But Listen: 153: Ghost Twin – Plastic Heart
I swear that as a reviewer, things are getting harder to define. What do I mean? The crossing of genres, the meshing of styles, is becoming so common as to […]
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Into the Pit: 197: Summer Nights in Small Venues
For many, gigs in the heat of summer evenings are a tough sell, particularly in small venues (outdoor, festival shows of course are a different matter entirely). However, the summer […]
But Listen: 152: 3TEETH – <shutdown.exe>
The cliché of the second album. It gets raised every single time, by just about everyone, but is it really a thing? I guess it depends on what happens with […]
Into the Pit: 196: Skinny Puppy: O2 Forum Kentish Town, NW5: 30-May 2017
The announcement of a European Skinny Puppy tour earlier in the year (“Down the Sociopath Too Euro 2017“) was, I have to say, a bit of a surprise. It has […]
But Listen: 151: Coldkill – Distance By Design
How artists can change entirely, embrace a whole new body, as it were, has never ceased to be a fascination to me.
Into the Pit: 195: Cubanate – O2 Academy Islington, N1 – 30-April 2017
One of the must-see shows in the calendar for the past few months finally arrived over the weekend.
/The Rearview Mirror/009 /Cubanate/Brutalism
I can’t remember whatsoever when I first heard Cubanate. It was in my early teens, and was either Body Burn or Oxyacetalene first. And then lots more Oxyacetalene, as it […]
But Listen: 150: Blindness – Monsoon EP
Looking back at my various notes and posts about gigs over the years, it’s now the best part of seven years since I first discovered Blindness, thanks to a chance […]
Into the Pit: 194: Sunn O))) – Barbican, London – 21-March 2017
I rather wondered, after the first time I saw Sunn O))) live, whether I could physically stand going a second time. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy it, it was […]
But Listen: 149: God In A Cone – The Sex Is Fear / Ambassador21 – Human Rage
Over the years I’ve had a whole host of releases sent to me for review. Time is often a factor in whether I can cover releases in any detail – […]
/The Rearview Mirror/008 /Converter/Shock Front
Over the last year or two of the nineties, and then a good few years into the new Millenium, the hybrid of industrial and noise took over the club dancefloor […]
But Listen: 148: Covenant – The Blinding Dark
Covenant are perhaps in a strange position nowadays. Their days at the peak of the Futurepop “movement” – where they were one of the titans of the scene, something made […]
Memory of a Festival: 027: Cold Waves V
For the third year running – although it was a bit touch-and-go this year with the wedding and everything else, and my wife chose not to come along this time […]
Memory of a Festival: 026: Infest 2016
Over the weekend of this year’s Infest, there was some discussion over the current state of the industrial (and wider) scene. In many other scenes – or indeed in “mainstream” […]
/The Rearview Mirror/007 /Velvet Acid Christ/Greatest Hits
Velvet Acid Christ – one of the most divisive acts in industrial? Well, that is what many would have you believe, but I don’t think that they really are. Bryan […]
Into the Pit: 193: Ruby – Live at Servant Jazz Quarters: London N16
Lesley Rankine’s career in music now spans a few decades, and more than a few styles. She first came to prominence in the vicious, no-wave influenced punkish-rock of Silverfish, a […]
But Listen: 147: Youth Code – Commitment to Complications
A couple of years ago we were discussing the very evident trend of the time – that a new paradigm in industrial music seemed to be beginning. After some years […]
Into the Pit: 192: Laibach – Live at The Forum Kentish Town – 12-April 2016
I’m struggling to think of a single band in “our thing” that has had as much mainstream coverage – as in appearing in the news, not just in the music […]
Into the Pit: 191: The Black Queen – Live at Oslo Hackney – 05-February 2016
This was one of those gigs that I took a while to make a call on. The Black Queen is a new side-project very, very different from the “parent” band […]
Into the Pit: 190: Massive Attack – Live at Brixton Academy – 03-February 2016
It is easy to forget, but Massive Attack are now very much veterans in the electronic music world. Formed as far back as 1988, they released one of the most […]