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They're back out on the road. DiS' Matt D'Cruz caught up with Mr.Pierce in 2003 to talk hyperbole and Spacemen 3...»
Articles
md'cruz has written the following articles:
The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button
Rumours of dance music’s death have been greatly exaggerated.»
Beastie Boys - An Open Letter to NYC
Crusing along on one of the more freak unique backing tracks that the band have produced in a while, 'An Open Letter To NYC' is a big old group hug for the trio's native city.»
Delays - Lost In A Melody / Wanderlust
Coming on all Depeche Mode circa 1989, 'Lost In A Melody' shows that there is at least a second dimension to Southampton's janglers»
Mando Diao - Paralyzed
Sweden has never sounded so NYC. What with the currency of rock n roll (as in»
Various - DFA Recordings - Compilation #2
The most effortlessly fashionable compilation to be released this year? Probably.»
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
It’s highly likely you’ll spend the first four or five listens trying to work out if you love 'Blueberry Boat' or if it annoys the hell out of you. Persistent listeners should eventually come down on the former side... at least most of the time.»
Brakes - I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You
‘I Can’t Stand To Stand Beside You’ is a white-hot blast of American-ised lo fi rock and frankly sounds like the best thing to come out of Brighton since the first time BSP released ‘Carrion’.»
The Fire Theft - Chain
‘Chain’ sounds like a middle-aged Alice In Chains (thank God they all took drugs and died) or a porta-potty sitting Soundgarden.»
SchwaB - Bland Band Boogie / DJ's In A Row
...‘Bland Band Boogie’ points to mild genius in the style of the Datsuns and the Beta Band emulating the National Bandstand dance-off in Grease...»
Shack at London ICA, Mon 28 Jul
I can still remember the moment I fell in love with the music of Mick and John Head. Sitting on a rock, on the coast of Brittany on a disappointingly grim day four summers ago, with two barely listened-to cassette copies of 'The Magical World Of The Stands' and 'HMS Fable' that someone had given me. Bla»
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Step out through the streets. Nothing but grey concrete and deadbeats. Post-comedown clubbers making their way home to the monotony of another week on the dole. Fights breaking out down the local kebab shop. Geezers eyeing up the birds, holding their pints aloft and getting that little bit lairier. Sound»
Le Neon do single, London dates and Mink Lungs tour
Panda-tinged strop-rockers, Le Neon are set to tour with the rather good Mink Lungs, as well as announcing a pair of London dates prior to the release of their debut single. The west-country foursome are off on a jaunt to support their debut mini-album, »
The Rain Band - Knee Deep Down
Sounding like nothing more than mid-period Mansun duelling with latter-day New Order, Manchester’s answer to every other Mancunian act ever, The Rain Band, prove that it’s not what raincoat postures you know, it’s how you use them. Sadly, the swaggering ones don’t really seem to have a grasp »
AFX - Smojphace EP
Every bit as incomprehensible as its title. ’Run The Place Red’, sees Richard D James do his usual gleeful 250bpm splatterbreak demolition job, this time of a track by The Bug (aka Techno Animal’s Kevin Martin) and Daddy Freddy. And it’s brilliant, probably the most viscerally thril»
Pole - 90/90 EP
Pole, known as Stefan Betke to his mum, has spent much of the late 90s mapping out minimalist, otherworldly, glitch-dub soundscapes. On a series of self-titled records that were alternately visionary, captivating and deathly dull, his music and influence eventually spread as far as a recent Levi’s ad and»