Live Reviews, Reviews
Levitation Orchestra @ Headrow House, Leeds
‘Leeds’ and ‘jazz’ aren’t two words you hear in the same sentence often – so when Levitation Orchestra played Headrow House last Friday, I was keen to investigate.
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Dan Hackett
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Sustainability at festivals: How to have an Eco-Glasto
Enjoy your summer festival the No Taste way: hard on the liver, kind on the environment.
Reviews, Live Reviews
Jade Bird: A charming interlude @ All Points East (yes, we know it's two months late, shut it)
Emerging from my toilet, I followed the mellifluous sound towards the stage, like a Looney Tunes character floating after the vapours from a hot pie.
Reviews, Live Reviews
Willie J Healey @ Clwb Ifor Bach: lovely vibes
Willie J Healey is the ideal size. I don’t mean height-wise (although he appears to be roughly my height, which is of course the perfect height anyone can be). Willie J Healey has made it to one of the most exciting levels of fame as an artist: he’s selling out shows, he has a lo
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The Best Ever Workout Songs: A Definitive *Listicle*
In which we attempt to review tracks from the Spotify playlist 'Workout'... mid-workout.
Reviews
A Weirdly Emotional Review of ‘Nature Always Wins’ by Maxïmo Park? Not Sure What Came Over Me???
With ‘Nature Always Wins’, Maxïmo Park are among the first British bands to release an album recorded during the chaos of all that was 2020.
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Our insightful and accurate predictions for the next Arctic Monkeys album
Arctic Monkeys has begun working on a new album... but what will it sound like?
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Pop's Dirtiest Lyrics: The Good, the Bad and the Absolutely Bonkers
Good evening, my name’s Dan Hackett and I’d like to welcome you to Sexual Lyrics, with me, Daniel Scott Hackett. I’ll be your host tonight as we spiral madly through the anals of history to chart the gleeful rise of smut in pop. So turn on, tune in, strap in and strap on. Let’s p
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A No Taste Halloween Special: The Most Haunted Tracks in the Universe
These are the foulest, darkest, most haunted tracks in the universe. May they burn in the hot fires of Hell this Halloween!
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What is the all-time sexiest instrument?After weeks of furious arguing, here's our verdict!
Here: if you're going to learn an instrument to be more attractive, these are the ones you're gunna wanna go for...
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Are Tribute Acts Actually Good? - An Investigation
Are tribute bands inarguably naff? Or are they sometimes… alright? Come - let us investigate together.
Blog
Drive-ins and spacesuits: how to gig safely in 2020
Keen to attend gigs but terrified of disease? Mate: we've solved your problem.
Interviews
Demons, pancakes and experimental club: a wild interview with Ani Klang
Ani Klang is a California-raised, New York-honed, Berlin-based music producer and DJ, and a pioneer in experimental club music.
Album Reviews, Reviews
Hanni El Khatib's new album FLIGHT is a whooole bag of tricks
Reinventing yourself as an artist is tough. Constant comparisons to prior works, crowds clamouring for the hits, pressures from labels. And yet, here is one who, with his latest album FLIGHT, has achieved this and more. Blues-punk wordsmith Hanni El Khatib’s new creation is unlik
Album Reviews, Reviews
The Strokes 'The New Abnormal' is an album for every mood (especially if that mood involves being hungover)
In a rare act of productivity, here I am reviewing the Strokes' latest offering titled, very aptly, The New Abnormal.
Reviews, Blog
Glastonbury Application
As you are probably aware, Glastonbury 2020 has been cancelled. No Taste was built to be our vehicle into the festival by applying for press passes. Bollocks. Below is the exact application we sent to the press team. We never received an answer from them before the festival was c
Reviews, Album Reviews
Black Sabbath: A fiftieth anniversary album review that we forgot to publish on the actual date
What is this? Am I actually enjoying Black Sabbath? Am I listening to a metal album, and not just listening idly but actually replaying songs? Am I genuinely adding them to Spotify playlists? Am I, a 26 year old man who has never belonged to any particular genre or fashion beyond
Live Reviews
I roamed Bristol drunk in search of live music
Well, it’s 9 o’clock in the evening and 5 degrees outside. I’m sat in my bedroom in Horfield, Bristol, with a Thatchers Haze and some little flickering tea candles (I light them occasionally for ambience). It is warm here, and quite cosy, and in about twenty minutes I am going to
Reviews, Blog, Festivals
Everything you need to know before volunteering at Boomtown Fair
If you’re banking on bagging a ‘free’ ticket to Boomtown Festival by volunteering, here’s everything you’re gonna wanna know.
Song Lore, Blog
Song Lore: Fuckin’ in the Bushes by Oasis
A tale of violence, politics, and the fiery implosion of a once-perfect dream. Hehey!
Song Lore, Blog
Song Lore: Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue
Hello, welcome, step inside my office. Do take a seat, and please, help yourself to a cigar. There you go. Here, I’ll light it for you. Enjoy that. It cost me a fortune . Do you want an enormous flagon of bewilderingly strong wine? No? Oh. Well do you mind if I have one? Excellen
Fashion
Wear a Cardigan this Winter, You Idiot
Winter is upon us and that means one thing: weird temperatures. It’s a silly myth that winter is cold. You do not spend the majority of your time in winter in Britain feeling cold. Winter temperatures across this odd collection of islands are split down the middle, a 50/50 split
Live Reviews
Wildest Gigs: Primal Scream, 2017
I was 23, living in Berlin at the time. I’d flown home to Yorkshire for two reasons: to try and save a relationship, and to attend Tramlines Festival in Sheffield. The former endeavour went tits up, naturally, and as a consequence I spent much of the festival desperately putting
Album Reviews
Album Review: Here’s to Christmas, by Chris Kamara
Chris Kamara made a Christmas album and I have to review it. Fuck sake man. The album is called Here’s to Christmas, a toast that nobody has ever made except in irony after the grand ‘I HATE YOU ALL’ finale of the Brexit-themed Christmas dinner argument. If you’ve ever listened t