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Ever since Enter Shikari’s early EP’s of "Nodding Acquaintance" and "Sorry You’re Not A Winner" I’ve been intrigued by Shikari’s mixture of rave culture and hardcore guitars. Hell in the case of their first two EP’s bar "Sorry You’re Not A Winner" no synths were present giving them more of a />... |
In a world where electro pop like La Roux tends to be the norm and a world where bands like BrokenCYDE corrupt the charts with their attempts at getting 'down with the kids' (granted the latter are virtually kids but still) there are some bands that prove that music can still be creative.
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Cue the generic bass kick and gentle heart wrenching female vocalist. Yes that’s right it’s that fella that made the really annoying but stupidly catchy tune with the blonde haired timid Scandinavian charmer Robyn. As for one hit wonders this may have been Kleerup’s one and only chance to hit the />... |
The Beach Soundtrack was and still is a truly beautiful work of musical art. Anytime the film is on or someone mentions it the first thought that pops into your head is Moby - Porcelain. An unreal piece of chill out ambient electronic music and pretty much his best ever work. From then on Moby />... |
Union Sundown run a close link to the likes of new rockers The Answer and Black Stone Cherry. Heavy chords and a meaty vocal to match. They all have a couple of features in common, big sound, big bollox but no diversity. Skip through each track and they sound pretty damn similar. For an avid />... |
For those who don’t know, Soft Speaker are a band from Chicaaaggooooo. Illinois to be particular. "Conditions" is their debut release. It’s not bad, but in all honesty, it’s a bit boring.
Sometimes it’s easy to see what a band are trying to do with their music; however they just />... |
Not one for listening to metal (except for a 3 month period in my mid-teens [the “emo” phase]) it was a bit of a shock hearing Amnesia. The lead “singer” really sounds like he needs some Strepsils, screaming and shouting like the creature in Jeepers Creatures or something of that ilk. People should />... |
The ultra-chilled Karl Wilson was a welcome distraction from the stuffy heat that had poured down on us throughout the day, making our clothes feel stickier than a jam and chewing gum sandwich. I don't know if being in the form of a sandwich would make the jam/gum combo any stickier, but />... |
Having spent time with son-of-a-James-Taylor Ben Taylor and his mum, Carly Simon, the singer/ songwritery outcome of David Saw’s album ‘Broken Down Figure’ shouldn’t come as a surprise. Armed with an acoustic guitar and with help from a band who – at times - plays so subtle you wouldn’t even notice />... |
'I love the “unexpected”. No way we play the same solo's every night! We are a 70's alike jam band!' FEATURES by Floris Stoter [Last chatter by Floris Stoter | 2 Comments 
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For many rock bands becoming 'classic rock' is often the beginning of the end. The audience gets older, likes to hear the old songs instead of the new ones and worse, bands once hailed as the future of rock 'n roll, end up at classic rock shows where every band who lost their frontman seems to end />... |
First of all this has some wonderful artwork that will have you drooling before you even hear a note and of course with a title such as 'Cake' it's not hard to workout just what Race Horses are singing about. Now is it just me or is something going on in Wales that allows for the churning out of />... |
Knob-twiddling has never been an art form that I've ever truly appreciated or understood and it becomes even more baffling for me when it's thrown together with some clearly quite impressive musicianship as I feel it's just covering up all the good work only on rare occasions do I find myself />... |
Let's get a little of the press release information out of the way as this might explain things a little bit certainly better than I could:
"'Kongulo' is the Icelandic word for spider. The song is about Frenchman Alain Robert, known as the 'human spiderman' famous for climbing />... |
Reading the list of influences on the MySpace of Beat The Radar throws up little surprises once you've had a cheeky wee listen to 'Telephone Conversation' as they seem to resemble a mish-mash of quite a few of them thus making this track highly unoriginal but no less entertaining as when you are />... |
For all that we are embellished with electro/disco sounding bands and the like nowadays it's rare that you come across a band that can perfectly combine the balance of all that's good about 80's synth-pop and the post-millenia nu-rave movement but in Defend Moscow we have our one such band />... |
This is awful, just plain awful. As a self proclaimed fan of most forms of stoner/doom/drone metal I feel I am more than qualified to view this collection subjectively and there is nothing here that hasn't been done before hundreds of times over and hundreds of times better. The guitars have a real />... |
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