At least there’s one day a year when your local independent record store makes the news as Record Store Day returns with lots of special releases on vinyl to collect; and much more too!
Continue reading Record Store Day with Jonny Trunk & Gilles Peterson (16th April 2011)
Been a bit slow on this one since Carlos Ni?±o recommended it in Rough Trade late last year but on the basis of the first track you could see why the Spaceways guru would be attracted to this one.
There’s been a load of brilliant compilations lately but Strut have linked up with DJ History to keep ahead of the games on some mighty fine gems from a decade of experimentation.
Continue reading V/A – Bob Blank: The Blank Generation (Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1985)
I’ve been having the “What is Jazz?” conversion quite a bit lately and then this week, we get CD/DVD set of Poly Styrene and the X-Ray Spex live concert from last year – Is this Jazz?
Continue reading X-Ray Spex – Live @ The Roundhouse, London 2008
Thunderhiest (aka MC Isis and Grahm Zilla) jerked it with the last single and now get even more club friendly with loads of cow bells as this is ‘Nothing 2 Step 2′.
Everyone seems to be on the ‘Change’ agenda at the moment, from US Presidential candidates to Kentish man’s Bob Dylan as Crook goes electric with his new band, The Murder Birds
Continue reading Lupen Crook and The Murder Birds – Iscariot The Ladder
London-based duo Dan Warden and Miles Copeland launch the brand new label of Wonderfulsound with their latest album, Harpsichord Treacle
Sparo may have his head in the clouds but the arrival of ‘The Falling’ (released on 3 Bar Fire) is just the thing to turn up the heat
“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.”
You may know Sandoz better as Richard H. Kirk who was once a third of post-punk electro dance band Cabaret Voltaire.
Continue reading Sandoz – Live In The Earth: Sandoz in Dub Chapter 2
The twisted genius of Lupen Crook inevitably means his debut album is equally unconformist, awkward and brilliant.
Continue reading Lupen Crook – Accidents Occur Whilst Sleeping
While it’s confusing that Mute Records has an occasional series called ‘Rough Trade Shops…’, its latest CD has a host of tracks that have tapped into the current singer-songwriter indie/emo/folktronica/country revival.
BiggaBush is back in the mix big time with as diverse a set as you’re ever likely to hear
