What Nekropsi bring with them is the weight of importance. For (non-Turkish) reference, Tool, The Mars Volta, Lighning Bolt and King Crimson all loom large, but Nekropsi’s musical and conceptual appeal…
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Sean Parker
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Since the Blair-raped turn of the millennium, British music has seemed like it’s in a seamless, anonymous, tepid, regurgitated stream. That the music produced were bad would be something to talk…
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Sean Parker: You have been operating as frontwoman for the Fulya Ozlem Band for some years now, and you’re known as one of Istanbul’s more unique (multi-octave) voices. Can you give…
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Rufus Wainwright skips up from behind the gleaming centre stage grand piano, and declares: ‘Ok, time to talk about my outfit. I’m the Big Gay Sultan!’ – resplendent in calf-length multicolour…
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I’ve just heard the news that Lou Reed is dead, at 71. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but he underwent a liver transplant in May. The…
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If I was wondering how the bookish songwriting genius of Stuart Murdoch and his precise, sometimes twee-sounding twelve – twelve! – piece would go down in Kucukciftlik (‘small farm’, Turkish translation-lovers)…
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The artist born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis in 1958 has been fascinating the world for more than thirty years. His most acclaimed works number most of those in his eighties…
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If Brighton’s Gorse were neither plant nor band, they would be a tree; and an enormous, centuries-old oak tree at that, ten-men thick. The sound on their second release ‘Twisting Nature’…
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Kings Of Leon always were the hairier, rougher Oasis to The Strokes’ smarter, more exploratory Blur. Caleb Followill’s familial preacher-progeny crew have had an up-and-down decade, but their ambition was always…
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Somewhere between dredge and deranged, right? Yes, that’d be about right. Lake District brothers Rory and Eoin Loveless are frankly bored, disillusioned and nasty, though their nascent videos display a hooligan-with-a-heart…