Jack White is arguably the most prolific musician around today and easily the greatest guitar player of his generation. In his third incarnation as The Dead Weather he has brought together Alison Mosshart of the Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and (Little) Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs. If that combination wasn't strange enough, White himself plays the drums.
Berlin DJ, mixmaster and head honcho of electro label Exploited, Shir Khan
brings us his second anthem-heavy album to claim his
place as king of the electro jungle.
Bloc Party's UK 'Bloctober' tour came to Truro's Hall for Cornwall on 22 October. Stranger was eager to witness the group's self-confessed move from their unique mix of indie and rock music to a more electronic direction in their new album, Intimacy.
Songs From The White Sea is at atmospheric, soul stirring debut album
from John Alexander Ericsson that has earned itself an instant and
permanent place in my 'chilled' playlist.
It's been four years since Lou Barlow gave us his first solo effort Emoh, but at times Goodnight Unknown feels so rushed that he may have needed another year or two.
Skindred are different. Very different. In fact, there's nobody else out there like them. Their reggae-come-dance-come-metal-come-rap could easily have been a case of 'bitten off more than you can chew'. For Benji Webbe and his crew the sound is as brilliant as it is distinct.
The Hazards of Love is less an album, more a statement of the heart. From the church-hall organ 'Prelude' to the final track, the hazards of love are omnipresent throughout and serve as a caution to all those who wear their hearts on their paisley-shirt sleeves.
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind VOL 1 - Cosmic Space Music. The title says it all, which just as well, as this mammoth double CD concoction is pretty impossible to describe with mere words.
Fully clad in hypergalactic robot suits, Dutch deck-heads Nobody Beats The Drum arrive on the breaks scene with their debut 'Beats Work'. And blow me, what a sweaty, filthy beast of an album it is.
