LDN Merch
All we want for Christmas…is music merch! Do you have a music lover in your life you who you still need to buy a present for? Look no further! Here is LDN’s merch guide with everything you could need to keep music lovers happy this Christmas! Team LDN know their music, love bands and ADORE related merch. The team have very different tastes, that’s what … Continue reading LDN Merch
Live Review: Deaf Havana @ O2 Academy Brixton, 07.11.18
Headlining O2 Academy Brixton is a big deal; that’s exactly what alternative rock band Deaf Havana did. Following the release of their fifth studio album Rituals, the English 5-piece play their biggest show to date to a whopping 5,000 people. With support from Stereo Honey, and IDKHOW, the show is roaring to start. Accompanied with a neon logo lit up in the centre, Deaf Havana … Continue reading Live Review: Deaf Havana @ O2 Academy Brixton, 07.11.18
Live review: Skee Mask, Bruce, Afrodeutsche & more @ The Cause, Tottenham, 01.12.18
It may be raining causing puddles to block parts of the queue, but excitement is in the air as revellers enter The Cause, Tottenham’s new club capital. Once an old car-mechanic depot, the club has maintained a minimal and industrial aesthetic. Clouds of smoke float around the main room while strobes stab through, revealing the headsy crowd. This then is the perfect setting for the … Continue reading Live review: Skee Mask, Bruce, Afrodeutsche & more @ The Cause, Tottenham, 01.12.18
LDN ISSUE 2
LDN Issue 2 is out now! Click here to check it out. Continue reading LDN ISSUE 2
A Saharan Acid Western
Released November 23, 2018, Zerzura is the original soundtrack to the film (of the same name) composed by and starring Ahmoudou Madassane, a prolific Tuareg multi-instrumentalist. Regarded as the first ever ‘Saharan acid Western’, Zerzura tells the tale of a nomad’s search for a magic city of gold through free form guitar improvisations. Madassane encapsulates a desert journey with a meditative and distinctively traditional guitar-centred soundtrack … Continue reading A Saharan Acid Western
Live review: Matt Maltese @ EartH Hackney, 27.11.18
In front of a giant glowing heart and perched behind a keyboard is everyone’s favourite South London crooner Matt Maltese – a 22 year-old who has been compared to Leonard Cohen. His first London show since his headline at Scala earlier this summer is met with roars of applause from the Hackney Arts Centre (or EartH as it’s now horrendously named and which support act Fur … Continue reading Live review: Matt Maltese @ EartH Hackney, 27.11.18
Christmas cheer?
What do Bruce Springsteen, Wham!, Louis Armstrong and Mariah Carey have in common? They all have huge Christmas hits. They might have been released decades ago but almost everyone can sing along to them. You might hate them, you might even love them but not knowing them is not an option. During the end of November and the whole month of December those songs are … Continue reading Christmas cheer?
Dance Music – From Hedonism to Exclusivity
It is 2018 and dance music is everywhere. Dominating charts and festival line-ups, the genre is almost inescapable whether you like it or not. However, much of the scene today is unrecognisable in comparison to when it was first born in the early 80’s. Inclusivity and togetherness has been replaced by overproduction and greed. Over the course of around 40 years, dance music spawned in … Continue reading Dance Music – From Hedonism to Exclusivity
Not so down under.
2018 has been the year of the dog. Venus (hysterically) went into retrograde and the world got flipped upside down as music from Oz dominated attention overseas. Technically, this isn’t really revolutionary. Australia has always been the birthplace of sonic champions. There’s Kylie, ultimate dreamboat and icon to us all (petition for a Kylie agony aunt podcast titled “what would Kylie do”). Then there’s Olivia … Continue reading Not so down under.
Writing about music is fucking hard, but listening to music is even harder
Pendulum died, and so did my soul. Writing about music is fucking hard. There’s too much of it, and not enough at the same time. To talk of spending your days blissfully writing away about this and that new release (the dream) is bullshit because music writing is stressful. It’s all-consuming and achingly obsessive by nature; I find myself desperately trying to invent new ways of describing … Continue reading Writing about music is fucking hard, but listening to music is even harder
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