The Best EPs, Mini-Albums, Mix Tapes and DJ Mixes of 2013 in no particular order D-Pat – In Bloom In Bloom by Dpat Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap Frog – Frog Ofei –...
Category - Music
Songs can do so much. They can evoke, evolve, emerge when you least expect it. Bury themselves. Make you shimmy, make you shake. Make you write. Create. Be still. Be wild. Allow you to connect to something real without knowing...
Here are my Best Albums of 2013… 1. Jai Paul – Leak “Music that sparks and fizzes, jumps around, disorientates, effervesces with playfulness. It is also deeply funky, sensual and soulful. It is quite...
Magnificent AK 47 October 20th St Georges Bristol Gathering Voices Festival of Song 2013 With as many costume changes as key changes, it is clear that the Magnificent AK 47 are not your traditional male voice choir. In fact, the...
We all grew up too quickly: got cool, got adult problems, got old. We forgot what it was like to be silly, how to enjoy the simple things, what really matters to us. We became cool and we became jaded. We stopped living in...
The Taledragger & Me It started in Canada in 2001. I was nineteen. I had followed a girl across the Atlantic, flying blind into the unknown. It didn’t take long for my teenage heart to be broken and for me to be seeking...
Having been at the helm of Nottingham’s burgeoning music scene for more than a few years now, it seems remarkable and more than a little selfish that FISTS have only just got round to committing their schizophrenic lo-fi...
When I interview bands I always ask them what music they’ve been listening to. It’s usually so that I get an insight into their tastes and influences, but also a good way to discover some interesting new music. Sadly...
On the track ‘Lolly Moon’, Jo Ford from the band Super Squarecloud sings: “Fill my life with colour.” It’s a camp call to arms admittedly, but a rallying cry nonetheless, one which the band is happy to answer. Super...
When I was 16 I wrote poetry about politics and love and plenty of other cliched stuff. It was rubbish. But then I was only 16. At 16 you are not supposed to know how to be good or even what makes something good. You are...