The Stool Pigeon music newspaper

In our March 2010 edition we published a mocked up advertisement which some readers may have taken to suggest that the makers of Heinz food products, HJ Heinz Company Limited, are supporters of fascism and the British National Party. However, we accept that this allegation is categorically untrue and that Heinz are not and never have been such supporters. We are happy to correct the position and wish to apologise for any damage caused by making this false allegation.

The members of Factory Floor are as highly charged as the industrial noise they manufacture.

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

When bands release self-titled albums, it can signify numerous things, most of them negative, such as lack of inspiration or effort (…)

Four years ago, Welsh-Greek warbler Marina Diamandis couldn’t play the piano. Now she’s managed to put together a whole album (…)

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 (…)

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

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

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

Far more than Two Dancers at London show

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