Review // Cold Specks – ‘Hector’
‘Hector’ the new most recent single from Canadian born singer, Cold Specks. The single comes from her absolutely stunning debut album, I Predict A Gracious Expulsion. It’s one of the more up beat tracks of the album that commences with a series of face paced symbol clicks which is then followed by a simple lo-fi riff on the...
Blog of The Month // August
Deer Brains are a group of young, creative individuals that run a blog together. Between them, they do a series of things by day from PR, to full time journalism to photography whilst some of them are still students. The blog features things that ‘inspire’ them which is everything from up and coming fashion desigers,...
Video // Slime – ‘Crown’
Cieron Magat is the man behind the video for SLIME‘s new song ‘Crown’ which appeared on his newly released EP, Increases II. In the past he has done projects such as T Shirt Party and ISYS and now he has turned to music videos. The video was shot on Hi8 video in and around the Queensbridge Road in...
Leah’s Playlists // August
Its August which can only mean one thing… it is my birthday soon (send all present parcels up north, please)! Nah, I’m just kidding BUT it does mean that the last months of Festival Season are well and truly upon us only being helped along by a smattering of heatwaves- YAY FOR GLOBAL WARMING- and...
Review // Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Chicago is famed for its art. Wander around any street in the Loop and you’ll spot a work of art, be it any number of Miro sculptures that dominate the streets or the enormous Picasso in Daley Plaza, there’s always something to look at. And that’s what I found with this retrospective at the Art...
Review // Peggy Sue play the songs of ‘Scorpio Rising’
After a dose of braiding at a friend’s craft event, resulting in me going a little bit overboard on the hottest day in July on Sunday, I headed over to Dalston to catch Peggy Sue play the soundtrack of the 1963 cult film Scorpio Rising in a bunker. The bunker looked like this – they’d transformed...
Interview // Sun Glitters
Earlier this year Sun Glitters released his EP, High, and everyone went a little bit crazy over it. Quite rightly so as it is still one of my favourite EPs of your year; a menage of glitchy chilled out beats, warped vocals and reverbing bass. Here’s what happened when I caught up with him for...
Review // Tune-Yards @ ‘A Room For London’
Throughout the summer, The Southbank Center are putting on ‘A Room For London’: a series of shows on a boat on the Thames which is streamed into the foyer of The Queen Elizabeth Hall. The shows are also streamed online for people to watch at home on the Guardian website. It is quite...
Review // TNGHT – ‘Higher Ground’
As if Warp Records weren’t smashing it already… They’ve consistently been releasing superb electronic music since 1989, and today their roster includes cult legends such as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, alongside more recent boundary-pushers like Flying Lotus and Clark. Hudson Mohawke’s “Satin Panthers” EP, an almost jokingly overblown mix of melodramatic synthesizers and...
Review // Leila and Ben – A Bloody History
You might think that Macbeth is a well-worn story – many of us will have probably encountered it at school and felt utterly uninspired by the tedious teaching method. In light of recent events, though, Macbeth seems like the perfect story to show how power corrupts and can poison an entire nation. Tunisian...
Review // Freelance Whales – ‘Locked Out’
The band who were responsible for Weathervanes, one of my favourite albums of 2010 are back. YAY! It’s a mellow and percussion filled relaxed number entitled ’Locked Out’ which is 100% a natural progression from the similar, minimal material found on their debut. It much less fragile than songs such as ‘Starring’ , ‘We Could Be...
News // Black Cab Sessions launches BCS Records
Black Cab Sessions have announced that they are starting a record label entitled BCS Records. The company has prided itself on showcasing the best new music around, all in the environment of the back of a black cab during intimate acoustic sessions which are then shared with the interweb via their Youtube channel. ...
