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“We could have been a really good stadium band. It would have not been any good for the personalities in the band – it would have driven us all absolutely insane I would have thought. Any level of success would have made us worse people in my opinion. We could have been really good at it though. It didn’t happen and that’s that – it is what it is. It’s not a good or bad thing, just a thing. I would have liked to have made that second record though. There’s nothing wrong with being unknown, with being anonymous, it’s what almost everyone is – but try telling that to an arrogant idiot in his early twenties. . .”
Michael J Hall, Nebraska
Articles by Charlie Gardner
Photo: Olly Burn ‘Mortal’ is the debut single from London-based composer and electronic musician Evan Gildersleeve. Available on Bandcamp in aid of the charity, Mind, the piece explores Evan’s personal challenges with mental health, his search for soli …
Welcome to a pre-release of Self-Theories, an album about despair and hope, anxiety and optimism, lack of self-esteem and active search for it, maladies of the modern world, our responsibilities and reinventing ourselves for the sake of …
Photo: Billy Eyers Gas Lit is the new album by the multidimensional duo Divide and Dissolve, incoming on Invada Records on 29 January, and produced by Ruban Neilson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The album is preceded today by the second single and power …
Brighton- based Australian singer-songwriter, Juanita Stein, shares the three albums that are her greatest musical influnces. . .
OEM Compilation I by various artists Founder member of OEM, Adriana Cicccone, writes:How did the idea of putting together a compilation album start?Covid has pretty much put an end to live shows. The music industry has been hit hard by the pandemic. …
Icelandic singer-songwriter, Axel Flóvent, shares three records that have influenced his music.
Driven by his personal experience as a migraine sufferer, S. McLean’s debut EP Between Heart and Lung serves as an exploration of how the post-migraine state affects the listening experience. Video premiere, ‘As You Consume My Oxygen’ is the first of t …
What is a guitar, anyway? That’s a question Karhide has been asking for more than a decade now. From early releases that coupled the blowtorch intensity of Pelican with the assembly-line heaviness of Godflesh, his initial answer seemed to be a declarat …
Pseudo-legendary Montréal avant-rock band Fly Pan Am released three LPs and an EP in Constellation’s early years, celebrated for their unique collision of shoegaze maximalism, musique concrète, Minimalist repetition, guitar and electronic skronk, analo …
Rising Indie rockers, October Drift, pick the four albums that are their greatest influences. . .
Paolo Fresu. Photo: Roberto Cifarelli Saffronkeira. Photo: Mario Saragato “It is time for man to set a goal for himself. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough for it. But that soil will one day b …
“There’s been so many albums and bands that are very important to me and I have so many memories connected to each one. So I focused on my formative teenage years of 13–18 with the albums that opened my mind, led me in new directions and still stay with me today.”
There is no escape from the bad news. It’s on every news stand, every TV screen, in every conversation, on every social media page, with 24-hour news updates to remind us. There is no respite. So just imagine how good it would feel to be totally unawar …
Named after one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th Century, this November, Alex Stjernfeldt’s Novarupta will again join forces with Suicide Records for the release of Marine Snow; the second instalment in a series of four albums that concept …
Centripetal Force (North America) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK/Europe) are excited to announce the upcoming release of Mugstar’s GRAFT, the follow-up album to their much-lauded live collaboration with Can’s Damo Suzuki released earlier this year. After experi …
Photo: Elisa Thompson Constant motion is also something Hey Colossus know a little about, now into their eighteenth year as a band in a never-ending search for new trouble and new epiphanies. When this geographically sprawling iteration of the band fir …
Photo: Are Næsset Norwegian alternative rock band Kalandra today premiere their video for ‘Borders’ taken from their forthcoming debut album, The Line on By Norse Music. Weaving ethereal melodies into raw and eerie musical landscapes, Kalandra deliver …
Photo: Kim Öhrling Wardruna today shares the title track, and pinnacle moment of their upcoming album, Kvitravn (White Raven). A music video produced by Ragnarok Films reveals a powerful narrative centered around this sacred, elusive creature, and name …
‘Red Rain’ by Collapse Under The Empire is the first single from the forthcoming album Everything We Will Leave Beyond Us With their eighth full-length release Collapse Under The Empire set to music a dark world that is out of control. Hotspots everywh …
SURGERY the first remix album from Burden Limbs will be released on October 23 by Glasshouse Records. The eight-track re-working of the band’s debut EP There Is No Escape features a range of different mutations of the Burden Limbs sound. Where the orig …
The “Nordic Kate Bush”, whose music features in Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom, shares four albums that have been major influences on her. . .
