Interview // The Sounds: Songs With a Mission
It’s not often you get rock stars proffering their humble apologies for being late, but then it soon becomes apparent that The Sounds are not your ordinary musical superstars. For a start, it appears that they have been busy playing tour guide, showing various members of their families around the sights of sunny Barcelona. After [...]
-->Review // Placebo @ SECC, Glasgow
The SECC is probably one of the most impersonal venues you could ever encounter in the entirety of Glasgow. It is cavernous and cold, with two halls. Thankfully, Placebo were performing in the smaller of the two, creating more intimacy than the hall in which Depeche Mode and Paramore played a few days earlier.I arrived [...]
-->In Pictures // Placebo @ Manchester Central
Playing classics and tantalising tasters of new material, Brian Molko’s ever mighty harmonic loving rockers descended upon Manchester and Noize was there with a camera to capture the moment in all it’s shimmering glory. By Danny Payne
-->Feature // So-Called Facts are Fraud: Analysing Rage Against the Machine’s Christmas Number One
There is a fairly lengthy book to be written about Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name gaining the UK Number 1 spot over Joe McElderry’s The Climb last week. An honest-to-God, year-to-write academic study could be drafted examining the various social, economic and musical factors facilitating such an event. It’s one we’ve not [...]
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