Reviews
Amy Macdonald, Shepherds Bush Empire, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
She's a funny one, Amy Macdonald. On the one hand, she'll happily put the likes of The Libertines forward as being major influences, and then, in practically the same breath, she'll gush about how much she loves Travis.
Inside Reviews
Album: MGMT, Congratulations (Sony)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Brave, foolish, or both...MGMT commit pop suicide
Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, Colston Hall, Bristol
Sunday, 11 April 2010
A dazzling tribute to the music and cosmology of bandleader Sun Ra is simply inspirational
Paolo Nutini, Royal Albert Hall, London
Cranes, Jazz Café, London
Sunday, 11 April 2010
He's vain, sings reggae like Sting and has terrible posture. But just try telling that to the ladies...
Album: Plan B, The Defamation of Strickland Banks (679)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Tell me you saw this coming.
Album: Chick Corea, Solo Piano Improvisations (ECM)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Excellent-value three-disc box-set of Corea's still shockingly good Piano Improvisations Vols 1&2 from 1971, together with 1983's Children's Songs.
Album: Dave Stapleton Quintet, Between the Lines (Edition)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
The pianist Dave Stapleton may have the name of a suburban postman but he knows how to shape a 21st-century modern-jazz unit.
Album: Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am (Vanguard)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
He's 72 now and as frank as ever.
Album: Mama Rosin, Bruie Lentement (Voodoo Rhythm)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Forget questions of authenticity and credibility, this Swiss Cajun/zydeco trio make a thrillingly souped-up racket with the standard Cajun weaponry of guitar, banjo, melodeon and rub board.
Album: Darwin Deez, Darwin Deez (Lucky Number)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
It was inevitable that the success of Owl City would see a million other bedroom pop boffins make their own play for the big time.
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