Everything From Volume 2 Issue 1

Almost (too) Famous (Found in: Essays)
Leaping from in front of the camera to behind the mic is a stretch… but it can be done
 
The Girl Likes Electro (Found in: Essays)
Folk is dead as ladies this summers say, “Let’s have a little dance, shall we?”
 
Anyone Can Play Guitar (Found in: Essays)
But it’s never been enough and thankfully a few still realise so.
 
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Found in: Albums)
Crack out the aviators, because summer has finally returned, after abandoning the UK totally in 2007, courtesy of ‘In Ghost Colours’.
 
Thomas Tantrum at Kilburn Luminaire (Found in: Live)
Fronted by a post-scrubbed Courtney Love – who’s just fixed a whatever and coke from the bar and climbed atop the Luminaire stage – Goatee Beach’s Thomas Tantrum are...
 
Bjork at Hammersmith Apollo (Found in: Live)
Resistant luminary. Unnecessary eccentric. Unfathomable songstress. Or perhaps the most fascinating, awe-inspiring and peerlessly gifted artist ever to open her mouth.
 
Show Off (Found in: Step Out)
Various secret London venues
Electro / Indie / Techno / Hip Hop
Sporadically held
 
Razzmatazz, Spain (Found in: Step Out)
Barcelona, Spain
60s / Indie / Soul / Rock'n'Roll
Every Saturday
 
Dirty Bingo Vs Loud And Quiet (Found in: Step Out)
Various London Venues
Indie / Techno / Electronica / Pop
Monthly
 
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (Found in: Albums)
Epic country cowboys MMJ have gone a bit MGMT on our asses.
 
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (Found in: Albums)
On paper, it’s a risky move: being a young, beautiful movie star...
 
Green Man Says Go! at Catch, Shoreditch (Found in: Live)
ShitDisco flirting with The Wombats. Sounds plain awful, doesn’t it? And it would be if it were totally accurate of what this Sheffield trio have to offer.
 
Ian Brown at Razzmatazz, Barcelona (Found in: Live)
Tonight Ian Brown opens with ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ and encores with ‘I Am The Resurrection’ and ‘F.E.A.R’. That’s all you should need to know about the indie Statesman’s Catalonian stop off.
 
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (Found in: Albums)
Crikey, where’d that album go?
 
Ladytron - Velocifero (Found in: Albums)
Rest assured Ladytron fans – ‘Velocifero’ is not a huge departure from their previous output.
 
Girl Talk (Found in: Making Waves)
Mashing up any song in his way, Gregg Gillis makes girls want to do more than talk
From Issue 1 (Vol 2) of Loud And Quiet Magazine
 
Eastern Conference Champions - Ameritown (Found in: Albums)
Eastern Conference Champions. Hmm… Isn’t that a bit like an English band calling themselves Premiership Champions?
 
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Found in: Albums)
Atlas Sound is actually one bloke, Bradford Cox, in his bedroom...
 
Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines (Found in: Albums)
Brooklyn’s Awesome Color could have only ever signed to Thurston Moore’s garage rock label, Ecstatic Peace!.
 
The Presets - Apocalypso (Found in: Albums)
As anyone who succumbed to the ‘2am on a Saturday morning, filled to the gills with nefarious chemicals’...
 
el Guincho at White Heat, Soho (Found in: Live)
What you bear witness to at an el Guincho show is an absolute mind-fuck. Don’t expect to form a separate opinion of each track: you’ll either love him or hate him...
 
Laurel Collective - Feel Good Hits Of A Nuclear Winter (Found in: Albums)
Refreshingly off-trend, Laurel Collective’s ‘Feel Good Hits of a Nuclear Winter’ is an oddball and eclectic debut album...
 
My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth (Found in: Albums)
In the wake of 2006’s phenomenal ‘Bring Me the Workhorse’, My Brightest Diamond’s second full-length offering is an exercise in...
 
Midnight Juggernauts (Found in: Making Waves)
Aussie prog-dance meets cosmic film scores of the future.
From Issue 1 (Vol 2) of Loud And Quiet Magazine
 
Lupe Fiasco at Koko, Camden (Found in: Live)
His latest concept album will have us believe that ‘cool’ is more than a case of relativity; it’s irrelevant.
 
Tired Irie (Found in: Making Waves)
Finally! A band from Leicester that you can treasure.
From Issue 1 (Vol 2) of Loud And Quiet Magazine
 
Yeasayer (Found in: Features)
In a brave new world, this Brooklyn four aren't afraid in the slightest.
From Issue 1 (Vol 2) of Loud And Quiet Magazine
 
Youthmovies (Found in: Features)
Love this band! Or hate them. Whatever. They’re not gonna beg it.
From Issue 1 (Vol 2) of Loud And Quiet Magazine
 
Santogold (Found in: Features)
A lady, a creator, an ex-A&R and a one-person pop hit factory.
From Issue 1 (Vol 2) of Loud And Quiet Magazine
 
Wetdog - Enterprise Reversal (Found in: Albums)
Had ‘Enterprise Reversal’ been a five track EP of a release its toneless blahs from lead shouter Rivka Gillieron would have still been a struggle to sit through.