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Under Pressure — Irfan Shah turns the hose back on the establishment with a ‘memento’ style look at films they either didn’t want you to see or didn’t want you to remember. Landmark documentary ‘Before Stonewall’ — an exploration of prejudice and gay pride in 1960s America — re-released with extras.Released 22.06.09 The secret histories of homosexual America are remembered in this absorbing documentary re-released on its twenty-fifth anniversary. On June 27 1969, New York gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, Continue Reading

Crud asks Scott Hutchison of Edinburgh band, Frightened Rabbit, ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ New single ‘I Feel Better’ out 22.09.08.03/09/2008 One listen to Edinburgh’s Scott Hutchison and my dear, lamented grandmother would have been grasping for a bar of soap to wash the unbridled filth from his mouth, such is the rude, rumbustious health of the language on Frightened Rabbit’s fucked-up second album, ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’, a candid and discourteous account of Hutchison’s break-up with his girlfriend, his run Continue Reading

It’s a dad, dad, dad, dad world. Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett takes a rare quantum leap, losing himself in the strange world of his father, Quantum Mechanic, Hugh Everett III. Repeated Sunday 2nd December at 12.00am26/11/2007 He’s everywhere and nowhere baby. That’s where he’s at. Going down the bumpy hillside in his hippy hat. But though he’s flying around the country, his tyres are never flat. Or rather in one dimension his tyres are flat and in the other Continue Reading

Crud’s NOSEY BASTARD pokes and probes the industry mechanics of ROUGH TRADE ‘s latest re-signing, the legendary SCRITTI POLITTI. Here’s how they got signed. Here’s how they celebrated. Here’s how they intend to f**k it all up. Just sign here boys.19/06/2006 Label: Rough TradeLabel Mates: The Strokes, Arcade Fire, British Sea Power, Super Furry Animals, Sufjan Stevens, the Delays, the Libertines, Fiery Furnaces. Here’s what you do if you’re Green Gartside of Scritti Politti. You kickstart your career by forming Continue Reading

James Berry asks Aaron Dessner of THE NATIONAL, ‘Where’s Your Head At?’25/11/2005 “I’m going to try and figure this out,” mutters a dazed Matt Beringer grappling with the microphone stand through his shirt like some kind of befuddled and ineffective escape artist. Incidentally, he doesn’t. “Sons and daughters!” screams an audience member, curiously. “That’s a different band,” states Matt, correctly, as the band slide into ‘Daughters Of The Soho Riots’, partially meeting the confused request. These 30 surreal seconds of Continue Reading

Alan Sargeant asks Nerina Pallot, ‘Where’s Your Head At?’…13/09/2005 Situating yourself somewhere between Jem, Tori Amos, Steely Dan and as chartbusting debut single, ‘Everybody’s Gone To War’ proved — Avril Lavigne — may not be the smartest move ever, but if you’re not looking to court fashion or be the next lamentable prat to unravel the foil for the shambolic, Pete Doherty then you’re going to be happy dishing-up all those close, warm harmonies, lyrically complex and reflective moodswings of Continue Reading

Hey you! Yes, you. Put down that bloody Nirvana box set! It’s only shamelessly preying on your inexplicable charity towards the dead anyway. Tracks never worthy of release sold on for oodles of mark-up so that Ms Love-Cobain can put Francis Bean through private school without dipping into her prescription fund? Bargain. Or you could just move your gaze to the left in yer music shop racks and find a posthumous boxed collection really worthy of some love. Mansun didn’t Continue Reading