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Supergrass: Lasting like Diamonds
Life is confusing, and the UK’s super-darlings known as Supergrass are the first to admit it. In fact, their latest album, Diamond Hoo Ha, applauds that fact. As drummer Danny Goffey describes the loose concept behind the release, “You’re never quite in control of what you’re doing. We’ve all got calamities and stuff but you’ve [...]
Switches Are At Full Tilt
This young UK act has no need to switch it on. They’re already on fire, stirring up our stages and television screens across America. Not only have they already played Jimmy Kimmel Live, but their single “Drama Queen” is the theme to the MTV show Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods and [...]
The Long Blondes: A Fashionable Day Job
It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since I chatted to the Long Blondes in the swanky depths of the Tribeca Grand Hotel (when Saturday nights meant hot new bands and free champagne!) Time has flown and Sheffield’s boy-girl quintet have gone from being “the UK’s best unsigned band” to a favorite among critics [...]
Calvin Harris: A Dance from Kylie Minogue to Coachella
Bound for a flight to sunny LA from gloomy Glasgow, Calvin Harris seemed ready for a hectic weekend playing gigs in California, Coachella and a sold-out gig at NYC’s Webster Hall. After wowing the UK with his debut I Created Disco and collaborating with some of dance-pop’s hottest names (think Kylie and Sophie Ellis-Bextor) it [...]
Tilly and the Wall: Children of the Rock
Remembering to be a kid is a huge part of rock. The Who made an anthem out of it. Kurt Cobain had a ‘k’ tattooed on his arm. Kids know what’s up, largely because they don’t know what ‘up’ is yet. Tilly and the Wall’s guitarist Derek Presnall elaborates, “People tend to focus on the [...]
The Futureheads: Radio Reception and Rapidity
Swiftly whisking their listener from one song to the next, The Futureheads third album This Is Not The World illuminates the rapidity of bombastic punk through the music, each song lasting roughly three minutes, as well as the prompt recording technique. The Futureheads eliminated time to modify and potentially damage their original creativity by recording [...]
Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot: A Tribeca Film Festival Chat with Director/Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch
Adam Yauch dropped by the Apple Store in Soho during the Tribeca Film Festival to shoot the breeze about his latest documentary, Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot. You might think a film centering around the 24 top high school basketball players participating in 2006’s “Elite 24″ tournament in Harlem’s Rucker Park would scare off anyone [...]
Elbow: Asleep No More
Many assumed Elbow had taken a few years to luxuriate in some deserved time off between now and their 2005 release, Leaders of the Free World. However, their latest album, The Seldom Seen Kid, was busy in the making, and needed that long stretch to be pondered and perfected, like a fine wine, before the band was ready to deem it finished and let it go.
The Duke Spirit: Raspberry Sunsets, Desert Moons and Sunken Treasures
You could almost sense the desert landscape emanating from the songs of The Duke Spirit’s latest album, Neptune, lending an added degree of mystery and soulfulness to its overall sound. Though the album has a strong nautical theme, if you listen closely, another uncharted, yet arid presence can also be felt in the details.
We Are Scientists: Powerful, Non-Vacuous, Brain Thrust Masters of Rock
Brooklyn’s We Are Scientists are getting lots of love in the UK. The boys are currently touring across the pond in support of their latest album, Brain Thrust Mastery, (which debuted at #11 in the UK album charts), spreading their witty WAS wackiness wherever they stop. I switched time zones and chatted to singer/guitarist Keith Murray while he was awaiting sound check in Sheffield, England.
"if the world does come to an end i will be dancing through it…..@ a SYH show!!"
brilliant. I second that. 
great review 
Who is this reviewer? He's a joke. I saw this band twice when they came through New York about a ...
I really like the new album. Remember that each of the members have gone in many ways in their music ...
I love matt costa. Ever since mitch played my favorite song "behind the moon" and when I saw him live ...
