Piers Barber heads up north to catch Radiohead’s rearranged super-gig at Old Trafford cricket ground. Despite some serious sound issues, a triumphant final hour makes it just about worth it. […]
The charismatic Actress returns with AZD, his fifth album apparently inspired by the material of chrome and obscure outsider art. But look past the lofty theorising, advises Piers Barber, and you’ll […]
2016 saw the release of some of memorable new music, including important albums that challenged conventions, reinvigorated established styles and enshrined burgeoning reputations. Here, Phil Smith and Piers Barber present a run down of the Music […]
Piers Barber is left dumbstruck by a rare in-full performance of Spiritualized’s vital cosmic masterpiece Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at London’s Barbican. It’s a rare and personally unprecedented […]
Following the release of Mark Pritchard’s mighty Under The Sun LP, Piers Barber invents a new feature in order to pen an ode to one of the pioneering producer’s finest moments to date: […]
Piers Barber watches an angry Massive Attack occasionally reach their thrilling best during a politically-infused headline slot at the first British Summer Time date of the summer. The opening show of this […]
After five years of waiting, we finally have a new Radiohead album to enjoy. Here’s Buster Stonham on whether it was worth all the fuss. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool (XL) After five […]
Prince lived for the stage, and his live show will forever remain one of the most memorable to ever grace the world’s clubs, theatres and sports stadiums. In the days since […]
Kowton’s debut full-length, the first by an individual artist on the pioneering Livity Sound label, is an unsurprisingly potent selection of pulsing techno rollers and expertly crafted DJ tools, writes […]
Piers Barber checks out Fatima Al Qadiri’s characteristic take on protest music and discovers a record often stunning in its relevance and condemnation of authoritarian state violence. Fatima Al Qadiri – […]
