In League With Paton

Okkervil River - Shepherd's Bush Empire 11/11/08 Will Sheff isn’t wasting any time tonight. He introduces the first song but then direct...

Maybe I'm being irrational, but I really find this infuriating: http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/40887 It's bad enough that e...

Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008) How gratifying it is, after having written much on these pages about how Terence Davies has been...

Grace Jones - Hurricane (Wall of Sound/PIAS, 2008) I can’t help feeling that the positive but reserved reviews meted out to this album have ...

Lambchop - Union Chapel, London 3/11/2008 I perhaps don’t need to write too extensively about Lambchop’s Union Chapel performance given my e...

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika/Rough Trade, 2008) It’s natural to feel a little suspicious of the burgeoning estates of dead...

I’m struggling to keep up with commenting on my listening at the moment, so I thought I’d do a list of everything floating my boat at the m...

Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky, 2008) A good friend has been raving about Deerhunter at me for some time. Their 2007 album ‘Cryptograms’ s...

Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs (Columbia, 2008) Various Artists – Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story (Kent, ...

Fyfe Dangerfield/Tom Rogerson – The Vortex, London 7th October 2008 It’s quite rare to see a shared improvised piano gig, particularly one w...

Wild Combination - A Portrait Of Arthur Russell (Matt Wolf, 2008) Documentaries about musicians can be tedious affairs, sometimes neglecting...

Curios - Closer (Impure, 2008) It’s probably testament to Tom Cawley’s talent and open-mindedness that his original writing and playing for ...

Emmylou Harris, London Hammersmith Apollo, 14th September 2008 It’s taken me a while to get round to writing up my thoughts on my first Emmy...

Yet another legend has passed away this week - Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield. Although Whitfield is less well known than S...

There's always a lot of fuss about a 'new' Bob Dylan release, however much it scrapes the barrel for previously unreleased recor...

Stevie Wonder, London O2 Arena, 11th September 2008 On one level, it seems completely churlish to complain about Stevie Wonder’s performance...

Kurt Wagner, Cate Le Bon, James Blackshaw - The Borderline, London 10th September 2008 Every so often London blesses us with a club night th...

Calexico - Carried to Dust (City Slang, 2008) Lambchop - OH(Ohio) (City Slang, 2008) If I see the words ‘return to form’ used in reference t...