The sky a becoming azure shade and the intense foliage of Islington inundating the place, it's irrevocably springtime and to adulterate the ageless prose of DuBose Heyward, 'the livin' is easy'. It is too ameliorated further by a rare visit from manic-depressive, maniacally genius Texan Daniel Johnston , whose Waller roots tonight wriggle into the essence of artefact aficionados British Sea Power . Branded the Texan Sea Power for one night only (and later perhaps unintentionally erroneously by Johnston as the "Texan Sea Lions"), they open up the evening with an acoustic set that sees the boys and girl from beside ...

The conjoining of the genres 'funk' and 'metal', in this era of pedantic compartmentalisation, is a highly dubious grey area probably best avoided even before Anthony Kiedis' fornication-fixated Californians put paid to any credibility within the depths of that already murky amalgam. Thus for fellow West Coasters Primus – perhaps most famed for the penning of the South Park theme toon – to attempt to affix the ears of the immature and underage to their ageing back catalogue is another pretty tricky one. That Les Claypool et al. thunder through twenty-odd tracks with youthful exuberance and humour to better the blunt obscenities ...

All property is theft. So why not steal someone's life, or someone's work, or someone's dress code? Every month, this column starts life as an impassioned plea that the new musical genre defined by Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and then developed by J Cole, Drake and the Weeknd should henceforth be universally known as "singy hip-hop". The plan is to examine different critical perspectives on the rehumanisation of the rap vocal hook – from the sample through the live R&B; cameo , to its reincorporation within the portfolio of contributions that the MC is expected to be able to make him/herself. Unfortunately, just as an opportunity seems to be opening up for a learned exposition of the under-ratedness within the pantheon of such proto singy hip-hop landmarks as Warren G and Nate Dogg's Regulate and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's ...

Marmozets: better than your band.

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So, this Skrillex guy. He’s really got things in a tizzy these days, huh? He’s got Tumblr memes up the wazoo, more fans than Drake and oh yeah: a boatload of Grammy nominations, including the infamous Best New Artist. That shit’s cray as it is, right? Not even. I’m driving down Olympic Blvd. in L.A. last night when I happened to glance up and see this huge digital billboard staring down at me. It took a second to register, but then it hit me: hey, that’s Skrillex up there! As I gawked incredulously, what ...

Almost immediately off the back of releasing EP Passive Aggressive, one of the most talked about debut’s of 2011, Marmozets have wasted no time and churned out another mind blowing EP titled Vexed. The band returned to the studio for a second time with James Kenosha (Pulled Apart By Horses, The...

Spoiler: We've heard it and it's going to kick your face off.

Northern newcomers Marmozets have given Kerrang! an exclusive stream of a new track for you readers to enjoy. The band previously previewed new single Realise Real Eyes Real Lies on Radio One on Monday night, and fans can now hear the track below. Marmozets will release their new EP Vexed on February 6. Vexed was produced by James Kenosha (Pulled Apart By Horses, The James Cleaver Quintet). The band will be supporting Hyro Da Hero and Four Year Strong at various venues around the UK this/next month. Tweet Realise by vexedep

As we reach the time of year when every publication pads out space with best-of lists, Tom Ewing is on hand to help if you're vexed by your favourite record not being in every list, at number one, forever: Stage Three: Bargaining. As your anger cools, you realise that the only reason the writers could have made this mistake is ignorance. Perhaps if you use their comments box to list your own Top 50 of the year they will see sense. Yes! That must be it. Go on! Do it! Cut and paste any relevant stretches of their list ...

“What people don’t understand is, is any song can be a political soundtrack”. Sitting in the wintry grey outside a Euston Station café, Brixton-born rapper Genesis Elijah, fresh from a performance at the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp outside St. Paul’s, is talking about the persistence of political music, in the face of veterans of ’60s, ’70s and ’80s protest songs wondering why things aren’t like they were when they were young. The difference between the hippies’ singalongs of Bob Dylan’s ‘Times They Are A-Changin’ and today, is that people choose their own soundtracks, and that ...

At the heart of a lunchtime huddle in a West London watering hole is Yann Tiersen . Starting this afternoon where he abandoned the previous soir, one spent "drinking a few beers", he's dragged from an impassioned discussion on the merits of Jean Michel Jarre to step outside to shiver and smoke his way through this interview, ale in hand. The very first concert I ever attended at the tender age of three happened to be one of Jarre's as he took to Mont Saint-Michel in '93. Read this as a positive omen for a three day-long Yan Tiersen ...

On Severant, the debut LP by Kuedo, Jamie Teasdale sounds less vexed.

Communicative conducting: A tribute to a fallen meteor.

Hello, you! Unlike Teresa May’s cat, everything you read in this column is 100% true. Except the part where I bang on about Belgium not being real, and accuse the Uzbekistan Royal Family of being unable to do handstands, and that part where I claim that former Norwich winger Ruel Fox was actually a cast member on an early episode of Saved By The Bell……But other than that, EVERYTHING ELSE IS TRUE! THE GREAT! The Get Up Kids – Rally Round the Fool Art is all about interpretation. The only value you can really place on art is the ...