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An Interview with Safety First Records 19 Mar 2012 | 09:45 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JiB45EIy2A Once upon a time, the term ‘indie’ described a philosophy rather than a genre and an indie label meant a way of doing things, not an identifiable sound. Xan...
Go West: An Interview with Jonathan Evison 4 Feb 2012 | 02:00 am
Rooted in the history and traditions of the Pacific Northwest, Jonathan Evison’s West of Here rethinks the epic American novel for the 21st century. Dan Coxon talks to the author about the difficultie...
Gauge: Hustler on the Move (Aqua Boogie Records) 28 Jan 2012 | 05:00 am
Reviewed by Eric Saeger Texas rapper Gauge knows how to compact syllables, but that won’t separate anyone from the current pack, especially given all the dried-up roto-tom-filled beats on this docket...
Kiyomi: Child in Me (self-released) 28 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
Reviewed by Eric Saeger Interesting little vanity release here in that it stars a Japanese-American chick from New Yawk doing an unintentional Forrest Gump routine. I’d expected jazz, but this is str...
Reverse The Curse: Hither and Yon (Paper+Plastic Records) 27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
Reviewed by Eric Saeger Take a bunch of Cleveland-burb kids who wish they were in either Airborne Toxic Event, Unsane or Thursday, let them yell, holler and flog themselves in a studio and it’d sound...
TV Eye: 30 Rock and Jonathan Meades on France 26 Jan 2012 | 02:06 pm
Jacob Knowles-Smith on homophobia in elitist liberal comedy and nationalism in polymath documentaries After the inconvenience of creator Tina Fey’s pregnancy, the new season of 30 Rock (NBC) has fina...
John Warner: The Funny Man 24 Jan 2012 | 03:43 am
Reviewed by Declan Tan John Warner’s debut novel, about the rise and fall of an unnamed American comedian known only as “the funny man”, is a mulchy broth of satire, cultural commentary and La-Z-Boy ...
Benji Kaplan: Meditacoes no Violao (Circo Mistico Productions) 21 Jan 2012 | 05:00 am
Reviewed by Eric Saeger New York-bred Brazil-o-phile Kaplan provides a sort of life-travelogue here, soloing nonchalantly throughout the entire album on his nylon-stringed unplugged guitar. It’s so r...
Abyssal Creatures: Social Awkwardness (Independent Records) 21 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
Reviewed by Eric Saeger A vanity release in more than one sense. Colorado kid Ian Garrett Fellerman is a lonely geek with a score to settle with jocks, chicks who read Dostoevsky, pretty much everyon...
Shame (Dir: Steve McQueen) 17 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
Reviewed by Declan Tan Steve McQueen’s second feature is a visually arresting, thematically dense piece of cinema, that may, and probably will, prove to be an important film in years to come. That is...
