Sometimes?all right, usually?there’s no justice in this rock’n’roll world. Kaleidoscope, formed from the ashes of various jug bands by the brilliant David Lindley, were so much more daring ...
Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers hoodwinked London critics but Derry’s The Undertones were a much more inventive and explosive phenomenon. The O’Neill brothers matched melodic flair to humour ...
OPENS AUGUST 20, CERT PG, 83 MINS Alexander Sokurov was most recently responsible for Russian Ark, which magically took in the sweep of Russian history in a single, unblinking camera shot.
Brown Sugar’s hip hop credentials are established at the start, as key figures from Russell Simmons to De La Soul reminisce. Former Krush Rap publisher Michael Elliot’s script then uses the ...
Emerging in 2001, these Detroit brothers lash the hard-livin' loucheness to traditional country ache. Frontman/songwriter Kurt Marschke's wail is Jaggeresque and there's lonesome balladry aplenty ...
Part of Berlin’s vigorous, Wall-shadowed counterculture, Die Haut’s abrasive mix of sexless funk and doomy guitars suited then-neighbour Cave as The Birthday Party began to dissolve.
For a while there—at the back end of the ’80s—Guy Chadwick’s House Of Love seemed the men most likely to leave the indie pack trailing. Then the Roses/Mondays/Scream axis emerged, the band ...
Turning the post-’70s Love albums Out Here and False Start into a slimline disc is an exercise that will only appeal to the most completist Arthur Lee devotee, although liner note snaps of hard ...