I will hardly need to tell you that Fleet Foxes’ new album Helplessness Blues is absolutely fantastic and my favourite album so far this year. Robin Pecknold has always at once been a humble but clear-eyed observer of the world around him and a creatively dreaming visionary not just as a songwriter, but as a [...]
Monthly Archives: maj 2011
The Radio Dept. – Heaven’s On Fire
Journalist: People see rock’n’roll as, as, youth culture and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea? Thurston Moore: I think we should destroy… the bogus capitalist process… that is destroying youth culture. Grand words by Thurston Moore, immortalized by The Radio [...]
The Shins – Turn On Me
It appears James Mercer has over the years, from album to album, grown to be a more confident songwriter. The results the listeners are presented with tell that story regardless of the situation. It has been frequently noted that while still wildly talented and probably more multi-faceted than meets the ears, Mercer’s best songs are [...]
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Glasvegas are playing at least three times in Sweden this year and it looks like I’m not going to be able to attend any of them. I even had to make the sacrifice to miss them playing in 2009 at the Way Out West festival in Gothenburg because I had some extremely important club gig [...]
Black Mountain – Stormy High
I have felt the classic rock winds blowing through the speakers at a Black Mountain concert last year at a Fritz’s Corner night. I wish I could’ve relived and felt those winds again as the Canadian retro-rockers played at Strand in Stockholm this April. If you’re looking for a band to play the kind of [...]
