Ross Clelland, Journalist

Features / Music

Kim Salmon

Roots? Heritage Act? Piss Off!

"I'm a singer, an artist — a performing artist. The guitar is just one tool."

Live Review: Died Pretty, Loose Pills, Fabels

“Thank you for coming - don’t know when we’ll see you again.”

Features / Music

The Kills

New The Kills' Clip Recalls Billy Idol's Cocaine & Plastic Surgery Years

"'Doing It To Death' slinks along on its own pose of ennui, complete with handy sex and cemetery imagery..."

Live Review: Far From Folsom: Tex Perkins, Vic Simms

"Cash standards like Ring Of Fire and Boy Named Sue provide handy fodder for relaxedly drunken Sunday night singalong."

Features / Music

New FKA Twigs Embraces '90s When-She-Was-Good Madonna

"So, what is it in a great pop song that provokes an emotional reaction in you?"

Features / Music

Died Pretty

Dipping A Toe Into Fleetwood Mac Territory

"I know something like 'Desperate Hours' is not really the thing for watching the sunset."

Features / Music

Watersports Or Classic Sitcom: What Exactly Are Animal Collective Singing About?

"How can you take offence to a band that opens with a sample of dialogue from 'The Golden Girls'?"

Features / Music

Missy Elliot Shakes Her 'Jelly' Perhaps A Little More Arthritically In New Track

"It loops and reverses much as she’s ever done – and didn’t that get old fast?"

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Henry Wagons - After What I Did Last Night...

"Even as sincerity plays off against rhinestone cowboy melodrama, it just about all works."

Live Review: Chvrches, East India Youth

"She tells rambling stories of pants worn backwards and 50 SPF+ sunscreen before charging back into 'Make Them Gold', the backdrop lights sparkling."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Adam Young - Elementary Carnival Blues

"The call of Breeza's "Gunbarrel Highway" is certainly from round here, not some Montana backroad."

Features / Music

New Alpine Track Will Probably Be Used In Gym Classes Everywhere

'Crunches' is another example of coolly electronic and electronically cool danceable music.'

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