In League With Paton

The Decemberists @ London Royal Festival Hall Until their most recent album ‘The Crane Wife’ was bizarrely afforded two UK releases, The Dec...

Polar Bear @ The Museum of Garden History Outhouse @ The Oxford, Kentish Town The Museum of Garden History in Lambeth Palace is an odd place...

The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who mercifully calls himself 'Joe', is currentl...

Dirty Projectors - Rise Above Dave Longstreth is completely insane. Fortunately, both for him and for us, he’s also a maverick genius. His c...

Bruce Springsteen - Magic Getting straight down to business, I'd say it's pretty unlikely that this one will give Springsteen anothe...

NB: Personal View – not written in a work capacity. Until next Monday morning, you can hear a rather excellent edition of the BBC World Serv...

Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog Perhaps I’ve waxed lyrical about Iron and Wine more than enough on these pages already but I can’t he...

PJ Harvey's 'White Chalk' PJ Harvey clearly has little care for continuity. With each new album, she has reinvented herself. She...

Elmore Judd - Insect Funk Elmore Judd are an unusual group comprising some of North London’s finest musicians, including the superb drummer ...

Nevermind US sub-prime mortgages - it was next Monday's album releases that were the most likely cause of financial disaster for me. Luc...

Sylvie Lewis - Translations Can I really be in love with a woman I’ve not even seen in person let alone met? Not really of course, but there...

Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground Robert Wyatt - Comicopera It’s a special couple of months that sees these two pioneering collaborators (both ...

How unfortunate that the Led Zeppelin reunion has directly coincided with the release of Robert Plant's rather excellent new record with...

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...