Len Price 3 – Nobody Knows - February 2014 February 2nd, 2014

The Len Price 3 are British Invasion purists playing raw psyche-punk in the muddy Medway footprints of Billy Childish. My Grandad Jim’s nostalgic World War II recollections feature Pete Townshend power chords and Keith Moon octopus rolls. But the unexpectedly upsetting London Institute, a comparatively expansive four minute opus, pictures a window cleaner stumbling across…

Much A Stew About Nothing, Nottingham Playhouse - January 2014 Better Said Than Dead - By Peter McDonald - January 26th, 2014

Stewart Lee, 41st best stand-up comedian, came to Nottingham last Thursday to preview material from the forthcoming 3rd Comedy Vehicle series(1).  “I’m going to do, in the first half, about two half hour sections from two episodes of the new series and then in the, er, in the second half, about half an hour which will make…

Chris Eckman – Harney County - January 2014 January 18th, 2014

Chris Eckman formed Walkabouts in Seattle thirty years ago, a pioneer of the Alternative Country movement. Walkabouts’ low-profile melancholia mirrors their sometime collaborators, Nottingham’s Tindersticks, but Eckman’s solo debut offers an even starker sound, inspired by empty Oregon landscapes, and recorded clean and cold in a vast orchestra studio in Prague. The eleven minute Rock…

Leeds Review - January 2014 Leeds Student.org - By Rosie Collington - January 14th, 2014

To his critics, Stewart Lee is little more than a champagne socialist: an audience-hating, Oxbridge-educated comedian who cracks cheap jokes at the expense of the establishment for an audience of similarly well-off lefties. To these accusations, Stewwy responds that we should all just be thankful he is no longer the “amphetamine communist” of his earlier…

Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy – A Tell All - January 2014 January 11th, 2014

Tucker spent eight years playing bass for Drive-By Truckers, the Athens Georgia country rock academy that also gifted a solo career to her ex Jason Isbell. After a detour fronting her strange Sweet Soul Cookin’ With Shonna Tucker Youtube series, Tucker’s half hour calling card seasons the Truckers’ hardboiled slick and greasy gumbo with hummable…

John Lee Hooker – Kabuki Wuki / Born In Mississippi, Raised In Tennessee - January 2014 January 5th, 2014

Two lost Hooker albums, from the unloved early ’70s, re-emerge. Kabuki Wuki captures the 54 year old blues progenitor selling San Francisco longhairs a live electrified Chicago sound, no less than three re-titled retreads of his Boogie Chillen signature vamp giving intuitive accompanists generous stretching time. Born In Mississippi is a studio set, marred by…