Kevin Lee Kharas

Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies on the Joys of Doomscrolling

People say doomscrolling is tearing apart the social fabric – and they're probably right – but, says Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies, it's a problem he's learning to like. Here, he tells us what it's taught him about life and people

White. Loud. Angry: Sleaford Mods Live By Kev Kharas

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev Kharas, has he found a voice?

Deerhunter

Halycon Digest

SALEM: King Night Track-By-Track Review

"I’ve never known anyone to make music as physically affecting as Salem’s," says our Kev Kharas as he gives his first impressions of _King Night_

Shiver Into Existence: Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics

Primavera Sound 2010: In Review

Kev Kharas floats twenty feet above Barcelona as the new indie mainstream sinks beneath the power of Wire, Pet Shop Boys, Atlas Sound and the Joker. Primavera picture by Lucy Johnston

Primavera Sound 2010: Five Festival Moments Not To Be Missed

Kev Kharas is off to Primavera tomorrow, the bastard. Here's a Dragnet special on his top picks and why the Barcelona bash is an antidote to 'festival season'

I Told A Lie: Mathew Sawyer Doesn’t Talk About His New Album

Matthew Sawyer meets Kev Kharas for beer and they circumnavigate around his excellent new album, How Snakes Eat... All art by the artist...

Dragnet #9: Protect-U, d’Eon, Family Time

Finding things in the idiot bin

These New Puritans: Hidden Track-by-Track & Exclusive Photos

Kev Kharas dissects These New Puritans' second album _Hidden_ track by track, and we present an exclusive picture gallery of hot young naked men by Lucy Johnston.

Staring At The Rudeboy: An Interview With Jamie T

A Look Back At The 00s: ‘Glo-fi’ And The Sadness Of The Advertised Man

Kev Kharas looks back at a decade where the internet destroyed our channels of discovery, and allowed the rise of glo-fi

Beleaguered Balearic: Getting Steamed Up With Blondes

Dragnet #8: New Sounds From Jam City, John Talabot, Cloud Nothings

Wading through shit fumbling for golden fish

Zomby

One Foot Ahead Of The Other

Down To Earth Memory Tapes Not Desperate For Attention

Dragnet #7: New Music From Blondes, Ghost Hunter And Tangles

Loitering in virtual hallways looking for teachers to fuck

New HEALTH Album Get Color Reviewed Track-By-Track

Unblinking vision, unmatched madness, the saddest rhapsody and pure, pure rhythm – but where do you go when your first record sounded like The End Of The World . . . ending? HEALTH return.

The Best New Music Of The Year So Far: A Dragnet List

Kev Kharas looks at the past six months to gather up the finest new music of 2009

Emperor Machine: Dark Room Dynasties And Roman Stoned

The Field

Yesterday And Today

Dragnet #6: New Music From FaltyDL, Hype Williams And Joy Orbison

Loitering at the fringes of the MySpace melee

Dragnet #5: New Music From Pariah, Walter Jones And Beach Fossils

Gambolling slack-jawed in search of grace

Peaches on Pussy-Licking, Iggy Pop & People Getting It Wrong

Returning with a fourth album given to rare moments of vulnerability, Peaches sets The Quietus straight on man-hating, Iggy Pop and her vulva

The Horrors Daub Their Name In Brit Pop Tradition With Primary Colours

With the excellent _Primary Colours_ now on the shelves, Kev Kharas meets The Horrors and discovers why they're part of the great dandy tradition in British pop

Dragnet #4: New Music From Alexander Nut, Patten And Teengirl Fantasy

Cruising the web for brain-crippling kicks

Dragnet #3: New Music From Floating Points, Deep Shit, Toadally Krossed Out

Trawling the internet for crooked kicks

Dragnet #2: New Music From Hot City, Cold Pumas, Stag Hare

Trawling the internet for crooked kicks

Dragnet #1: New Music From Atlas Sound, Marco Bernardi, Spider And The Flies

Trawling the internet for crooked kicks

The Horrors’ New Album Primary Colours Reviewed Track-By-Track

In which three Quietus hacks count the ways in which they love thee

BLOC 2009 Reviewed: Aphex Twin, Kode9 & More Hit The Beaches

The Quietus does like to be beside the seaside, especially when its noggin resembles a pillbox shattered by the unrelenting barrage of an invading force of some of the freshest names in electronic music

Flying Lotus Interviewed: Exploring The Esprit Of The LA Bass Lord’s 2008

Kev Kharas prepares his Lotus notes to ask Warp Records' Steven Ellison about J Dilla, his Los Angeles long-player, and his place in global beat culture this 2008