Barry Nicolson

Quentin Tarantino And The Art Of The Badass Soundtrack

Django Unchained opens on a shot of Jamie Foxx’s titular slave being marched in leg-irons across a barren, bleached-out desert, his back horrifically scarred...

Why It’s Time To Get Excited About Guitar Music Again

Two years ago, when The Vaccines were being posited as the saviours of guitar music and the pull-quote from their first NME cover screamed...

Forget Bennifer. ‘Argo’ Shows Ben Affleck Is A Legitimate Auteur

Back in 2007, Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, the revelatory ‘Gone Baby Gone’, was pulled from UK release schedules for six months because of its...

Green Day, ‘¡Dos!’ – First Listen

On November 12, Green Day release ‘¡Dos!’, the second (obviously) in their trilogy of 2012 albums. This one’s been billed as the “garage band”...

Most Important Albums Of NME’s Lifetime – Joy Division, ‘Closer’

Whenever they’re asked about Joy Division’s final album, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris are always quick to stress that none of them...

At The Drive-In Reunited – It’s A Great Day For Rock’N’Roll

There are albums I’ve bought because I felt it would be bad form not to; so-called classics that look good on the shelf but...

Arctic Monkeys – ‘Suck It And See’ review

For an album that goes out of its way to promise nothing, ‘Suck It And See’ sure is burdened by expectation. Arctic Monkeys made...

From The Bluetones To The Music – Let’s Hear It For Indie’s Second Division

God, we’re often told, loves a trier. So it was with a heavy heart that I read last week about the impending demise of...

Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes Gags? They Didn’t Go Far Enough

Is there a community so far-removed from reality, so ripe for ridicule and so utterly, utterly deserving of it as Hollywood? At the...

Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul Review

One wonders what the young, hungry and infinitely profane Noel Gallagher – the yob-poet gob o’the North with a ring of coke crust around...
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