Earwig mainman Lizard McGee is heading to the UK this month to play a series of shows in support of new solo album Spooky Jets At A Distance. The British dates will be the first performances outside the US for the Columbus, Ohio, musician, who’s been making and releasing records on his own LFM label since the early ’90s.
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My first encounter with Robyn Hitchcock came while watching the BBC’s Whistle Test in the late 1980s. Hitchcock was performing one of his most lauded songs Brenda’s Iron Sledge, featuring the immortal lyric: All aboard Brenda’s Iron Sledge/Please don’t call me Reg/It’s not my name.
It may have escaped your notice in this competitive age of downloads and streaming, but Mark Nevin has quietly been amassing a considerable canon of solo material. Best known for his work with Fairground Attraction and Morrissey, My Unfashionable Opinion is his fifth solo album.
I’ve spent quite a long time in the company of Brood X now and it’s my pleasure to tell you it never gets old. Coolly referencing their lengthy hiatus – the album is named after a cicada that resurfaces every 17 years – it’s a record that respects Boss Hog’s history but packs a few surprises as well.
It’s not often you get to talk to someone who’s had a number one single and double platinum album, had a song covered by David Bowie and who also just happens to be a fully qualified psychotherapist. So it was with some degree of trepidation I picked up the ‘phone to chat with Mark Nevin about his new solo album My Unfashionable […]
I must confess to knowing vert little about One Eyed Wayne prior to this review, but a title like Attack of the Luxury Flats was always bound to get my attention. The debut album by the Hornsey quartet, it’s an endearingly ramshackle ride, which wears its influences firmly on its sleeve.
Johnossi’s search for inspiration for their new album took them deep into the Amazon jungle. The Swedish duo, John Englebert and Oskar (Ossi) Bonde, went on a journey of exploration both literal and psychological, imbibing the drug ayahuasca to confront their inner demons.
Brian Jonestown Massacre tambourine man Joel Gion is back with a new single, Tomorrow ahead of the follow-up to his well-received solo debut album Apple Bonkers. One of the most flamboyant and outspoken members of BJM, Gion is one its longest serving members, behind band leader and chief composer Anton Newcombe – who featured in An Ideal For Living in December.
The passing of David Bowie almost exactly a year ago, has particularly poignant memories for musician and visual artist Rachel Mason. A key influence on her career, Mason shares Bowie’s sense of theatre and flair for transformation.
A dream-like and at times nightmarish ride, Kristin Hersh’s new album is an extraordinarily multi-layered work that’s tough to de-code. It’s a wilfully oblique mosaic of half-realised memories of past events and emotions.