Location: set your location

Music and Issue 582

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

Action Group

Action Group

Greed

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

ROCK Discounting the occasionally slightly home-made quality of these recordings, the debut album by Edinburgh’s Action Group signals the arrival of a band whose progress should definitely be kept track of. An indie-pop quintet with a fine line in…

Asobi Seksu

Asobi Seksu

Citrus

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

ELECTRONIC POP In Asobi Seksu’s world dreamy vocals soar over turbulent guitars and delicate vocals switch between English and Japanese in sweeping psychedelic pop songs. But in the real world the result is somewhat toothless, and, despite its…

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

9 Aug 2007

She may be familiar to some as one half of The Dresden Dolls, the drum’n’piano duo who do for Weimar cabaret what The White Stripes did for Mississippi blues. Palmer strides out on her own for the third year at the Fringe with a clutch of new songs frm…

The Spirals

The Spirals

Without Control

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

ELELCTRONICA The Spirals is yet another alias of Argentinian house duo Fernando Pulichino and Julian Sanza. Without Control starts off with all the sass and funk of a Prince backing track, but proceeds to go nowhere for 56 long minutes. There are…

Esther O’Connor

Esther O’Connor

The Place Where We Are

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

POP Esther O’Connor is something of a musical paradox; a singer-songwriter specialising in slick commercial soft rock that she proudly releases on her own DIY label. As the daughter of the guitarist from Wet Wet Wet, she has certainly picked up her…

Liars

Liars

Liars

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

INDIE Musically this LA-based trio are as mad as a box of frogs. Since they exploded onto the music scene in 2001 with dance-punk driven debut They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, they have dabbled in everything from murky…

ESG

ESG

South Bronx Story 2

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

HIP HOP While the past year has seen much blathering about the Nu Rave scene and its various spin offs, many have been quick to forget that dance rock first came into existence back when many current bands were still playing hopscotch. New York’s ESG…

O’Death

O’Death

Head Home

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

ALT.COUNTRY O’Death are five guys with barely a shirt between them, who, despite hailing from New York, evoke the deep south in their punk country songs: toothless yokels and moonshine-fuelled barn dances. Greg Jamie’s weathered vocals swings from…

33 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

RSS feed