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"There Is No Enemy" is the latest album from Influential U.S indie veterans Built To Spill. It took founder Doug Martsch three years to write, re-write, tweak, undo, edit, repeat, repeat, repeat...
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20% Fuzzy Logic 
This album was made with the support of the Canadian Government Department of Heritage. One would have thought such an organisation would have found better cultural projects than this in which to
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The 3 March has for a few years now been known as world Music Freedom Day. It's a day set up to highlight the fact that in harsh regimes aeons away from ours, musicians are stopped from releasing
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83% Ninja Tune 
Ninja Tune were always one of my favourite labels back in the late nineties when Coldcut and company were busy on the various compilation albums that kept my evenings long and rather dazy (or lazy
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"I touched a girl's forehead in the crowd and the electrical current shot from my finger tip. She thought I had magical powers. I think I do too.
You Say Party! We Say Die! began their days opening up for local bands in a church basement of their hometown of Abbotsford, just a short drive away from Vancouver, Canada. It was there that they
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So it seems everyone is on Facebook now and most bands are making the move to using it as one of their priority networking sites.
Myspace while still a strong site has taken a backseat
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23% Southern Tracks Records / MMG
This is a slightly unfortunate set of circumstances I find myself in. Only the other day I saw Last November's video on YouTube (by complete coincidence) and I remember turning to my brother, both
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84% RoadRunner
Goth rock cookery 101: Take a cup full of dark poetry, add in a dash of cock rock swagger, and stir in haunting orchestration, sprinkle in a front man that’s equal parts Glenn Danzig and Elvis, pre
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90%
Kryophere instils beauty into chaos with their debut album "Hiraeth." It's a long spiral through waves of destruction. A whirlwind of doom. "Hiraeth" offers a blend of speed-tech, groove, and
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There’s no way other way to dress this up: “End Times” is one depressing album. Yes, Mark Oliver Everett (E) is known for his bitter sweet take on reality and the well documented turbulence that has
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81% February 4th, 2010
Killswitch Engage (in case you have been living under a shell for 1 years) are a metal-core band from Massachusetts, USA that were formed in 1999. Killswitch Engage's current lineup consists of
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87% Unsigned
There are times in the world of music where everything seems to come in cycles and during the latter half of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 the cycle is that of a technical / progressive metal
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81% Monotreme Records
Picastro is a Toronto-based collective centred around front woman and song-writer Liz Hysen. Picastro delivers a brooding avant folk-rock akin to Godspeed You Black Emperor! backing Cat Power at her
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Play Records have followed up the widely respected and praised ‘At Play’ Deadmau5 release with the second edition. Drawing reference to press materials in order to give a further insight; ‘Included
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Spare a thought for the part time music hack. Unlike those divas at the NME, we don't get a 32 page bio which tells you everything from the band's respective star signs to which kind of Pot Noodles
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Hitting up the UK grime scene with bags of style and spine tingling bass lines is "grimes hardest working producer" Bless Beats. This guy is responsible for one of the most over played tunes in
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I was first introduced to Example’s music in 2007 when my then-girlfriend was highly anticipating the launch of his first album "What We Made". Not trusting her opinion on anything when it came to
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83% 3rd February 2010
I'll start by saying this was easily the best rock show I've been to in a long time, due in no small part to the two ear splitting, bat shit mental support acts Oceansize called on for this, their
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86% 31st January 2010
Tales of wearing cheap underwear in fashionable Paris, raw blues rock, Bee stamps, this was a night to remember. It's always a thing when you've admired a band from afar and that moment finally
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81% February 2nd, 2010
I was lucky enough to be the only photographer / reviewer at the local stop of "The Economy Sucks!....Let's Party!" tour in my city. At this stop it included Anti-Flag, Aiden, Cancer Bats, and Star
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74% London, January 27th 2010
As I find out getting to Islington to see Zico Chain, the gig is going to take place in the small O2 Academy 2. The auditorium is not very big, the stage most definitely tiny, the photo pit non
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Released in the summer of 2009, the saga of Paolo Nutini and his second album "Sunny Side Up" still keeps the chart publishers in a state of excitement. Having recently reached the top of the
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81% Ninja Tune
OK so its supposed to be all about the ‘See it All’ title track and it’s three remixes which are all nice and that but you know… it’s the B-Side that’s doing it for me here. I have to talk about
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73% You've Changed Records
Canadian indie rock musicians Daniel Romano, Fred Squire and Julie Doiron take time out from larger projects to come together in a folky, ambient mix of melancholic lyricism and stripped down
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'Santa Cruz, CA… 10/06/09… A family member of ours has a shortwave radio that we have all been messing around with. We had been using it for sound effects and noises when one day it was left on in
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The way this opens with lush harp, brushes on the drums and bee-bop de bop chorus, with the lightly sung paean 'Dear God' - it's sung sincerely in the way few Europeans short of Van Morrison or Cliff
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83% Doghouse
John Nolan, is a name that most people will be unfamiliar with. He was once the guitar player in Taking Back Sunday during their ‘Tell All Your Friends’ period, but due to personal reasons he and
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Elliot Minor used to seem to be almost too perfect a concept. If Muse and McFly had had a drunken one night stand (ignoring, of course, the basics of probability and human reproduction) you would
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The Grammys, or to be more accurate, the Gramophone Awards is an annual presentation for outstanding achievements in the music industry. Every year, the best of the best literally face the music by
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Unlike many who choose to hate, I have nothing against skaters. I know they're basically little rubber people who don't shave yet - aside from the disturbingly tall, adult looking one you can always
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Last year, MC Lars made a vague dent in the British airwaves with 'Guitar Hero Hero,' a song about how kids thought they were guitarists because they could press multi-coloured plastic buttons in
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Consensus seems to be that Basia Bulat has produced a winner with her second album "Heart Of My Own." Certainly the stateside press are talking that way, she is the darling du jour with the east
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