It is, I believe, the 10th anniversary of punk or something this week, so I thought I’d do something shocking and write about that – or at least one aspect of that, namely a group of people I call “the Acceptables.”The Acceptables were the product of a very specific moment in music history – the so-called and soi-disant “Year Zero” of…
Having played on over 700 records, won two Grammys, and been appointed adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, there is little that drummer Peter Erskine does not know about the instrumenthe has mastered.Erskine began playing the drums aged four, encouraged by his father who had played bass and led his own swing band during his …
Formed in London in 1986, Bark Psychosis numbered amongst the first wave of post-rock bands. Their aptly named 1994 debut LP, Hex, weaved a curious spell – gloomy and glimmering, veering from ambient introspection to intricately detailed power. It would be 20 years before follow-up, ///CODENAME: dustsucker, appeared, with founding member and lead…
‘But it’s just karaoke without Rotten’ is often what you will hear from those lucky enough to catch the Sex Pistols first time around. Never Mind The Bollocks turns fifty years old this year and what better way to celebrate a global phenomenon? You tour it. In Full.
I had been telling myself I could wait until November and see My Chemical Romance in Bangkok. After travelling to Milan for an already ridiculous weekend of Foo Fighters and System Of A Down, perhaps another major reunion with my teenage years could wait.
This one started more than a year earlier, when I booked the ticket with a friend from Naples and began the painfully long wait to finally see System Of A Down.
We – that is to say, you, dear RC reader – all know that the concept of the 33 1/3 long-player began in the 1940s, when Columbia Records messed with the format and slowly got rid of those heavy 10” 78 rpm-ers, giving us the beloved slow rotation 12” long-player.We also all know that it was our most exalted Fabs who pretty much perfected thi…
Anyone still labouring under the misapprehension that all ambient music is the same should take a deep dive into the vast back catalogue of Japanese composer Susumu Yokota. The late Toyama City-born artist’s vivid albums, some 30 in all, differ wildly from release to release. These are meditations that take on unique characteristics with differen…
Those not familiar with the name Dave Lawson will nonetheless be well-acquainted with his music. He provided synth sounds for many popular TV shows and films: The Man Who Fell To Earth, Star Wars, Superman,The Dark Crystal, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, Company Of Wolves, Clockwise and Groundhog Day, to name but a sample of his prodigious outpu…
The last time I was at Alexandra Palace, it was for The Hives, and the room felt like it had been hijacked by chaos in matching suits.
