Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: iC1s ‘In the Blink of an Eye’

With the demise of Beady Eye, Arctic Monkeys lost somewhere in the California desert and The Courteeners struggling for airplay, Kasabian stand as the remaining bastions of swaggering ladrock still capable of sending muddy fields into a giant beer soaked,…

ALBUM REVIEW: The Pale Blue Dots ‘Lots Of Dots’

Rating: 2014 has been the year of the Super Furry Animals side project, and the latest comes care of guitarist Huw “Bunf” Bunford. The Pale Blue Dots is a particularly interesting hook-up as it sees Bunf exploring his musical kinship…

ALBUM REVIEW: Deerhoof ‘La Isla Bonita’

Rating: I tried hard to read James Joyce’s Ulysses, really, I did. And some of those first three pages made an iota of sense. I nearly made it through two episodes of that Scandinavian crime drama The Killing that everyone…

Robert Plant LIVE @ Newport Centre, 9.11.14

Golden God and former Zeppelin front man Robert Plant kicked off his UK tour at a jam-packed Newport Centre on Sunday night. Support came from New Yorkers ‘The Last Internationale’, a trio with one of the strongest female vocalists that…