Professor Green - Hard Night Out

Professor Green hasn’t exactly caught alight; once signed to Mike Skinner’s label The Beats, the London based MC has struggled to breakthrough (I’m not sure we can count that appearence on the remix of that Twang song ‘Either Way’). Though talk of attaining commercial success seems rather trivial considering Green got stabbed a couple of months ago. You wouldn’t call this a comeback, but ‘Hard Night Out’ is a purposeful return. Read more

The Coronas - Heroes Or Ghosts

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The Mars Volta - Octahedron

Frusciante + Weird-ass Psychedelic-hardcore + Restraint = ZOMFG Read more

Joan of Arc/Love of Everything/This Town Needs Guns @ 100 Club, London, 07/06/09

Tim Kinsella is something of a cult icon; though not quite as prolific as Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard, he’s put his name to several experimental, cathartic and expressionate projects over the past 15 years. Read more

Cursive @ Camden Dingwalls, 12/05/09

Most would agree that, in an ideal world, a band’s visual aesthetic would play little role in the reception of their material. The current climate is providing gulfs on both sides of the argument: whilst several bands are playing up their fashionista credentials (though noticeably the Horrors are no longer constituents of that maligned group of bands) there are those whose secrecy and lack of interest in public identity has become just as much a part of their image (see: Burial). Read more

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

The worst thing about 21st Century Breakdown is its potential to turn out like another American Idiot: though that album itself was mostly a triumph of ambition and punk-rock smarts its subsequent ubiquity became its downfall. Read more

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing; Fightstar - Be Human

Now with added strings! Read more

The Sword - Age of Winters/Gods of the Earth (Box set)

How can you play songs about Vikings, Warriors and Wizards and still be considered hip? Read more

Utada - This Is The One

Hikaru Utada, or Utada Hikaru as she would be known in Japan (they put the surname first), is one of Japan’s biggest stars. At 26, this is her eighth album in total, and her third in English. A bit of an unknown outside of Japan, Audioscribbler thought it was only right to see what all the fuss was about. Read more

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!

Apparently I can’t accuse Yeah Yeah Yeahs of misleading advertising; it wouldn’t fit ASA guidelines on fraud. That and the fact it only covers Britain and our homeland media. Read more

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