Category: coffee table
Wherein hugger places his smug indie head on the block and reveals the songs that really shouldn’t have stood a chance but somehow had the wherewithal to win over those unforgiving ears. Chav culture enters the charts and comes pre-packed […]
They may have changed their name to Making Marks but we will always know this Oslo band as My Little Pony. Hard to accept the […]
While it might have been more pertinent to pluck a track from Alasdair MacLean and Lupe Nunez-Fernandez’s new album ‘The House at Sea’ this song […]
As bassist with one of the best indie guitar bands out there, Real Estate, Alex Bleeker should have plenty of opportunities to see his lightbulbs […]
Nashville’s Terry Price has been around the block once or twice (with his old band Oblio) and has suffered quite a few slings and arrows […]
Harper Simon’s new LP is called ‘Division Street’ and for a minute I thought I’d spotted the primary influence in it’s naming. With receding braincells […]
When it comes to listening to digital music iTunes remains the dominant player, not because it offers a particularly brilliant service (it offers a particularly […]
I’ve taken this line directly from the Books record label Temporary Residence ‘the deluxe 2xLP format comes packaged with 36 full-color die-cut stickers for you […]
Partly chosen because summer has become somewhat of a dream of late, especially in light of the hailstone showers earlier. Mostly chosen though for being […]
I somehow missed the Husker Du boat, only tuning in to the world of Bob Mould when his other band Sugar took off. I will be doing the Du before […]
The electronic windowlicker may have had the critics on his side for most of the nineties but many of his offerings were about as appealing as long fingernails scraping down […]
It been Culture night in Dublin and me being dad to 2 little ones I decided to mark the occasion with something altogether classy. As much as to say something […]
Lo-fi doesn’t get much better than this and with Bobby Aherne treating us to his hi-fi popcorn at an alarmingly prolific rate there’s no time to waste. He’s already released […]
The Lights – Riverbed
The Lights are a London collective headed up by Mathew Lester. Their album ‘Grand Union’ from earlier in the year had been dormant in a stack of cd’s until recently but Imogen Andrews likeness for Emma Pollock on ‘Riverbed’ had […]