Bonobo’s EP “Flashlight”: Three tracks aren’t enough
by Stephanie Casino Bonobo (Simon Green) has been sharing his masterful mixes of internationally influenced downtempo beats with the world for the past 15 years, and since his last release …
by Stephanie Casino Bonobo (Simon Green) has been sharing his masterful mixes of internationally influenced downtempo beats with the world for the past 15 years, and since his last release …
Some time nearly a decade ago when my younger self had all of the free time in the world to peruse the Internet in search of new music I discovered Ninja Tune. Having gone through their …
by Stephanie Casion With an album name like Joined Ends, you’d assume you were in for a cohesive, consistent sounding album. However, Dorian Concept’s second album release is not as curated …
photos by Samuel Engelking Last week, on a rather chilly Wednesday night, we headed over to Toronto’s Wrongbar for a four hour Mr. Scruff DJ set. Four hour DJ set. On a Wednesday. The lineup …
by Scott Wilson In the hotshot producer world there’s a lot of coattail riding, using famous musicians to bolster their own status until they become famous by association. But The Bug’s …
Andy Carthy, better known as Mr Scruff, is one of those artists you hear once and always keep at an arm’s reach. His tracks are catchy, jazzy, glitchy, melodic, and almost always …
by Eric Evans There’s a popular misconception that reviewers are always itching to write a scathingly negative piece about a film or record or book or play; that burning down someone or …
by Matt Caprioli Imagine a young Virginia Woolf rapping – you now have a fairly good idea of who Kate Tempest is. Like Mrs. Woolf, Tempest doesn’t only know her way around the …
by Eric Evans Taken on its own, painter/producer Teebs’ new record E S T A R A is a pleasant diversion: 12 tracks that serve more as tone poems than songs, textured and rich, melodic yet not …
Mr. Scruff, aka Andy Carthy, is back and not only with a new single but a full album, Friendly Bacteria, dropping on May 20th on Ninja Tune. The first track from the album, “Render …