John Calvert

Banks & Steelz – ‘Anything But Words’ Review

The rap-rock fusion album is a hard one to get right. Examples of success in this weird little corner of music do exist -...

Foxes – ‘All I Need’ Review

The days when Britain’s synthpop royalty and androgynous rock-gods conquered the earth is ancient-pop history. Sure we’ve got our Adeles and our Sheerens, but...

Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood And The Rajasthan Express – ‘Junun’

Last year, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur set up shop in northern Indian palace Mehrangarh Fort. Long-time Radiohead producer...

The Garden – ‘Haha’

Between their indecent rich-boy prettiness, huge female fan base and forays into high fashion, Orange Country twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears are basically this...

Bloc Party Return With A New Line-Up, New Sound – Their Comeback Single Reviewed

The first new Bloc Party track in three years introduces us to the Londoners' rather eyebrow-raising new sound. The band have been on hiatus...

Beach House – ‘Depression Cherry’

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Not our words but those of jazz colossus Charles Mingus,...

Battles On Their “Next Level” New Album ‘La Di Da Di’

"I don't know… I keep coming back to the word technique..." In a pokey pizza place in Hackney, Ian Williams is failing to explain...

Lovebox 2015 – Victoria Park, London

This year, east London’s usually polished Lovebox festival resembles a post-apocalyptic battle-scape, as soaring temperatures shroud Victoria Park in Mad Max levels of dust....

Tame Impala Interview: Inside The Mind Of A Psych-Pop Shaman

This article was originally published in July 2015   “I think five years ago,” says Kevin Parker, the man who to all intents and purposes is...

Tame Impala’s Danceable New Album ‘Currents’: Track By Track First Listen Review

"I realised we'd never seen people dancing to our music," Tame Impala's Kevin Parker told NME earlier ths year. It troubled the frontman: which...
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