Live review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Wembley Stadium, 05/06/16
If the E Street Band are to the last stadium rockers standing, maybe we’ll concede that stadium rock was alright after all»
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lukowski has written the following articles:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are no longer the dumbest guys in the room»
Live review: Radiohead, London Roundhouse, 28/05/16
No-one is challenging them to the title of the best band in the world»
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Leaving the misery for the next generation»
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead being beautifully, maddeningly Radiohead»
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
An intensely evocative but also decidedly ambiguous record»
Animal Collective - Painting WIth…
They're probably better off painting alone»
Savages - Adore Life
Life is a serious business and Savages are a serious band»
Sorrow, or: why it's okay to be upset at David Bowie's death
Why did so many of us lose our shit when Bowie died? And was it okay that we did so?»
David Bowie - Blackstar
His best and most interesting record since Outside»
Roger Waters - The Wall
Maybe The Wall has come back into fashion, or maybe after 35 years of tinkering Waters has finally got it right»
Disappears - Low: Live in Chicago
As a standalone listen it feels inessential»
Mogwai - Central Belters
The actual experience of listening to all three or so hours of Central Belters is pretty ridiculous»
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Another superlative achievement from a band who are, in essence, one of life’s great mysteries.»
New Order - Music Complete
The most energetic and polished thing they’ve turned in in an age»
HEALTH - Death Magic
There is the air of HEALTH now being at a cross roads»
Latitude 2015: the DiS review
Latitude is increasingly like a choose your own adventure»
Little Boots - Working Girl
She hits enough gold to not seem like an irrelevance, but her goals are murky»
Alden Penner - Canada in Space
Canada in Space has almost no bearing whatsoever on the work of The Unicorns»
Live review: Blur, BST in Hyde Park, 20/06/15
It seems hard to believe that they won’t be here forever»
Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
Like any long, stable relationship, some of the thrill is now gone with Built to Spill»
Blur - The Magic Whip
The Magic Whip does not sound like the end of a band.»
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
Asunder, Sweet is Godspeed at their most conciliatory, most bloody-minded and most untouchable.»
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
It is, at the end of the day, good to have them back.»
Madonna - Rebel Heart
For each clanger there’s two bangers.»
Carl Barât and The Jackals - Let It Reign
It’s hard to get massively enthusiastic about Carl Barât’s latest incarnation.»
Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night
Sorry Bob, but as a great man once said: I don’t believe you.»
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Viet Cong have a brilliance so unstable, even they can’t quite control it.»
Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy
The Smashing Pumpkins is a cool, modest indie-rock project from Nineties musician Billy Corgan and actually that’s kind of nice.»
David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed
Nothing Has Changed (2CD) is a standard pre-Christmas money spinner. Nothing Has Changed (3CD) feels like a defiant milestone, a monument to an extraordinary 50-year-career»