Mark Rowland: Most Recent Articles

	DVD: Oil City Confidential Mark Rowland is impressed by new DVD 'Oil City Confidential', which tells the story of still under-rated, but influential 70's Canvey Island-based pub rock act, Dr Feelgood
	A Certain Ratio: Interview In our second interview with him, Mark Rowland speaks to Jez Kerr, the bassist with pioneering Mancurian post-punks A Certain Ratio about his group's first album since the 90's, 'Mind Made Up', and Sum Ratios, his new offshoot group which consists of several ex-members of the band
	Yeasayer: Interview Mark Rowland speaks to Ira Wolf Tuton, the bassist with New York-based art rock band Yeasayer, about his band's acclaimed second album 'Odd Blood' and how it has both translated and also developed on stage
	Alex Chilton: 1950-2010: “I think Slade records are good, too” Mark Rowland looks back and reflects upon the life and career of the Big Star front man and solo artist, Alex Chilton, who died in March at the age of 59
	Pennyblackmusic Bands Night: London, 20/3/2010 Mark Rowland tells of a memorable night and a mixed bag of highs and lows at the Pennyblackmusic Bands Night at the Half Moon in Herne Hill, London on the 20th March

Most Recent Reviews

	V/A: All Those Times We Spent Together: A Tribute to the Television Personalitie - CD Admirable Television Personalities tribute album from Canadian label The Beautiful Music, the third in a series of ten that it planning to release
	Syllable Section: Linear Views - CD Abrupt-sounding art rock on debut album from experimental Chicago-based group, the Syllable Section
	Dios: We Are Dios - CD Superb home recorded third album from Californian modern psychedelic outfit, Dios
	Hjaltalin: Terminal - CD Innovative and uniquely original second album from cinematic Iceland group, Hjaltalín
	Television Personalities: A Memory is Better Than Nothing - CD Staggeringly good latest album from the Television Personalities, which despite the band and front man Dan Treacy's long history of bad luck, proves surprisingly optimistic and also possibly the group's best album to date