Jen Gloeckner's second album Mouth Of Mars is crazy-chick great.
This week's music reviews (The Australian) 19 March 2010Reviewed: Leisure Society, Percy Keyes, Rachid Taha, Jamie Cullum, The Holmes Brothers, Alexandre Tharaud
Major Lazer Launch U.S. Tour At Winter Music Conference (Vh1) 19 March 2010Major Lazer's Diplo talked to MTV News about the production duo's upcoming tour, which they are launching at the Winter Music Conference. "We have these gigantic lasers," he said of the live show.
Music Review: X:THC - X: The Human Condition (seattlepi.com) 18 March 2010Music listeners are increasingly sophisticated and savvy to the tricks of the musical trade. There is a sense that everything has been done before and music fans are waiting for the one album that will surprise them, the one that will make its mark. It is certainly not an easy market ...
Sax and the City (MOG) 18 March 2010We dropped into one of the many London Word Festival events last Friday - Avant Noir 'A night of criminal fiction, comic art and music of a darker hue'. An evening that saw four contemporary crime writers reading extracts from their late night tales to a live music soundtrack from contemporary jazzers. Ray Banks was a new-to-me author, now fast-tracked to my 'must read' list. While opening the ...
Horror News: The Devil's Gravestone Goes Worldwide (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) 17 March 2010Independent horror makers, Roach City Films, has just signed a deal making The Devil's Gravestone available to distributors across the globe. The film, completed in early 2010, features the beautiful actress Elle LaMont battling an underworld of vampires and demons in a bloody tale of revenge, sin, and ultimately redemption.
Music Review: X:THC - X: The Human Condition (Blogcritics.org) 17 March 2010X:THC take a chance with a complex concept album and DVD but does it pay off?
New music: How did we cope without The XX? (Mail and Guardian) 16 March 2010M&G reviewers pick through the latest albums from, among others, N'Dambi, The XX and Ba Cissoko.
Enter the Dragon's new soundtrack (Stuff) 16 March 2010From the programme: See Karsh Kale, an undisputed force of nature on the tablas, perform an original live music score to a screening of Bruce Lee's cult classic: Enter the Dragon.
Bristol named Britain's most musical city (This is Bristol) 12 March 2010Bristol – the city which produced bands such as Massive Attack and Portishead - has been named Britain's "most musical city" in a new survey.