Posts Tagged ‘rock’

Primavera Sound 2011 Review: Warpaint, PJ Harvey, Animal Collective and more! (Day 3)

With today's review we come to an end of our mammoth Primavera Sound 2011 review. What amazing stories will our reporter Laura Lotti tell us today? Something involving PJ Harvey, Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes... and a lot of rock 'n roll!

Warpaint by Rebecca Elves
The first band I aim to see today is Warpaint. Breathing salty seabreeze and sipping the first flat beer of the day I make my way …

Album Review – Crystal Stilts: In Love With Oblivion

The new album from Brooklyn based Crystal Stilts is out now on Fortuna POP! The Joy Division comparisons are impossible to shake off, but we're still impressed by this second outing.

I was hoping to be able to stay away from the Joy Division comparisons while writing this review of New York band Crystal Stilt’s new album In Love With Oblivion, …

Little Comets – Live Review

Poppy rock band from Newcastle, proving themselves as more than just a bunch of lads with guitars

Photos by Jazzy Lemon
It’s not often that a support band makes your ears prick up and pay attention; too often I’ve been to gigs where sub-standard support acts make the …

Caribou – Swim – Album Review

A masterpiece of electronic engineering, Caribou's latest album is a change in direction that will galvanise bedroom producers across the world

When it comes to talking about music constructed of non-organic noises (sampled, synthesised) then I have to admit that I am at something of a loss. Badum. Kaching. Ting ting …

Petter & the Pix – Interview

A quick chat with the leader of Petter & the Pix,, a talented genre-skipper from that rocky island in the Atlantic known as Iceland

Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing Petter & the Pix’s second album, Good As Gold, an eclectic bundle of folk and rock that never sits still longer than …

Music Listings November 16th – 22nd

Monday 16th November, 30 Seconds to Mars and We Fell To Earth, KOKO

The planets collide as We Fell To Earth support 30 Seconds to Mars tonight at KOKO. After this …

The Slits – Album Review

Trapped Animal

I’ll put up my hands and admit that as a girl, not yet a quarter of a century old, talking about music is utterly intimidating. Yet I try. At some …

Music Listings: 14th – 20th September

What to do...?

Monday 14th September
William Elliott Whitmore
The Garage, London

We can’t get enough of this distilled, gravelly bluesman. With Whitmore, it’s almost like you’re listening from inside a huge bottle of JD.
Tuesday 15th …

Herman Dune – Live Review

229, London, September 9th 2009

The luridly lit room at 229 last night, was curiously full of loved-up couples and it’s not even Spring – but Herman Dune’s music and personal charm quickly made it …

Music Listings: 7th – 13th September

Monday 7th September
Gemma Ray and The Rayographs
The Lexington, London

Pop noirette Ray plays stomping Americana with an Essex drawl, opening London trio, Rayographs are equally as alluring.
Tuesday 8th September
Lemonade
The Social, London

Brooklyn …

Music Listings: 31st August – 6th September

Monday 31st August
Mystery Jets, 6 Day Riot, Al Baker and the Dole Queue
Climate Camp, London

What better way to spend a sneaky extra day off work than supporting the biggest cause …

Mariachi El Bronx – Album Review

Mariachi El Bronx

Here at Amelia’s Magazine, we’re aligned more with uplifting, good time folk than gut wrenching, angst-y emo. We just think, why be so sombre? So when an album lands on …

Music Listings: 24th August – 30th August

Gigs of the Week • Monday, Tuesday, Music Days!

Monday 24th August
Mumford and Sons
The Borderline, London
UK’s answer to Fleet Foxes, Mumford and Sons, celebrate their music video to the first single off their debut album in North London tonight. …

The National: Baby, We’ll Be Fine

Live Review: The National at Royal Festival Hall, London, 10th August 2009

Do you have a band that soundtrack your life? The music of your memories?
Mine was, is and always will be The National, a band who’ve been playing in …

Festival Review: Latitude

Suffolk, 17th - 19th July

I imagine it was how Glastonbury started out at the beginning. Families, bare feet, small scale, culture beyond music. Life affirming performances, shady woodland and well managed recycling schemes. New …

Something Old, Something New

The Best of Online Shopping

Blundering, mistake-making fashion followers believe that style is about fitting in, but the true sartorial clan know that individuality has always been the on-trend approach to dressing. These days the …

Music Listings: 29th June- 4th July

Gigs of the Week, Monday, Tuesday, Music Days!

Monday 29th June
Regina Spektor, Serpentine Sessions, Hyde Park, London.
I love London summers, blessed as we are with plenty of lush green space. Hyde Park are putting on a good …

David Grubbs

Prince Albert, Brighton, 19th January

David Grubbs is something of a legend – the connoisseurs’ post-rocker of choice. It’s no surprise that he’s packed out the cosy environs of the Albert even with the little …

7:20s

Interview

The 7:20s are an enigmatically named bunch of attitudinous blokes from the West Midlands whose debut EP landed with a feisty thump on our doormat a couple of weeks ago. …