Falling Down a Mountain
By Tindersticks
Review by Imene Chougrani (Mar 11th '10)
It's not easy being Tindersticks. Beyond the drastic lineup changes and the complexity of forming a band around Stuart Staples' charismatic personality, Tindersticks' heaviest burden is their own high standards. Having set the bar high with their 1993 eponymous debut, the band has been in a dilemma ever since, torn between the need to maintain their ongoing cachet and the ambition to renew their sound.
Falling Down a Mountain crystallizes this challenge. With their eighth album, the second after Dickon Hinchliffe's…
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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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Dirty Projectors, Live @ the Hifi Bar, Melbourne, March 9th 2010
Featuring Dirty Projectors
By Ed Butler (Mar 10th '10)
There has been a disturbing trend in live indie music for some time; the spectator fan. As disposable incomes rise, many have flocked to absorb the cultural cachet that seeing gigs by relatively obscure bands provides, irrespective of actually liking the band. This tends to create pockets of ill-mannered fools at gigs shouting conversations while Sufjan Stevens sings ‘Casimir Pulanski Day’, much to the chagrin of those who had to save money to attend.
Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors, on the other hand, offer such a confronting,…
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