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Every once in a while, a band come our way that are so crazy and eccentric that you cant help but think that the band members must have a few screws loose. Ladies and gentlemen…. I give you Something Delicious. Something Delicious is exactly what it says on the tin. Their latest release ‘No Fun... 'John Steel Singers make me want to cut off my ears and kill myself just to be sure I never hear them again' said a so called 'Brisbane music lover' with the name Penny Lame. The quote, found on the band's Myspace, seems to be a case of self-mockery rather than reality though and if so, it would... I put in Hasikara Smile’s self-released debut album, ‘Elephant Gun,’ with absolutely no idea what it was. No expectations whatsoever. I heard the first couple tracks from this disc and completely fell out. The opening track, “Korkscrew,” runs on an steady syncopated percussion riff, with...
East London battle rapper, Professor Green, also known as Stephen Paul Manderson, steps up to the plate with a sparkly new single, set to arrest the airwaves with its super sonic flow and languid lyrical assault. Professor Green, Hackney born and bred, sits ever so comfortably into that well known... Mixing up the styles into a musical concoction of R&B and Indie Rock is Cherri V. She brings an assorted bag of Beyonce flavoured nuts to your speakers with new single 'Til The Sun Comes Up'. This is one of those mediocre pop tracks trying to be different. Cherri V tries to create a new platform... If you like lounge music then I guess 'Strike 3' is the sort of record that you would find some interest in but personally I find it all just repetitive. I mean there's no denying it's quite a funky little groove that's going on but really it just goes on and on and on. If this is the sort of...
With debut album 'Starsign Trampoline' just on the horizon Lucky Elephant release the first fruits from it's musical loins in the shape of a little baby double A-side. First up out of the studio-like womb is 'Edgar' which shimmers with summer sparkle though not the sort of summer sparkle we are... If there's one thing you could say about Broken Records it would have to be that they most certainly don't lack ambition as one listen to this, their debut long-player shows. There's a tremendous scope that in truth they maybe struggle a little to contain and hone down as 'Until The Earth Begins To... Shark Speed is a four piece originally hailing from Las Vegas, now based in Utah: Jared and Joseph Christensen (drums and guitar respectively), Hans Ringger (bass) and Thayne Fagg (vocals and guitar). Their debut full-length release “Sea Sick Music” was financed entirely by the band through loans...
Originally formed in Aberdeen before decamping to Brighton, on the strength of 'Just Go Home' The Xcerts appear to be caught in the midst of an identity crisis. It starts full of jangling indie pop frizz and chirpy doo-doo-doo harmonies, before the immaculately named vocalist Murray MacLeod starts...

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The Xcerts - Just Go Home [Single]
Xtra Mile Recordings
It is a wonder why other bands who suffer from getting too involved in the band that tensions start to arise, don’t do a Metric and go off and experiment in solo work and ranging side projects including the fresh and vibrant Juno sound-tracking, Broken Social Scene. This is in the case of... In a world of bankruptcy, redundancy and overall worldwide recession, its comforting to know that the music industry is one that will never suffer the cutbacks and losses as severe as the normal man’s working world has had to endure. Yes there is just as much corporate greed, if not more in the...
OK now this is quite a baffling little duo of tracks as they are very much distant from each other; which of course is no bad thing at all, but a little oddly is the idea to go with 'Christine' as the lead track because to me it sounds like Starsailor meddling with some Burrito Brothers with much...

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Magic & Fur - Christine (Single)
Too Pure Records
For a debut single OK have certainly delved into the deep end with 'Tell The World' that sounds like Morrissey on the most spectacular trip and out of his meat-free mind. Claiming that they sound like The Housemartins it's quite clear where this comparison derives from as they bash out a similarly...

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OK - Tell The World (Single)
Sound of Monkey
If you like infectious things such as bubble-wrap or the imminent threat of alcoholism that you teeter on every Saturday night, whilst also possessing a love of the more jangle-some things in life then The Jacks little ditty 'Not Me Not You' is more than likely going to be something you will favour...

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The Jacks - Not Me Not You (Single)
Jangle Chain Records
Having reviewed Trips debut album “Short Cuts” already this year, I knew exactly what to expect from Trip’s latest single release, probably because I had heard the song somewhere before. For those of you that don’t know, Trip is a much hyped UK lyricist named Alex Child. His album, from which... This straight up Indie Rock outfit “Outraze” hail from Banbury in the United Kingdom (where is that??) and cite The Who, Oasis, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones as their influences. Easy to guess then, what this single, 'Under The Influence', will be like. Released in early June, 'Under The... I first came across the artist known as Fukkk Offf, otherwise known as Bastian Heerhorst, at a Halloween party last year. His highly compressed bass was rumbling the system and fluttering my girlfriends costumed eyelids, and I must say the party enjoyed it, even if after the tracks, a few had to...
Space Disco, or Cosmic Disco, as it has been dubbed, came from a lashback to the “cheesiness” that surrounded some of the Electro-House and Dance-Pop music of the early 21st century. Space Disco harks back to the early Prog-Rock and Kraut Rock of the 70’s and 80’s and is rooted in slow building,...

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Crimea X - Phoros [EP]
Hell Yeah
Blatta & Inesha are an Italian Electro-House duo, much in demand on the the ever burgeoning Electro-House scene. Blatta & Inesha specialize in big-room, clubby, Electro-House and have a gig list that takes in both North and South America, as well as the ever present Ibiza. Blatta & Inesha’s tracks... 'Tell Your Friends' really bristles throughout it's duration. There's a coarseness that frequently gives way to Coral-esque playful melodies arriving from left-field but hugely welcoming. For literally 2 and a half minutes White Belt Yellow Tag (featuring ex-Yourcodenameis:milo guitarist Justin...
Crosby, Stills, & Nash’s Demos — released June 2nd — is their attempt at releasing unreleased material in the vein of Neil Young's Archives, but I'd much prefer that there was one complete "lost album" from their first period instead. This is still a great project, though, and at least it arrived... Euro balladising of 50 Cent’s Neanderthal jaunt ‘Ayo Technology’, shows up Johnathon Vandenbroek AKA Milow's ability to truly illuminate the heart in music. More often than not, it is with a throbbing acoustic spin where more vocal clarity is also given to a usually robust offering. What's...

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Milow - Ayo Technogoloy [Single]
14th Floor Records
'The Virgins' is a suitably juvenile name for a suitably juvenile and immature band. I'm sure it's all very trendy and clever if your in on the joke but to me this song sounds like a complete mess, like the Dandy Warhols covering Jet in a vacuum. Everything from the monotonous beat to the "woo...
Given REM's vast and varied back catalogue, it's sometimes easier to see them in terms of their own extensive discography than to picture them as a band who are still a touring and relevant outfit. The recent re-issue of the bands faultless (and in my opinion never bettered) debut album 'Murmur'... Christina Courtin would have fitted in perfectly in the New York Jazz scene of the thirties and forties, but fate brought her to another era. With her high, nervous voice and sensitive, emotional singing she could have easily shared the stage with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, but it just... Three years since this Canadian group's last album entry, Crisis, Alexisonfire return to quash theories of break-ups, disbanding and lack of intent. Much was read and also written about the lack of music being thought about and released by the band, surfacing rumors that the band was in decline and...
Prologue I moved to Albuquerque two years ago from the east coast. It's a cool town, but the music scene is not at all what I'm used to. You can't go buy a pack of smokes without running into at least one dude with a mullet and a sleeveless Iron Maiden T-shirt. And there's nothing wrong with... Almost anyone reading this review will have heard of Bruce Hornsby. His 1986 hit, “The Way It Is,” hit #1 and the album went multi-platinum. He also won a Grammy that year for Best New Artist, beating out Nu Shooz, Timbuk3, Glass Tiger, and Simply Red (they got it right that year, at least). His... Wrexham - where's Wrexham? Small North Wales town - so can anyone who plays here be any good? Or is it just a local place for local people? The only venue of note, Central Station, has a decent history of getting the right up and coming bands - recently Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Cage the...
I remember when I first started hanging around the music scene. I used to go and see unsigned bands live and buy their CD on the spot from the merchandise stall if they touched me in any way, and that is still to this day my favourite way to discover new music. Tonight, I was looking forward to... See, there's this joke in New Mexico. It goes like this: Q: Why is it so windy in New Mexico? A: Because Texas sucks and Arizona blows. Well, on the eleventh of July, The Toadies came to the heart of New Mexico (Albuquerque, not Santa Fe), and proved that not everything in Texas sucks. Those of...

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Toadies - The Launch Pad - 11 Jul 2009 [Live]
New Mexicans Discover One Thing From Texas That Doesn't Suck

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 World famous in the land of the folkies but slightly less well-known in the normal pop world, Chris Wood re-introduces himself via ‘Albion: an anthology’, a double album containing much of his best work. Though officially released to give himself and those close to him the chance to listen at a...
Self-made man and coffee-house performer Christopher Bell from Jamestown, New York, released his only full length album to date 'I'll Be Home' two years ago. Had a spot of depression from being his own booking agent and almost gave up due to lack of success. It's a bit unclear whether or not he...

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Christopher Bell - I'll Be Home [Album]
Silent Home Records
Look, I'm not one of those guys who get really pissy about hip-hop's loss of direction, spitting out an arguement which runs roughly along the lines of nothing good coming from it since Wu Tang's '36 Chambers'. I don't mind that the high top fade has gone out of fashion, or that like most art the... Before listening to their album “Atlas”, I imagined (Swedish) De La Mancha would sound like (Icelandic) Sigur Rós: other-worldly, probably instrumental, post-rock. The artwork reinforces this and makes me want to write 'glacial' before even hearing a note. Now 'glacial' might not be out of place in...

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De La Mancha – Atlas [Album]
Crying Bob Records
Europe, over time, has given us hundreds, if not thousands of techno artists, I suppose Kraftwerk would be a brilliant example of this, but as I said, there are countless others. All these producers/artists seem to be trying to conquer the music industry with an arsenal of Synthesizers, samplers...

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Sebrok - Vision [EP]
Minisketch
A collection of classic Kinks songs revisited by Ray Davies, backed by a multi-layered vocal chorus, this album will probably divide Kinks fans: an outstanding tribute to Kinks, or just another effort to cash-in on the classics? My personal opinion, after listening to “The Kinks Choral Collection”... Jack Penate is the very definition of British acoustic rock music. After having phenomenal success with the release of his first album ‘Matinee’ , it looks like we may be in the process of seeing history repeat itself with the release of this brilliant follow up titled ‘Everything’s New’. After...
Music these days is rich with experimentation, whether it be with their choice of musical genre crossovers, or actual band line up and instrument choice. Although the aforementioned experimentation seems to happen all the time nowadays, no band seems to have taking to it quite like Shout Out Out... Sure, Enter Shikari blew up long before Friendly Fires relegated them to second spot on the most famous band to come from St.Albans list. But you begrudgingly had to hand it to them: what with keeping things semi-real and the whole DIY label thing, they were easy to ignore but hard not to respect.... As we approach the end of this century’s first decade, those who are wise enough to understand that musical genius is not the preserve of previous generations, and who crave it enough to go and seek it out, can look back and recognise that one of the decade’s most prolific musical talents was...
Trashcan Sinatras arrived on the music scene properly in 1990, dragging their bittersweet pop down from Scotland at precisely the same time as most of Britain was E'd up to the tits and treating Shaun Ryder like the new Jesus. The inevitable happened, and fewer song titles have ever been more... It's quite amazing that bands who come up with perfect little pop songs, full of intelligent lyrics and brilliant melodies don't even get a fraction of the exposure that hit parade quality bands used to get in the sixties and seventies. Bands like Magnetic Fields, Saturday Looks Good To Me and Of...

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Foxes! - Who Killed Rob? [Single]
Catcutter Records

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 My Passion seem to be the next big thing at the moment, Kerrang loves them, they're getting bookings from the same agency as mSI and given that they look a gothic/emo combination I should be ranting about style over substance now. However, 'Thanks For Nothing' proves me right that some bands...

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My Passion- Thanks For Nothing [Single]
Style Suicide Records (Out Now)





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