Massive Attack: Del Naja Cleared
3D ain't no kiddie fiddler... Avon & Somerset Police have today announced all enquiries, as previously reported, relating to the arrest of Robert Del Naja (aka 3D, from Massive Attack) for internet pornography have»
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(Review of nothing)
This is very cool. The fat rolling lo-fi tribal drum groove and sneering vocals of 'Life In A Day' sit somewhere between The Cooper Temple Clause's 'Who Needs Enemies', »
P.O.D. - Sleeping Awake
At best, a film soundtrack can introduce the movie-going audience to great music that they're unlikely to have heard before, or perhaps missed the first time round. Think of the way Pulp Fiction introduced a modern audience to long lost classics like 'Stuck In The Middle With You' by Stealers Wheel»
Clogs - Lullaby For Sue
An interesting, and often quite beautiful, record, this. There's in a way too much meat and potatoes here to skate over in a mere review, so I won't try to verbally break it down too much. Clogs play classical compositions that straddle the boundaries with experimental rock, and while 'Lullaby For Sue' of»
System Of A Down - System of A Down
It's rare that you get experimental rock bands endowed with the ability to make insanely catchy songs. Take 'Been Caught Stealing' by Jane's Addiction... how do you describe it? It wasn't like any other record then (or now), whic»
Johnny Cash - Hurt
I wish all cover versions were this interesting and this genuine... forming a bridge between musical styles that to all intents and purposes are alien to each other ... in this case a legendary icon from one world of music covering a song written by an icon from another world. Johnny Cash, his voice bo»
The Roots - The Seed (2.0)
It's a grower this one. The first single taken from 'Phrenology' seems to twist the kind of lazy fat rock groove used by The Fun Lovin' Criminals in 'Scooby Snacks' with a melancholy blues, ending up feeling like a 2003 take on Marvin »
Linkin Park at London Brixton Academy, Wed 05 Mar
I have discovered the Oasis of metal. With a stage set that resembled Kiss circa 'Destroyer' gone all rusty, with an industrial looking drum riser , DJ tower and four little industrial looking boxes for the bass player, guitarist and twin vocalists to stand upon, presumably because they have some heigh»
Saliva, Winnebago Deal, Stone Sour at London Astoria, Wed 26 Feb
The last time I saw Winnebago Deal was supporting Fugazi, and I wasn't totally blown away, though they did rock considerably. Though I only caught the close of their set this time, it was a very different context, and all of a sudden they made»
(Review of nothing)
This was the fifth time I've seen ADF live. The first time was back in 1996 when they played the first TUC Respect Festival in Finsbury Park, the second at the 'Astoria on the »
Lockdown Project - Everybody In The Morning
Musically this reminds me of Santana circa Supernatural, but with the cool twist of an all-english MC spitting out some fairly aggressive rhymes during the verses.... Add Cake to Eminem, subtract the Mariachi trumpet and transpose from Detroit to somewhere in the Deep South (of England...). The ingredients have»
Massive Attack - 100th Window
After a four and a half year absence following the epoch-making Mezzanine , Massive Attack have finally returned with a new album, one founder member down on the deal (Grant Marshall having gone his own way) leaving Horace Andy a»
(Review of nothing)
From the bouncing Public Enemy energy of 'Fortress Europe' to the haunting gallic balladry of Sinéad O'Connor on '1000 Mirrors', to the soundtrack tapestries of 'Cyberabad' and swooning heavy dub rock of 'La Haine', I think »
Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke
This is a work of art.....While perhaps that displays my ignorance of the Asian music scene(I'm sure that there's plenty of great hiphop-meets-bhangra flavas going on if you mix in the right circles), here context is everything.Originally released towards the tail end of last year, this t»
Audioslave - Cochise
Though this makes me want to spontaneously bang my (once long haired) head and jump around like a prawn, and though I have no doubt that it'll have the same effect on rock dance floors around the world, and though it brought my face out into a bloody massive grin at the sheer unadulterated, unashamed ROCK»
Lee Tamahori - Die Another Day
Pierce Brosnan is great as James Bond, Judi Dench is great as 'M'....and John Cleese is great as 'Q' ,but I don't think the film as a whole is as good as the previous Brosnan outings.I think it tries to emulate hi-energy films like The Matrix and keep a fast moving pace, but en»
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Missy Elliott opens (and closes) this new album with a declaration of its principles, , about recent high profile hip hop deaths, (like Aaliyah, Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez, Biggie Smalls)… thinking out loud about church aisles not just being used for wedding processions, about how hip hop used to be about c»
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers
Discard your Ali G pantomime clothes, flush away your gangsta tunes, and come and listen to a new message reminiscent of the noize that Public Enemy did bring.... This is the way ahead, but to move forward it needed to embrace the past, get back into bed with black empowerment, get back into bed with politics, and»
Spooks at London Jazz Cafe, Fri 06 Sep
An unusual and pleasant surprise to see a popular and successful hip hop act performing in a small club just down the road. Rude not to check it out, I figured… Spooks are at this moment in time between record companies, and hence a pair of low key shows while they're over here courting London labels.The»
Düreforsög - Engine Machine
Sounding somewhere between PiL, Fugazi, Can, Einstürzende Neubauten and dEUS, this is abstract craziness at it’s finest, for once an experimental record that really is like one long sonic laboratory. It begins with the jagged obliqueness of ’Traffix’ and ’All I have In My Pocket’, takes us on a rid»
InMe - Underdose
Three good tunes from young Essex upstarts InMe, but nothing that wildly deviates from the others in the UK metal posse, no rough edges and no real risks. We're always told that we should be blown away by the incredible youth of every new band, and that, though a new band might sound much the same as all the oth»
It's Too Easy
It’s far too easy to go to war these days. Though we all see the pictures, hear the debates, get told how the bombs work, watch the people crying, maybe even see some hard hitting pictures of dead bodies, it never seems like we’re personally involved…. just another set of pictures on the television set when we »
N*E*R*D - Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix)
After NER*Ds re-recorded re-launched album, comes a particularly fine remix of the single, 'Rock Star' by that four on the four electromeister Jason Nevins that takes the original spacey rock and r&b of the original and turns it into heavy metal disco! The song gets sped up, and the guitars chopp»
Barry Sonnenfeld - Men In Black II
Not an awful lot to say about this one, but let's face it, it's hardly pitched at the deep and meaningful end of the movie marketplace. It looked good, but never spectacular and the jokes amused, but never knocked me on my ass. If you've seen the first film then you'll pretty much know what you're going to get (and pro»
Jay Roach - Austin Powers in Goldmember
This latest instalment of the Austin Powers series comes across as somewhere between 'The Naked Gun', 'Blazing Saddles' and Benny Hill. There is much cacophonous laughstrionics to be had if you're the kind of person who splits their sides uncontrollably at the Derek and Clive 'Nurse! Nurse!' sketch. »
The Boredoms at London Royal Festival Hall, Sat 13 Jul
An explosive, ballistic, shamanistic, hypnotic, chaotic, magnetic, irreverent, indulgent, mental, experimental non-stop rhythm fest, ranging from patter like raindrops to the thunder of a runaway stampede. DJ and mad shaman-scientist Eye stood close up and face to face with his three percussive disciples, origin»
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
A brave record, but also one of their best. On this record the 'Chili Peppers have, apart from the slick syncopation of 'Can't Stop', all but sidelined their trademark hard edged funk and broadened their rhythmic spectrum into one which encompasses tight modern rock ('By The Way', 'This is the Place»
N*E*R*D, Spymob at London Shepherds Bush Empire, Mon 01 Jul
…The DJ's challenged us all to bring the house down with cheers . It seemed a little daft, given how few people were there early on, though he played some good music. I later found out that it was none other than Tim Westwood, hectoring a cool mix of people, some obvious hiphop diehards, some obvious R&B gi»
Queen Adreena at London Camden Underworld, Wed 12 Jun
"Beauty is a form of Genius-is higher indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation" - Oscar Wilde A shimmering mirror, shattering glass, delicate beauty burned to a cinder in a white hot flame, the primal physical force of creation, of sex, usually hidden away as we revel in clichés abou»
Super Furry Animals, The Cooper Temple Clause, Vex Red at Hackney Ocean, Hackney, Thu 11 Apr
One of MTV's live televised Five Night Stand gigs.... The end before the beginning... ...cause after Vex Red's refined power and The Cooper Temple Clause's visceral noise barrage Super Furry Animals seemed like marionettes...even though they had a LOT of their hardcore fanbase at the gig, cheering wildly..»