Peter Bjorn & John – Living Thing
If you happen to bump into Peter Moren, Bjorn Yttling or John Eriksson on your travels treat them with the utmost respect, and perhaps try to wangle an invite back
Music – Interview – School Of Seven Bells
What do you get if you cross two seraph-voiced beauties with a guitarist from a cult spacerock band? Well, throw in a dash of otherworldly lyricism, woozy dreampop melodies and
Fever Ray Interview
The facts: Fever Ray is the solo vehicle for the musical experiments of one half of Swedish switchblade-electronica proponents The Knife, Karin Dreijer-Andersson. The Knife create dance music with an
Interview with Bell X1’s Paul Noonan
Reading a (postively-worded) review of Bell X1’s fourth collection of wittily-worded and warmly-written songs this week, one sentence jarred with me: “Bell X1, now Ireland’s second biggest rock band.” Somehow,
Interview with Greg Wilson
Back in ‘83, Greg Wilson was the first man to mix two records together live on television under the scrutiny of The Tube audience and a smug, bemused, aviator-sporting Jools
Interview with Peter Bjorn & John
“Peter Bjorn and John are complete jokers,” a man In The Know informs me ahead of chatting to one third of Sweden’s most thrilling indie-pop three-piece. “One of the few
Phosphorescent – To Willie
Willie Nelson knows pain. He’s been through it, he’s wallowed in it, he’s come out the other side of it. Though to younger listeners he may come across as a
Ida Maria – Fortress Around My Heart
There are some pop outfits that reek of a desperation that’s almost tangible. Indie-popettes that, 5 years ago, would have been gyrating onstage at the MTV Awards in a pair
Handsome Furs – Face Control
Handsome Furs’ first effort Plague Park, released two years ago, was all too quickly dismissed as a hobby album for Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner, the result of a man taking
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight…
Glasgow’s finest four-pack of vaudevillian dandies claim Tonight, Franz Ferdinand, their third album, is an aural journey through a hedonistic night out painting the town orange. From the hushed beginning
The Mighty Stef – 100 Midnights
The Mighty Stef is something of an anomaly on the current indie-wasteland that is the Irish music scene. His Dublin roots are ever prevalent in his songs’ subject matter, and
Wintersleep Interview
When Wintersleep’s Paul Murphy notes that “the interest level has been pretty gradual” in his Nova Scotia band it seems an incongruous statement for any 21st century Canadian widescreen indie
Everybody Loves an Underdog: Interview with Sky Larkin
There’s something deliciously underdog-like about Sky Larkin. The Leeds three-piece are the Jackie’s Army of the English music scene. They’ve unfairly had to labour through some landfill indie comparisons to
Lauren Flax – You’ve Changed
NYC hipsters have flocked around Lauren Flax’s debut single like grannies around a Michael Guiney’s January Sale. A melodic house track with all the addictivity of a Gui Boratto jam,
Amazing Baby – Narwhal
There’s nothing more annoying than a latecomer to the party. They show up at half two, twisted, and drink all your Lidl wine, eat all your non-perishables, make the jokes
Interview – Rachel Unthank
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset have been challenging people’s impression of folk music ever since their debut album, Cruel Sister, won Mojo Magazine’s Folk Album of the Year in 2005.
Villagers – Interview with Conor O’Brien
Conor O’Brien, the lynchpin of Dublin’s most hotly-tipped musical act for 2009, Villagers, bears a jarring resemblance to Nebraskan angst-folk outfit Bright Eyes’ singer Conor Oberst: all choppy black hair,
Telepathe
In Scott Crary’s 2004 documentary of New York City’s 1980’s no-wave scene he depicted the majority of the noughties new wave of ‘experimental’ bands plying their arty wares in the