]
The Listening Post: albums round-up
Stranger Things (MAME Records), the third full-length from Yuck, has them refinding their comfort zone after the line-up-change-induced stresses of Glow and Behold. Largely [...]
Lily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Although the title hints at feelings of doubt or anxiety, the third album in four years from Indianapolis’ Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz shows no sign of artistic [...]
Welcome Pack: Simmer
There have been a few e-mails lately from acts professing an admiration for Fugazi. Now, that’s all well and good but it does rather set the bar at a level where a [...]
Wire return with Nocturnal Koreans
Following last year’s self-titled album, Wire return with a new mini-album Nocturnal Koreans, on 29th April via pinkflag. The title track was inspired by a night on [...]
My Kind of Town: Lily & Madeleine
With their sophisticated new album Keep It Together in the wings, sister act Lily and Madeleine seem to be flourishing in the midst of change. A new label – New West, [...]
Chapter & Verse: Graeme Thomson
Few figures loom as large over the history of Irish music as Phil Lynott. As the iconic frontman of Thin Lizzy, he helped redraw the definition of the rock star yet [...]
The Listening Post: album round-up
Get past the somewhat awkward name and Berlin’s I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream offer a solid continental take on introspective indie rock. Vocalist Bastian [...]
Lee Scratch Perry film hits cinemas and home video
Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision Of Paradise hits cinemas this month and is soon to be available on DVD via Cadiz Music, and on VOD via iTunes, Amazon Prime, Netflix plus [...]
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