Eastpak: Toury 55
Those lovely folks at the almighty Eastpak recently launched their 2012 campaign to find out when the last time we all did something for the first time – recalling life changing moments and…
Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Hailed as a success at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, We Need to Talk About Kevin has taken its time to filter over to UK screens. But it has been worth…
Little Dragon – Ritual Union
It is a crying shame that Little Dragon are quite possibly the most famous electronic outfit that no-one has ever heard of. They – or at least frontwoman Yukimi Nagano – has appeared…
New Blood: Look Stranger!
Take half a cup of Scritti Politti, add a dash of Antony & The Johnsons, top with a Stereolab crust and gently simmer in Trip Hop and you will have yourself a taste…
Life In A Day – Official Trailer
80,000 Lives…. 4,500 Hours of Footage…all uploaded to YouTube then slapped together by Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) and Kevin Mcdonald (State Of Play, Last King Of Scotland) to produce a “cinematic experience” unlike…
Wu-lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
Forget about the media frenzy, forget the lack of interviews, forget the little online presence and the air of apparent ‘mystery’ drummed up by the band in order to gain our attention. It…
Review // Aaron Wright – Aaron Wright
Not that we’re complaining, but it’s certainly noticeable that the early days of Spring have a habit of bringing folk-y popsters and singer-songwriters out from whichever twee haunts they’ve been hibernating in, with…
Review // The Strokes – Angles
If ever a band has less need of an introduction, it is The Strokes. It’s understandable, considering that with the release of Is This It in 2001, the five New Yorkers had come…
Review // Rainbow Arabia – Boys and Diamonds
Some people might remember that Rainbow Arabia appeared a couple of years ago back at the height of Brooklyn-mania: those psychedelic, world music-inspired offerings helped to place Rainbow Arabia in some sort of…
Super – Official Trailer
When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler) willingly charmed by a seductive drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he…
Review // Chapel Club – Palace
Having a few brain cells and doing some genuinely intelligent referencing has been something of a dirty thing in recent British indie: okay, we’ve had Foals and their clever take on the genre,…
Review // Joan As Policewoman – The Deep Field
No-one can accuse Joan Wasser of not being dark – her last two albums were informed by death, and it showed in the sorrowful lyrics and, on To Survive, the haunting use of…
Review // The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
It’s been a few hard years in the making, but The Joy Formidable have finally released their debut album after periods of being a continual support band and numerous teasers on their MySpace…
Review // Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Britain has had its decent share of women dabbling in dark rock: Anna Calvi is just the latest in this line. With her debut album she treads ground that is familiar to fans…
Monsters
Monsters is a cross between District 9 & Cloverfield…or that’s what the trailer would have you believe. In the world of misleading trailers this would be fairly high up its ’best of’ charts; but this…
Enslaved: ODYSSEY TO THE WEST
Platform and adventure games have long since outgrown their mass appeal. In the last five to ten years there’s been a massive shift in what type of video games we play, moving from…
