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Amon Amarth's re-release of the 2001 album "The Crusher" is a gem for any fans of Sweden's foremost melodic death metal band. Featuring a cover of 'Eyes of Horror' by The Possessed, and a bonus live disc of "The Crusher" performed in full. This re-release is worth owning for all fans of Amon... Trapped in a genre that applauds musical exploration - which makes it hard to record the best moment as development never stops - it took trumpeter Mark Rapp quite some time to come up with "Token Tales", a collection of expressionistic jazz instrumentals drawn from the pictures in the trumpeter's...

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Mark Rapp - Token Tales [Album]
Paved Earth Music
Holy crap! Here it comes. Finally, the one album I’ve been waiting for. I play “Please Take Your Cash” first thing on a Saturday morning, up to a bad start; the sun comes up again and I suddenly remember why and how I could face London’s awful weather 5 to 7 nights a week in the name of Rock N...
Am I allowed to be a bit less objective and be slightly romantic when it comes to reviewing one of my favourite (if not my absolute favourite) bands ever? Geordie legends The Wildhearts are finally back. After getting a “Spirit of Independence” Award from the same Kerrang whose offices they once...

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The Wildhearts - Chutzpah! [Album]
Backstage Alliance

We Recommend you buy this CD
 Listening to Lenka's self titled debut album without any preconceptions, on opening track 'The Show', Lenka comes across sounding like a 12-year-old girl doing a straight, non-ironic karaoke cover of Regina Spektor. Not that I can imagine many people attempting and actually pulling off karaoke...

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Lenka - Lenka [Album]
Epic / Sony Music

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Remembering the hype surrounding last years platinum selling debut album “Hats Off To The Buskers” I was dreading having to review The View’s “Temptation Dice” so when I finally sat down to listen to “Temptation Dice” - deadline fast approaching - I was left a little winded. Instantly recognisable...
Flood of Red are the a six piece ‘screamo’ band right out of Glasgow and their ‘Place Before The End’ single is, to put it simple rock brilliance. Containing the single itself as well as the addition of the track ‘This Is All We Have Left’, this single is sure to be something of a hit with Emo and... Just by listening to Wall Street Riots you can tell they have come a long way since the two founding members, Karnig Karayan (Guitar) and Charlie Cosser (Vocals) started out playing Nu-metal all those years ago. Bringing us to the present date and now a four piece, Wall Street Riots have created a... In 1974 after five years dedicated to fusing the musical sub-cultures of New York City, The Phenomenal Handclap Band recorded this self-titled album as a culmination and a document of that mission. The recording was then sealed in a time-capsule not to be opened for twenty five years. So now here...

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The Phenomenal Handclap Band - The Phenomenal Handclap Band [Album]
Friendly Fire Recordings / Tummy Touch Records
Where The Land Meets The Sea have a great thing going on here as their debut EP "Listen For The Gulls" keenly demonstrates. "Listen For The Gulls" is a five strong tracklist of musical experimentation that results in an unexpected, joyful and playful sound. Where The Land Meets The Sea hail from... Onlookers latest single ‘Canterbury Tales’ is an odd mix of pop and what seems to be some kind of jazz influence creeping into the mix. The choppy and rhythmic beat makes for a good pop track. It is this ‘feel’ that ensures its status as a song that you can both dance and relax to which I am sure... Playing a style she has called folkabilly herself but living on a bluesy highway- commercial failures, musical sell-outs and mostly other people having success with her songs- Nanci Griffith had seen and heard it all before so she decided to quit writing new songs. The world she sung about for...
Every so often, an album comes along that pushes the boundaries of pop music, that defies genre, and that totally blows everyone's skirt up. This is not one of those albums. What Mama's Gun have accomplished with Routes to Riches shouldn't be underestimated, however. The album is a painfully... Remember Mansun? Towards the close of the last century they were heralded as England’s great rock hope after two critically acclaimed albums, but then as the 21st century arrived, Mansun left; falling apart after the release of their critically lambasted third album and they haven’t been seen... El Cantar De Mio Cid is the second part of a trilogy of EP’s from Bears From Labrador, following on from last year’s auspicious debut, Wilderness. The 12 tracks that make up the triplicate were all written during the same summer, which is certainly apparent from the first two thirds. The...
On my first listen to 'Climb on My Back' by The Silent Years and with no prior knowledge of the band or their music at all I half-dismissed it as a bit predictable and a bit samey. But then by the third listen, I realized something quite special was going on. 'Climb On My Back' is a... Rob Jones, AKA The Voluntary Butler Scheme, when playing live is a one-man band. Literally. He loops piano or guitar to provide a rhythm track, uses a kick drum to add a beat, samples his own voice to provide backing vocals and then sings and plays guitar over the top whilst adding occasional... Of course The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are from Cardiff and are a boy/girl combo. Their debut album came out in 2006 and in the run-up to the release of the follow-up album “Love on an Oil Rig” (great title) in mid-September here is their second single of the year 'Watching The Burglars'....
Every once in while, there comes an album that leaves you speechless - Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest is that album. There are, of course, two very dissimilar reactions to this: some don’t know what to make of what they’re hearing; others are pretty much like the first, but the difference is that... Let this review start with a warning: If you expect a serious review about how Steel Panther are going to change the face of music as we know it you are thinking a much higher expectation for a band (so listen to Fleet Foxes or something!). ‘Feel The Steel’ takes us back to a time where sex,...

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Steel Panther - Feel The Steel [Album]
Island Records (Released 8th June)
First off kudos must go to a quite truly wonderful title. It wouldn't have the same twang to it if he stuck with Marion Morrison but heck it would have been just as intriguing. Now Twin Atlantic are quite far removed from John Wayne in pretty much every way really. They don't have girls names...

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Twin Atlantic - You're Turning Into John Wayne [Single]
Red Bull Records - Out 14th September
This gig flew by so quickly, and that’s a good thing. The Preston based indie four piece got off to a great start with what I assumed was the intro to their set, rather than an actual song. The intro was different, progressive and catchy, then they started playing actual songs. This set was like...

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Team Waterpolo [Live] @ Bodega, Nottingham
Indie Four Piece Pop Band - 17th October
Step into the vast valley of space and time. Stand back and admire the view, take a moment to grab your bearings, now focus. Enter the not to distant future and we find a thirteen track journey to the planet 'Red'. These Aliens go by the name of Datarock and they come in peace, along with some...

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Datarock - Red [Album]
Nettwork

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 Coming out of the Wirral (or Liverpool according to their Myspace) are the latest pop-punk rock and roll crossover to hit our ears in The Hot Melts. According to the little bit of PR that I got on the promo copy the influences of the band tend to be a combination of Eddie Cochran, Weezer and Wes...

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The Hot Melts- Self Titled [Album]
Epitaph/Wonderland Records (Out 7th September)
Rhythm is a big word. I believe that it is the only word in the English dictionary that does not contain a vowel, and one that conjures up a vast array of emotional content. Nara believes that “Rhythm is what makes it all OK” and I have to agree. Well at least a bit anyway, for the sake of my...

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Nara - Rhythm [Single]
Eslamaphobic
Uigg are another band to come out of Nova Scotia in recent times and unlike their peers they seem to not have the same sparkle as bands such as Black Moor. "To Punish and Enslave" seems to start off well with a Fear Factory inspired intro which then kicks in with 'One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall'...

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Uigg - To punish And Enslave [Album]
Diminished Fifth Records
Canada seems to be getting a big step on the metal scene recently, we've had records by Billy Talent, Cancer Bats and Alexisonfire that have done quite well with fans and critics alike. What about the bands that are only just starting out though, will they reach those heights as easily? The first...

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Black Moor - The Conquering [Album]
Diminished Fifth Records
A double album, 52 songs, and it’s not even a greatest hits but “Into it. Over it - 52 weeks” is not just an album really. Evan Thomas Weiss who’s written and recorded music with several bands (The Progress, Damiera, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right, B A Start and others) one day came up with... Using every possible break from Alberta Cross, the English / Swedish band who supported Oasis and The Shins among others, had given him, John Alexander Ericson still needed five years of break times to finish what he started: 'Songs from the White Sea'. Hiding in his small cottage in Wales and only... So Parkwright, what can I say to really describe this band? Parkwright seem to have that surfer vibe about them, but at the same time they lack the energy in their songs to really progress in this genre. Their self titled EP is very ‘samey’ all the way through. I’m not a huge fan of the sound of...

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Parkwright - Self-titled [EP]
Self Released
Recent articles that I've read elsewhere seem to state that guitar bands seem to be coming back onto the music labels radar after the great electro-pop blitz of earlier this year. Bands like The Big Pink, The Chapman Family, Invasion! are all making the magazines and in the latter two's cases they... There's definitely something in the water down Wales way. Those guys love to rock, and a bunch of them do it well enough to grab some serious attention (and record sales) from the rest of Britain and beyond. Queensbury are the next lot in line hoping to 'do a Funeral' with Breakdown, their debut...

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Queensbury - Breakdown [EP]
Self Released
"Perhaps", said one reviewer, "Interpol's Paul Banks has created a solo career as Julian Plenti because his host band's sound (By 2007's Our Love To Admire) had run it's course". Too right my friend. Run it's course? that's the diplomatic way of putting it. Bled fucking dry might be a more...
Close your eyes and imagine you have walked into a horrendously hippie shop; the staff are all wearing huge hemp jumpers and there is that strange smell that doesn't seem to exist anywhere else. This is where Ras G's latest collection "Brotha From Anotha Planet" will be playing, wafting through...

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Ras G - Brotha From Anotha Planet [Album]
Brainfeeder / Alpha Pup

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 So I stumbled upon this really accomplished, well-written, smoothly-produced Pop album, 'The Orange Billboard' by The Moonbabies. “The who? Who are these guys? Surely they were in some other project first,” I said to myself. The sound was such polished Indie Pop, I was sure they had cut their... If the music press at large are to be believed, shoe-gazing is about to make a comeback. Of course we're barely a year into the 80's electro-pop 'comeback' so lord knows how long it will take for this planned renaissance to come to fruition. On the evidence of The Warlocks 5th album 'The Mirror...
'Knock Knock' by Catraz is a cheeky, dialogue driven hip-hop skirting finding its way back to the level of popularity that it had a few years ago? Back when the likes of The Streets, Sway and Bromheads Jacket were doling out pub philosophy like sweets. From the depths of his Bristol base,... The term 'Classic Rock' rightly sends shivers up the spines of most discerning music lovers. The sort of meat-and potatoes blues rock which thrived so decadently in the 60's and 70's is in this day and age seen as a trite and embarrassing reminder of everything we should have moved on from in these... This might be one of the most challenging CD's I have had to review yet (and I've reviewed one by Gary Lewis), but not because it's terrible or that I have writer's block. It's because the album is of George Harrison, and how can you critique something that is almost flawless? 'Let It Roll'...
September, October and November are set to be a busy few months for this UK based band. Gigs that include the BBC “Introducing” Stage at the Reading Festival and the Leeds Festival mean that Chickenhawk have garnered the praise and respect that they probably deserve. Chickenhawk are a shouty,... "Excuse me blonde lady is that for real?" The guy playing on stage was stopped in his tracks. Friends had told me about Beth Jeans Houghton and that she changes her appearance constantly. Tonight she had certainly outdone herself, appearing in a leopard print leotard, a massive white fright wig... Elizabeth & the Catapult could easily have been the name of a new Disney film and that's exactly what the band sounds like. 'Taller Children', the debut album by Elizabeth Ziman and her two bearded friends Pete Lalish (guitar) and Danny Molad (drums) takes you to the magical world of Elizabeth's...
Right I'm going to try and only mention this briefly and if I stray off at a tangent as this review progresses then feel free to set badgers upon me! Crocodile live at Stereo in Glasgow lasted a mere 25 minutes. I never even got my pint finished and I did hang around for several tens of minutes... The coming together of the Grime and Garage genres has caused quite an upheaval in the music world. The “street” sound has garnered much support in the UK and it is starting to stretch its influence outside of the United Kingdom and probably deservedly so. The NextMen are otherwise known as Brad...

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The NextMen - The Lions Den [Single]
Sanctuary Records
Eastern Europe’s star is definitely in the ascendance. Technically efficient and original producers are popping up in nearly every genre, bringing a very edgy and emotional sound to the masses and doing it all in good spirit. PNDC is another to add to this growing list. Secondhand Language is...





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