Heartless Bastards, the band centred around the songwriting and vocal talents of Erika Wennerstrom, have been recording and touring for more than ten years now (they were signed to Fat Possum records back in 2004 after a demo was passed on by Patrick Carney of the Black Keys), but have only come to TMO’s attention […]
Sound City, Dave Grohl’s documentary on a Hollywood recording studio doesn’t promise much, on the surface, and yet it turns out to be a heartfelt and eloquent history of something that, with the digital revolution, we seem to have lost – sound. The film doesn’t promise much?Have I gone mad?? It’s got Dave Grohl (of […]
Ane Brun has announced to fans that a full concert, from 2008’s Changing the Seasons european tour, has been posted to youtube – and what a beautiful intimate concert it is! The filming took place in Amsterdam’s legendary Paradiso club (a converted church which, since 1968 has hosted concerts), as part of the Fab channel […]
Maximo Park release their new album The National Health, and we’re happy to feature a streaming preview here. It’s the Newcastle band’s fourth album, and is produced by the legendary Gil Norton (who produced their double-platinum second album Our Earthly Pleasures). We’re in a global recession and everyone is being bombarded with bouncy, happy music. […]
dEUS have released a new album, Following Sea in record time. The album comes hot on the heels of 2011’s Keep you Close, and marks a break in the bands tendency to disappear for years in the studio. It’s the seventh album for the Belgian band, who first came to prominence with 1994’s Worst Case […]
Mike Daisey admitted to stretching the truth in his monologue The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, but when tech journalists say that Daisey, as a monologist, had ‘no business’ telling the story in the first place, it begs the question who does, and are they telling it correctly?
There’s a telling moment, during Band of Skulls soundcheck – on a bitterly cold January night, in a small venue in Bologna, Italy. The three piece from Southhampton, England have been going through song parts individually and together for the best part of an hour, but something doesn’t seem quite right, at least to them […]
Here’s the first installment of what’s going to be a regular feature on TMO, where we introduce you to tracks/albums/artists that we’re listening to at the Monkeys’ HQ at the moment. There are no rules, and no specific criteria – except that we have to be able to include a video/stream of the song, and […]
International Women’s Day is at once a problematic and worthy idea; Shoe-horning half the world’s population into a day on the UN’s calendar, along with other hard-pressed categories like migratory birds (14-15 May) and world intellectual property (26th of April) should make you more than a little uneasy, as should the fact that more than […]
Sad news today as word came through from Montreux, Switzerland that one of the giants of Italian music, Lucio Dalla, had died of a heart attack just days before his 69th birthday. The news all the more shocking for most Italians as he had been seen performing at the annual San Remo music festival just […]
