Los Campesinos! Reviews

lowlands 2008

More European festival action now, as Lewis Hingston reports from The Netherlands biggest field party. Expect reports on the Flaming Lips, Simian Mobile Disco, The National and more...

glastonbury 2008 - part two

The madness continues, with reviews of Los Campesinos, Alphabeat, Leonard Cohen - and the seagull attack on Neil Diamond’s audience!

camden crawl diary - part two

Lewis navigates all the gothic dope-peddling noodle sellers to bring us this report on Acoustic Ladyland, Official Secrets Act and Future Of the Left!

art brut, operator please, los campesinos! and more - singles for THE week beginning feb 18!

Back at work? Feeling like a pig shat in your head? Watching the clock and it’s only 11am? Fear not! Steven Belfrage is here like a journalistic can of Zolt Cola, counting us down with the week’s singles. Prepare yourself for old skool ravers, Dutch surf music and florescent riot girls!

los campesinos! - hold on now youngster

They know no bounds! They know no fears! They know how to put together one hellova debut album! Malcolm Mathieson gets his gnashers round Cardiff’s Los Campesinos! - and depsite them not being a techno-metal band he’s getting pretty loved up by the sounds of things… ‘no rave’ anyone?

les savy fav, future of THE left, los campesinos!

Mat Beal invades the NME Awards tour to see which rock stars are proudly sporting the sponsor’s hair gel. As you might have guessed, his survey results are meagre. But then who’s complaining when Les Savy Fav are performing in knee high boots?

young knives, ladytron, lcd soundsystem and more... - singles for THE week beginning oct 22!

This week’s extraordinarily large mound of singles sees Mercury nominees slugging it out on the dance-floor, and James Murphy taking on his DFA prodigies Prinzhorn Dance School. Lewis Hingston lets battle commence…

12 stone toddler, black lips, madam, los campesinos! and more - singles for week beginning 4th june

Rory reviews this week’s crop of 45s, with full marks going to 12 Stone Toddler, Blood Red Shoes & The Black Lips

los campesinos! / sky larkin / nosferatud2

Wyldman catches a triple bill of new rock n roll at the Spitz, headlined by a refreshingly enthusiastic “seven piece explosion of a band from Cardiff”…

Rabbit, Rabbit All Day Long...

Top 5 Downloads

  • Hunters - Acid Head

    I haven’t even come close to headbanging since 1998, but, wow, Hunters are really pushing me back in that direction. This is real rock – heavy, chugging and powerful with grimy...
  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...
  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...
  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...
  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...

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