IN PHOTOS: CROSSWAVE 16TH JULY @ TEST SPACE LEEDS
It was good to be behind the decks again for CROSSWAVE a few weeks back. I digged up all the dark post punk stuff that I used to proper listen to for my DJ set, Electric Guitars, Bauhaus, Ski Patrol, Joy Division, (early 80s) Killing Joke, throw them in with the good shit from this...
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Zola Jesus
We sat down by the side of the stage after her soundcheck and the questions began.
She talked about being compared to Florence & The Machine, shitty journalists and on the topic of "gothness".
Zola Jesus – Sea Talk
Zola Jesus is making another appearance on this blog. Simply because her amazing voice always stops me dead in my tracks. Souterrain Transmissions have just given this track up for free on their website, so I thought you guys might like a welcome break from the medicore crap that is flooding the blog circuit at...
Zola Jesus
Watching, listening, feeling, breathing. Zola Jesus is Nika Roza Danilova of Wisconsin. Not a very typical Wisconsin name, but then nothing about her is typical at all. On first listen, I’m feeling PJ Harvey, I’m seeing Siouxsie Sioux, I’m understanding Lydia Lunch. I’m feeling Joy Division in tracks like Smirenye from Turnstile Music‘s Bento #2....
Jonny White Featuring My Favorite Robot
My Favorite Robot has teamed up with Jonny White for this dark electronica piece, Desensitize. The track is a cold, slow, brooding number with a sampled sound near the beginning that sounds very much like a metal lift door opening and shutting recorded in Joy Division’s track, Insight, from their Unknown Pleasures record. From the...
Them:Youth
Them:Youth has been under our radar for awhile now since Halo came out last year on Dirty Boots. Still cant believe they’re not signed to a major yet. The word “up-and-coming” cannot be more urgent than this. This London 4 piece is definitely going for big anthemic tunes, Lost And Lonely definitely nailed that. The...
Parklife, Todmorden
You wouldn’t think she’s acrobatic, with her heavy feet and the way she swings her round hips when she walks but she does cartwheels in the park like a gym superstar, just like she kicks my ass with her eyes closed, at a game of pool, despite her shaking-anxious, dyslexic hands. Todmorden isn’t modern, no...
