In League With Paton

Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand It’s difficult to admit it now, but one of my earliest infatuations as a teenager was with Led Zep...

I've been out of the loop a bit due to having spent the last few days on an intensive and highly fulfilling residential music course in ...

As if 2007 hadn’t yet proved wonderful enough, take a look at this rather tasty list of what the rest of the year has in store: Aesop Rock –...

Prince at the 02 Arena Reports on Prince’s 21 night stand in London have so far been mostly ecstatic. The few murmurings of dissent seem to ...

Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! It’s perhaps understandable that Super Furry Animals have recently diminished in status from national treas...

What a shame that Susanna Wallumrod (this time billed without her Magical Orchestra) has given her first solo album such a laughably pretent...

King Creosote, New Pornographers, Liars Along with Badly Drawn Boy, Kenny Anderson AKA King Creosote was just a few years ago one of the br...

Iron and Wine/Jeremy Warmsley @ The Spitz With some hasty last minute arranging, one of last week’s most fruitful evenings proved to be a tr...

Okkervil River - The Stage Names With its majestic artwork and cleverly constructed, Tim Hardin-inspired song cycle, Okkervil River’s ‘Black...

Auteurist craftsmanship still vies with empty posturing in an exciting contemporary landscape In the aftermath of the deaths of Antonioni an...

Animal Collective - 'Strawberry Jam' (Domino)/Caribou - 'Andorra' (Merge) With the weather, in London at least, finally havi...

One of the monthly music magazines this month opens its review of the latest Bad Plus album by claiming: "For all those who thought tha...

Rilo Kiley’s 'Under The Blacklight' I’m expecting some rather baffled reactions to this latest outing from music press darlings Rilo...

Sly and The Family Stone?! In Boscombe?! Well what on earth was that about? Without doubt, Sly Stone's 'appearance' at the Bourn...

With impeccable timing, the legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman has died, at the grand age of 89, just as his most famous work, The S...

Kenny Werner, The Bad Plus, Michael Brecker, Box Of Dub, Cinematic Orchestra Kenny Werner is reasonably well known as a Pianist, mostly wor...

Stars Of The Lid, Colleen, Fennesz Sakamoto, Led Bib, James Blackshaw Much has already been written about Kranky label artists Stars Of The ...

This is going to become a big multiple post catching up on some of the more unusual and esoteric sounds I’ve been immersing myself in this y...