In League With Paton

So here it is.... Young Knives Bat For Lashes Jamie T Klaxons The View Amy Winehouse Basquiat Strings feat. Seb Rochford Dizzee Rascal New Y...

Thanks to DJ Martian for, as usual, being the most comprehensive person on the web and constructing this list of albums eligible for the pri...

Oh dear, the NME has come up with a truly ghastly list of possible Mercury nominations: Candie Payne - 'I Wish I Could Have Loved You Mo...

According to the Mercury Music Prize website, the nominations for the 2007 award are being announced tomorrow morning. Does anyone actually ...

Back in late 2006, when I went to see Iron and Wine play with Calexico at London’s Forum, Sam Beam played a song that immediately struck me ...

This year I have been very absorbed in a range of instrumental music (especially the likes of Battles, Supersilent, David Torn, John Surman,...

If the YouTube material posted here is anything to go by, REM appear to have rediscovered their Mojo: http://remdublin.com/blog/ethank/2007/...

Over the past two weeks, I’ve finally found some time to rent some DVDs and catch up with some films I had intended to see in the cinema ove...

Oh dear. Some concerts exist largely so that the word ‘disappointing’ can be deployed by anoraks like me. Al Green’s ‘performance’ at the Ro...

Last night’s Beirut gig at Koko must surely rank as one of the best gigs of 2007 so far. Koko now seems to be the London venue of choice for...

Magnolia Electric Co. and Guests, The Scala, 25th June 2007 Having praised Immaculate Machine’s embrace of detail and intricacy yesterday, i...

Peter Gabriel at Hyde Park, Immaculate Machine at The Windmill, Brixton Well, Crowded House certainly brought one kind of weather with them...

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...