A Few Forthcoming Releases

All dates are subject to blah blah blah – you know the score. Some potentially interesting things on the horizon for the first quarter of 2008.
BOX STUDIO ONE RUNE GRAMMOFON 14-Jan
BRITISH SEA POWER DO YOU LIKE ROCK MUSIC? ROUGH TRADE 14-Jan
ANNA JARVINEN JAG FICK FEELING HAPNA 21-Jan
CAT POWER JUKEBOX MATADOR 21-Jan
CHARLOTTEFIELD WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR [...]

Album: The R&B Years 1956 Volume 2 (Boulevard Vintage 2007)

The latest instalment of Secret Records’ excellent rhythm and blues history selects 50 tunes from the second half of 1956. The rock revolution was in full swing, and established R&B artists like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Bo Diddley were becoming global stars. In truth, although the breakthrough into the mainstream for many [...]

Albums of the year: #10

PAN SONIC: Katodivaihe / Cathodephase
The 4 CD Kesto box from a couple of years back had a certain warm organic feel to it, but Katodivaihe came over like a nuclear winter. The first track may have featured a lone melancholy cello, but from there on in things got positively scary. There were speaker-shredding pulses of noise, [...]