Latest Features

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson MARILYN MANSON promised us champagne and caviar, but now he’s only capable of delivering cola and crisps.


Donna Und Blitzen

Donna Und Blitzen The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is a lightning bolt of disco bop. It’s a triumph, unless you love the Zinner, hate the synth.


Practical Retreat

Practical Retreat Grizzly Bear are a band who can see the wood for the trees


Cutting Class

Cutting Class Whether wunderkid rapper Asher Roth likes or hates his debut single is already academic: it’s made him a sensation in the US.


CAST IRON

CAST IRON The most cult of all rappers is called DOOM now, not MF Doom, and despite his reputation, he does sometimes let that mask slip.


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Latest Blogs

03-07-2009 Clang v Pigeon night

Clang and The Stool Pigeon are joining forces.

17-06-2009 Issue 22 coming at you right now

It’s finished, it’s printed, we’re on the road doing deliveries at the moment.

14-04-2009 Issue 21 out now

Get out and grab a copy right now.

16-03-2009 Gig for Gaza

Pigeon writer Cyrus Shahrad is also in Smoke Feathers, who are headlining a gig for Gaza on March 21 at The Luminaire, north London.

06-03-2009 Mixtape time!

Tonnes of gems floating about at the moment. Here are five sweet peaches…

Latest News

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. (…)


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. (…)


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. (…)


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. (…)


Once bitten Camera Obscura not twice shy

Once bitten Camera Obscura not twice shy

Labels. There’s a weird mix of caustic self-deprecation and wounded pride among the six members of Glasgow’s Camera Obscura, and one begins to suppose much of it has to do with labels. (…)


Prince Zimboo providing a royal road to learning with track about fish making splish splish

Prince Zimboo providing a royal road to learning with track about fish making splish splish

Ever wondered why the sea’s salty? It’s because the octopus is getting naughty. So says Prince Zimboo on his brilliant signature track, ‘To The Rescue’. (…)


On a Wing and a Prayer

Seattle’s Holy Ghost Revival not finding much enlightenment in London, a city too keen on keeping a ghoul head


Chasing images not rainbows ensuring Juana Molina is everything but a one day wonder

Chasing images not rainbows ensuring Juana Molina is everything but a one day wonder

For many musicians the art of crafting a song is all about telling a story or evoking an emotion, but for Juana Molina it’s all about chasing an image and describing it in sound. (…)


Latest Reviews

The Horrors

In retrospect we should have seen it coming.


The Triffids

Coming out of a shithole like Perth, Scotland in the early eighties might have depleted your chances of worldwide success.


Blood Red Shoes

A Brighton duo (he on drums, her on geetar) who temporarily looked like they might have potential or, at the very least, ambition.


Boy Kill Boy

A typical story: one of a bazillion identical indie bands fluke it with their debut, sell well, hire the fancy producer and go for the big radio sheen with album two


Clinic

There was a time when it was definitely ‘No Scrubs’ for Clinic, but now it’s very much ‘What’s up, doc?’


Crystal Castles

At live shows it’s Crystal Castles’ singer Alice Glass who holds the attention with screeched vocals and incessant bouncing around, but generally it’s machines man Ethan Kath who calls the shots


Dagha

Skits from films and TV shows, A Tribe Called Quest-like jazzy productions cooked up DJ Real and that easy, round rhyming style…


David Karsten Daniels

A talented songwriter who largely escapes being po-faced because he has a strong voice and always something to say.