Wild Flag review is Up and Atom

And here it is. It's a very good album on its own merits. Feel quite guilty for mentioning the band that prefigured this one so much, but what can you say? THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THEM.

True Widow at the Macbeth tomorrow night. There will be a few pictures, I imagine.

New Frank Ocean video... solid

Once you go mersh, you can't go back...
and how swiftly those OMGWGKTA players move to the majors, eh?
Still, solid work from Mr Ocean.

True Widow play tiny London show for a mere seven hundred pennies

The day of reckoning is upon us. True Widow play the tiny Macbeth in Shoreditch in less than a month. My tickets are already in the bag.
Yours should be too.
Would just like to point out I paid more in fees, per ticket, on a Ryan Adams Union Chapel gig this morning. Is Ryan Adams goin to be five times better than True Widow, including fees? I have my doubts.

Their full three date UK jaunt.

October 10^th – Glasgow, Captain’s Rest
October 11^th – Manchester, Star & Garter
October 12^th – London, Macbeth

Get to the merch table. I know how expensive it is to bring US bands over here, am pretty sure you'll be filling their petrol tank and putting food in their mouths.

The Get Up Kids - Rally 'Round the Fool (Official Video)

Good progressive choice of single noted. Seem to remember Pitchfork said something nasty about the song, but I think very much the opposite. By the way, Pitchfork have NEVER given The Get Up Kids a positive review. They seem almost grudgy about it, in a too cool for school sort of way. Once more, a critical failure on their part.

Anyway, the video.

Home of Metal - Parts One and Two / Screaming Trees - Final Words

Both interviews with Mark Wilkinson and Tony Iommi are now available on DrownedInSound, as is my review of the "new" Screaming Trees album. I'm submitting my reviews for the Pure X album, and the most recent Drugstore release (trailed below) soon, and that'll be me for a while in terms of reviews. I'm hoping to concentrate on and improve my live music photography, and am hoping to push that along for the end of the year.

In the meantime here are two portfolio sets. The first is a Hevy set via eFestivals, who I got the pass from, and the majority of the shots have already been used by them; the second is my work from the Sziget festival. I originally intended to shoot Sziget for DiS, but felt the standard wasn't quite there. Neither set can be used for any commercial purpose, all rights are reserved, and all wrongs will be reversed.

Wild Flag - Album Teazer

Wild Flag - Album Trailer from Merge Records on Vimeo.

Back from Hevy

and band of the weekend were for some Touche Amore, but for me latecomers to the bill, Feed the Rhino impressed greatly. I'm absolutely amazed they're still at club level.

They won't be for very long.

Catch them at the Camden Barfly for £8.50. You will not be disappointed.

N.B. Hilda May also added to the bill, which is good news for your girlfriend.