Retrospective: Tom Waits
As Charles Bukowski once said: “If you’re going to try, go all the way.” When it comes to Tom Waits, these words could not be more appropriate. ...more
Retrospective: Camille
Why use a drum kit when your stomach or arsehole will do? A question French body percussion pixie Camille Dalmais must surely ask herself before the c...more
Retrospective: Beck
If I could be one musician ever, it would be Beck.
Encompassing virtually every genre into a brand of music often described as “post-modern pop r...more
Retrospective: Beirut
A YouTube comment on a live performance of “Nantes” filmed progressing down the stairwell in a dilapidated tenement building will stay with me f...more
Retrospective: Jack White
Jack White. Never has a stage name revealed so little about the person to whom it refers. We question how such an ordinary name can belong to a man wi...more
Retrospective: Joanna Newsom
What's the likelihood of a classically trained harpist with a voice like an infant ever making it into the mainstream? Particularly after ambiguousl...more
Retrospective: Björk
“Octagon, polygon, pipes up an organ, sonic branches, murmuring drone, crystallizing galaxies, spread out like my fingers,” the instantly recogn...more
Retrospective: Prince
His Royal Badness, His Purple Majesty, "The Glyph", TAFKAP or a puff of hot air to MTV viewers - just some of the monikers hung on Prince Rogers Nel...more
Retrospective: Bat For Lashes
In 2009, Rolling Stone described the music of Bat For Lashes as "broody, beautiful, atmospheric rock that has a flair for the dramatic." It's a descri...more
Retrospective: No Doubt
After I managed to shake off rap metal in my early teens, No Doubt became the staple tape whirring in my Walkman. Obviously I am freaking with small-t...more