Vic Twenty ‘Electrostalinist’ (Lucky Pierre, 2005)
I first came upon Vic Twenty when they supported Erasure at Leicester’s De Montford Hall in 2003 and I was prepared to be disappointed.....Of course, I was wrong.
Welcome to Night Vale: Things That Go Bump in The Night
It’s the twice-monthly podcast that everyone’s talking about: featuring off-the-wall updates from a fictional backwater community, it’s time to say hello to ‘Welcome to Night Vale’
Thomas Dolby: Weird Science
If we had our way, Thomas Dolby’s biography would be an essential text for music fans everywhere. Book tokens at the ready folks, you’ll need them after our whistle-stop tour through his life less ordinary…
Organ Reframed: A Fine Set of Pipes
Organs belong in cold churches booming out ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, right? With her Organ Reframed festival at London’s Union Chapel, Claire M Singer has a better use for these grand old instruments
Lou Rhodes
Lamb’s Lou Rhodes takes us on a winding road through a few of her formative influences
The microKORG
Happy birthday to you… we celebrate 15 years of Korg’s game changing little synth, the MicroKORG, with its creator Minoru Koike
Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)
When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.
CATO: The Trailer Guy
By night he’s electronica artist Schwarzmodul, by day he’s LA-based film/TV composer, CATO. Dip into a world you never knew existed…
Steve Cobby: One-Man Band
From The Shedio, his Kingston-Upon-Hull home studio, Steve Cobby runs a cottage industry that, via his own Declassé imprint, pings near-perfect musical salvos into the world with a very pleasing regularity
John L Walters ‘Einstein A Go-Go’
John L Walters spills the beans on Landscape’s insanely catchy electropop hit ‘Einstein A Go-Go’