If you think of your impression of Gomez, it is probably a bunch of care free teenagers running riot with guitars slung over their shoulders, singing songs about urban piss-ups, and getting arrested while falling around student union pubs. When the band arrived onto the British music scene in 1997 with the explosive debut, Bring …

Brian Eno’s Drums Between the Bells… his second album on Warp Records in under a year is an interesting mix of Eno’s ambient, floating spacey electronic sounds, amalgamated with the words of poet, Rick Holland.
This experimental project exemplifies Eno’s ability to still keep afresh with new and exciting ideas at the age of 63,

Although promoter Vince Power’s independent anti-corporate family festival Hop Farm is a three day setup, the line up for the Saturday i.e.: Patti, Lou, Iggy and Mozza is what we are here for.
To start off today’s proceedings, Mary Coughlan, tries, but fails to win over the first couple of hundred of arrivals from the…

It’s a balmy Friday afternoon at the Hotel Me in Barcelona. I’m scrambling around the hotel lobby trying to find the band I’m about to interview, but as dumb as it sounds, I’ve no idea what any of them look like. Across from me, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are ordering lunch, and Bradford Cox…

If you were to follow the trajectory for the success that Gomez has accumulated in the last 15 years, it almost runs backwards. Since scooping the Mercury Music Prize in 1998 for Bring it On…, Gomez have been victims of their own early success. While the first two alums saw the band reach into

The staple ingredient for great My Morning Jacket songs is usually a simple folk arrangement with piano or acoustic guitar, which then builds up into a crescendo of harmonies and layers of the honey-sweet vocals of Jim James, drenched in reverb, creating expansive feel-good melodic folk. When the band does this, they do it well…

Jinx Lennon has decided to “do a Radiohead”, and give away his latest album, a collection of unreleased songs recorded between 2007 and 2010: Hungry Bastard Hibernia… for free. Lennon is the epitome of the DIY one man act, who refuses to sit around and mope about the demise of record companies, and get what

Greil Marcus has been a leading American music and culture critic for over four decades. He is the author of 18 books including Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads and Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music.
His latest book, Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010…, is a collection of

Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox is a rare breed of artist who makes music inspired by his record collection, and isn’t afraid to show it. Paying homage to what presumably must have been years locked away in his bedroom listening to quality albums, Tomboy… is a record, which, not only pays tribute to these influences, but

Joan Wasser, aka Joan as Policewoman, seems to be riding on a crest of contentment these days. If Wasser’s previous work tended to make sense of loss, death and mourning, The Deep Field…, her fourth album, seems to be the positive light at the end of the tunnel for the singer from NYC.
Substituting

Going to see Billy Bragg live these days is more than just a performance of rock n roll. A one man band -armed with just his guitar slunk over his shoulder and a cup of tea at the ready – Bragg uses his show as a platform in the various causes he supports, most notably:…

It’s six o’ clock on a cold November night in a basement venue in Soho. Broken Records have just finished their sound check. And in the space of a few hours they’ve already travelled down from the midlands, and played a live morning slot on BBC Radio 6.
Now they have to pack up all…

As Dave Gedge breaks a string and tries to manually tune his guitar on stage tonight, one of the audience members shouts up “You don’t get this carry on at X-Factor.”
Indeed you certainly don’t, and if Simon Cowell and his smarmy little panel of judges could watch this performance tonight – they might just…

Six piece Edinburgh indie folk outfit Broken Records have been described by some music hacks as resembling a sort of Scottish version of Arcade Fire. With the exception of perhaps the epic ‘A Darkness Rises Up’, the term may be a little misleading. Indeed, if any comparisons should be made, they would be perhaps more…