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I went to see the Canvey Island Rhythm and Blues band Dr Feelgood, at Hartlepool Town Hall at about the same time that this album was originally released and a few days before Motley Crue embarked on the British leg of their world tour. There was the usual Feelgood fans, mainly bikers in their... Disreflect is an artist with which I was not previously familiar and I have had trouble finding much information on them. Neither their MySpace page nor their website list much biographical information, other than they are from Germany. Also, it looks like the band may be just one guy and not a...

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Disreflect - Mnemophobia [Album]
A Different Drum
Honestly, where would soundtracks be without the films of Quentin Tarantino? For a time, just about any film soundtrack would be comprised entirely of incidental music cues or songs that producers paid handsomely for. Then Tarantino came along and said, “Nah, I’d like to do something else...
Even some 26 years after this album initially came out, the name Motley Crue is still a controversial name in rock circles and not just because they simply refuse to die in a fashion that even a Kryptonite-proof Superman would feel the green bite of jealousy over. Now with the band back on flying... Dire Straits was what made him pick up the guitar, a Robert Cray song was the inspiration behind the band name and Joe Satriani named him as his new favourite modern-day bluesmith. Davy Knowles, along with drummer Ross Doyle and bassist Adam Jones, certainly was a pleasant surprise when he entered... I love the way the opening track 'All This Time' repeats the key line 'All This Time' over and over again. It's hypnotic like the Country & Western version of a strobe in a techno gig. Drug-like it numbs one part of the brain to let other parts that enjoy the unexpected freedom. The song is the...
"The Black Box Revelation might not be reinventing the wheel" their PR chirps, "But one thing for sure..they're certainly adding to it". Aside from their child-like grammar and sentence construction - they are in PR I guess - I'm also left wondering how exactly you add to a wheel. Chrome Rims? ... I saw Matisyahu in 2005 at the music festival Moe Down, before 'King Without a Crown' was a hit. I didn’t know what to expect, having heard only that he was an orthodox Jew rapper. At the very least, the novelty factor was likely to be interesting. Happily, I was blown away. Matisyahu is... First of all, I'm gonna lay this down on the table, and then move on swiftly before the pitchforks get sharpened. I quite like Papa Roach. Their previous album "Paramour Sessions" was a bit of a rather damp squib, as was "Lovehatetragedy" before it, leading into what I'm now referring to as...

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Papa Roach - Metamorphosis [Album]
Interscope Records
“To me, just seemed like a quiet, hippy loon…in bellbottoms. I remember him always having a can of Bud in his hand, quietly bumbling around like Shaggy from Scooby Doo! He is sadly missed: rock in peace, dude” – Jeff ‘Mantas’ Dunn, ex-Venom I wasn’t even a year old when Cliff Burton died in... 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... Dear heavens, I'm surprised that Utada has a record company behind her. Her debut album is in fact released on Island Def Jam which should be some sort of guarantee, but this IS NOT the case. Utada comes complete with cheap devices of pseudo-classical intros seguing into cheaper synthesizers and...

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Utada - This Is The One [Album]
Island Def Jam

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
It is often said that we live in a sanitised world; one where technology is constantly developed to assist us to live our lives more comfortably. From electric can openers to twitter, we embrace anything that eliminates, or at least reduces, any effort involved in us living our everyday lives. ...

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Kong - Snake Magnet [Album]
Brew Records

We Recommend you buy this CD
 Mapei is defiantly making a name for herself in the music world. At only 24 years old this female rapper seems to be causing waves with her R&B / Hip-Hop / Rap / Techno mix. Her debut EP ‘Cocoa Butter Diaries’ was released this summer and is an impressive four track body of work. I know what...

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Mapei - Cocoa Butter Diaries [EP]
Alt Delete Records
Brazenly taking the early 90s grunge formula and adding an abundantly transparent radio friendly sheen, 'Slaves To Gravity' have struck out with their EP release 'Doll Size'. There is nothing gravely wrong with either of the 3 tracks to be found here, the production is crisp and well balanced, the...

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Slaves To Gravity - Doll Size [EP]
Spine Farm Records
Fans of old 21st century pop-punk are in for a real treat as 8th Time Luckie give us their latest release. The Surrey based 4-piece deliver their very own blend of distorted punk guitars, layered with vocals sure to have anyone singing along. This release is their second and self titled EP and is... What can I say about The Pains of Being Pure at Heart that I haven't already spewed forth into the world? Not a lot really but I'm going to try and conjure up some new feelings towards this most delightful of musical groups. So lets talk 'Come Saturday' the final single to be lifted from their... The first time I heard 3 Inches Of Blood was probably the same as most people via some sort of media (in this case Tony Hawk's Underground) which used 'Deadly Sinner' as a track. The first 3 Inches of Blood album was a good one to listen to if you were a fan of stories about myths (Orcs) and...

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3 Inches Of Blood- Here Waits Thy Doom [Album]
Century Media (Out Now in Europe, September 8th in USA)
I’m just going to come right out and say it. Whatever inspired Surfaces in their lives to write this kind of music must have been pretty damn horrible! Surfaces heavy and twisted style is pure scream metal energy. From the first seconds of the opening track ‘Voices and Lies’ the listener is... Today’s music industry is full of great songs there is no denying that for a second and covering these great songs has become an ever increasingly popular move for most artists, the most famous use of this idea here in the UK would probably be the ‘Radio One’s Live Lounge’ series. More often than...

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Christopher Bell - Covers [EP]
Silent Home Records
The London duo of Samuel ‘Blob’ Gough and Amir Alam moved to Los Angeles to soak up the west coast rays and form Blind Boris. Obviously inspired by the melodic rock scene of the late 70s and 80s, the debut album sounds like it was made thirty years ago in the glory days of The Eagles, at the start...
There's something about the moments when Rachael Kichenside pauses for a microsecond, looking half upwards, small smile playing, that encapsulates the act of making this particular magic. This is a great place to see Run Toto Run. Performing a gig on a terraced roof garden, the place small enough...

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Run Toto Run [Live] at the Canvas Lounge
Knutsford 22 August 2009

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 Biffy Clyro have spent longer in the indie ghetto than most. They released 3 full albums of progressively tinged, hardcore indebted aggro-pop before they saw the golden, gleaming spotlight and became essentially a British version of The Foo Fighters (...only good). Last year's monumentally... Gerald Clayton has been praised by the LA Times and the New York Times, he has collaborated with New York City's Jazz Gallery and England's BBC Orchestra and he has already received several awards. The piano skills of this young jazz musicians aren't worth a discussion - he is very good - but you...
Well hello Mr.Guitar! What you are about to experience is roughly 3 minutes 13 seconds of quite blistering in your face guitar. Some of it will make your head nod in quite unforgiving approval whilst some of it will create a kind of mushy fuzz in that space between your ears. Generally it's all...

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The Hot Melts - Red Lips [Single]
Epitaph Records - Out 31st August
Sweet tasty Lord Jesus this is absolutely bonkers and brilliant. 100% in your face grab you by the jugular brilliant, thrashed and hoarse Cuddly Shark deliver an absolute gem of a follow up to their equally brilliant single 'Woody Woodpecker'. 'The Sheriff Of Aspen Bay' screams like me, like me,...

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Cuddly Shark - The Sheriff of Aspen Bay [Single]
Armellodie Records - Out Now
There has to be something special and certainly intriguing about a band that before really releasing anything locked themselves away in the studio for 18 months to perfect a debut album that doesn't really have any hype as the band haven't been heard of for that lengthy time. Look at the calibre...
The Chemists began life in a pub and you would possibly assume that this really isn't the environment to start a creative force what with the pork scratchings breeding behind the bar and the sticky floor thwarting your efforts to get home; but, on the flip-side it says that there could be something...

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The Chemists - A Love Like No-One Else [Single]
Distiller Records - Out Now
First you guys should all listen to this single, I wasn’t impressed. It struck me as fairly unimaginative slab of retro synth-pop. On second listen I started to get annoyed. It felt clinical AND cynical: an aiming-for-across-the-board-appeal, radioplay-courting Frankenstein’s monster, bolting... 9 times out of 10 when actors decide to try their hands as musicians the results are pitiful. The list is long and shitty, be it Keanu Reeves's grunge band, Russell Crowes folk group or Jamie Foxx's cheesy r&b abortion, there are many precedents and they are all resolutely awful. Hoping to buck...
Having never encountered Australian pop nuggets 'The Veronicas' before this afternoon (my younger brother tells me I'm pretty out of the loop on this one) I honestly had no idea what to expect. Roughly 20 seconds into the song I was struck by an inestimably grim thought though.... I would have to...

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The Veronicas - 4 Ever [Single]
Warner Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Blasting out of the speakers like a modern James Bond theme, 'The Never Ending Why' certainly makes an imposing first impression. Placebo appear to have ditched the 'less is more' aesthetic that worked so well for them on their 'Sleeping With Ghosts' album (an album I rate as their best) and have... Ivyrise. One can only presume that this southern quartet named themselves this after the way that Ivy, rises. Obviously not a literal meaning for the band, but a metaphor on which direction this band wish to go. Having already supported Bon Jovi on tour in 2008 alongside none other than Brit...
Not content using customary glowing reviews to sell their release, Homelife instead quote a Japanese visitor to Manchester in 1993: "Your houses, they look like cakes!" What that says about the music is, quite a lot actually. Homelife are a stripped down duo playing and recording all the laid... The gap between superstar DJ and software geek seems to narrow every year: Toronto's Joel Zimmerman may now be one of the planet's premier crossover techno artists, but his roots lie in tweaking 8-bit programs and doubtless staying up way after bedtime. For a change however the hype is well... Picture a blank page, not even one of a big size, and you'll start having an idea of my knowledge of MGMT prior to approaching their album "Oracular Spectacular". Having no expectations sometimes is good, as there is no pressure of "previously-heard" or "previosuly-described". Based on this, a...

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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [CD]
Columbia/SonyBMG

We Recommend you buy this CD
It’s been a long time since I listened to Thrice, I remember listening to "The Artist In The Ambulance" album and then for some reason they dropped off my radar, not in a case of I suddenly didn’t like them, I just had moved on trying to find other bands and kind of forgot about Thrice. So...

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Thrice - Beggars [Album]
Hassle / Vagrant (Out Sept 14th)

We Recommend you buy this CD
 This is my first encounter with Alberta Cross' music, and I have to say that this sort of stuff is right up my street! Not knowing much about Alberta Cross, I did a little research - MySpace, official website, Google, Twitter. There was very little biographical information on these sites, but... Every year there’s one album that comes along and makes me just stand up and declare this as the record of the year. 2009 has been a weird year in that ideal has changed about three times for me so far: firstly came Mastodon’s "Crack the Skye" then "Lungs" by Florence And The Machine and now "The...

90%

Porcupine Tree- The Incident [Album]
Roadrunner (Out Sept 14th)

We Recommend you buy this CD
Preston may not have been well know at all, a few music fans may have known him as a member of the British group ‘The Ordinary Boys’, but he was far from a house hold name at this point. A lot of people now associate him with Celebrity Big Brother, an ‘All-Star’ version of the British Channel 4...

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Preston - Dressed to Kill [Single]
B-Unique Records
Well this came as something of a pleasant surprise. Italy's Ofeliadorme have released their debut EP "Sometimes It's Better To Wait" on their own label and have very much let the music do the talking. This is darkly tinged acoustica informed very clearly by the aesthetics of post-rock and... Some albums start with a note that captivates you, a lyric that makes you take notice, a riff that tingles your spine. "Master of Reality" makes you notice with a coughing fit brought on from smoking weed. Such begins one of the most classic Black Sabbath and rock albums of all time "Master Of...
Face The Unkown's self titled EP represents one of those moments where it’s slightly difficult to find any information on the band in question. Leaving me with the only option being to look at the booklet, which had many pictures of band members looking moody and the song titles being ‘Devoid’,... Set the controls on the WABAK Machine for 1976, Sherman (From BBC TV show The Rocky & Bullwinkle show? Watch Peabody’s Improbable History to get this reference.) YouTube - Peabody and Robin Hood "Fundamental Darkness," the latest release from Nico’s Alchemy, takes us back to a time when arena... Knowing that Charm City Devils are signed to Nikki Sixx’s Eleven Seven Records will give you a massive insight in to their sound. It’s rock with a touch of more rock and an element of even more rock thrown in for good measure. As the opening, and title track ‘Lets-Rock-N-Roll (Endless Road)’...





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