I hate self-help books. Something about the chapter titles and the snappy lists makes my teeth feel plaque-y. I swear there’s something inimitably vile about self-help gurus; with politicians, for example, at least everyone knows they’re not really there to help. So I must admit that Dina Del Bucchia’s Coping with Emotions and Otters, which […]
Quietly and unexpectedly emerging from a ten-year pseudo-hiatus that had been rife with almost-forgotten rumours of illness, stroke, disability and the ongoing saga of “is he/isn’t he with Mick Jagger?”, David Bowie has released his thirtieth album, The Next Day. As standard, Bowie uses the current release to play with contemporary musical and technical influences […]
The first thing I noticed about The Strokes’ fifth album Comedown Machine was its cover art: unconventionally for them, it’s minimal without the laser sleekness of their third album First Impressions of Earth, and coldly industrial with its bullet-point disclaimers. I haven’t seen a label name displayed so prominently on the cover since New Order’s […]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/T6_Rc9mOAic[/youtube] In the new video for “Oddfellows”, off the album of the same name, the band known as Tomahawk come roaring out of the abyss with their first record in almost 6 years. That’s not to say these guys are lazy, far from it. Tomahawk is made up of Duane Denison, Mike Patton, John Stanier, […]
I hate self-help books. Something about the chapter titles and the snappy lists makes my teeth feel plaque-y. I swear there’s something inimitably vile about self-help gurus; with politicians, for example, at least everyone knows they’re not really there to help. So I must admit that Dina Del Bucchia’s Coping with Emotions and Otters, which […] 