Brix and The Extricated – Part 2 (Blang) There is no escaping the ghost of Mark E. Smith and The Fall when thinking about, listening to or watching Brix and The Extricated (writes Andy Wood). For some fans of The Fall there is a red-line drawn here, that it is a form of sacrilege to…
Month: October 2017
Song of the Week (8) – Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo – Summerhall, Edinburgh – November 2016 The release of a new video from Lee Ranaldo’s wonderful ‘Electric Trim’ album is not just an opportunity to give the fomer Sonic Youth man the latest song of the week but also to offer a review of the record. First off though here’s the new video…
Diversity of Experience – The Vintage Calvinos feature
Whilst it’s nice to receive free music through the post there’s a certain degree of trepidation attached with receiving a physical artefact as opposed to, say a bundle of MP3s. When it’s cost someone money to send you something, what if I don’t like it? Consequently, the more I receive from Stereogram, the more I’m…
Good Fun for Serious Times – Delinquents LP review/interview
As a former member of a band who were described in one review as ‘putting the fun back into pretentiousness’ it might be fair to say that fast-played, melodic pop-punk might be a genre that, in most of its contemporary guises, doesn’t do much for me (writes Andy Wood). And yet, here I am, about…
Song of the Week (7.5) – The Spook School
I had this pencilled in as Song of the Week until the Everlasting Yeah video came along. But sticking with the principle of trying to feature new songs as soon as I can, I’ve held back the new single from the Spook School for a single day. ‘Still Alive’ is a gloriously infectious Spook School…
Song of the Week (7) – The Everlasting Yeah
Whilst I’ve so far featured a new song here over the last few weeks, the arrival of a new Everlasting Yeah video is a significant enough event to capture the Monday slot. And, yes, it is a new video but it’s not a new tune. Rather the video has been created by momentfive for ‘A…
Manic Pop Thrills 