“Why is that just your face on the cover?” someone sharply asks Tom Krell during the improvised “Q and A session” he jokingly throws in the midst of his emphatic performance at noticeably packed Belgrave. […]
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Iceage don’t strike as an ordinary post-punk group; over just a couple of years this Danish team has managed to become the flagman of the narrow subgenre of raw, almost warrior-like in its aggression Scandinavian […]
Music | Album review – Schoolboy Q
Schoolboy Q Oxymoron 4/5 On ‘Control’, the infamous Big Sean track that featured Kendrick Lamar bluntly calling out the biggest names in hip-hop, we could hear Kendrick proclaiming in a mad, intentionally idiotic voice “I […]
Music | Album Review – St. Vincent
St. Vincent St. Vincent 5/5 St. Vincent doesn’t take selfies. It’s hardly believable, one might think, while gazing at her latest self-titled album’s cover and locking eyes with Annie Clarke sitting on a throne, looking […]
Music | Album Review – Broken Bells
Broken Bells After the Disco 3/5 Collaborations are often exciting. Just think of James Blake and Chance The Rapper cruising in a convertible car, chanting about life. However, in this particular case it’s something a […]
Music | Outlooks – Social media takes centre stage
Just lately, two rather remarkable events involving the fabled likes of Azealia Banks and Macklemore and social media have occurred. Firstly hip-hop star Banks, who is only just fresh out of her recent beef with […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Summer Camp, Editors & Gold Panda
Summer Camp – Belgrave Music Hall (3/5) Summer Camp is a married couple from London who compose mellow lo-fi indie-pop with a hint of retro bits from the 1980s attached to it. They seem to […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Har Mar Superstar, Imagine Dragons & Turin Brakes
Har Mar Superstar – Brudenell Social Club (5/5) Har Mar Superstar, an R&B singer-songwriter and legend of Minnesota, is well known for his sexy and confident stage presence. Having released 5 albums over the course […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Alice in Chains & Big Deal
Alice in Chains – O2 Academy (4/5) At first, people wonder if they have wandered into the wrong venue. Having just witnessed the stange Swedish metal band Ghost, who fronted a sort skeleton-priest alongside guitar […]
Music | Review – Kilto Take, Tennis & Young Knives
Kilto Take – Resolute (4/5) The relatively unknown Hertfordshire based trio that are Kilto Take are set to gain a legion of fans with upcoming album Resolute. Despite clear parallels to a multitude of nostalgic […]