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It's no secret that here at London in Stereo we like pop music. I mean really like pop music. So it seemed only right to get in pop/funk/ whatever-you-wanna-call-it stars Chromeo to be on the cover. With their album White Women coming out in May, they've grabbed our attention, once again, with a batch of incredible singles. Check out the brilliant video for Jealous if you haven't already.
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This month also sees a ton of festival announcements landing on our doorstep. We're getting involved this year, too. You'll find us partnering up with Visions festival, who are back in Hackney and bringing you another awesome line-up. We've got a stage at Camden Crawl and we're getting on board with Denovali Recordsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; great London events, too. There's more to come as well, so watch this space.
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As if that all wasn't enough, for some crazy reason we're also going to start releasing some records. Teaming up with the mighty Fierce Panda Records to bring you music from some of our favourite new acts. Starting with the stunning sounds of Colleagues, on April 14th. And I think that's all, for now at least.
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Brooklyn based three piece Wet’s sound is a delicate balance between mellow-core, R&B and minimal indie pop. Drawing influence from Solange to The xx to Patsy Cline, lead singer Kelly Zultrau’s vocals meld perfectly with restrained yet complex guitar and synth arrangements. I didn’t actually write that last sentence, I got someone else to, but I love this band and you’ll be hearing a lot more of them in the future. You’re the Best is a must hear track if you’re new to this band.
Khalif Diouf aka Le1f is a rapper from New York. He’s been on the scene for a couple of years and he pretty much single-handedly melted the internet in 2012 when he released the video for WUT (give it a go. You’ll not regret it). Now, he’s just signed to XL Recordings and his new single Boom from the Hey EP is testament to his status as the leader of the left-wing hip hop scene. A full length album is in its early stages, so we can expect to see a lot more of Le1f, in every kind of way. Which, judging by his look (haven’t you watched WUT yet?), can only be a good thing, right?!
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JACKHAMMER One to shake your batty to for real. Drawing their name from the Papiamentu word for “Stories and Drums” Kuenta i Tambu (KiT) is just that; electronic samples, vocals and chants over ritual tambu drums. Since forming in 2005, this Netherlands based group have produced a wild and explosive sound taking inspiration from Traditional Afro Caribbean beats and European Dance.
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LUV, HOLD ME DOWN Hailing from NYC via Wales & named after a track by Suede, Drowners blend British post-punk with American early-noughties garage revival. Having just released their self-titled debut album and fresh from their first tour across the pond, it is sure to be a big year for this Strokes-inspired quartet.
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FIND YOU Finland’s answer to MØ...maybe, but that would be a cheap lazy comparison. Big bass and beats help create some impressively large pop songs. There are a few London shows coming up before The Great Escape so if you’re unable to make the festival, pop along to Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in April.
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According to the local tourist board, visit Cornwall’s holiday parks and you can enjoy the opportunity to “unwind and relax” in “peaceful and green surroundings”, free from the threat of “noisy bars or clubhouses”. All that rural tranquillity sounds lovely, doesn’t it? And it probably is, unless you pitch up in the vicinity of Annie and Georgie Hockeysmith. Bristol-born but currently operating out of a caravan in Falmouth, these two siblings have been making the most marvellous din together since the summer of 2013, when they self-released their double A-side single Now I Want To / Let’s Bang. The former boasted an almost Braids-like ambience, while the latter was Warpaint-meets-Grimes, all pounding, processed-beats, wraith-like synths, chiming guitars and mumbled mantras. It gets even more cacophonous on their first four-track EP.
Released in May on Double Denim, But Blood takes its title from their finest, and most ferocious, song so far. Pairing a primal bass groove and wispy vocals with guitarist Georgie’s serrated shredding and Annie’s brooding piano chords, it builds and builds before collapsing in a delirious squall of electronic blips and feedback. Considered with its aqueous, shape-shifting visuals – designed by Davy Evans, who also created the aesthetic for The xx’s Coexist campaign – and it’s as thrilling a five minutes as we’ve experienced this year. Quite simply, we can’t wait to hear what Hockeysmith come up with next. Even if their neighbours probably can. LISTEN TO: BUT BLOOD ONLINE: @Hockeysmithuk facebook.com/hockeysmithband 11
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G R E AT Y T E N E TA L E S F R O M T H E C I T Y. . . Our record has just come out and been released on a real label. In a nutshell, this is a very strange and surreal place to be for us as a band. A mash of songs that were recorded over a period of time too long to mention, involving a boat, dog farts, pizza, an Iggy, a Rory and a member of the Cocteau Twins. The EP started on a boat, recorded by our good friend Rory Attwell (later, we would find out that a good friend of ours had once been engaged to the captain of the Lightship, helping to build some of the very rooms the EP was recorded in). As we swayed on the boat we tracked Away For Now, Hunter, Witch and Happy Scenes, we noticed that the band Big Deal peered in from the control room, nods of approval, I think. The EP ended in a bunker in Hackney. A studio nestled between the many glamorous handbags and shoe shops of Hackney Road, run by a man and his dog. Strangely this place is now manned by Iggy, famous Bournemouth face and long standing member of Wet Look. Our bass player was a member of this unique 80s cover band which was fronted by Adam J Harmer, now of the The Fat White Family. We settled here to finish the EP. Days on days of being cooped up in a small dark control room with five dudes and a dog with loose bowels - it was coming along well. 100 pizzas deep, we managed to finish all the tracks, around eight songs were done, well almost, nothing is ever done when you have the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most indecisive bass player. That was that, a grand plan with no set outcome. Weeks and weeks went by, we had probably forgotten about the tracks and were writing new ones to start the pointless process again, you know just for fun. Later Iggy mentioned he was recording some tracks with Simon Raymonde, member of the Cocteau Twins and Bella Union head honcho. Lucky for us the tracks we had dragged about for too long happened to turn up on vinyl via Simonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s label. The long way round, but London was kind to us this time. GREAT YTENE RELEASE THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT EP APRIL 7TH VIA BELLA UNION
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“TO ME, IF YOU CAPTURE A MOMENT, THAT’S PERFECTION.”
“Do you not think it’s produced like pop?” The otherwise thoroughly friendly Erika M. Anderson actually sounds a little offended at the suggestion that her latest album, the excellent The Future’s Void, might be little more, shall we say, confrontational than your average pop record. There are recognisable structures to it and melodies aplenty, but to the average person in the street, pop this certainly ain’t. She explains however that, as with most things she approaches, her take on pop music is itself a little left of centre. “A really good pop song will have it so the third time you hear a chorus, you can already sing along. I think that’s cool. It’s a way to write melodies that people can remember and participate in, something they feel like they can learn. That’s a pleasure I don’t want to totally deny myself. But I like things that work on multiple levels. There are some people who will never listen to my lyrics, so I want them to think there are tight hooks, or a sick melody. But I also want to be able to talk about lyrics and the semiotics of noise and drum sounds and the role of technology.” If pop was even part of the intended sound, I wonder how come so much of the album revels in these aggressive, abrasive tones? “There’s a part of me that’s just pissed off! I had some anger and I wanted some sounds to reflect that. I came up in the West Coast noise scene – I’ve been to so many noise, drone and experimental shows, it’d make most people weep. I was happy to not be going to them for a while, but then I was like, I kinda miss this!”
As well as the work of noise musicians like Pete Swanson and Pharmakon, Anderson drew on a vast swathe of influences when putting the album together, many of them not at all musical (“I’m a voracious reader, I’ll read anything”, she says. “I just finished reading Mike Tyson’s autobiography.”). But a lyrical focus on mankind’s relationship with technology seems to have been what most have focused on thus far, suggesting songs like Satellites – which talks of mass surveillance – might be a comment on the continuing Edward Snowden/NSA shambles. In fact, we learn it’s a song inspired by the Cold War, and that we really shouldn’t read too much in to the whole tech angle. “There are a few songs on there that have to do with technology and the internet, but it’s not trying to be an opus about how we relate to technology. I guess that’s just what people want to talk about. There are also a couple of nice West Coast vibe songs, like Smoulder and Solace, which I really enjoy listening to. But maybe their messages are more subtle.” It’s been three years since the release of Past Life Martyred Saints, and Anderson admits its follow up “would have been done a lot sooner if I could have just admitted that I couldn’t re-perform the emotion in the first vocal takes. The essence of the performance can be so much more real.” She tells us how hers is a strange kind of perfectionism, one that includes within it deficiencies, explaining; “I think I’m more of a truth person than a beauty person. To me, if you capture a moment, that’s perfection.
If something tells a truth and the sums of its parts builds together to support that, I think it’s more perfect”. Though The Future’s Void is an album that’s seen her, at least in terms of song structure, produce some of her most direct work to date, it’s also an expansion of an already wide sonic palette – something that looks set to continue in her future work. “You should expect pivots from me, but the voice will still be strong. There are certain things I know I like doing - these synth-based, half spoken, half sung things - and I’ll probably always try to make these pretty lullabies because I like them and it’s what I’m good at. But I’m going to try a bunch of different stuff, to play around with electronics and make it fit with what I enjoy and what I think my gifts are. I don’t know if gifts is the right word, but hey.” The hunt for the perfect pop song, even if it takes a curious new form, is clearly still on the cards. But mass acceptance seems like less of a driving force than it would be for your run of the mill pop musician. “Don’t tell my label, but I don’t have that much of a desire to keep growing my audience. The people who need it, I want them to find it. I don’t really like photos of myself, I don’t like playing for really cynical people, but I do like playing for teenage girls and boys who need someone to say something that they aren’t hearing from anyone else.” The Future’s Void is released April 7th via City Slang EMA plays The Garage June 3rd
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SOHN // TREMORS 4AD // April 7th
Escaping the sapping restlessness of our capital in favour of Vienna, SOHN has been impossible to ignore since Oscillate appeared in the summer of 2012. Since then a fairly generous unveiling of work has catalysed the fire of interest surrounding a quiet artist we still know relatively little about. Combining haunting, bone-shuddering production with a chilling, hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck
vocal, he has concocted a recipe for emotional destruction. The gut-wrenching Paralysed will leave the sturdiest of listeners reeling; "Nobody can slit my throat / Nobody can leave me lying by the side of the road like you can" he pines in just one of a sizeable handful of nightmarishly passionate lyrics. Playing tricks with this voice is a recurring technique on the record too: mystery is conjured-up through an eerie reversed refrain throughout opener Tempest; it is used to drive The Wheel forward, highlights the pain of a broken relationship in the stunning title track and plays an integral role in the spine-tingling climax of Bloodflows. Ransom Notes, with its In Rainbows-esque electronic rhythm, thundering bass pulse and picking acoustic guitar, houses one of his most infectious chorus, whilst both Lessons and Fool bring James Blake to mind, encompassing the same bold, mind-numbing undercurrent, which grow organically into a crescendo of deathly intensity. In all, Tremors is a collection of work that wrestles the listener into submission; as dark and powerful as it is passionate and beautiful, the eleven tracks prove why SOHN is perfectly placed to become the most sort-after producer and song-writer on the planet. George O’Brien
MAC DEMARCO SALAD DAYS
Captured Tracks // April 1st Like a class-clown secretly getting straight-As, Mac DeMarco’s one of those artists who never really looks like he’s trying, but always delivers the goods. His second LP-proper is yet another case in point: lurking underneath all those ever-so-slightly detuned, drunken guitars and drawling vocals, is a wealth of properly-timeless songwriting. Take your pick from the breezy surf-pop of Let Her Go, the slacker-blues of Brother or the ramshackle psychedelia of Passing Out Pieces, with its Strawberry Fields’-style organ. But the real stand-out on Salad Days is sun-warped slow jam Chamber Of Reflection, which finds Mac acting out his wildest Shuggie Otis fantasies amongst pitch-shifted synths. Gemma Samways
CHAIN AND THE GANG MINIMUM ROCK N ROLL Fortuna POP! // April 7th
Don’t believe former Weird War and The Make-Up frontman Ian Svenonius when he proclaims to be going minimal. The hyperbolic verging on thermonuclear entertainer does, however, employ a rare bit of economy by stripping his crime-themed band down to an almost White Stripes level of sparse riffs and uncluttered drums, all tastefully served up on a bumping bassline. Fairy Dust hits the spot nicely in an album dominated by sub-three minute tunes as he lets the spiky groove speak for itself, while drummer Fiona Campbell slips in a slick little head-fuck of a time signature switch up. The fourth Chain and the Gang album is good fun, but it will never bump off any of the Washington DC legend’s previous killer projects. Geoff Cowart
PLAYLOUNGE // PILOT
Dog Knights Productions // April 14th This Lewisham noise-pop duo bring us their full-length debut album in the form of the scuzzy party that is pilot. Clocking in at just under 33 minutes, it's reminiscent of early 2000s Emo, but drenched in its own glorious lo-fi sauce. The traditional drawback to a two-piece is the difficulty in generating a large amount of noise, but drummer/vocalist Saam and guitarist Laurie cause enough chaos with their relentlessly bratty approach to make up for the small pool of personnel available. The record is single-minded in its approach, but that's what's so enjoyable about it; it's simplistic and fun without ever trying to pretend it's something else. Jack McKenna
TEEN THE WAY AND COLOR
Carpark // April 22nd It is remarkably difficult to place your finger on who, or what, has primarily inspired Brooklyn act TEEN’s second LP, The Way And Color, a record seemingly creaking under the weight of its numerous influences. At first glance, the majority of tracks unfold as shimmering pop gems pleasant, dismissible bluster - but swiftly veer down avenues that ooze layers of rich trip-hop melody and off-kilter rhythms, often punctuated by barmy bursts of squelchy euphoria. Teeny Lieberson’s falsetto, meanwhile, is gorgeously syrupy in texture, smudging Sticky and Reconsider into serenely soulful waters. While previous material remains impressive, it lacked identity. TEEN have finally unearthed an offbeat R&B that suits them rather perfectly. Lee Wakefield
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THE HOLD STEADY TEETH DREAMS Washington Square // out now
Charlie Chaplin, so the story goes, once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and came in second place. Six albums into The Hold Steady’s career, and do you see where this analogy is going?
Surfacing amidst a glut of C86 revivalists, Fear of Men always felt a bit different. The wonderfully scuzzy, lo-fi indie of early track Ritual Confessions was marked by a rare mix of aggression and perfect pop hooks. That was 2011 though, and what makes them stand out now is entirely different. A long time in the making, their debut album Loom has lost some of the veracity and roughness that originally projected the Brighton three-piece towards the top of the pile. In its place though, there is a subtler anguish, a listless dejection that inhabits all eleven, self-produced tracks. There is a quiet anger behind the softened DIY aesthetics, a disconnected wide-eyed stare behind those ever present jangly guitars and a despairing sadness behind Jessica Weiss’ sweet, sighing vocals that has resulted in their most succinct and beautiful vision to date.
Remarkably, for a band of middle-aged, self-professed bar-rockers, their popularity seems in no danger of waning and their consistent ability to release good - if not great - records earns them some sort of respect. Teeth Dreams delivers everything we’ve come to expect: it’s about as surprising as watching a rerun of Friends, but as deeply comforting too. So yes, if you love the Hold Steady you’ll enjoy this record. If you don’t love the Hold Steady, what’s wrong with you?
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Chess Club // March 31st He was born in Brussels, lived in Denmark and is now based in Manchester but Oliver Cean is now ready to present his own world to us via a five song EP. It’s a heady brew of Lapalux’s nocturnal fragments alongside glimmers of Flying Lotus. The stuttering beats, hazy but gorgeous production and chopped up falsetto can make it feel like you’re lost in a beautiful velvet fog. Need U is seductively captivating, To Lose is brilliantly disconnected soul and the languorous clicks of Turned Away sound vaguely reminiscent of Drop It Like It’s Hot. It’s his world but the fractured beats make it seem magnificently alien at times.
S. CAREY RANGE OF LIGHT Jagjaguwar // March 31st
A moniker often blurs the identity of its creator, with electronic producers gaining mystique or bedroom musicians becoming full-blown bands. Bon Iver always inverted this formula though, with praise and plaudits focused solely at Justin Vernon. Recent solo LPs from standout contributors Colin Stetson and S. Carey, however, have shown that not all the creativity has come centrally. Of course, while comparisons to Vernon will always be hard to escape for Carey, in particular, that’s not always a bad thing. The similarities to his daytime band here - as on predecessor All We Grow remain as much of a merit as a hindrance. Range Of Light sees Carey once again conjure soundscapes in minds of the listeners like only his fellow Wisconsin native can. Luke Morgan Britton
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE // OLD FEARS Memphis Industries // April 7th
For someone as fidgety as David Brewis, this second LP as School Of Language is surprisingly introspective. Beyond Old Fears’ kitchen-sink repartee and wobbly rhythms, we encounter Brewis in confessional mode - reflecting upon an adolescence full of insecurities: "Don’t make me explain/I could only lead you on/Don’t make me choose/To turn away" (Distance Between). But the past’s grey haze doesn’t stop David flexing his elastic vocal range on liquid funk numbers like Smile Cracks - its chirruping guitars providing a gloriously knock-kneed counterpoint to his featherweight whispers and playful falsetto. Old Fears is no Field Music-lite kick-about; rather, one of Britain’s perennially underrated songwriters sauntering up the steps of the maudlin-pop pantheon. Dan Carson
AFGHAN WHIGS DO TO THE BEAST
Sub Pop // April 14th It’s been 16 years since the last Afghan Whigs album, and while their sound hasn’t moved on much in the interim, one suspects that won’t be an issue for fans – Do To The Beast is a record of just the sort of characteristically gusty, propulsive rock and roll they’ll have been wishing for. Yet despite Greg Dulli and co. still packing a considerable punch on the rock muscle flexing of Royal Cream, newcomers might take issue with too much of the record getting bogged down in mid-paced numbers like the soft rock of Algiers and flat balladry of It Kills. Still, it’s a welcome - if unspectacular - return. Thomas Hannan
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“Obviously we’ll still have our trademark legged keyboards,” reassures singer/guitarist Dave 1 as your correspondent clumsily battles an unfamiliar audio recorder and attempts to fill the time with a cursory chat about the band’s re-jigged stageshow. Conversely, technology is something Chromeo have clearly been coming to grips with over the years since their viral hit Needy Girl first secured them a place in the clubgoers’ psyche. It sounds almost Casio-like in comparison to their forthcoming album, White Women, with its mid-’80s Riviera sound and slick edges.
This record was really more about measuring ourselves up against our own discography, but with a chip on our shoulder. We really wanted to improve. We didn’t want to stay stuck in one paradigm and we felt we had to take the chance to expand and reinvent. It still sounds like us, just more modern and hi-octane.” For all its grand gestures and yacht-riding swagger, White Women might just be Chromeo’s finest and funnest chunk of plastic to date. While there’s no mistaking the graft they’ve put into shaping the songs and sounds across the record, they have crucially kept the whimsy amped up
ONE OF OUR PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS IS THE EVOLUTION OF LONDON ROOMS THAT WE'VE PLAYED It has been almost four years since the duo’s third and most recent record Business Casual became their first to dent the Billboard chart. Electro house, chillwave and dubstep have since entered the mainstream and gone on to supersede the 2000s’ love affair with new wave, whilst the frivolous and fun side of electronic music - Chromeo’s home turf one might posit - appears to be waning even in the terrain of chart pop in 2014. “We’re so not influenced by what happens in electronic music,” laughs a palpably unworried P-Thugg, compressed to ’P’ for his friends, the second half of the Montreal duo. “Whenever electronic music goes one way we always find ourselves going the other way inadvertently.
to the hilt to balance the effect, and offset any potential stiltedness. They’ve also made room once again for a collaboration with Solange (album highlight Lost On The Way Home), a guest on Business Casual, and features from Toro Y Moi and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. “I had the idea of getting Toro Y Moi on the record, because as a fan... okay, it wasn’t even really me that was a fan,” admits Dave sheepishly, “all the girls I was hanging out with were fans. Girls really like him, so I got a little bit jealous and reached out to him and he wanted to do it. Then we became huge fans as well. The video shoot for [the new album’s lead single] Come Alive was an all-nighter. It was gruelling, aside from the feminine company. Toro was a trooper.
He’d just got engaged and he’s getting married soon, so I think he got a kick out of making out with the girls in the video... in a totally legitimised way, obviously! It was like his bachelor party!” “I met Ezra when I was starting my PhD at Columbia University while he was still an undergrad there. He went to Chromeo’s first show in New York, which happened to be our second ever show in the history of the band. More than ten years ago he was in the audience. We've been friendly ever since and we're big mutual fans.” It turns out that their connection to London goes rather deeper than
simply tripping over to complete White Women, which was mastered here and mixed by Dave Bascombe, the man behind two eighties chart goliaths in the form of Tears For Fears' Songs From The Big Chair and Depeche Mode's Music For The Masses. “One of our first gigs in London was a DJ set in 2003 for [legendary hip hop producer and DJ] Arthur Baker. He never paid us, so we were pretty mad at the time. We've made up since, so it's all good! But yeah, we have really deep roots there. One of our proudest achievements is the evolution of London rooms that we've played, from Water Rats to Roundhouse. It went like this: Water Rats, Bush Hall, Scala, Koko, Shepherds Bush Empire, The Forum and Roundhouse. Next stop Brixton!” As you'd expect from the duo's many visits, they're not short of an anecdote or two from their time here.
They speak about them with a visible fondness: “We’ve spent so much time in London that we’ve created habits like going to Nando’s, obsessively eating Monster Munch and drinking Ribena. Oh, and going to Helen’s on Edgware Road after shows, that’s a ritual for us,” smiles P. “I remember after playing Glastonbury one year, we were holed up in our hotel room in London all day cleaning mud out of our equipment and ditching it on the floor. That was funny.”
“What was that really cheap hotel we used to stay in? Premier Inn?’ asks Dave. “I vividly remember staying at one of those one night and P was sharing a room with our sound guy. I had my own room and I brought a girl over and the bed kept splitting in two because it was two single beds pushed together. There are so many stories I could tell you of us coming up like that.” And on that bittersweet note our time is up. I leave safely betting that White Women continues this brazen duo’s rise and that their future is filled with nothing but fine hotels and double-bedded bliss. White Women is released May 12th via Parlophone Chromeo play The Roundhouse June 6th
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£10ADV / 8.00PM / OSLO
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£7ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
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IYES + SUVI
SPRING KING + PYLO + SECRET SON
£6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
£5ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
KITCHEN THE PIANO GUYS £17.77ADV / 6.30PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE LUCIUS £10ADV / 7.00PM / OSLO
PAUL THOMAS SAUNDERS £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON THE ALEXANDERS (YUKSEK + ALEX METRIC) + MIGHTY MOUSE £12.50ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST PLAYLOUNGE + DOE + BLOOMER + THE
THE CONNECTORS + BLONDE BUNNY +
EXHAUSTS
CASSELS + SHE
'£3 / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
£5 / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES TIBRE TIBRE £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA AIDAN KNIGHT FREE / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN £18.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
RAGLANS £5ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS TINY RUINS £7.50 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS EYES & NO EYES + US BABY DEAR BONES £8ADV / 7.30PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS SHED + BLAWAN + JAMES RUSKIN + HAPPA £15ADV / 11.00PM / VILLAGE
THURSDAY 17TH APRIL
UNDERGROUND
THESE NEW PURITANS
RAIME + DEMDIKE STARE
£15ADV / 8.00PM / BARBICAN
£5ADV / 9.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
BIG NARSTIE + CASISDEAD + CAUSE &
FRIDAY 18TH APRIL
AFFECT + JAM CITY + MERIDIAN DAN + MSSINGNO + MUMDANCE + SASHA KEABLE + VISIONIST £19ADV / 10.00PM / FABRIC
SEAHAVEN + NAI HARVEST + BATTLE LINES £10ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS IAN PROWSE £10ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE
SHOPPING + FLAMINGODS + JUST
MARCUS WORGULL (INNERVISIONS) + HARRI
HANDSHAKES + THE GRAPHITE SET +
& DOMENIC (SUBCULTURE)
AMPLINE (USA) + WITCHING WAVES +
£7ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST
FIRESTATIONS + AS ONDAS £6ADV / 3.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL EMMY'S UNICORN + JONNY QUITS + BAD NAMES £4ADV / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR JACK BEATS + AC SLATER + LOADSTAR + ETHERWOOD + SINJIN HAWKE £13-£18ADV / 10.00PM / FABRIC BLACK LION COURTIERS + ARBOUR + REBEL KITES + HNTR + KING COMPASS £5 / 8.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP ATARI TEENAGE RIOT + CONSUMER ELECTRONICS £15ADV / 6.30PM / HEAVEN RED KITE + NICHOLAS STEVENSON + SEAN GRANT & THE WOLFGANG £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
MATT CARDLE £20ADV / 7.30PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE TERAKAFT £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / RICHMIX TYPE TWO ERROR + ZOO ZERO + GIVE BLOOD £5 / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS ULRICH SCHNAUSS + HIDDEN ORCHESTRA + HAXAN CLOAK + ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF £28ADV / 4.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND STANDARD PLANTETS £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM BENOIT & SERGIO + MIGUEL CAMPBELL + ARKON FLY + THE REFLEX £12.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SATURDAY 19TH APRIL
RECORD STORE DAY
THE WAVE PICTURES
FREE / 12.00PM / ALL GOOD RECORD
£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
STORES
HALL GLITCHES + YOUTH £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO
THOMAS KONER + PETRELS £18ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO THE 286 + DEDWARDIANS + AUDIO
BIG DEAL
SUBSCENE + DUNCAN BROOKFIELD
FREE / 7.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
£5 / 8.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP
SEPTEMBER GIRLS + AUTOBAHN + CRYSTAL
THE 2 BEARS + HUXLEY + TERRENCE PARKER
SEAGULLS
£13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
£6.50ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN CARAVAN
SUNDAY SUNDAY 20TH APRIL APRIL
ALEX UNDER + PIRUPA + GLIMPSE + ALEX
£27.50ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
JONES
HALL
£20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
MADLIB
BLACK LIGHT WHITE LIGHT + DEEP SPACE +
£12.50ADV / 9.00PM / KOKO
NEILS CHILDREN + ZOO ZERO £5.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
MIKE WATT & THE MISSINGMEN + MANFLU + THE HYSERICAL INJURY £10ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
SEEKAE + BENIN CITY + DEMS + PABLO NOUVELLE + ELDER ISLAND FREE / 3.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
KULT COUNTRY + GIRL BAND + GREAT YTENE + JLYY + WHISTLE JACKET
DJ YODA
FREE / 3.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
£10ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST
OLIVER
THE HOAX + WELL HUNG HEART + FEDERAL
£5ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST
CHARM £16.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY
THE MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG £18ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
ISLINGTON
EMPIRE
BEANS ON TOAST + LAZY HABITS + SKINNY
BLOODY KNEES + WALLEATER + GERM + THE
£10ADV / 7.00PM / OSLO
NEW TUSK
LISTER
£6ADV / 6.30PM / POWER LUNCHES
SHADOW CHILD + MJ COLE + FRIEND WITHIN
ROSENTHAL + ACCORDING TO YOU +
£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / XOYO
+ GOTSOME
MANNEQUINS '£5 / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON
MONDAY 21ST 21ST APRIL APRIL
GALLON DRUNK + BROKEN DC £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
GO!GO!GO! LIVE
EL BORN + FREDDIE CALLS + TENTH
£15ADV / 2.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
ELECTRIC + KOMLA + VINCE FREEMAN
EMPIRE
£7ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
I AM IN LOVE + THE TRAPS + DESPERATE
DUB TRIO + NECRO DEATHMORT
JOURNALISTS + FELT TIP + FELDSPAR + THE
£10ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
STARKINS + LONG FELLOW £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
COPPER LUNGS + THE SHERPAS £5 / 8.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP
TUESDAY 22ND APRIL
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE + BARBASROSSA
THE BEAUTIFUL WORD + BRUNCH + DRY
£10ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
LUNCH CLUB £5ADV / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR EXIT CALM + AIR FORMATION + ADAM FRANKLIN
THE SUMMER SET £12ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON DREGD £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
£10ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON ANGIE STONE
COSMO SHELDRAKE £6ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
£26.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE PAINTED PALMS £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST RIPSAW CATFISH + TI/OM + COLIN WEBSTER
TENTERHOOK £5 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS GOAN DOGS FREE / 8:00PM / STRONGROOM
& GRAHAM DUNNING
LISTENER + APOLOGIES, I HAVE NONE
£5 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
£10ADV / 8.00PM / THE UNDERWORLD
WEDNESDAY 23RD APRIL APRIL
THURSDAY 24TH APRIL APRIL THURSDAY
LIZ GREEN
JONWAYNE
£10ADV / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
DOMINIQUE YOUNG UNIQUE
DILLON
£7ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
£10ADV / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
VOYEUR
THE TEA STREET BAND + BLOODFLOWER
FREE BEFORE 12AM / 11.00PM / CORSICA
£8ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
STUDIOS
KITCHEN
SPRING OFFENSIVE
IVAN SMAGGHE + FRANCESCA LOMBARDO +
£6ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
KIWI
KITCHEN
£7ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST
UTHER MOADS + JAMES WOLF + CODES
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
£5ADV / 8.00PM / THE MILLER VANDENBERG'S MOONKINGS £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON KING KHAN & THE SHRINES £15ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA THE RAMONA FLOWERS £6ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS FRIDAY 25TH APRIL
FUCK BUTTONS + MOUNT KIMBIE + FENNESZ + DJ RAJ CHAUDHURI (BLEEP) £17.50ADV / 8.00PM / BARBICAN GIVE ME THE SUN + BLINK RACKETEERS + MITCH PERERA
SOLD OUT / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON JONNY LANG £24.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE HUMAN HANDS + CARSON WELLS + SOLEMN LEAGUE + COUSINS + KIN SHOT '£5 / 7.30PM / POWER LUNCHES MINOR ALPS £12ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS MINOR ALPS £12ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS SHADE £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£4ADV / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR DJ HYPE + PASCAL + GOLDIE + SUB ZERO + SHY FX + NORTH BASE £19ADV / 10.00PM / FABRIC
BUGGED OUT!: BICEP + GERD JANSON + PARK RANGER & REVIVEHER DJS £12.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
SATURDAY 26TH APRIL
LOQUILLO
65DAYSOFSTATIC £15ADV / 8.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£20-5ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
MONDAY 28TH 28TH APRIL APRIL
TOY
AVA LUNA
£12.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
£7.50ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
EMPIRE BE FOREST + JUPITER-C + ABJECTS £6ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS BEN FROST £15ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
IAN NAGOSKI £6ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO SABINA £11ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON ALL
THE 2 BEARS + TODDLA T + SEROCEE + MELE
£17.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY
+ CLUBS AND SPADES
ISLINGTON
£13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
JARETH + ELEKTRIC
SUNDAY 27TH APRIL
£6ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON
UNAI TROTTI + PETER PIXZEL + CORMAC +
TUESDAY 29TH APRIL
JACOB HUSLEY £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE ENTRANC BAND £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON WE WILD BLOOD + MOKSHA MEDICINE + SLABS £3 / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES BRODY DALLE FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST LUCERO £15ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
PONTIAK + BROKEN DC £8.50ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS THE CROOKES + HIGH HAZELS + FELT TIPS £7.50ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS CHET FAKER £7.50ADV / 8.00PM / KOKO GEORGIA RUTH £8.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON NIMMO AND THE GAUNTLETTS £6ADV / 8.00PM / MADAME JOJO'S
NORMA JEAN + LIFE RUINER + NIGHT VERSES
THE TWILIGHT SAD + VLADIMIR
+ BRANSON HOLLIS
£13.50ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR
£13.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY
& KITCHEN
ISLINGTON
EVERLAST
KYARY PAMYU PAMYU
£16ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
£22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
HALL
EMPIRE RUFUS £10ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA MICAH P. HINSON + BURIERS £18.50ADV / 7.30PM / UNION CHAPEL
TRAAMS £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON MERRY HELL £6ADV / 8.00PM / THE MILLER THE KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND
WEDNESDAY 30TH APRIL
£20ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
SOLIDS + THEO VERNEY
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
£8ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS HIGHASAKITE £8ADV / 8.00PM / CARGO MATTHEW & THE ATLAS £10ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS BLOOD RED SHOES £13ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM PHOX £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ SCARLETTE FEVER + SAMUEL JACKSON +
£13.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE SLOWLY ROLLING CAMERA £10ADV / 7.00PM / RICHMIX ARROWS OF LOVE £8ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA THE DISTRICTS £7.50ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS TRIGGER DA AUTHOR '£7 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
JESS BALL
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND + CYTOTA + ZOAX
£5 / 8.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / THE UNDERWORLD
THURSDAY 1ST MAY THURSDAY ALL WE ARE £8ADV / 8.00PM / BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MENS CLUB
HABITATS + FOREST + ANEMIC FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST SATURDAY 3RD MAY
TIM KASHER + GARRETT KLAHN (TEXAS IS
THE TWILIGHT SAD + VLADIMIR
THE REASON) + KARL LARSSON (LAST DAYS
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR
OF APRIL) + SH DAVIDSON (TELLISON) +
& KITCHEN
MORE TBA
WITCHING WAVES £4 / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES DUM DUM GIRLS £15ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA FRUITFUL EARTH FREE / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS RAE MORRIS £10ADV / 7.30PM / WILTON'S MUSIC HALL FRIDAY 2ND MAY
£10ADV / 4.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL ELSEWHERE: ACTRESS + MIKE SKINNER + FLOATING POINTS + KELELA + RYAN HEMSWORTH + SNAKE HIPS £17.50ADV / 4.00PM / EAST LONDON ESCAPISTS + RARE MONK £10ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN TOYS THAT KILL + BEAR TRADE + SSSNAKES £6ADV / 6.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
ELSEWHERE: ACTRESS + MIKE SKINNER +
WHITE PRISM + GENTRY
FLOATING POINTS + KELELA + RYAN
TBC / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
HEMSWORTH + SNAKE HIPS £17.50ADV / 4.00PM / EAST LONDON BASEMENT JAXX + BEN PEARCE + JIMMY EDGAR + SOPHIE + LETHERETTE + MONKI £19ADV / 10.00PM / FABRIC BOB LOG III + THOMAS TRUAX £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
SUNDAY SUNDAY 4TH MAY
HOSPITALITY £20ADV / 9.30PM / HEAVEN
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MUTUAL BENEFIT St John at Hackney // March 4th Flanked by sultry flickers of dim candlelight and an expectant hush from hungry onlookers, Jordan Lee, the sole permanent and unassuming member of Mutual Benefit, appears anything but overawed by the foreboding grandeur of his surroundings. “This is a nice space”, he mutters meekly, a solitary acknowledgment of the church’s simplistic beauty that, admittedly, Lee and his backing band do little to distract from, simply casting shadows upon sparse walls and teasing fractured melodies that feel well suited to such a haunting backdrop. We’re still swaying from Cosmo Sheldrake’s complex array of woozy glitches, fragmented snatches of
BRAWLERS
Birthdays // March 7th Propelled along by equal measures of self-loathing, showmanship, sweat and beer, Brawlers are fast becoming one of those “Dude, you have got to see them live” bands which, dude, you have got to see live. Reminiscent of early Art Brut shows, this is jaw-droppingly in-your-face, dumb-as-dinosaurs, smart-as-space-rockets punk rock.
poetry and globe-trotting samples, the latter being a feature that he gleefully describes with the relish of a particularly enthused university lecturer, as Mutual Benefit begin to unravel a gorgeously sweeping instrumental. Delicate renditions of Advanced Falconry and Strong Swimmer are met with muted response, the crowd seemingly suffocated by the fierce swathes of raw emotion that envelops the church’s underbelly. If Love’s Crushing Diamond lacked bite, Mutual Benefit’s live show bruises far deeper, boasting glorious expanses of tender fragility that forces you to clutch onto the ones you consider most precious. I’m a convert. Lee Wakefield
There’s no hiding place; stand at the back and the show’s coming to you, hide behind someone tall, and you’ll be found. Be a wall, and you’re probably gonna get hit (hint: don’t be a wall). The thing is, you want it to come for you. It’s all driven by such an enormous heart, such giant choruses, and such infectious all-consuming passion that you want to be part of it, you want to be in Brawlers’ gang. Go see them live, dude. Dave Rowlinson
PHOTO: MARGA MONER
BY OLIVER PRIMUS Route A towards despising humanity is to attend a gig, or by visiting the cinema. I know that seems harsh considering where this article is being housed (if it somehow makes the cut) - but it’s not you, it’s me. Don’t feel bad. Actually, screw that, it is you. I’m a nice person - if a little boring at times - but I can’t stand bad manners. Film playing? Shut the hell up. Band playing? Put your damn phone away. I’m a big fan of technology (the very fact that this article exists is proof of that) but it’s 100% the biggest enabler of douchebaggery known to man. It leads people to strive for constant validation/approval and allows the ‘LOOK AT ME / I’M SO IMPORTANT / LOOK WHO I KNOW / LOVE ME / PAY ME ATTENTION’ mind-set to flourish - resulting in a room full of people experiencing music in an incredibly fractured way. What made live music so special to me when I was younger was the ‘collective experience’, but when 30% of the audience are talking at a volume which would rival me when I chat with my slightly deaf Grandma, 35% are tweeting about how much fun they’re having at the show (I see you, buddy), and a further 30% of the audience have their phones in their air ready to snap their megabytes away, it doesn’t take a genius to realise what percentage I’d want to be friends with. Like I said, I am boring, and I’ve always kinda preferred listening to music on my terms (at home, with my cat, headphones on) but I can’t be the only one that thinks something needs to change? Oh, and as for you cinema-goers, if you talk during a film the punishment should be that you get you ejected 20 minutes before the film ends. Odeon are still considering it, Cineworld said “no” and Prince Charles Cinema have yet to get back to me.
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ELECTRIC BALLROOM – 05 JUNE
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