10 Years of ATP: Saturday
As Friday waned and Saturday waxed at ATP's ten years bash, so the tardy Andrzej Lukowski joined the doughty Philip Bloomfield in reporting on the weekend's musical happenings for YOUR pleasure.»
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Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
Mondo Cane seems to be a project much closer to Mike Patton’s heart than might be initially imagined, and serves as yet more proof that his talent and his breadth are perhaps indeed ‘senza fine’.»
Mos Def at Bristol Academy, Bristol, Wed 14 Apr
There’s few who mix style and substance quite like Dante.»
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power: Legacy Edition
The record speaks, or rather howls, for itself.»
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
Erykah might have mellowed out, but the lessons from last time round have been learnt, rethought and reapplied. »
Clipse - Til The Casket Drops
All evidence considered, ‘Til The Casket Drops doesn’t deserve the generally lukewarm response it’s received thus far. This remains an album with few weak points, and plenty of strong ones. »
Daedelus - Righteous Fists of Harmony
When compared to the producer’s other work, Righteous Fists of Harmony lacks something of an edge.»
The Ex and Brass Unbound, The Ex, Zun Zun Egui at Fleece and Firkin, Bristol, Avon, Fri 29 Jan
Thankfully for brass instruments everywhere, The Ex still manage to blow this most capable of support acts clean off the stage. Bands half their age can’t seem to muster up even a fragment of the energy the Dutch veterans are channelling tonight, lead singer and guitarist Arnold De Boer lurching across the tiny stage, jousting with Brit expat Andy Moor. »
Skullflower - Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
For all that pomp and bombast, it does remain difficult to fully engage with a record like this, and Strange Keys… is never an effortless listen.»
White Hills - White Hills
It’s deeply enjoyable and more often than not thrilling to hear a band mouthing “We don’t care” over and over before showing two riff shaped fingers to the naysayers.»
10 Years of ATP: Friday
DiS had a mighty good time at Ten Years of ATP, despite not even knowing what ATP was ten years ago. We’re pretty sure everyone else did, especially Todd Trainer, who looked very confused to see the giant mural of his face outside Centre Stage. Philip Bloomfield reports on the Friday.»
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt.II
OB4CLII is quite simply one of the best rap records released this decade: literate, funny, dark, evocative and meaningful all at once. »
Edan - Echo Party
There are times in a man’s life when he just gives in to all his inhibitions and cuts loose. Maybe it’s three tequilas too man»
White Rainbow - New Clouds
Why are things that were crap even in the Eighties no longer crap now? Should we recycle trash culture as we recycle trash plastic toys? After many tormented hours I’ve given up analysing those questions and decided to stop thinking and drift away. Happily, New Clouds is as good a record as any to soundtrack disconnection from deep thought.»
Califone - All My Friends are Funeral Singers
This is a deeply strange and at once comforting set, lurching between jagged junkyard blues (‘Giving Away The Bride’), softly strummed OC soundtrack material (the actually pretty wonderful ‘Funeral Singers’) and barhouse folk meets desert jam (‘Evidence’). »
Invada Invasion: the DiS review
It’s a measure of quite how central to the Bristol scene Geoff Barrow is that wherever he wanders into the shiny new halls and walkways of Colston Hall, he’s greeted with waves, smiles and courteous nods (all returned of course) like an old friend. Ma»
Om* - God is Good
There’s a sense; part fascination and part sadness, of hearing the old monolith OM crack and then crumble before your very ears. »
Part Chimp - Thriller
Part Chimp they might be, but Thriller is one hundred percent prime rock and roll, that stands head and shoulders above the other knuckle dragging apes.»
nomeansno, Todd at Dingwalls, London, Sun 26 Jul
“This song is about being old…which is a recurring theme tonight” That’s no such problem for UK young guns Todd. »
Pissed Jeans - King Of Jeans
It’s always a bit dirty when a music writer feels the need to crib from an official press release, but the accompanying words wi»
Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
You remember that video to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'? Of course you do.»
Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo
On paper, Nisennenmondai are the stuff of indie boy wet dreams. Three cute Japanese girls, unexposed to Western rock music until a»
Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Mew at The O2, London, Wed 15 Jul
It’s an odd match up, this line-up. Neck to neck with Trent Reznor’s brutishly empassioned masculinity place Perry Farrell’s swaggering campness and his band’s circus freakshow.»
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
This album might finally explain what anticon as a label has been striving to achieve for all these years.»
White Denim - Fits
Garage rock is perennially on the verge of being in fashion, it would seem. From humble, unrecognised beginnings with MC5 and The »
Wooden Shjips - Dos
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, goes the saying. But, on the evidence of Wooden Shjips' second effort Dos, you can certai»
Champion Sound #13: Part 1 – Ten Yeezus Pieces
Parklife Weekender 2013 – The Drowned in Sound Review
Drowned In Sheffield #14
DiS Does Singles 17.06.13: Dornik, Washed Out, AlunaGeorge
All Hail the Culturati... Fighting Over Radiohead's Hail to the Thief
Cutting Through the Noise: What it's really like representing new artists at events like The Great Escape
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