Andy Porter previews the best of what Hainault Forest has to offer this weekend, including Egyptian Hip-Hop and Fiction…
Kate’s mixtape for the first ever LED festival – and boy, have they set the bar high!
With just over two weeks to go until the Motel heads to Robin Hill Country Park en masse, here’s the first half of Benjamin’s mixtape – featuring Dizzee Rascal, Fever Ray and Darwin Deez…
Andy P makes up for the Motel’s recent lack of Your New Favourite Band! featurettes by seeing a shedload of them in a day. Oh, and Peter Hook.
Benjamin’s Field Day mixtape, featuring Memory Tapes, Beth Jeans Houghton, and Phoenix (naturellement).
The Vaselines- Sex with an X (Sub Pop Records)
September 14th, 2010
5.2/6.0
Reunited after twenty years of proving their musical worth as solo musicians, Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee have given the world a fun-filled reminder of what bought them to the attention of the music buying public.
Everything Everything – Man Alive (Geffen Records)
August 30th, 2010
5.8/6.0
Sure, Everything Everything sound as if they might be a bit crackers, but it’s all meaningful, brilliant eccentricity. Gibberish, danceable hooks and lyrics that blow other bands out of the water- what’s more to like?
Best Coast – Crazy For You (Wichita Records)
August 2nd, 2010
4.0/6.0
Bethany Cosentino writes surf pop songs about boys, love, her cat and getting high.
Shearwater
Trof Grosvenor Street, Manchester
Saturday, July 31st 2010
It is clear the band mean business in their own unassuming way characteristically letting the music do the talking…as on record, nothing is ever left to chance and each element is there for a reason.
The Temper Trap
Somerset House, London
Monday, July 12th 2010
Familiar with Melbourne rock export The Temper Trap? Why, of course you are – their monster hit Sweet Disposition has been flogged on every advertisement going.
Air
Somerset House, London
Friday, July 9th 2010
The French references are in aid of Versailles’ premiere chill-out duo, Air, who seem slightly unsettled as they begin, or as least not quite at home in these surroundings. Perhaps the open-air acoustics don’t lend themselves well to an electronic group, as some of the ambient sound which made Air so popular with the post-Ibiza generation in the early noughties is lost at this venue.
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