A brand new stage show about the legendary blues singer, Robert Johnson will be playing for one night only at the Hackney Empire on 16th July.
Cross Road Blues recreates one of the most compelling myths in American music: Robert Johnson’s alleged Faustian pact with the devil at a crossroads one dark Mississippi midnight.
David Walter directs [...]

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Entries from April 2009
Cross Road Blues – the legend of Robert Johnson
Terry Lane - Tuesday 28.04.09, 07:56am
Have you heard Hanne Hukkelberg yet?
Terry Lane - Saturday 25.04.09, 12:59pm
Norwegian artist Hanne Hukkelberg releases her third album, Blood From A Stone this week.
I hear Sigur Ros, Elisabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins (no more so than on Bandy Riddles) and PJ Harvey in this wondrous offering; and like those three comparisons, Hanne Hukkelberg has a beautiful, mesmorising voice.
Furthermore, in tracks like No One But [...]
Tags: Album · Alternative · Indie Rock · Review
Hundred Reasons re-release ‘Quick the Word, Sharp the Action’
Terry Lane - Saturday 25.04.09, 07:16am
Hundred Reasons re-release their fourth album, Quick the Word, Sharp the Action this month on their own label.
Quick the Word, Sharp the Action was originally released in October 2007 on V2 Records.
But just weeks later the label was bought out by Universal , and the band were left without a record label.
Quick the Word, Sharp [...]
Tags: Album · Indie Pop · Indie Rock · Review
We Are The Arsenal – Post-Punk Pop from California
Terry Lane - Friday 24.04.09, 12:28pm
We Are The Arsenal release their 13 track debut album entitled They Worshipped The Trees on Authentik Artists.
Fans of other American rock bands like AFI, Pennywise, and Coheed and Cambria will appreciate the quartet’s alternative American rock meets post-hardcore and British influenced post-punk commercial sounding music.
We Are The Arsenal have a distinctly British post-punk edge [...]
Tags: Album · Alternative · Indie Rock · Review · Rock
Coast On By- King Creosote – single review
Robbie Spargo - Friday 24.04.09, 09:56am
Coast On By- King Creosote – single review
Re-titling his new single ‘Coast On By’, King Creosote came up with:
“Two grumpy old men realise that, together, they’ve created the very monster both have spent entire careers baiting, only for it to sneak up and bite them in unbridled joy.”
Although unlikely replace ‘Coast On By’, this refers [...]






