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Young And lost Club giveaway!
Young And lost Club giveaway!

Singles by Everything Everything, Swanton Boms and more included


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Introducing: Is Tropical
Introducing: Is Tropical

DEBUT SINGLE - 'WHEN O' WHEN' RELEASED - HITCLUB RECORDS - 18TH JANUARY 2010


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Saosin Giveaway
Saosin Giveaway

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Decapitated announce UK Rebirth tour!
Decapitated announce UK Rebirth tour!

New members also announced


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"Get Out of the Garage" Contest Update & Giveaway
"Get Out of the Garage" Contest Update & Giveaway

Chance to play at a major venue and trainers to give away


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2010 BONNAROO MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL DATES ANNOUNCED
2010 BONNAROO MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL DATES ANNOUNCED

NINTH ANNUAL EVENT TO TAKE PLACE JUNE 10 - 13 TICKET HOLIDAY PRE-SALE TO BEGIN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27th AT 12PM EASTERN SPECIAL PAYMENT PLAN OPTION AVA


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Deftones Charity Auction & Show
Deftones Charity Auction & Show


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WENDY’S / MYSPACE RECORDS “FRESH FACES” CAMPAIGN
WENDY’S / MYSPACE RECORDS “FRESH FACES” CAMPAIGN

DEBUTS LATEST EPISODE FEATURING LA HIP HOP ARTIST IamOMNI


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HASTE THE DAY NAMED AS ONE OF TACO BELL® FEED THE BEAT™ HOTTEST UP-AND-COMING BANDS
HASTE THE DAY NAMED AS ONE OF TACO BELL® FEED THE BEAT™ HOTTEST UP-AND-COMING BANDS

BAND HITTING THE ROAD WITH NAPALM & NOISE TOUR STARTING FRIDAY


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Last November Releases New Single & Announces New EP
Last November Releases New Single & Announces New EP

LAST NOVEMBER RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW EP “TUG O’ WAR!” SET TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 26, 2010


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The Antlers Premiere New Version Of Sylvia On NPR
The Antlers Premiere New Version Of Sylvia On NPR

Single Available Now On itunes Headline Bowery Ballroom December 15th Hospice LP Out Now On Frenchkiss Records


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Richard Christy's Charred Walls Of The Damned release track listing to self-titled
Richard Christy's Charred Walls Of The Damned release track listing to self-titled

ARTWORK FOR CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED SELF-TITLED ALBUM NOW AVAILABLE


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Available For Review: Physical CDs, Vinyl and Sample Packs
Available For Review: Physical CDs, Vinyl and Sample Packs

All reviews must be done within 14 days of recieving


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Available for Interview:  Bands and Artists looking to be interviewed by you
Available for Interview: Bands and Artists looking to be interviewed by you

Here is a list of all the bands looking to be interviewed and the ones that are being interviewed at the moment.


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Staff & Interns List
Staff & Interns List

List of all our reviewers


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Site To Do List
Site To Do List

Updates for the site


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sE Electronics release 4 new products leading up 2010 and their 10th Anniversary
sE Electronics release 4 new products leading up 2010 and their 10th Anniversary

sE are shipping 4 new MI products to take the market by storm this Xmas, in one of the most exciting product roll-outs in the MI sector this decade.


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FabFilter announce Pro-Q
FabFilter announce Pro-Q


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ALTSOUNDS TOP 50 ALBUMS 2009 VOTE NOW
ALTSOUNDS TOP 50 ALBUMS 2009 VOTE NOW

Voting closes 18th December


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The unbelievably talented Scottish bloke with an Italian name, Paolo Nutini, keeps the charming and soulful hits coming, with ‘Pencil Full of Lead’ being single number three from his most recent album "Sunny Side Up," which was released in May this year.

Despite being a relatively short track at just 2:27, ‘Pencil Full of Lead’ is a feel good, up-beat event with lyrics “I got a />...Click Here to Read More


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I generally get a little nervous before gigs. Excitement, anticipation and of course freshly laundered underpants all play a part in the pre gig ritual but prior to tonight’s gig I was extra jittery. I’ve been in the thrall of Marina and the Diamonds for the last 18 months or so and now finally I had the chance to catch her live, at a free gig as part of Liverpool music week. The anxiety I />...Click Here to Read More


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Right from the start let me say that this was a fantastic gig. On a rainy Tuesday night in North London, Ray Raposa and the rest of his band brought West Coast alternative to life. Alternative is hard to define, somewhere between garage rock and experimental country music, but that no way does justice to the delicacy of sound over which drawly affecting lyrics are draped like the vines on the />...Click Here to Read More


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Lemonade - Bliss Out [Single]
Lemonade - Bliss Out [Single]

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Sunday Best Recordings

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Rarely has a song title been so apt. There's no chin stroking Radiohead cryptic bollocks going on here, Lemonade have created the aural equivalent of that breathtaking, jaw clenching, four in the morning on the outside terrace, lost in a strobe moment and they know it, so they called it 'Bliss Out.' Simple.

It's properly good too, combining elements of old school rave with the />...Click Here to Read More

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This debut release from the Peterborough duo The Candle Thieves could either infectiously get your toes tapping - or painfully make your toes curl. One person’s heart-warming, is another’s stomach-churning. Cutesy song titles on this four track EP include ‘My Love Will Clap Its Hands For You’ and ‘Lonely Lonely Lonely.’ The opening lines of lead song ‘The Sunshine Song’ are “I would buy you a />...Click Here to Read More


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It seems to have been a great year for A Day to Remember with a headline tour followed by just recently a support slot with hardcore upstarts Bring Me The Horizon as they gained a legion of fans across the UK.

My first experience with A Day To Remember was a cover of a Kelly Clarkson song and I was amused at how it was possible for a band to make 'Since You’ve Been Gone' into a />...Click Here to Read More

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Hellfire Festival Day One [Live]
Hellfire Festival Day One [Live]

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Birmingham NEC 7th November 2009


The first day of Hellfire started with a quick trip around the Music Live event as the press passes allowed coverage into that event. I was honestly quite surprised at how many stalls there were, mostly guitar and drum stalls but it was worth it for any budding musician wanting to get the best equipment!

The actual music side of Hellfire Festival started with Scar My Eyes on />...Click Here to Read More

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I'm not the biggest disco fan in existence but I do like Daft Punk and loved the recent Horse Meat Disco LP so it was a little annoying to see the review of that on here being done by someone who obviously really doesn't like disco at all but anyways... rant over.

Back to the real issue of why you’re reading this and what you get on this album. It is twelve tracks of some pretty />...Click Here to Read More


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Let’s just get my rant out of the way so we can get on with the “movie”…

The opening credits on Michael Jackson “This Is It,” a post mortem documentary sharing rehearsal footage for the tour that never happened, state that it was done with the authorization of Michael’s legal representatives, which unless they are also a medium would hardly know if Michael Jackson would have />...Click Here to Read More


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After listening to Ingrid Michaelson’s most recent full-length release "Everybody," I am not surprised to find that her music has been used for years on television on shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs and One Tree Hill. But don’t hold that against her.

There is a definite ‘pensive narrative over final scene’ feel to a few of the tracks featuring on "Everybody," including the />...Click Here to Read More


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RazorBladeKisses are in a musical world of their own. Their latest release, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Scar" seems to be a shinning example of their dark and twisted musical ideas that can't help but lure the listener in further.

The haunting and eerie sound of lead vocalists Layla and Azadeh seem to send the already dark sound of the album further into strange realms of creativity and />...Click Here to Read More


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Well I could be tempted to complain about a gig in which the main part of the set comprised of only 11 songs. But when those songs are so exquisite and so gently expansive that it felt like time stood still whilst listening, you can’t complain at all.

In front of a packed, but deeply reverential Deaf Institute audience, Bill Callahan and his four piece band (cello, violin, guitar />...Click Here to Read More


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Sheffield’s Slow Club, the duo of Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor, finally released their much anticipated debut album “Yeah So” in July this year. Given their songs veer from folkabilly skiffle-pop to pin-drop-quiet heartbreak, I was intrigued to see how Slow Club would fare live, especially at MoHo Live which is a functional but fairly charmless, basement venue in Manchester’s Northern />...Click Here to Read More


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Girls - Album [Album]
Girls - Album [Album]

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True Panther Sounds / Matador


Calling your band ‘Girls’ suggests someone seeking anonymity (try putting that name in Google). Given the singer/lyricist escaped from a childhood spent with hippy cult The Children of God, this is quite believable. Along with calling your debut record ‘Album,’ suggests that the San Francisco duo of Christopher Owens and JR White may assume they are churning out generic product. The latter is />...Click Here to Read More


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Rebel Emergency first got me hooked through their live shows. All the energy and magnetism they emote when they are jammin on stage is always entertaining to observe. This new record is long overdue. I was impressed at the CD release party at the MOD club (capacity of about 600) as it was packed to the fullest. It was crazy!

Insanity at a record release is always good for the />...Click Here to Read More

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When I sit here reminiscing about Nirvana I remember them as if they were a metaphorical ex girlfriend of mine. Someone I loved implicitly and that changed me forever that but for whatever reason became lost to me. Do I still love Nirvana? Sure. Do I remember all the good times past we had? Sure. Would what we had then work now? Not really. Let me digress.

In the hey />...Click Here to Read More




Alan Pownall - Clara [Single]
Alan Pownall - Clara [Single]

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Young and Lost Club


Here's a single from young London folk-pop fellow Alan Pownall. It's called 'Clara' and skiffles along like sunshine falling on a prancing kitten.

Alan has an expressive voice giving 'Clara' and B side 'The Others' a cozy depth that pulls you along with the trick free tunage. It's classic song writing, especially on 'Clara,' with a familiarity that immediately strikes a chord. />...Click Here to Read More

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How’s My Pop is a four-piece outfit from Lancaster, UK who have just released their debut, “On the Hop” on Barnbox Records. Andrew Raven (vocals/guitar), Tom Diffenthal (keyboards), Matt Canty (bass), and Chris McNeil (drums) spin a variety of grooves but create a sound that lands somewhere between Sondre Lerche and The Arctic Monkeys.

The song-writing displays a maturity one />...Click Here to Read More

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Brakes are a band known for their loud, ramshackle live shows (their superb live album 'Live is Dodelijk' pays testament to this) but here they show that they are just as adept at the kind of melodic pop-rock Pixies used to be able to churn out in their sleep. 'Why Tell The Truth' is a brisk, hook laden ditty with a striking structure which sees an atmospheric, acoustically tinged verse off-set />...Click Here to Read More


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If Mika camped it down JUST a little bit he'd probably arrive at a sound not dissimilar to London born Singer-Songwriter Julian Perretta. What we have here is a polished pomp-pop glitter-ball that ticks as many boxes as humanly possible in the space of 4 minutes.

Beginning with a kazoo hook (you heard that right ) which sounds like the grange hill theme given a Mark Ronson />...Click Here to Read More


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Having already released what is arguably one of the best debut albums of 2009 "These Four Walls," We Were Promised Jetpacks are ending the year with the release of Double A-Side 'It's Thunder And It's Lightning/Ships With Holes Will Sink,' two tracks that really open up what We Were Promised Jetpacks are about, showing their growing potential and the undeniable passion and ferocity with which />...Click Here to Read More


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Kill It Kid - Kill It Kid [Album]
Kill It Kid - Kill It Kid [Album]

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One Little Indian - Out Now


A beguiling one this little bunch as it's not really an album you could associate with a bunch of young'uns such as Kill It Kid as it really sounds like some kind of mid 70's cross between Fleetwood Mac, in all their Stevie Nicks glorious poppiness; The Smiths, with their Morrissey croonery, and a bluegrass tribute band. Which as you can see is going to produce something that's both beguiling />...Click Here to Read More


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