Music & Dance

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, April 24, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Music Les Étoiles ‘Little Measurements’

Little Measurements, the new album by the intriguing Les Étoiles is the latest release by the 'Records on Ribs' label. Ceasefire's Alex Baker takes a listen.

Arts & Culture, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 20:13 - 1 Comment

Music Devlin: Bud, Sweat & Beers and Live at the Islington Academy

Devlin, one of grime's rising stars has recently broken into the mainstream. Adam Elliott-Cooper went to the last gig of his tour and listened to his latest release, Bud, Sweat and Beers.

Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:23 - 3 Comments

Deserter’s Songs The Apocalyptic Landscapes of Godspeed You! Black Emepror

Next month sees the much anticipated return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor- one of the most vital and thrilling bands of late nineties and early naughties. In this week's Deserter's Songs music column, David Bell explains why he finds their music so hauntingly fascinating.

Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:44 - 0 Comments

Deserter’s Songs A Funny Bird That Never Lands

In this week's Deserter's Songs column, David Bell revisits the album which gave his column its name: Mercury Rev's 1998 masterpiece 'Deserter's Songs', and explains how knowing the album for nine years has been like the "wonderful early stage of a relationship".

Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 16, 2010 8:19 - 8 Comments

Deserter’s Songs: The shape of education to come?

In this week's Deserter's Songs column on music and politics, David Bell considers the relevance of free improvisation for a 'new way of making and living education'. In so doing, he examines the resonances between the practice of free improvisation and what is commonly termed 'critical pedagogy'.The similarities, he contends, are startling.

Arts & Culture, Columns, Deserter's Songs, Features, Music & Dance - Saturday, September 18, 2010 17:46 - 6 Comments

Deserter’s Songs – Looking Backwards: In Defence of Nostalgia

When Dave Bell skims his ipod, the most common thing he looks out for is "the feeling of nostalgia". In this week's Deserter's Songs music column, he revisits the enduring spell of looking backwards. Through a tour of musical gems he shows us how "the past and the radical future may not be so hostile to one another" after all.

Arts & Culture, Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance - Friday, September 10, 2010 22:08 - 3 Comments

Deserter’s Songs: A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens

In the first of a new series of columns on music, 'Deserter's Songs', Dave Bell discusses his fascination with what, he admits, is a "very boring" piece of music: Talking Heads' 'Heaven'. This is a song, Bell argues, that epitomises "pop as Samuel Beckett might write it: tedious, beautiful and desperate".

Features, Ideas, Music & Dance - Sunday, August 29, 2010 23:54 - 7 Comments

Formed a band? Made a record? Now what?

Every starting band knows the situation: you record something, spend more than you can afford on getting a few hundred professionally-printed copies made, and then you spend ages wait for sales that never come. As someone who's seen it all before, Alex Andrews shares top 5 tips on how to sell your record the clever way.

Arts & Culture, Features, Music & Dance, Profiles - Sunday, August 15, 2010 0:13 - 0 Comments

Culture Fix: Robert Chrisgau, doyen of US music critics, retires

After more than 40 years at the top of the music journalism game, Robert Christgau, formerly of the Village Voice and legendary author of the 'Consumer guide' series has this month announced his retirement from writing his weekly column. To mark this end of an era, academic and writer Donal Mac an Eala writes a moving tribute to a unique, encylopedically rich voice in music and cultural criticism.