There are two very clear types of music that I listen most to. The first are the game changers, the bands that carved their own place in their respective genres, whose talent- and impact on me-is undeniable. The second are just plain good- great musicians playing catchy music that I like to listen to again...
Burial’s 2007 album Untrue was a big milestone in bass music. Burial had seemingly perfected his style from the previous year’s self-titled record and Untrue rightly received universal critical acclaim. But whilst Burial himself has kept himself under the radar since then, with only a few EP releases including a collaboration with Four Tet and...
Here’s a little Valentine’s present for singletons and couples alike- courtesy of The New York Times, you can now stream Sleigh Bell’s second album a week before it’s released. The stream is a live recording, and is a promising taster of what we can expect from ‘Reign of Terror’ when it drops next week. Derek...
EMA has released a video for her new single, ‘Take One Two’, featuring her old home movies. All of the proceeds for ‘Take One Two’ will go Jamie Isaacs Foundation (an anti-bullying charity)- buy it here. Anderson had this to say about the project: “This footage comes from a South Dakota trailer park in the...
2012 is now upon us, and in between fretting about the end of the world and wondering just where the hell Beyoncé’s baby is, At the Sinema have been thinking about some of the things that we really are looking forward to in the coming year. Arrested Development Being Less Than A Year Away It’s...
1. JAMES BLAKE APPEARS ON BBC’S ESSENTIAL MIX AND ANNOUNCES NEW EP James Blake DJ’d for BBC Radio One’s Essential Mix yesterday, and as well as featuring an eclectic bunch of songs by everyone from Salem to Snoop Dogg, he also played a range of his own previously unreleased material. He’s also got a new...
Elite Gymnastics are from Minneapolis. Technically. But they’ll let you know in an instant that this has little baring on their music -- according to a recent interview, their “musical home is the internet”. Their love of K-pop, a music genre fast growing in popularity in the western world due to the use of the...
London Fashion Week is ranked among the ‘top four’ events of its kind, placing it alongside Paris, New York and Milan. Commencing on the 18th of September, over 100 designers will showcase their new collections in a variety of venues, but which ones should you look out for?
Chances are a lot of y’all have just found out what University you’ll be hittin’ up in September. You’re probably feeling a mixture of excitement and apprehension, particularly if you’re fucking hip and don’t want to spend an entire year living with some bitches you don’t like. Hold on children, hold on. I’m here for...
Having ended many a night hunched over a night cap in a nostalgic trance listening to Sigur Ros, I was intrigued to hear that a rockier equivalent was bursting onto the scene. Perhaps some glacial atmosphere music to begin a night rather than end it? Not quite; what I discovered was a band with such...
So, alot has gone on with Alexisonfire this past week- namely, they broke up. Frontman George Pettit announced the split on the 5th August over at the band’s official website, mentioning Dallas’ and Wade’s exits as the cause for the break-up, and adding that replacing them ‘would run the serious risk of perverting the legacy...
This track was recommended to me by a friend, and I’m totally glad that it was. Bwana is difficult to find online, as I discovered when trying to track down some more of his songs. He’s not on last.fm yet, no wikipedia, there are a few YouTube videos floating around, and his goldmine of a...
