It’s not every day that Hollywood royalty plays your band in a music video,but that’s exactly what happened for Jon Spencer Bues Explosion in 1998 when Evan Bernard directed this little film. Winona Ryder, Giovanni Ribisi and John C Reilly portray the power trio. ‘Talk About The Blues’ is lifted from the studio album,’Acme’. SpencerContinue reading “Lost In Music: JSBX- Talk About The Blues”
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Favourite Cover Versions: Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker – Red Right Hand
Nick Cave has often said it’s not his favourite self-penned song, and I agree: it’s kinda hokum, with its Hammer Horror organ and slightly cheesy delivery. So, Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker (who better?!?!??) brought out this collaboration and I love it, it sounds dirtier and tougher than the original slightly coy version from NickContinue reading “Favourite Cover Versions: Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker – Red Right Hand”
New Release: Soho Rezanejad, Agnese Menguzzato and Simone Antonioni- Exit Blue Klein
This is simply beautiful. Electronic composer Soho Rezanejad has teamed up with musicians Agnese Menguzzato and Simone Antonioni for this collaboration, Exit Blue Klein. As she title suggests, it’s alluding to the controversial painter Yves Klein, and his predilection for the colour blue in his work. An ethereal, reverby piece using guitar, cello and vocals,Continue reading “New Release: Soho Rezanejad, Agnese Menguzzato and Simone Antonioni- Exit Blue Klein”
Gossip Are Back!!!
The inimitable queer indie pop trio Gossip have returned after an eleven year hiatus. Their forthcoming album, Real Power, out next Spring, sees them team up again with legendary producer Rick Rubin. Lead single ‘Crazy Again ‘ is a sweet soul electro pop tune, with Beth Ditto singing in her highest, softest voice, but thereContinue reading “Gossip Are Back!!!”
Film Review: Little Richard – King And Queen Of Rock ‘n’ Roll
As befits the legendary, lare pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll, Little Richard – King And Queen Of Rock ‘n’Roll is a wild ride.James House’s documentary for Arena is conventional in its linear structure- but Richard Penniman’s life was anything but. Born in Macon, Georgia in 1932, Penniman was moved by gospel singers he’d heard inContinue reading “Film Review: Little Richard – King And Queen Of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
The Future’s Here Today: Siblings
They take their influence from classic singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen and are also inspired by folk and jazz, but I can also hear the tender side of PJ Harvey and a little shimmery shoegazing in this new EP, In Heaven, from Siblings. Based in South London, their majestic sound is underpinned by introspective lyrics andContinue reading “The Future’s Here Today: Siblings”
Lucifer Over Lanarkshire: I Don’t Get Antony Szmierek
Hipster haircut- check. Banal rhymes- check Disaffected swagger-check. Now it’s time to release Antony Szmierek into the wild. Fly, Antony, fly, carried by the winds of fashion and massive hyperbole. Seriously, why do people love him so much? People are losing their shit over this posher Streets – Avenues maybe would have been a betterContinue reading “Lucifer Over Lanarkshire: I Don’t Get Antony Szmierek”
Lost In Music: The Rutles
Where would we be without them, the Prefab Four? Just four cheeky lads from Rutland who changed our culture, they were ” of no fixed hairstyle”, but full of ambition and creativity., but far more importantly, “their trousers”… Funny too, how their music and image changed, following “the pleasant effects of tea”… “I’d like toContinue reading “Lost In Music: The Rutles”
Lost In Music: Screaming Lord Sutch- Jack The Ripper
Here’s a ghoulish garage rock classic to make you shake yr bones. Ivy and Lux were fans, so was Nick Cave and Jack White, and The Horrors have included it in their club nights,so you know it’s a winner. David Edward Sutch aka Screaming Lord Sutch, was doing the shock rock thing long before AliceContinue reading “Lost In Music: Screaming Lord Sutch- Jack The Ripper”
Album Review: Problem Patterns- Blouse Club
It’s nice that there are young bands who still have a lot to say. Feminist punk band Problem Patterns release their debut album Blouse Club today, and it’s politically engaged without ever losing its sense of humour or effervescent fizz. ‘Advertising Services’ takes on the ubiquity and inescapable nature of advertising and corporate sponsorship… Where’sContinue reading “Album Review: Problem Patterns- Blouse Club”
Hit The North 