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Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition: And then there were eight!
Consequence of Sound’s Tony Hardy was one of 40 UK based writers engaged by Glastonbury Festival to select a long list of 120 artists from over 8,000 entries to the 2013 Glastonbury Emerging Talent...
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Album Review: Reverend and The Makers – @Reverend_Makers
Calling your new album by your Twitter handle might suggest desperate self-publicity. Though in the case of UK five-piece Reverend and The Makers it signifies a nonchalant recognition of the modern...
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Album Review: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – English Electric
English Electric was a British engineering company whose origins predate those of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark by 60 years. Chosen as the title for OMD’s second comeback album, following on from...
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Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition: The Finals
If you like your village halls, you’d fall in love with this one. The generously equipped Old Pilton Working Men’s Club & Village Hall, to give it its full billing, was hosting the finals of the...
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Album Review: Alessis Ark – The Still Life
Alessi’s Ark, the vessel for singer-songwriter Alessi Laurent-Marke’s precocious talent, now has a third studio album with the release of The Still Life. The blossoming West London artist has yet to...
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Album Review: Salt Cathedral – Salt Cathedral EP
When a band’s personnel span two distinct continents, it tends to set up certain expectations. A fusion of backgrounds and culture leads to a blend of musical styles that invariably spells originality....
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Album Review: Daughter – If You Leave
London singer-guitarist Elena Tonra, or Daughter, likes her single word song titles. There are 10 of them on her debut album, If You Leave, and the economy she brings to labeling is a reflection of the...
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Album Review: Big Tent and The Gypsy Lantern – Richest Man Today
What’s in a name? Birmingham, UK four-piece Big Tent and The Gypsy Lantern conjures up images from the circus to a Romany campfire. However you read the moniker, the band’s self-released debut, Richest...
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Live Review: OMD at London’s The Roundhouse (5/3)
As London venues go, The Roundhouse is pretty iconic. Once a Victorian repair shed for steam engines, this elegant industrial building now functions as a thriving multimedia arts venue and provides a...
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Album Review: Dear Georgiana – Dear Georgiana
If you’re in the market for a summer music crush, look no further than Alabama-born songstress Lauren Balthrop, here in the guise of Dear Georgiana. After stints with the New York throwback girl-trio...
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Album Review: Yellowbirds – Songs from the Vanished Frontier
Yellowbirds, once the solo vehicle of Sunshine Apollo’s Sam Cohen, has developed into a fully-fledged band with the sophomore release, Songs From The Vanished Frontier. As songwriter, singer, and...
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Album Review: Ralfe Band – Son Be Wise
Following its offbeat 2010 film soundtrack for Bunny And The Bull, the eccentric Ralfe Band return with a characteristically intriguing and unclassifiable recording, Son Be Wise. Main man Oly Ralfe...
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Album Review: John Fogerty – Wrote A Song For Everyone
Released on John Fogerty’s 68th birthday, Wrote A Song For Everyone is a fresh spin on a dozen tunes from the Californian’s Creedence Clearwater Revival and solo days, plus two new tracks. Fogerty...
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Album Review: Kodaline – In A Perfect World
In A Perfect World marks the full debut of young Irish four-piece, Kodaline. The band has been busy building a solid next-big-thing reputation on the back of EPs, live gigs, and sizeable YouTube hits....
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The Top 20 Highlights of Glastonbury 2013
Glastonbury is about what you make it. There is the potential for every person’s experience to be different, even unique. Firstly, it’s not simply a music festival. Glastonbury is like a series of...
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Album Review: Rose Windows – The Sun Dogs
The Seattle collective Rose Windows throws back to days when the hippie trail led east and mysticism became entwined with the natural order of things. That said, the septet’s sprawling debut, The Sun...
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Album Review: Bell X1 – Chop Chop
Though active since 2000 and back with its sixth album, Chop Chop, I’d not heard much of Irish triumvirate Bell X1 before, so the temptation to read X1 as 11 put me in mind of cricket. Bell X1 in fact...
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Fifteen More Acts That Need to Tour America
Don’t get us wrong; we know the difficulties surrounding the logistics involved in touring the United States, especially when the artist or band in question’s from overseas. Or worse, foreign and...
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Album Review: Pet Shop Boys – Electric
After the calm of Elysium comes the storm of Electric. The second album in 10 months from Pet Shop Boys couldn’t be more different to its predecessor. While Elysium contemplated aging, love, and death...
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Live Review: Pale Seas at London’s Hoxton Hall (7/24)
Like many buildings used for arts and music in London, Hoxton Hall has a colorful past, at one time or other a music hall, Quaker mission, WW2 air raid shelter, theatre, and youth arts centre. Tonight...
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