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There has always been a fine line between channelling sincere bemusement by expressing natural feral exuberance through music, as opposed to trying to fake it in order to ride on the cash cow of commercial rock. With some modern bands, it’s often difficult to tell exactly which of the above... Recorded at the famous Scottish venue King Tut's Wah Wah Hut during the celebratory single launch of 'Crisis In The Slow Lane' (which is actually the plodder of the bunch) we are offered up the eight songs being touted on the Xcerts current tour in all their earnest, heartfelt glory. You can find...

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The Xcerts - Live at King Tut's [Album]
Xtra Mile Recordings
Hellsaw's 'Cold' is one of those albums that seems to start with a very Opeth direction with the very long intro for 'A Suicide Journey' but then suddenly turns into a Death Metal style assault on the ears with the usual formula of screaming vocals, blast beat drums and low tuned guitars and...

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Hellsaw- Cold [Album]
Napalm Records
Hardcore Superstar meet Buckcherry and together they decide it’s time to try and hit the charts. 'Crash Theory', the opener of this self-titled album by Sweet Cyanide has the feline scratching vocals of Josh Todd and Jocke Berg; it oozes of sexual energy, but with an added edge that gives them a... These days the music industry is plagued with artists aiming to be the next new thing, all of which are looking to what the future of music can offer rather than looking back to the good old days for hints and tips (even though, in my opinion this isn’t a bad thing at all). Once in a while a group... Though penned in the late fifties and covered by blues legend Albert King, 'As the Years go Passing By' doesn't sound like the typical classic blues song. It's more connected with 'Still Got the Blues' than with 'Mannish Boy' as it is as much a pop song as it is a blues song and as a result it's...
To start this off I'm going to talk about Arjen Lucassen and the Ayeron project but with very good reason as you shall see. Ever since the concept came to being with 1995's 'The Final Experiment' Arjen's always has had vision to push the boundaries with albums containing artists such as Fish from... From the ashes of Uncle Tupelo, god-fathers of the 90s alt-country movement, came two new bands: Jay Farrar´s Son Volt and Jeff Tweedy´s Wilco. At the time most people assumed of Uncle Tupelo´s two song-writers, it would be Farrar and Son Volt who would go on to a more successful career. In the... The First are not "The First" band to create an EP sounding like 'Land and Sea', that is melodic pop punk tunes not too short of Taking Back Sunday. In fact there is whole plethora of influential references on show on 'Land and Sea', from Funeral For A Friend to Gallows. This is all hunky dory,...
Kochka are well up for it, that much is certain. These four Glasgow based characters abound with enthusiasm for their craft and that shows on this, their second EP. Opener 'Cowards and Kings' actually starts off like a bouncy cover version of The Knife's 'Heartbeats' (okay, okay - José...

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Kochka - Dacha [EP]
Self Released
Anyone who's taken the time to delight themselves with Grammatics self-titled debut album will no doubt be aware that it is a delicious slab of disorientation that perceives to get under the skin and with 'Murderer' it's very much a case of mission accomplished. 'Murderer' is a taut slow grower of...

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Grammatics - Murderer [EP]
Dance To The Radio

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 "Naked And Fearless" is the most recent surge of music from Jacoby Shaddix and Co., that is trying desperately to breakaway from the Nu-Metal label that Papa Roach have carried around with them since the release of 2000’s “Infest”. 2009’s “Metamorphosis” is their least nu-metal album to date and...
I couldn’t help being attracted to an EP called 'Dude Manor', it just sounds like fun. I stick the CD on and open the biography to find out more. Living with Lions is yet another Canadian act- what’s with Canada and rock recently? I would consider moving there if it was warmer! Dude Manor is... The 21st century seems to be an increasingly fascinating time for music. New sounds are popping up where they are least expected, incredible new sound effects are being splashed on anything that they possibly could be and cross genres have virtually become an everyday occurrence. The Electro /...

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Rob Glennon - Electric Boogaloo Lab [EP]
Bastardo Electrico Records
Rappers of course can be lovers and fighters, a dichotomy which Clifford "T.I." Harris knows more than most. Currently serving a year and a day incarcerated in the Federal Corrections Institute at Forest City, Arkansas after pleading guilty to weapons charges, he'll spend more time locked down than...

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T.I. - Whatever You Like [Single]
Grand Hustle/Atlantic
I remember tapes, do you? Video tapes were probably more annoying than tape cassettes due to their persistence in floor noise and that low quality crackling. But anyway, these tapes are in the form of four human beans, based in Winchester and are surprisingly unsigned. 'C45' Ep works well on many... Oh for fuck's sake. Now we've got bored with Fall Out Boy and seen off Panic! AT ! The ! Disco!, along come The Mission District, a five piece from Toronto who've crossed emo and synth-pop to create....S-emo? Popmo? Just in case you were wondering, celebrity blogging leech Perez Hilton is... Exlovers may already be your new darlings. Having supported ev-er-y-one in their short existence (Pete Doherty, Golden Silvers, Emmy The Great etc) you've probably already heard their wistful melodies drifting toward you at the bar and found yourself looking them up as soon as you got home. What...
Church of Misery steals the stoner metal crown with "Houses of the Unholy". This selection of seven horrifying tracks, all about serial killers and the metal bands that love them, rips into the ether with groove and terror. The list of lyrical influences reads like a guest list for Charles... Unlike many people I never quite got along with Neil Hannon or The Divine Comedy. I won't lie to you and say I ever lost much sleep about it, but on reflection I think the problem was that the whole empirical Britishness thing to me just reeked of tweedy intellectualising - with Something For The...

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The Duckworth-Lewis Method - Meeting Mr Miandad [Single]
Divine Comedy Records/1969 Records
Lost and lonely twining rock with the odd glam spasm is spewed out from a brisk and trundling guitar base, as Wall Street Riots build upon their boisterous and stirring four tack debut EP, ‘Playground Politics’. In ‘One More Ride’, they have conjured up a song that complements the playful,...
Amazing Kids in Cars. Indie pop rock. Leicester. More information than that is hard to come by, even in these crazy days of the Google and Yahoo wars. It seems Kids In Cars have been knocking about since back in '07 and have recently had a line up change, adding a couple of new faces. That is not... When bands haven’t released anything official in over 3 years there is always going to be a lot of anticipation when they finally put something out there. And it is no different for alternative indie rock legends Placebo, whose fans have been waiting since 2006 to sample something fresh from...

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Placebo - For What It's Worth [Single]
Dreambrother Limited

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Blakfish have been described as genre busting in the press and with their punk / hardcore / progressive mixture that description seems very apt! The trend amongst British bands this year is 'fight the injustice and the ignorant' and we have seen bands succeed with it e.g. Gallows and some not so...

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Blakfish - Champions [Album]
Hassle / Big Scary Monsters

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 Stumbling out of the tube station at Camden, after a couple of long hours sitting and sweating with excitement on the train, I try to find the prestigious Electric Ballroom. Looking around at the busy streets, I spy a line of mohawked, pin cushioned and tattooed ladies sitting in an ironically... If there is one thing I'm a sucker for it is a nicely worded song title; 'Jeremy Kyle Is A Marked Man' for example, just brilliant. Or my favourite: 'Ringo Starr - 2nd Best Drummer In The Beatles'. These are just a handful of what's on offer from the complex instrumental rock Birmingham four piece...
Draven is a new Hard Rock British band fronted by a pair of identical twins, Jim and Frank Paoli. I gave a listen to their debut release, 'Eden.' I will confess, after one listen to the album I was ready to give this one a mediocre rating. The first pass yielded two songs that I thought were OK...

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Draven - Eden [Album]
CNR Records
I picked up a copy of the new album from Blue October UK, 'Walk Amongst the Living' and was kind of excited because I love a couple songs by Blue October off the album 'Foiled.' Well, after listening to the first few tracks I began to wonder how their sound had changed so very much. I did a... Japanese rock music seems to be invading the UK with full steam in 2009 what with Dir En Grey, An Cafe, Electric Eel Shock and Melt-Banana gracing our shores and getting recognition in recent months. FACT are the latest band to cross the oceanic divide and gain a plethora of fans. The FACT guys...
Alright, I want to hear just how random you guys are out there. What is the most random, weird, crazy thing you have in your music collection? Up until this moment, mine was a Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee with the track ‘La Gasolina’ which I picked up while passing through Arequipa, Peru....

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Kaka - Kaka [Album]
Despotz Records
Let's see now... it says here in this bumpf that The Brent Flood should be bringing to mind Interpol, Doves and Morning Runner. Umm...No. No, no, no (actually I'm gonna give you Morning Runner - you sure you really want them?). There is no Interpol darkness and there are no huge souring Doves... Mancunian misery guts Mark E Smith is seen by many as a cult icon, a figure who has managed to spend more than 30 years in the music industry without ever once coming close to wider public consciousness. The Fall are obviously a band Victorian English Gentleman's Club take a great deal of...
ARGUMENT: I suppose that everyone has their own favorite tragically-dead, beautiful, terrible genius singer-songwriter. There are certainly enough to go around. But if Nazis had my parents and forced me to pick my all-time favorite, I’d have no problem telling them Elliott Smith. And if I had to... It took 15 years and about $20 million to make Chinese Democracy. Considering there are 14 songs on the album, that's over a year and around $1.4 million per track. I heard the singles, so I already know it's not packed full of million dollar songs. But, before I really rip into this album, there... Barry's Attic are a Birmingham based 4 piece who write music that is like... soooooo in right now. Yes this is 80's indebted indie-electro with the keyboards (which at times sound to my ears like cast off's from the old Sega Megadrive Sonic the Hedgehog games) turned up to eleven. The 3 songs on...
Hockey are the kind of band I would usually keep at arms length. The jovial, summer party American sound isn't really my cup of tea, but I didn't hate 'Mind Chaos' half as much as I thought I would and I can't really say fairer than that. Lets consider the facts for a minute shall we? Portland,... Apostle of Hustle started breathing life when Andrew Whiteman, Canadian born and temporarily Cuba resident in the past, wanted to create a kind of music he felt was missing. And indeed, in a way he succeeded; the music of Apostle of Hustle is hard to compare with any of their contemporaries. You... The history of (white) American popular music is often one of appropriation – whether it was taking inspiration from the blues, British invasion bands of the 60s or New York punk stealing (back) from the Sex Pistols in the 70s. But in the 90s the phrase ‘Americana’ came into common currency – a...
Bit weird to be doing a Book review I will admit but given the subject being the original singer of one of the biggest metal bands in history I thought I would give it a read. If you've read most heavy metal star's beginnings it is a similar story: Good christian family upbringing, decides to... Local promoter Revo Ziganda puts on his EVOL night in the basement of the Korova Bar in Liverpool. We braved the rain and the hordes of Friday night hen parties this end of town, incongruous in trainers and combats. We arrived soaked by the rain at Korova barely knowing who was on, much less what...

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My Toys Like Me - Korova Bar [Live]
Liverpool - 31st July 2009
About halfway through listening to Play Music for the first time I got that weird feeling, the one that's normally reserved for the occasions when I'm about to stick my neck out on a record which everyone else has panned. I shouldn't be concerned of course, I'm as entitled to my opinion as anybody...
In America at least there is, and always will be a defiant underground music scene. This (admittedly incestuous) scene has given us some of the most critically heralded releases of the last decade and is an encouraging sign that no matter how over commercialised the industry gets, there will... I've liked Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, ever since seeing her supporting Sufjan Stevens a year or two back. Actually, doing the support slot and playing in Sufjan's touring band. On her CDs, maybe the truth is more 'admired' than 'loved'. Although there is definite progression from one to the... Now this is a tricky one for me, my band played with Twin Atlantic at the Manchester Academy last year and they were such nice guys and so good live, it would break my heart if I had to slate their latest single. In short I really wanted to like this song and for the most part I did so all is...





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