Posted in Album Reviews, tagged Music, reviews on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The Pigeon Detectives claim to have album No. 3 written, and they could knock it out in the studio if they really needed to. Good to see they’re taking their time over them then. Emergency is the return, had they actually gone anywhere, of the Pigeons. And that’s exactly it- they haven’t gone anywhere. Whilst [...]
Posted in Album Reviews, tagged Music, reviews on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Having already released three songs from debut album, ‘A Larum’, its release was highly anticipated, there’s no Cajun Dance Party skimping either, 14 three minute plus songs. The Box came first both as single and on A Larum and is very much a different being on A Larum to what we encountered a year ago. [...]
Posted in Album Reviews, tagged Music, reviews on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Pop-emo is on the way up again. Whilst MCR are feeling the brunt of the outcries of emo-fan suicides, bands such as Paramore are breeding a new, expanded fan base. Kids in Glass Houses are no different, Give Me What I Want is even on Radio One’s playlist.
Having already supported bands like the Manics, Lostprophets, [...]
Posted in Music, Ramblings, tagged Music on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins – It’s Like That. The very first single I bought, I’m quite proud of that fact. If you asked any kid under the age of say ten, what their first single was, what would they reply with?- “Erm… bought?” most probably. Sunday afternoons, 4 o’clock to 7 o’clock, The Official [...]
Posted in Album Reviews, tagged Music, reviews on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve heard the phrase “Arctic Monkeys with strings” banded about with reference to this band over the past couple of weeks, and it’s exactly the narrow-minded phrase I’ve come to expect from music fans and journalists alike nowadays. While it is easy to write off ‘The Age of the Understatement’ as something Alex Turner is [...]
Posted in Album Reviews, tagged Music, reviews on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s a definite formula to Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago. Justin Vernon’s dulcet layered tones sweep across his beautiful lo-fi nu-soul acoustica, in torn, raw, emotive fashion somewhere between Scott Matthews and Brett Dennen. The vocals really carry For Emma, Forever Ago as it was in serious danger of being just another singer-songwriter hitching [...]
Posted in Music, Ramblings, tagged Music, protest on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘I’m Not There’, the Bob Dylan biopic, could teach the bands of today a good lesson or two about song writing. When a young Bob Dylan, portrayed as young hobo kid going by the name of Woody Guthrie, talks of his songs about previous hardships, he receives the most valuable information ever uttered; Live your [...]
