progressive rock
A Taste of Sónar, RoundhouseSunday, 20 March 2011
The Sónar festival occupies a very special place in the New Music calendar – and is this year expanding outwards temporally and geographically, with new franchises in Tokyo and A Coruña, Galicia. Now into its 17th year, the parent festival in... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Composer James DillonSunday, 31 October 2010
Glaswegian James Dillon (b 1950) is one Britain's most critically acclaimed living composers. Early detours as a drunken and drug-taking wastrel gave way to what he calls "musical terrorism". By which he means his blistering career as one of the... Read more... |
Interview: Muse - Paranoid, Glam and SupermassiveTuesday, 21 September 2010
Maybe I hadn’t been paying enough attention. It was only at last year’s Children in Need concert, broadcast on prime time which featured the great and the good of British pop that it finally sunk in just how huge Muse have become – they were there... Read more... |
Muse, Wembley StadiumSaturday, 11 September 2010
Some years ago I saw Muse playing at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. Towards the end of the show, at a climactic moment (I think it might have been during their proggy epic, “New Born”), singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy reached into a bag attached... Read more... |
The Besnard Lakes, The GarageThursday, 19 August 2010
Although The Arcade Fire are currently occupying column inches on the back of their new album The Suburbs, it’s fellow Montréal band The Besnard Lakes that are over here, playing dates on the back of their recent third album The Besnard Lakes are... Read more... |
Flying Lotus & Infinity at ICAThursday, 19 August 2010
Steven Ellison is one of the most fascinating figures in modern music. Son of Motown songwriter Marylin McLeod and nephew to Alice Coltrane, he's inspired in equal part by his own musical heritage, the slow-and-low hip hop of his home state of... Read more... |
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