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I have a bone to pick with the Pleasance. Two, actually. Firstly: did you know that, during the Festival, the Pleasance Dome is nowhere near the actual Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) building? Which wouldn’t be a problem, if one figured this out sooner than three minutes before the performance one had bought tickets for […]
Read MoreLike, I’m sorry yr fav DIY band got big-ish but it means that their debut EP got picked up and remastered by Wichita and also that I got to hear it so not actually sorry. Girlpool are two best friends out of LA that make proper lo-fi punk with the brattiness of Be Your Own […]
Read MoreYou know, I’d heard rumours that Premier Inn had really upped their game in recent years, but I could never have guessed how much until they invited myself and Stringer through to spend 24 hours in our nation’s capital. Yes, the idea was always to cut out the unnecessary bits that cost money in favour […]
Read MoreMy, aren’t we music critics a bunch of sensitive little flowers. We (well, some of us) are employed to take an artist’s creative output and subject it to our judgement, often taking it apart and coming to conclusions about that person’s joy or their pain or their heartbreak in the process. We assign points or […]
Read MoreIt would be nice to be able to get away without describing Derry’s Wonder Villains as “adorable”, but there are a few things acting against them: they’re so little! and smiley! And they filmed the video accompanying their new single “Marshall” in an abandoned funfair! (And don’t get me started on that little guitar lick […]
Read MoreThis review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. If English Oceans is the Drive-By Truckers finest album since 2004’s The Dirty South – and I’d argue that it is – I doubt it was intentional. A little time away; more of a partnership of equals between founder members and songwriters Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley; […]
Read MoreThis review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. This need to classify music with all sorts of made-up words might be irritating, but “toytronica” – a label frequently given to Psapp – is as succinct a description as any of the next 40 minutes after you hit “play” on their fourth album, What Makes Us […]
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