I’m tired, I’m confused, I’m dirty and I’m hungry, and five yards away my girlfriend is trying to sleep… Guess I better review these demos, then.
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13-08-2010 Demos – Issue 27
13-08-2010 Tom DiCillo, When You’re Strange
What can be said about the Doors’ back story that hasn’t already been covered? The truth, for a start.
28-07-2010 Wavves – King of the Beach
There could hardly be a more apt sounding death knell for lo-fi indie garage than Nathan Williams’ infantile pop farts. Both the genre and Wavves itself have been due a backlash for some time now.
27-07-2010 M.I.A. – /\/\ /\ Y /\
In another universe, parallel to ours but not too distant, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam is the pivotal character in Pulp’s ‘Common People’.
27-07-2010 Sleigh Bells – Treats
Everyone seems to hear something different in the kind of piercing racket that only the pairing of a former hardcore guitarist and an ex-girl group singer could produce
Reviews
Son of Dave
03
Kartel
What’s this? Guest singers? Playfulness? Fun? Is our itinerant one-man band and Pigeon regular Benjamin Darvill showing signs of mellowing? Nah, he’s just stepping up his dirty game, swinging a little lilt into his swagger and showing that he truly loves what he lives. Sunlight may be seeping into the studio through the cracks he made in the walls, but he’s still the meanest motherfucker with a mouth slobbering the blues today. A stone groove.
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