Carl Craig and his lucrative Synthesizer Ensemble tour certainly lacks a certain sparkle, but, as Piers Barber argues, smug music journalists have no place criticising those who prefer to enjoy […]
After rapidly selling out yet another UK and Europe stadium tour, now feels as good a time as any to rule the roost over the multitude of Rolling Stones live […]
Last September, long time Music Factory-favourites Wild Beasts decided that the time had come, after five albums of precious indie art-rock, to draw their career to an elegant close. Piers Barber is in the […]
Piers Barber enjoys Stuart Cosgrove’s personal history of northern soul, the enduring and often mythologised youth culture which rescued forgotten stomping soul records from America’s black inner-cities and blasted them out […]
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 […]
