It’s hard to shake the feeling that The Great Escape, the annual three-day gigathon for new bands and Brighton’s answer to Texas’s South-By-South-West, has grown too unwieldy for its own good. Certainly, the queues outside venues that snake all the way to Eastbourne offer little hope to the majority of seeing the year’s buzz bands such as The Strypes, Swim Deep or Parquet Courts.
Sunday 28 October 2012
How great it is to discover belatedly the Brazilian legend Maia, a teenage illegal immigrant to the US who took Sly Stone and the Isleys' 1970s funk back home to Rio, blending it with samba, Afrobeat and even reggae.
Sunday 26 August 2012
Paolo Sorrentino's first English-language film is a deeply bonkers affair, but it has its amusing and beautiful moments, and you certainly can't accuse it of being predictable.
Saturday 04 August 2012
Animal Collective have premiered the wild first single from forthcoming album Centipede Hz, due out on 3 September.
Saturday 23 June 2012
Four years after her last record of covers, Cat Power is returning with an album of new songs.
Friday 06 May 2005
Thursday 11 November 2004
It's no secret that Jim White is a man of many faces.
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