Posts by Ed Maitland Smith
INTERVIEW: THE SAVAGE NOMADS
March 9, 2011London based band, The Savage Nomads, have annouced the release of their debut album, ‘Coloured Clutter’ which is set to drop in the first week of June. Perfect timing for summer in this writer’s opinion. I don’t want to give… Continue reading →
Album Reviews. Spring 2011.
February 21, 2011James Blake – James Blake Ranking 2nd place for the BBC’s sound of 2011 after the infinitely less innovative Jessie J, it’s unsurprising that James Blake has produced an album of such astonishing beauty, skill and sensitivity that I had… Continue reading →
Anti-Valentine’s Day Playlist
February 13, 2011And so yet another Hallmark Holiday comes around. For those of you not expecting a handmade greetings card and a bunch of enchanting roses, thrilled by the prospect of anonymous proclamations of undying love, for those of you not dining… Continue reading →
David Lynch. A Good Day Today?
November 30, 2010David Lynch, infamous director of numerous incredible pieces of cinema (Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive) not to mention every hipster’s favourite TV Series, Twin Peaks, has released a single of accessible and even listenable musical proportions. Despite a… Continue reading →
Interview: James Blake
November 26, 2010Hot off the decks, Radio 1 championed post-Dub-Step producer gets emotional. If you haven’t been living under a mossy boulder for the past five months or so then you can’t help but have heard James Blake’s incredible ‘CMYK’. I caught… Continue reading →
The Savage Nomads
November 15, 2010It is very rare that I feel as though a review will achieve very little. I usually have a pleasing, self-righteous sense of importance in believing that a review of an up-and-coming band or artist will be read, noted and… Continue reading →
Music and Style – A playground mentality
October 22, 2010Haus Music Editor, Ed Maitland Smith gives some thought as to the often unfortunate relationship between music and style. Music goes, invariably, hand in hand with style. Unfortunately this usually involves becoming part of a scene; usually with a rigorous… Continue reading →
The Supernovas in Strummerville
September 21, 2010The Strummerville – the ‘Joe Strummer New Music Foundation’ – tour begins on Monday 10th October with headline acts from Rum Shebeen, The Supernovas, Beans on Toast and many more. For those of you coming back to York, or those… Continue reading →
Devil Sold His Soul – Blessed & Cursed
July 14, 2010Usually I would keep my apparently socially inacceptable love of certain facets of the Metal genre well away from Haus for fear of some kind of terrible Indie/Electro/Folk retribution, however in this case I am willing to risk the consequences… Continue reading →
Drum & Bass legend Zero T
July 11, 2010Picture the scene. It’s Dublin, 1998, and a fresh-faced young Zero T (aka Cian McCann) tells his parents that he would much rather be a Drum and Bass producer than a student. So, he starts out playing the legendary Bassbin… Continue reading →
