In League With Paton

Hunger (Dir: Steve McQueen, 2008) NB This review necessarily reveals details of shocking scenes within the film. If you’ve not yet seen it, ...

Warren Zevon – Warren Zevon (Asylum, 1976, Rhino Reissue, 2008) What a shame the long-promised Warren Zevon catalogue reissues have been so ...

Critical Distortions - Natalie Clein, Shiva Feshareki, Simon Fisher-Turner. Kings Place, London, 2nd December 2008 ‘Critical Distortions’ is...

Keith Jarrett, Royal Festival Hall, December 1st 2008 If there has been a common thread in much of the live music I’ve witnessed in 2008 – i...

So, the albums of the year lists are starting to arrive, still before we’ve even hit December although mercifully that little bit later this...

As ever, the London Jazz Festival offers a mouth-watering array of musical treats this year. Sadly, time constraints have left me only able ...

Susanna - Flower of Evil (Rune Grammofon, 2008) Susanna Wallumrod is one of the most prolific and uncompromising artists currently at work, ...

Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino, 2008) We’ve been waiting for six long years for Ben Jacobs to follow-up the exquisite ‘Mast...

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...