Charlie Bertsch / 13 Oct 2021
The Sixties Are Forever
Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows, by Wild Billy Childish & CTMF
Since his early days with the Pop Rivets in the late 1970s, Billy Childish's music has been remarkably consistent.(...)
The Fall
Charlie Bertsch / 12 Jun 2020
Working-Class Cosplay
Sleaford Mods’ All That Glue
As I stared up at the mountains I love, glowing a beautiful and terrifying orange, trying to suppress a cough that just kept coming, listening to the new Sleaford Mods collection All That Glue was surreal. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 18 Mar 2020
Burying The Fall
Jan St. Werner’s Molecular Meditation
Molecular Meditation, the new collaboration between Jan St. Werner – half of the influential Berlin duo Mouse on Mars – and Mark E. Smith – the deceased frontman of post-punk stalwarts The Fall – is a proudly self-indulgent record. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 30 Oct 2019
Nothing is New Anymore
The Paradox of the IDLES
Listening to IDLES’ forthcoming live LP, A Beautiful Thing – not to mention the albums that preceded it, Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018) and Brutalism (2017) – is by turns exhilarating and exhausting. (...)