Categories Features Live Escaping Reality: Primavera Sound 2022 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date June 24, 2022 No Comments on Escaping Reality: Primavera Sound 2022 Primavera Sound 2022 Continue reading “Escaping Reality: Primavera Sound 2022” Tags bauhaus, Beach House, Caribou, Cigarettes After Sex, Dinosaur Jr., Dua Lipa, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frank Sinatra, Gorillaz, High on Fire, IDLES, Interpol, J. Mascis, Jehnny Beth, Jenny Hval, Kim Gordon, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Konrad Sprenger, Les Savy Fav, Leyland James Kirby, Lou Barlow, Low, Matt Pike, Moin, Natalie Mering, Oren Ambarchi, Otoboke Beaver, Parquet Courts, Pavement, Phillip Sollmann, Pile, Pond, Primavera A La Ciutat, Primavera Sound, ride, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sharon Van Etten, Shellac, slowdive, Tame Impala, The Armed, The Caretaker, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smile, The Strokes, The Weather Station, Thom Yorke, Tim Harrington, Tropical Fuck Storm, Tyler The Creator, weyes blood, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Categories Features Interviews Beyond the Clouds: In Conversation with Good Night & Good Morning’s Ryan Brewer Post author By Simon Kirk Post date April 25, 2022 4 Comments on Beyond the Clouds: In Conversation with Good Night & Good Morning’s Ryan Brewer Good Night & Good Morning (image provided by the artist). Continue reading “Beyond the Clouds: In Conversation with Good Night & Good Morning’s Ryan Brewer” Tags American Football, Bedhead, Calliope Musicals, Capys, Cold Lunch, Die Kreuzen, Energy Crow Records, Good Night & Good Morning, Grouper, Hank, Low, Orchid Collective, Pat Elifritz, Polyvinyl Record Co, Ryan Brewer, Sahan Jayasuriya, Spokane, Stereolab, The American Analog Set, ZXO
Categories Album Reviews Matt Christensen: Don’t Fall Down Your Own Well Post author By Simon Kirk Post date February 14, 2022 2 Comments on Matt Christensen: Don’t Fall Down Your Own Well Matt Christensen (photo credit: Tim Breen) Continue reading “Matt Christensen: Don’t Fall Down Your Own Well” Tags Low, Matt Christensen, Niel Young, Slow Pane, Tim Breen, Zelienople
Categories Lost Albums Good Night & Good Morning: Narrowing Type – “not a moment wasted” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date January 17, 2022 5 Comments on Good Night & Good Morning: Narrowing Type – “not a moment wasted” Continue reading “Good Night & Good Morning: Narrowing Type – “not a moment wasted”” Tags Codeine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Good Night & Good Morning, Low, Own Records, Pat Elifritz, Ryan Brewer, Sahan Jaysuriya, Tim Hecker, Zelienople
Categories Features Interviews 2021 with Silver PR’s Rachel Silver Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 21, 2021 3 Comments on 2021 with Silver PR’s Rachel Silver Rachel Silver with GOAT. Continue reading “2021 with Silver PR’s Rachel Silver” Tags Amyl and the Sniffers, Atlantic Recording Corporation, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Damage is Done, dry cleaning, Erase Errata, Ex Models, High Black Desert Records, Jo Wiley, Joyful Noise Recordings, Keeled Scales, Kill Rock Stars, Lou Barlow, Low, Merge Records, Michael Johnson, Middleman, Narnack Records, Panthers, Parquet Courts, pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs, Rachel Silver, Reigning Sound, Rocket Recordings, Rough Trade, Silver PR, Springtime, squid, Sub Pop, Superchunk, Talking Heads, TEKE::TEKE, TFI Friday, The Coachwhips, The War On Drugs, Tomlab, Trevor Sensor, Warp
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 17, 2021 25 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 Sticky post Original image via Unsplash (Florencia Viadana) Continue reading “Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021” Tags 20-20-20, AD 93, Aging, Aging ~ Land Trance, Allen Moore, Ben Chasny, big brave, big country, BIG | BRAVE, Bill Orcutt, Black Tempel Pyrämid, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bronzerat, Charlie Butler, Chris Abrahams, Chris Corsano, Circle, Claire Cronin, Comedy Minus One, Constellation Records, Cruel Nature Records, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Daniela Weinmann, David Colohan, David Wurth, Deafheaven, Divide And Dissolve, Domino Recordings, Donovan Quinn, Drag City, Dub Cthonic, Eleventh Dream Day, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Fading Tapes, Fake Fruit, Fat Cat, Fire Records, Flemish Eye, Fly Pan Am, Full Time Hobby, Gaffa Bandana, Glenn Donaldson, Gnod, Goliath Enterprises Limited, Grouper, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Human Worth, International Anthem, Invada Records, Iron Lung Records, Jeff Parker, Jim White, Joyful Noise, Joyful Noise Recordings, Katuku Collective, Kowloon Walled City, Kranky, Kulk, Land Trance, Light Conductor, Lingua Ignota, loscil, Low, Matt Christensen, Matt Sweeney, Mess Esque, Miasmah Recordings, Midwife, Moin, Monastra, Naomi Yang, Neurot Recordings, New Bums, nick cave, Ninja Tune, Odd Beholder, Ohm Resistance, Orindal Records, P.M. Tummala, Palilalia, Patrick R. Pärk, richard dawson, Rock In Your Head, Rocket Recordings, Rough Trade, Sargent House, Simm, Sinnbus, Six Organs of Admittance, slant, sleaford mods, Southern Lord, Springtime, Stuart Cook, Sub Pop, The Besnard Lakes, The Bug, The Flenser, The Reds Pinks and Purples, The Still, Three Lobed Recordings, Tough Love, Tropical Fuck Storm, Trouble In Mind, Vapour Theories, warren ellis, Waxing Cresent Records, Will Oldham, XIMES
Categories Features Interviews Sound Waves: In Conversation with Springtime’s Gareth Liddiard and Jim White Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 4, 2021 14 Comments on Sound Waves: In Conversation with Springtime’s Gareth Liddiard and Jim White Springtime (photo credit: Jamie Wdziekonski) Continue reading “Sound Waves: In Conversation with Springtime’s Gareth Liddiard and Jim White” Tags Alan Vega, Busload of Faith, Chris Abrahams, Clyde Stubblefield, dirty three, Erica Dunn, Fiona Kitschin, Flann O'Brien, Fugazi, Gareth Liddiard, Ian Duhig, James Brown, Jim Cartwright, Jim White, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joyful Noise, Laughing Clowns, Lead Belly, Low, Marisa Anderson, Martin Rev, MC5, Mick Harvey, Mick Turner, Nina Nastasia, Palace Music, People With Chairs Up Their Noses, Rod Stewart, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Seamus Heaney, Springtime, Suicide, the birthday party, The Drones, The Necks, The Rolling Stones, The Still, The Triffids, Tropical Fuck Storm, Venom P. Stinger, warren ellis, Will Oldham, Wu Tang Clan, Xylouris White
Categories Features Interviews Tangled Beauty: In Conversation with Mess Esque’s Helen Franzmann & Mick Turner Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 22, 2021 12 Comments on Tangled Beauty: In Conversation with Mess Esque’s Helen Franzmann & Mick Turner Mess Esque (photo credit: Kishore Ryan) Continue reading “Tangled Beauty: In Conversation with Mess Esque’s Helen Franzmann & Mick Turner” Tags Bedroom Suck Records, dirty three, Drag City, Ed Kuepper, Helen Franzmann, Jim White, Low, Mckisko, Mess Esque, Mick Turner
Categories Features Interviews A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 1 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 5, 2021 7 Comments on A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 1 Damon & Naomi (photo credit: Norman von Holtzendorff) Continue reading “A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 1” Tags Alan Sparhawk, Boris, Brian Eno, can, Conny Plank, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Galaxie 500, Low, Masaki Bato, Michael Rother, Michio Kurihara, Mimi Parker, Neu!, Peace Music, Sky Records, Soichiro Nakamura
Categories Albums Lost Albums Enablers’ Output Negative Space 15th anniversary Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 1, 2021 5 Comments on Enablers’ Output Negative Space 15th anniversary Enablers Continue reading “Enablers’ Output Negative Space 15th anniversary” Tags Charles Bukowski, dAVID hAND, Emma Ruth Rundle, Enablers, Holy Sons, Human Worth, Joe Goldring, June of 44, Kevin Thompson, Lancashire & Somerset, Low, Neurot Recordings, nick cave and the bad seeds, Pete Simonelli, Rodan, Slint, Steve Von Till, Tom Waits
Categories Album Reviews Low: HEY WHAT – “turbulence and tormented beauty” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date September 8, 2021 14 Comments on Low: HEY WHAT – “turbulence and tormented beauty” Low (photo credit: Nathan Keay) Continue reading “Low: HEY WHAT – “turbulence and tormented beauty”” Tags Alan Sparhawk, BJ Burton, Bon Iver, charli xcx, Low, Mimi Parker, Sub Pop, Sunn O)))
Categories News Low share new song from upcoming album – watch/listen here. Post author By Simon Kirk Post date July 20, 2021 No Comments on Low share new song from upcoming album – watch/listen here. Low (photo credit: Nathan Keay) Continue reading “Low share new song from upcoming album – watch/listen here.” Tags Dorian Wood, Low, Peter Liversidge, Sub Pop
Categories Albums Features Hello Body: An Introduction into the World of Matt Christensen Post author By Simon Kirk Post date April 19, 2021 8 Comments on Hello Body: An Introduction into the World of Matt Christensen Matt Christensen (photo provided by the artist) Continue reading “Hello Body: An Introduction into the World of Matt Christensen” Tags Bulbils, Claire Welles, Guided By Voices, Low, Matt Christensen, Neil Young, richard dawson, Robert Pollard, Zelienople
Categories Albums Features The Absurdity of Fandom: Slint’s Spiderland 30th anniversary Post author By Simon Kirk Post date March 29, 2021 23 Comments on The Absurdity of Fandom: Slint’s Spiderland 30th anniversary Slint (photo credit: Will Oldham - taken from Spiderland's original artwork) Continue reading “The Absurdity of Fandom: Slint’s Spiderland 30th anniversary” Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Brian McMahon, Britt Walford, David Pajo, Evergreen, gRAILS, Holy Sons, Low, Polvo, Slint, The Breeders, The For Carnation, Todd Brashear, Tortoise, Touch and Go Records, Tyler Trotter, Watter, Zak Riles
Categories Features Interviews Bad Amputee Interview: “trying to make something that works and does the music justice” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 4, 2020 1 Comment on Bad Amputee Interview: “trying to make something that works and does the music justice” Bad Amputee Continue reading “Bad Amputee Interview: “trying to make something that works and does the music justice”” Tags Alice in Chains, Bad Amputee, Bob Mould, Cath and Phil Tyler, Claire Welford, Codeine, Emergency Librarian, Hen Ogledd, Lanterns on the Lake, Low, Me Lost Me, Nathalie Stern, Phil Tyler, pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs, R.E.M., richard dawson, Robin Fry, The Dawdler, The Doors, The Unit Ama, Yakka Doon
Categories Album Reviews Jesu: Terminus – “a collage of the past” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 18, 2020 7 Comments on Jesu: Terminus – “a collage of the past” Jesu Continue reading “Jesu: Terminus – “a collage of the past”” Tags Avalanche Recordings, Godflesh, Jesu, JK Flesh, Justin Broadrick, Low, my bloody valentine, Pale Sketcher, Red House Painters, Sunn O))), Techno Animal
Categories Albums Features PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 20th anniversary Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 24, 2020 13 Comments on PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 20th anniversary Continue reading “PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 20th anniversary” Tags Big Day Out, david bowie, Low, Mick Harvey, pj harvey, Radiohead, Richard Kingsmill, Rob Ellis, Thom Yorke, Triple J, Victor Van Vugt
Categories Album Reviews Zelienople: Hold You Up – “a timely welcome into this world” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 13, 2020 3 Comments on Zelienople: Hold You Up – “a timely welcome into this world” Continue reading “Zelienople: Hold You Up – “a timely welcome into this world”” Tags Bark Psychosis, Bedhead, Brian Harding, Labradford, Low, Matt Christensen, Mike Weis, MJ Guider, Slint, Spotify, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Yo La Tengo, Zelienople
Categories Features Lost Albums Labradford: a buyer’s guide to a band way ahead of their time Post author By Simon Kirk Post date July 24, 2020 9 Comments on Labradford: a buyer’s guide to a band way ahead of their time Continue reading “Labradford: a buyer’s guide to a band way ahead of their time” Tags Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Labradford, Low, Stars of the Lid, Steven Albini
Categories Albums Dirty Three’s Whatever You Love, You Are 20th anniversary: “A labyrinth of unsullied splendour” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date July 7, 2020 17 Comments on Dirty Three’s Whatever You Love, You Are 20th anniversary: “A labyrinth of unsullied splendour” Continue reading “Dirty Three’s Whatever You Love, You Are 20th anniversary: “A labyrinth of unsullied splendour”” Tags albini, astie Boys, bad seeds, Beck, dirty three, jarmusch, Low, moodists, nick cave, Sonic Youth, stooges, warren ellis
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