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Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade Bettye LaVette - Scene Of The Crime It's not really necessary to add to the voluminous amount o...

The Edition of Contemporary Music label can always be relied upon to produce intriguing and challenging output in any given year but 2007 do...

Band of Horses – Cease To Begin The rather lovely packaging for Band of Horses’ second full length (a collection of photocards in keeping w...

I like this blog to be mainly positive in outlook, but sometimes it's both satisfying and necessary to prepare a good hatchet job. There...

Radiohead - In Rainbows So, is it actually any good then? This being Radiohead of course, there are some fairly characteristic and dependabl...

OK, we'll ignore the stupidly small-minded 5/10 review of the actually mind-blowing Dirty Projectors album. We'll also ignore the pa...

Beirut – The Flying Club Cup The prodigiously talented songwriter Zach Condon has followed up his debut ‘Gulag Orkestar’ with unfashionable ...

Control (Dir. Anton Corbijn, 2007) I’ve never really liked Biopics very much. First of all, enjoyment of them tends to depend on your apprec...

I know the world and his wife are writing about Radiohead’s new ‘free’ album, but I’ve been encouraged to join in. Are Radiohead really unde...

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 ...