In League With Paton

Devo Live at Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown, June 19th 2007 The newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall doesn’t exactly look transformed, although i...

Reviews of ‘Icky Thump’, the new album from The White Stripes , have been predictably gushing, but also intriguing. First of all, there’s be...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/06/ten_years_of_ok_computer_and_w.html On Monday 16th June 1997, not just one, but two albums were re...

London's 02 Wireless Festival (God forbid that we should forget the '02' prefix) strikes me as a fine example of the corporate e...

…Well it didn’t exactly come to pass as Trevor Horn predicted, but now I wonder whether it might be happening more insidiously and indirectl...

One of the most irritating elements of pop music culture is the tendency to throw up sub-genres which all-too-briefly blaze incandescent bef...

I am in two minds about The National . Their last album ‘Alligator’ was something of a slow-burner, with some mysterious and powerful highli...

Jeff Tweedy claims not to have a very good track record with London audiences, but for Wilco's triumphant London return on May 20th he n...

Posthumous albums are almost always difficult to approach. There’s no way of knowing whether they reflect the artist’s intentions accurately...

I’ve been attempting to catch up on some records this week, so here are some of the results… I have to confess to an element of ‘genre token...

Opulent, camp, grandiose, extravagant, excessive, theatrical, operatic, romantic – these are all words that spring immediately to mind when ...

Whilst it would be a Herculean task to argue that ‘Sky Blue Sky’ is in the same league as Wilco’s best work, the critical reaction to it has...

I’ve been wondering what to write about this show, given that my entire experience of the night was soured by a particularly thoughtless cou...

So here's a list of things I need to blog about, lest I should forget myself: Cat Power live at the Forum last week Dava (about whom onl...

I’m aware that this is going to sound incredibly snobbish, but there’s this lingering sense that the rock and pop press consistently underes...

There are some bands, perhaps those that display their creative ambitions most explicitly, that we want to push themselves further and furth...

…Or so says a line from Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons used by Terence Davies in his masterful film ‘The Long Day Closes’ from 199...