as part of ‘rfbx’ – rockfeedback’s 10th birthday celebrations, continuing all september – we’ve commissioned a host of great musicians to contribute to our ‘it’s genius, i swear’ column, offering insights in to their favourite obscure or underrated records. we start with paul smith of maximo park’s eulogising of pullman’s ‘turnstiles and junkpiles’, a coming together of members of tortoise and slint for a record of acoustic guitar instrumentals.
More / (02.09.10)
fred mikardo-greaves continues his quest to convince us he’s the biggest hip hop fan in surrey by rightly bigging up new efforts by lil wayne and kanye west, but can’t help but let his indie tendencies slip through by also giving nods to songs from summer camp and a whole 22 track sub pop sampler, all available to download for free. rockfeedback – the equal opportunities music snobs.
More / (25.08.10)
“i’ve been putting on d.i.y. gigs for the last few years and have noticed a lot more happening recently. i’m not trying to take any credit for this, it just seems like we have a lot more interesting artists and a much stronger scene than in the past few years....” – jen long invites i am hope, hyener, the muscle club, drains, cut ribbons and tiger please to trash her house. idiot.
More / (24.08.10)
resident glasgow hack rachel bolland uncovers the good work of the instinctive racoon label, the one creative scotland collective and bands such as three blind wolves, french wives, washington irving, midnight lion and suspire in the first of her dispatches from a peculiar town where irn-bru outsells coca cola.
More / (06.08.10)
next up on the festival highway is camp bestival, a special little festival (well, 30,000 isn’t that little) in lulworth organised by rob da bank. the festival has already sold out, but for those of you ticketed up, or those just curious, we’ve put together a little list of the artists playing who we are very excited about and thusly think you should be too.
More / (28.07.10)
fred mikardo-greaves returns triumphantly from an educationally-induced absence to round up free downloads from panda bear, sleigh bells, best coast, el guincho, sky ferreira, swahili blonde, and maximum balloon.
More / (22.07.10)
“bands should only play awesome shows. i think it's probably that simple. there's too much music happening anyway...”
More / (15.07.10)
though it is tempting to place baths within the same realm as glo-fi or chillwave or whatever stupid name some bored kid has dreamt up, baths is an altogether more interesting proposition. why? read this article to find out, you muppet.
More / (14.07.10)
in rather typically london-centric fashion, the capital allows one of the summers best festivals come to it. grace jones, hot chip, dizzee rascal, the mystery jets, roxy music and more constitute the reasons why attendance is recommended.
More / (07.07.10)
famed icelandic neo-classical composer arnalds offers us a song by song breakdown of the beauty and intricacies of his rightly-revered recent lp, ahead of a gig in manchester tonight (july 1st) with kindred spirit, radiohead’s johnny greenwood
More / (01.07.10)
“cardiff is the capital city of wales; home to charlotte church and the oldest record store in the world, spillers records. these facts get repeated in the introduction to nearly every piece i have ever read about the cardiff music scene. occasionally someone will throw in the super furry animals, emo rock or los campesinos! but mostly, it’s spillers and charlotte church... for the sake of this article, i’m going to ignore them...”
More / (24.06.10)
“heaven knows what's making all these bands act like it's a summer day by the beach with no worries in the world when there's still a worldwide financial crisis and a the biggest oil spill in the country's history going on, but we're down with it...”
More / (24.06.10)