Articles by Vincent Pollard

Planningtorock

Brain Dance

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2014

Following the opposite trajectory of the Knife, who started out in a much more accessible vein and are getting more difficult with every re...

Shocking Pinks

Guilt Mirrors

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2014

It's been seven years since Nick Harte's stunning breakout album as Shocking Pinks reached the world via his eponymous DFA release. After t...

Planningtorock

All Love’s Legal

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2014

Expanding upon the themes presented on 2013's Misogyny Drop Dead EP, Planningtorock (aka UK-via-Berlin artist Jam Rostron) presents All Lov...

My 60 Day Challenge

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2014

Having never played guitar before, I was quite daunted at the start of my Rocksmith 2014 60 Day Challenge. On my first day I was amazed at...

Actress

Noise of Art

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2014

UK producer Darren Cunningham, more widely known as Actress, has not traditionally been one for doing many interviews, being part of the my...

Mark McGuire

Along the Way

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2014

Unlike many other defunct musical outfits, where the solo parts never matched up to the sum, the regrettable dissolution of Emeralds a year...

Xiu Xiu

Angel Guts: Red Classroom

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2014

Hot on the heels of Nina, their bizarre and fascinating Nina Simone covers album, Xiu Xiu bring us another platter of horrific, twisted ava...

Week Seven

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2014

As I had decided at the end of last week, I started Week 7 by using Rocksmith 2014's nifty Riff Repeater function to continue playing "Cold...