Hawkwind: Psych-rock pioneers or acid victims?
April 5, 2021
Hawkwind, depending on who it is you ask, and where exactly they first encountered the group, are either responsible for creating one of the first robust underground scenes in rock, or were a bunch of misguided acid victims. To some, they were salt-of-the-earth musicians…
Elizabeth King – Living In The Last Days
We live in a time when the Western world, for the most part, has decided that traditions of all types are better left in the past. In the same society that we live in, ageless wisdom is disregarded, culture and faith are…
I am not much for nostalgia. In fact, I loathe the attempts of big corporations to sell audiences the comfort of something that they used to love, in a repackaged form, as a quick ploy to earn a buck.
Even so, inevitably, I also end up being one of them ol’ men…
Monokino - Bend or Break review
April 2, 2021
Just like a weightlifter having lived for a year off a diet of protein-rich food and demanding physical exercise or a couch potato that’s spent his time with his face buried in oily slices of pizza while shouting at their television set, we are bound to become what we…
Love Ghost – Shine Like Gold
The worst crime rock ever committed was getting fat, boring, and indebted to a corporate world that never cared which of the latest trends it needed to support in order to get a buck. We have to forgive rock for getting old, but not for…
Meadowlark Valley – One Morning
Oh, well, since we’re a website that includes the word alternative in its title, we are practically conditioned to admire the musicians that seem to go out of their way to avoid the trappings of success and fame. But, oh gosh…
John Cooper Clarke's musical career
March 31, 2021
John Cooper Clarke is, arguably, the most famous living British poet, an icon of the punk era, an inspiration to Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, and a man with a hairstyle worth building a cult around.
Although Clarke is especially famous for the solo performances of…
Indie wait time: Furs and Cable Car Disaster reviewed
March 31, 2021
Cable Car Disaster – I Broke My Synthesizer
If you ever wondered what turn the Smiths might have taken had Johnny Marr opted to replace Morrissey with a singer penning songs to his beloved synth, we got you covered. In a music world dominated by serious declarations…
Cradling hands: The Left Backs and Bernardo reviewed
March 30, 2021
Bernardo – Almost A Mother
The trouble with alternative-rock at the time that it reached its commercial peak was that, like all other styles, it began to favour its more extreme elements. Of course, hearing Layne Staley and Chris Cornell’s ear-shattering…