Let’s start with a clean sheet and treat this as an album from a band, any band (a blind test?). In other words, forget the past and especially the 80’s. Now I’ve read reviews of this album and all go back into history in depth to discuss the present briefly. Fuck that! 2009 has (so [...]

Stefan Kerkhof is a talented geezer from Zurich who’s been writing and recording music for fourteen years and this is his third solo EP which he’s also produced. I was fortunate enough to catch him live in his previous collaboration Kerkhof-Walser and, for me, this latest EP illustrates a much better finished product than I [...]

Every now and than an album comes along that’s just about perfect (in its genre); delivering what it says on the CD case. In this case it’s the YYYs’ new album IT’S BLITZ which is the band’s best yet by a country mile. Now I can’t say that I’ve been a fan of previous work [...]

It’s been four long years since the Doves last released an album after marginally failing to hit the heights of some of its lesser contempories. For me, previous albums have been good rather than great, with too few excellent tracks and too many that I would classify as filler. Perhaps the band is happy to have [...]

Young’s new album has met with very mixed media reviews and I’m wondering why… You see I think it’s the best thing he’s done in the last five years. It’s also his rockiest album for ages and while the world’s turbulence and problems provides much of the subject matter, musically this album delivers - big [...]

“Just another British, Indian, Muslim, Arab, Christian, lesbian romantic comedy”
The independent film I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT is romantic comedy where girl meets boy, plan marriage, girl meets girl and reality hits. The real kick in the story is that the protagonists are of Middle-Eastern descent which opens up a wealth of opportunities music wise. And by [...]