RAGGED FEATURES
Lists
Almost everywhere, 2009 has ended with a straight shootout between Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective and while Ragged Words may not be a hell of a lot different, it's worth remembering that this...
In order, here are the 50 songs that have made Ragged Words say "Chooooooon" to over the past 12 months. This lot speak for themselves really and to watch videos for any of the songs,...
Everyone's sick of end of decade lists by now, right? And yes, we are as guilty as any. But before you move onto the next ten...
Much as it pains RW to say "Twenty-Ten" without sounding like some tangoed idiot presenting 'E! News', it is kinda handy that the year happens to have a '10' at the end of it....
At the turn of the decade an MP3 was, generally speaking, just two letters and a number arbitrarily put together. A blog, well that was surely blot misspelled or a typo when you really meant log....
Interviews
Debut albums so rarely come as complete as She Was Coloured In, the first effort from Irish electro duo Solar Bears that has had Ragged...
Two albums that have really caught this writer's ear of late were released on the same label (Captured Tracks), on the same day (May 24) and for a short pre-sale period, available on sexy,...
"That's a really tough answer to question. Answer to question? Actually it's just like that, 'answer to question, how can you answer a...' and so the song begins!
Dustin Payseur isn't just another Brooklynite armed with a fuzzed-up guitar and a penchant for lo-fi recording. His self-titled debut album as ...
One from the vault
One look at the cover should tell you what to expect. A technicolor, Daliesque painting of Rundgren’s head surrounded by a psychedelic whirlwind of weird shapes, marbles with eyes and...
There are times when we music fans want to hear something layered, complex and musically inventive – the sort of music that allows one to lie back with an open mind and marvel at the...
The album cover may feature four young men staring out from a blue background like extras from Revenge Of The Nerds, but this ain’t no Weezer record, ladies and gentlemen. Given the...
Riot grrrl group Bikini Kill started life working on a feminist fanzine of the same name in Olympia Washington in the late 80’s. Founding members Kathleen Hanna (currently of Le Tigre), Tobi...
Silver apples released their debut album in 1967, a collection of songs quite far ahead of its time. Simeon Coxe and Danny Taylor were from the outset an enigmatic duo, who, armed only with...
Modern classic
“To me, it wasn’t a record about death. That was missing the point. It was about life,” Mark Oliver ‘E’ Everett
The summer of 1997 was a funny, mixed up time for British music. Girl power, already irking, was approaching its first anniversary while U2's Popmart tour was trotting the globe in predictably...
As one half of 80's psychedelic drone-rock duo Spacemen 3, Jason Pierce was never one to be coy about his musical aims, or love of pharmaceuticals: the band's famous motto was "taking drugs to...
The moment the ‘smart Nirvana’ showed they were just too smart...
