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The xx

The xx Crosses To Bear: Having the intense intimacy of their music exposed has already resulted in the loss of a member.


Richard Hawley

Richard Hawley Ancient Lights: We live in dark times, but there’s hope for us yet, according to the Sheffield songwriter.


Mapei

Mapei My Prerogative Socrates: The Swedish/American rapper is destined to put herself on the map in a big way, when’s she ready.


Richard Hell

Richard Hell Alex Denney asks the proto-punk why he ‘repaired’ his Destiny Street album.


La Roux

La Roux Not bulletproof, but this duo is burning with desire and righteously in for the kill.


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03-02-2010 Guardian blog on The Stool Pigeon

Props to us ink freaks…

03-02-2010 Updated stockists list

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14-01-2010 Jay Reatard dead at 29

“I always feel like I’m racing against time, and losing,” he once told us.

13-01-2010 Stool Pigeon fifth anniversary coming

We be clubbin’ soon…

27-11-2009 The Stool Pigeon wins an award

We were voted ‘Free Music Magazine of The Year’ at last night’s ROTD Awards.

Latest News

Darkstar shrug off dubstep for skewered shock pop

Everyone loves dubstep, right? From Pitchfork to NME, people are falling over themselves (…)


Girth of the new with The Big Pink

Girth of the new with The Big Pink

When The Jesus And Mary Chain first started recording demos (…)


Night bus to hell inspired King Cannibal’s LP

Night bus to hell inspired King Cannibal’s LP

A night on the tiles. You stumble your way to a bus stop, board and pass out on the top deck.


Joker is dead serious about his purple sound

Joker is dead serious about his purple sound

Joker may only be 20, but already he’s emerging as the most exciting producer to come out of the dubstep boom.


Joe Gideon & The Shark basking in glory thanks to snap of fate’s jaws

If Archie Bronson Outfit had a bigger tour bus, Joe Gideon & The Shark wouldn’t exist. There was once a band called Bikini Atoll – a quartet. The Archies wanted Bikini Atoll as their support band, but only had space for two on their bus, so singing guitarist Joe Gideon and his sister Viva joined the [...]


South Africa’s boundary bending BLK JKS thinking outside the box

South Africa’s boundary bending BLK JKS thinking outside the box

Label them psych rock, or dub metal, or afro punk, but if there’s one thing you can’t call Johannesburg’s BLK JKS, it’s artless. And people need to already move on from thinking their recent Brandon Curtis-produced debut EP, ‘Mystery’, sounds like a South African version of TV On The Radio. They’re also not the ‘next [...]


Trailer Trash Tracys hoping to pull away from the heap

Trailer Trash Tracys hoping to pull away from the heap

Suzanne and Jimmy from London’s white noise up-and-comers Trailer Trash Tracys are sat at a bar table nursing two half-full glasses. This is their first ever interview – “an exclusive,” Suzanne says, who’s using her lunch break from her job in a nearby Carnaby Street store to make the band’s media debut. Jimmy’s not currently [...]


Papercuts man no good at taking a shredding

“You can have what you want,” Papercuts’ Jason Quever sings on the title track of his third album. Only what he means is, you can’t. “You grow up hearing that you can have whatever you want, but there are so few people who are actually at peace,” the San Franciscan explains over his morning coffee. [...]


Latest Reviews

The King Khan & BBQ Show / Invisible Girl

Filthy humour, a doo-wop sensibility and garage rock production are bound to make for a novel, if not sloppy cocktail. The third album from (…)


Various Artists / Ghana Special

After Ghana achieved independence from Britain in 1957 it gradually moved into a period of relative affluence. (…)


Mayer Hawthorne / A Strange Arrangement

Back in your boxes you merchants of stern and deep bass-heads, because here’s a man with a deft touch (…)


Peanut Butter Wolf / 45 Live: A Classic Rap Mix

Nas may have been right when he said: “Hip hop is dead.” Having witnessed it sink below the level (…)


Wild Beasts / Hoxton Hall, London

Wild Beasts / Hoxton Hall, London

Far more than Two Dancers at London show


Gossip / Scala, London

Gossip / Scala, London

Gift Of The Gab: No bad mouthing as the Gossip let their music speak volumes


Florence & The Machine

Nothing’s more of a turn off than being made to feel like you’re suckling at the prosthetic teat of the PR machine.


Jack Peñate

Jack Peñate’s debut 2007’s Matinée was the gurning face of the skiffle-pop holocaust, an album as wide of the mark as its author was wide of visage.