Month: June 2002

Reviews

A tinkling drama-drive piano might not be the most salient move ever for a five-piece pop-punk outfit to thrust out of the mix – but believe it or not – if it wasn’t for this wee embellishment, the SoCo’s would naturally run the risk of being obscured by the sheer teeming plethora of emo-charged punk core bands on the block. The latest in batch of pop-smart, radio-ready young rockers being manicured to teen perfection by MCA and Drive-Thru Records, Something Continue Reading

News

Bebel Gilberto releases her debut album, Tanto Tempo, through Eastwest/Crammed Discs in the UK on August 19.  With its marriage of bossa nova and smooth electronics, Tanto Tempo presents timeless bossa by a singer and songwriter musically born and bred.  Originally released by Crammed in 2000, the well acclaimed Tanto Tempo has become an international best seller, making it one of the most globally successful albums of Brazilian music ever. Now signed to EastWest, Tanto Tempo is set to get the Continue Reading

News

Basement Jaxx are playing live in Swansea this Sunday for Radio One’s ‘One Big Sunday’ live event.  The bad news? There about the only band or artist worth going along for on a bill that a ingenuous hotpot of the cool and the cruelly dire (with the possible exception of Destiny’s Child). Simon and Felix are also preparing for the release of ‘Get Me Off’, the latest single to be taken from their second album ‘Rooty’. The single, out in the UK Continue Reading

News

Basement Jaxx are playing live in Swansea this Sunday for Radio One’s ‘One Big Sunday’ live event.  The bad news? There about the only band or artist worth going along for on a bill that a ingenuous hotpot of the cool and the cruelly dire (with the possible exception of Destiny’s Child). Simon and Felix are also preparing for the release of ‘Get Me Off’, the latest single to be taken from their second album ‘Rooty’. The single, out in the UK Continue Reading

News

Alison Goldfrapp takes time off the recording of the follow up to the stunning and gold selling debut album, ‘Felt Mountain’ to play a number of DJ dates throughout the summer. She takes her eclectic take on dance to venues and events as diverse the Royal College of Art, Sonar Festival, Glastonbury and Ibiza, more dates will be announced in the near future. DJ Dates April 30th London – Shepherds Bush Empire –  Q Live May 31st London – Royal Continue Reading

News

Alison Goldfrapp takes time off the recording of the follow up to the stunning and gold selling debut album, ‘Felt Mountain’ to play a number of DJ dates throughout the summer. She takes her eclectic take on dance to venues and events as diverse the Royal College of Art, Sonar Festival, Glastonbury and Ibiza, more dates will be announced in the near future. DJ Dates April 30th London – Shepherds Bush Empire –  Q Live May 31st London – Royal Continue Reading

Live

Pulp Live @ Sherwood Pines, Edwinstowe June 15th

If you go down to the woods today, be sure of a big surprise. Or even Sheffield for that matter. With leafy shadow all a flicker and the crunch of braken under foot, Will Jenkins reports back on Pulp’s pine-fest UK comeback.17/06/2002 Walking through the neatly arranged Pine forest towards the natural amphitheatre where the concert was to be held, traipsing behind all the other fans and teens intent on cheap lager and a brief flirtation behind the trees, I Continue Reading

Features

Sighing Fields of Sonic Bliss. Sonic Youth Interview by Allan Kemler

A new album, a cult following. Not been seen for years. Sound familiar? The garage door is open wide and the ‘serialists’ push forth. Whilst waiting the necessary time to meet Godot, Allan and Kim, talk shop.14/06/2002 After 21 years and 15 albums, New York’s perennial uptown hipsters have laid down tracks for a 16th: Murray Street. What follows, gentle reader, is a fictitious account of a real interview with Kim Gordon. Since conversations often reveal more detail and insight Continue Reading

Reviews

With an obvious appreciation for junkyard noise poet Tom Waits’ approach to song construction (using peculiar instruments and idiosyncratic and metaphoric lyrics), the release of Sharpen Your Teeth by reluctant pop star Ugly Casanova, is another remarkable discovery for Seattle based Sub Pop Records. The Washington based Emo band Modest Mouse first noticed Edgar Graham a.k.a. Ugly Casanova in the summer of 1998.  Showing signs of psychological unevenness that endeared them to him, the trio invited Casanova to tour.  While Continue Reading

Reviews

In going with the typical Conor Oberst, this is music that makes you think. No, it doesn’t call for you to run in front of the oncoming subway train in a hasty fit of depression, as does his continuing work in Bright Eyes, but it sure makes me contemplate setting fire to the new city developments in protest of the mass industrialization of our country.    We all know the story…out goes mom and pop’s coffee shop, in comes thirteen Continue Reading