Daily Newsletter, January 24, 2023

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Album Review: The Velvet Hands – Sucker Punch-Release date: February 3, 2023 via JamX / Blood Records What would you call the rock British quartet The Velvet Hands [...]

We've all got our tastes, but can anyone really define what makes music “good” or “bad”?

From twisted R&B auteur Liv.e to club rap regenerator Bandmanrill to indie rock realists Wednesday, these are the musicians we’re keeping a keen eye on this year.

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Cut off from the ‘swinging’ innovations of 60s London, a generation of New Zealand musicians forged an underground scene that propelled the nation’s modern identity

He was one of the most unlikely pop stars this country has ever produced: extraordinarily badly dressed and famously contrarian, with a voice that sounded more like an angry man shouting than anything recognisable as singing. But Mark E. Smith, front man of the Fall, became one of the most recognisable and eventually revered figures […]

Some movies are known for their ability to immerse and engage the viewer fully.

This script never took flight.

In a sense, every detective novel is about the inside of someone’s head. What immediately captures the reader at the beginning of a Sherlock Holmes story is the tick-tock of Holmes mind: what brill…