The very best recent stuff to come from the mouth-holes of the stars, featuring Tom Waits, Matthew Herbert, The Rapture, Boots Electric, and a very, very emotional Lou Reed.
The best recent music writing I've seen this last week, featuring Rob Mitchum slapping Noel Gallagher, Ian Gittins destroying Pixie Lott, Sam Wolson calling us all old and irrelevant, Sean Moeller reminding us all to calm the fuck down, and everyone in the world trying to think of different ways to call Tom Waits weird.
I’m totally projecting, but this is great stuff from Peter Robinson, the last in the Guardian’s (somewhat up-and-down) ‘Favourite Albums’ series: “Pop’s transience is a turn-off to some. For me, the idea of it being in a constant state of now is part of its thrill, and my own now started with Now 11. This album represents the time in my life when I first discovered music and chose to completely submerge myself in...
I’m of the age that grew up with the Stone Roses, but to be honest, I f**ing hated them when I was a kid. They were too slow for me, the clanking, tortured sound of a thought occurring in a mind too small to comprehend it. They were a band that constantly seemed as if they should be scratching their heads in confusion, not a band full of joy and spirit and energy and...
The very excellent Bandstand Busking bagged Woodpigeon (aka Mark Hamilton) for their foyer stage at Meltdown 2011 – two videos are now up, but I like this version of ‘Redbeard’ best, from 2010’s Die Stadt Muzikanten LP. Full session at Bandstand Busking Woodpigeon’s bandcamp ‘Redbeard’ is taken from Die Stadt Musizanten, which you can buy here
Dananananaykroyd have got a new album out, and it’s a huge, galloping amount of fun, so you should probably go and enjoy it – I even made you a review-o-graphic to prove why, which you can see here.