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Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

In someways this doesn’t seem like such an excepional Coen Brothers film, especially after the critical and commercial success of hits such as Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Man Who Wasn’t There and  The Big Lebowski, but it’s arguably their most oddly sentimental and ‘personal’ effort, purely because it…

Sonic Youth and The Liars play the Brixton Academy 2004 remembered

Roughly 10 years I’d gone to see Sonic Youth play in concert with my older sister at Brixton Academy in South London. I was 20(?) and my sister was 30(?) and had never heard SY. The support band was The Liars, who’d just released their debut album, which was an art-punk mesh of noise and feedback in the style of SY’s early albums, perhaps a bit of Lou Reed’s infamous metal box solo album (which…