Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral (4AD)
February 6, 2012
5.0/6.0
Blues Funeral is easily the finest album of the year so far.
About kate
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kate has written 385 articles so far, you can find them below.
Death and All His Friends
Eugene Genie
Eugene McGuinness with Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains and Trailer Trash Tracys
Camden Barfly, London
Friday February 3, 2012
You know you've stumbled across someone with a truly great voice when they make singing look like the easiest thing to do in the world.
Nordic Noise
Casiokids
Trof Grosvenor Street (The Deaf Institute), Manchester
Friday January 21, 2012
As one might expect from a band who once performed in a hot air balloon, Casiokids' otherwise conventional stage layout has two noticeable additions - a newspaper supplement and a pitta bread.
Review of the Year 2011 availability
Find out where to pick up a copy of our (delayed) review of 2011, starring Tune-Yards, Ghosting Season, The History of Apple Pie and Dry the River.
YouTube Disco: Franz Ferdinand/Field Day 2012 special
It's only Franz bloody Ferdinand and they're only bloody well headlining Field Day 2012! Kate names five old songs she'd like to see them play...
Your New Favourite Band: Part 17 – Boy Friend
YNFB! returns, and it's about time. In which Texan duo Boy Friend cover ABBA's 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' (it's really good, honestly) and write beautiful, stylish, melancholy synthpop. YES.
S?n 2011 clockwatch: Sunday, October 23
Gwdih? means 'owl' in Welsh. It's also the name of a pleasant little cafe-bar just around the corner from Queen Street station.
S?n 2011 clockwatch: Saturday, October 22
If we were actually in the late '50s, there'd be Pathe News footage of screaming young girls fainting in the front row with a clipped commentary riffing on how The Jim Jones Revue are mad, bad, and dangerous.
S?n 2011 clockwatch: Friday, October 21
Any X Factor hopefuls would do well to study the meaning of the words 'sing for your life', because if you ever had to actually sing to guarantee your survival, then this is how you'd go about it.
