Reviews
Death Grips The Money Store
Death Grips may have announced themselves as one of the most exciting voices in hip-hop with last year's Ex Military, but it wasn't exactly much fun to listen to. Will the influence of a major label on this second album change matters?
Mark Davison had a full-blown panic attack listening to this record...
Beach House Bloom
Over two years removed from the critically lauded Teen Dream, Beach House are back with their fourth LP and first misnomer.
Forrest Cardamenis cannot...
Royal Headache Royal Headache
Fronted by a singer with a soulful delivery, the Australian garage band makes combustible pop tunes that harken back to mod punk exuberance and frolicky rhythm and blues.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez can do a pretty mean falsetto...
Best Coast The Only Place
Best Coast follow up their debut of super-simplistic, sunny jangle pop with cleaner production and a self-described "grown-up" new sound. But is this really the sound of a band maturing?
Stephen Wragg reviews...Features
Can you separate The Art from The Artist?
As a fan, what do you do when it transpires your heroes and creators of your favourite works are responsible for reprehensible acts? Can you look past violence and intolerance? How about racism, homophobia, murder? Here, Alan Shulman addresses these problems and ponders the question: is it possible to separate the art from the artist?
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Green Gartside (Interview)
Green Gartside talks about his part in the upcoming Sandy Denny tribute concerts, his own influences and the future for Scritti Politti.
David Zammitt speaks to the great man...Features
Zona - Book Review
A review about a book about a film about a journey to a room
Alan Shulman reviews...Reviews
Pleasures Of The Flesh (Nagisa Oshima)
Prior to the notorious art/porn film In The Realm Of The Senses, Nagisa Oshima already had a lengthy list of credits to his name, including this noir-esque drama.
Dan Schneider senses the emergence of a major Japanese filmmaker...