The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder, The English Travelling Wilburys, Luke Haines solo artiste — the vehicles which Haines has used to get his music out there each have their own character and their own aesthetic, but they all Read more…
Category: music
Read enough of the bullshit that I write on this page and you\’ll start to see that when I talk about something I usually like to outline the route by which I arrived in the place where I found the Read more…
This is the Manic Street Preacher\’s masterpiece. I know a lot of people may prefer the work that came after Richey disappeared and Everything Must Go is a great album — even the ones after that have some winning moments. Read more…
They sound like everyone else and no one else. They are one of those groups that straddle the difficult precipice between the classic and the cutting edge. Endless innovators that brought Ornette Coleman\’s harmalodics to bear on rock music, Royal Read more…
i was just thinking about some of the shit that really used to inspire me with both my writing and my interest in art and it was usually magazines and comics and shit like that. one of the magazines that Read more…
4AD: it was and is a great label with some brilliant groups on — The Pixies, Throwing Muses and Lush just to name a few. I think that I was in love with the whole aesthetic of it. The bands Read more…
American Water was the album that introduced me to The Silver Jews and the wonderful mind of David Berman. I had been buying Uncut magazine and they had just started with their obsession for new country music and had put Read more…