Neutral Milk Hotel at Kentish Town Forum, August 15, 2014
[First published at ClashMusic.com, August 20, 2014] That Neutral Milk Hotel sold every ticket to tonight’s show at 48 hours’ notice shouldn’t come as a surprise. Before it was cancelled […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
LeeFest 2014
[First Published at The Girls Are…, July 18, 2014] It is supposed to rain. Every weather app shouts THUNDERSTORMS, and TGA has turned up with a heavy raincoat thinking that […]
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
[First Published at OneFourSeven, December 12 2013] Change is the natural state of a city. It can occur so quickly that a double take throws up two different visions, claustrophobia becomes […]
Speedy Ortiz – Real Hair
[First Published at OneFourSeven, February 10 2014] If it’s become a cliché to talk about the “Difficult Second Album” and the problems that accompany it, then the post-debut EP is getting […]
Obsession As A Reflex: A Review Of Hausu’s ‘Total’
[First Published at End Hits, June 26 2013] In a 1988 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Joe Strummer expressed some discomfort. “I don’t like the idea that people who aren’t adolescents […]
Doing The Time Warp Again… And Again
[First Published in The Portland Mercury, July 31 2013] Over 35 Years Later, Rocky Horror Fans Fight to Keep Their Obsession Alive IT’S AFTER DARK on May 11 in Vancouver, Washington, and 158 people […]
Out Of Town: Quasi at Norwich Arts Centre, 12 Dec 2013
[First Published at End Hits, Jan 6, 2014] [A dispatch from former Mercury writer/Quasi fan/English person Alex Robert Ross, who lives in Norwich, which he describes as “a one horse town and […]
