Recently, I took my 9 year old daughter to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which sounds like a very cultured way to spend a Saturday until you remember that you are taking a 9 year old to a modern art museum and have […]
Spanish Love Songs are back with “Good American”, the first taste of their forthcoming album “Future Nausea”, due 6 November via Pure Noise Records. And this is an interesting one because, despite everything going on beneath the surface, it is a bloody enjoyable song. There […]
I have always cherished The Mission. I am a fan, and particularly of the band’s early years, when albums such as “God’s Own Medicine”, “Children” and “Carved In Sand” established that particular mixture of dark atmosphere, powerful guitars, melancholy and enormous emotional weight that made […]
I have been looking forward to every new Kalandra release since “A Frame Of Mind“, so when “Let Me Be Open” appeared on 28 August, I was immediately curious to hear what it was about. “Let Me Be Open” is the first single from Kalandra […]
You know, sometimes Facebook actually gets something right. It shows you something totally unexpected, something you would probably never have found on your own. The FB algorithm has killed curiosity, but that’s another story. For once though, I have to give credit to the mysterious […]
I always like to add a little bit of darkwave to my playlist, and Christine Plays Viola made it today. For me, “At Last, I Found You” is a very good example of what darkwave can do. It has that mysterious side, with that slightly […]
There is something about photographic projects built around repetition that has always appealed to me. Give me a series where the photographer establishes a set of rules, the same format, the same kind of framing, the same distance, the same visual discipline, and then applies […]
On 7 November 2026, B90 in Gdańsk will host FUCK OFF FESTIVAL, bringing together six Polish bands with very different takes on punk, rock and heavier sounds, but one important thing in common, none of them seem particularly interested in playing it safe. At the […]
