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About Will Donelson

Will is a journalist who often becomes captivated by what he writes about. Having a deep love for the obscure, unorthodox and uncharted, Will's interest is only peaked by films described as "unwatchable" or music described as "avante garde". Will takes a deeply personal interest in the art he studies, with reviews he's written on occasion being described as "heart-felt" and "worryingly specific", Will is now Assistant Editor. London-born, Will currently lives in Reading.

Live Review: Avishai Cohen Trio at Ronnie Scott’s

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Avishai Cohen is often referred to as one of the best bassists in the world. Partly for his speed, partly for his incredible showmanship – but in my eyes, what makes Avishai so great is the principle quality of every master bass player: his ability to adapt. Avishai has a downright perfect sense of timbre [...]

WIN WIN – Double Vision

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WIN WIN are an Electronica band featuring producers Alex Epton and Chris Devlin, who have a rather interesting goal. The duo are interested in creating music that “supplement[s] the auditory stimuli with a visual element that shifts with the mood of the music”. They aim to accomplish this with the help of video collagist Ghostdad [...]

The Underground: EvolXYZ – Illuminatic Fashion

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Welcome to The Underground (or Notes from the Underground if you’re a Dostoyevsky nerd), a weekly segment in which I examine the very best in unsigned, undiscovered and underground music. It’s my goal to highlight and hopefully promote talented artists who have yet to receive the attention they deserve. If you know of (or are!) [...]

My Jerusalem – Preachers

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My Jerusalem have always seemed like kind of a super group. Featuring Jeff Klein, touring member of and Dave Rosser, permanent member of the Twilight Singers, Ashley Dzerigian of Great Northern, Rick Nelson of the Polyphonic Spree and Cully Symington of Bishop Allen. It’s like a Marvel Team-Up comic except it skips the boring staples [...]

Glenn Beck writes insane open letter to Muse and Matt Bellamy

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This Sunday, Matt Bellamy said he felt that “in the US the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward right-wing libertarianism”, and that he see’s himself as a more “left-leaning libertarian”. In response, Glenn Beck, who also is a likes to pretend [...]

Muse – The 2nd Law

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I’m sorry, I just need to take a quick breather here before we can begin. Okay, in… Out… Calm, soothing thoughts. Phew, I’m ready. Let’s do this. So Muse have been a pretty funny bunch the last couple of years. I’d be hard pressed to name a band half as big as Muse that so [...]

Listen: Mumford and Son’s cover Alt-J’s ‘Tessellate’

Alt-J made quite the first impression with their critically acclaimed debut album An Awesome Wave. Even though they haven’t been around too long, they’ve already made enough of a name for themselves to attract the attention of some big names, the most recent of which being popular folk band Mumford and Sons. Click here to [...]

The Underground: Soil & The Sun – What Wonder Is This Universe!

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Welcome to The Underground (or Notes from the Underground if you’re a Dostoyevsky nerd), a weekly segment in which I examine the very best in unsigned, undiscovered and underground music. It’s my goal to highlight and hopefully promote talented artists who have yet to receive the attention they deserve. If you know of (or are!) [...]