Dear God, I Hate Myself
By Xiu Xiu
Review by Chris Familton (Mar 9th '10)
Jamie Stewart has operated under the Xiu Xiu moniker and variations of it for a decade now. Over this time his music has been defined by a fusion of disparate sounds and styles and this is continued on his latest, Dear God, I Hate Myself. Thankfully, even with the trademark genre shifts, the album also is one of his more accessible to date and is probably closest in spirit to 2004’s Fabulous Muscles.
Swinging drastically between guitar-driven, electro…
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Fionn Regan on Touring, The Shadow of an Empire and The Dylan Tag
Featuring Fionn Regan
By Alex De Petro (Mar 4th '10)
Ireland's answer to Neil Young, Dublin's Fionn Regan is a dark and mysterious indie-folker who speaks in metaphor and simile. A singer-songwriter in the old-school style, Regan took a 'pen and paper' (and old typewriter) approach to writing the gritty and mature songs on his second full-length album, released early February. Here, Fionn talks with Alex De Petro about touring at home and abroad, his second album The Shadow of an Empire and being labelled this generation's Bob Dylan by none other than American country/folk…
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Antony and the Johnsons - Berklee Performance Theater - 22nd February 2009
Featuring Antony and the Johnsons
By Sam Freeman (Feb 22nd '09)
On a wintry night in Boston at the Berklee Performance Center, a moonfaced man bathed in yellow light is swaying and rocking his head back in the wide open acoustics of the theatre, plodding on the ebony piano in front of him.
This husky man with the voice of a songbird is the gender-bending Antony Hegarty, someone who has been compared to the likes of Nina Simone, Bryan Ferry and Jon Thor Birgisson. Antony, however, does not live up to these expectations; he exceeds them. For the past 11 years he has crafted delicate tapestries…
