In League With Paton

When I interviewed Kings of Leon at Glastonbury 2003, they proved themselves tedious and frustrating interviewees. Barely able to get more ...

Tim Berne has been a leading creative force (and a fiercely independent one too) in the New York free jazz scene for over 20 years, but only...

The three Rhino CD reissues of Warren Zevon albums released this week seem to have been in the pipeline for ages and ages. It also seems tha...

Apostle Of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere (Arts and Crafts) El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux) A couple of alb...

I spend a lot of time on this blog criticising professional music journalists, unpicking their casual assumptions and questioning the dubiou...

The Stooges - The Weirdness Oh dear, oh dear. How exactly did we get here? I steered clear of the reunion shows from The Stooges , even whe...

‘La Maison de Mon Reve’ and ‘Noah’s Ark’, the first two albums from beguiling sister duo CocoRosie have been slowly working their way into ...

Some thoughts on David Lynch's Inland Empire First up, a subjective confession: David Lynch is one of my favourite film-makers. I like t...

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis (Polydor, 1998) For all the critical rehabilitation of Talk Talk’s extraordinary ‘Spirit of Eden’ and ‘Laughing St...

Live: Tilly and The Wall, Broken Family Band, Piney Gir/Peter and The Wolf, Jay and The Pistolets, Noah and The Whale On Disc: LCD Soundsyst...

Lucinda Williams is that most frustrating of singer-songwriters. At her best, she is capable of a sublime artistry of breathtaking directnes...

I almost certainly need to listen to it a bit more, and I may well come to revise some of these opinions, but seeing as it's streaming i...

....for producing yet another band with real vision and quality. The oddly titled 'The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse' is the seco...

I just want to take a moment to revise my review of the Bloc Party album a little. I think I said something about the lyrics being 'comp...

I've been out and about a fair bit over the last few weeks, so there are a few gigs to report back on. I alleviated Valentine's Day ...

Why is it that veteran music journalists so often have to resort to petty dismissals of us poor, insignificant bloggers? It's one of Pet...