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Offering nothing new to the music scene, Sparks The Rescues’ first album is by far the most annoying piece of teenage butt rock to hit our record stores. What makes it so annoying you may wonder? Well, like many pop songs, they get into your head. This album is bloody catchy, well produced and well... The mere fact that Britney Spears was able to sell out not only the eight London dates on her most recent ‘The Circus: Starring Britney Spears’ tour, but all 23 dates on the European leg, is a point to be noted. Although, I say noted rather than commended, as it’s my opinion that someone who... It's 11am and in a small corner of Exeter You Me At Six fans are beginning to queue outside the phoenix doors ready for the final date of the "Take Off Your Colours" tour, tonight being a Halloween show, due to start at 7pm, 8 hours away. The majority of trains to Exeter are canceled due to...

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You Me At Six, Exeter.
"Take Off Your Colours" tour - 30/10/08

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Best EP title of the last year? Fo sho. Most overrated act to emerge in the last year? Um, no not really. Which is a shame, because that would have made for a great review opener. The problem here is that in the UK, nobody really knows who Nevershoutnever! is so that therefore makes it pretty... Overall: 9.8 Music: 9.7 Lyrics: 9.9 Production: 9.3 I wish I could press the “pause” button on life. This would give me the time needed to examine humanity and really start to understand what it is all about. Andrew McMahon has figured out a way to achieve this, and it all comes out in the... I have never heard of, or indeed heard them before, but I now hate The Bigger Lights . They bring the world whiny, stereotypically Cali-sounding music, embrace all of the clichés on route, have the American 'alternative' poster boy image, seriously lack originality and I fucking love them. This is...
If you are in search of a new band doing something ambitious you should just stop reading this review right now. But if you are looking to supplement the pop-rock section of your CD collection, The Way We Talk would be a solid addition. The new EP, and Fearless Records debut, from Arizona's much...

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The Maine - The Way We Talk
Fearless Records
What do you get when you combine the greatest parts of Saves The Day and Say Anything? It may sound like the start of a joke but its not. Far from it. Its an incredible reality. I read about this musical meeting of minds a few weeks ago and the thought alone gave me shivers. Ok... ok... I know that... It’s summertime, summertime, sum-sum summertime. And if not, at least everything feels like it when listening to Mascott’s ‘Art project’. The ‘EP turns into album’ record of Kendall Jane Meade and co. is, with ten songs in 25 minutes, not exactly an everlasting album, but nevertheless one worth...
She had a dream that she could fly. With a voice of an angel, she certainly conjures up images of a floating beauty. The dreamy princess takes acoustic folk to another level, and achieved it the old fashioned way. Priscilla Ahn put her dreams on the table, took a good look, then hit the road. Her... After much waiting the latest project from former Strapping Young Lad members Gene Hoglan (Drums) and Jed Simon (Guitar) has arrived in Tenet. The reason for the wait you may ask? Due to Gene and Jed’s other commitments mostly and the fact that due to these no lead singer could be found… ...

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Tenet - Sovereign [Album]
Century Media (20th July)

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 Recently I discovered that Fear Factory had decided to reform with Dino Cavaleres to do summer festivals in the UK (one of many bands to do that recently) which meant that Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera would NOT be in the lineup. So what would become of them do you ask? Well here's...
I was going to try and remain objective. Try to see White Light Parade through the eyes of, I don't know, someone who enjoys this kind of bubblegum pop-punk. Then last night I went to a show. Some Portland band, touring in a friends camper, who played with more passion then anything I'd heard on... Armed with a keyboard and a briefcase full of pop experience, Rose Elinor Dougall successfully escaped the all-girl pop group The Pipettes to explore other musical ideas. Following up her first single ‘Another Version of Pop Song’ and preceding debut solo album ‘Without Why’, Dougall’s second... There was a song I heard at Faith No More last week that can describe the band Asphyx: Reunited. Why Reunited you ask? Consider this: this band have split THREE times! However, this reunion seems to be the strongest yet. Unlike some death metal bands that try and start things off with some...
New York seems to be the hotspot for quite a few things. In this particular case, Hardcore Punk was born here starting with bands such as Sick Of It All, Hatebreed, Madball and Earth Crisis bringing on the trend. Sworn Enemy follow this trend and follow the same exact formula of 'we hate... Lethal Bizzle first emerged onto the UK music scene in 2002 with More Fire Crew, to then a relatively under-developed and unloved British Hip Hop movement. In 2004 he hit the mainstream with his Mobo award winning song ‘Forward Riddim (Pow)', a track that could have arguably, due to its success,... Ever wondered what would happen if such singer/songwriters like James Taylor decided to stop romanticising sex and love and instead be incredibly blunt about the whole thing? If you have, the new track from Benjamin Taylor may just be for you. ‘Wicked Way’ is a song that has its tongue planted...
Switzerland's Lunatica have once again crafted an album of technical beauty and soaring, ethereal soundscapes. "New Shores", Lunatica's fourth release, brings all the elements of symphonic metal that we've come to expect from Lunatica. The concise composition. The finely honed vocal melodies....

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Lunatica - New Shores
Napalm Records
It's safe to say that most people within the music world, particularly most fans of heavy metal music, would agree that “Ace Of Spades” by Motorhead, is a remarkable heavy metal song. Its brutal, its aggressive, its loud and most importantly it’s one of the all time classic songs of not only its...

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Jyl Millard - Ace Of Spades [Single]
Try and Make Me Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 The second single taken from White Light Parade’s brilliant debut album ‘The house of Commons’, takes all the best elements from their first single, and then notches the quality up another 60%. ‘We start fires’ is a fantastically defiant anthem that only proves goes to prove further why the...
We begin a special look into recent releases off the Century Media label with a review of the second album by thrash rockers Warbringer. After being signed by Century Media in 2004 (over the original band that the label had come to see no less!) the debut in 2006 had acclaim amongst the thrash...

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Warbringer- Waking Into Nightmares [Album]
Century Media (Out Now)
Robert E. Hward was a Texan who wrote Conan. That's all. He wrote other characters as well, but none as lasting as Conan. He was friends with some writers of note. H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton and their ilk, mostly corresponding through mail, he died at the age of thirty and he would rarely leave... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I find when band members venture off in to the land of solo projects, you find out who the truly talented members in a band are and who are just the hangers on. This has been shown across many bands, for example Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters is an amazing drummer and a...
As The Path Unfolds is the debut full length release from finish folk metalers, Crimfall. Crimfall is a young Finish act who is the brainchild of Jakke Viitala, who started writing and creating the music he wanted to create. Jakke was later joined by a male and a female vocalist who helped complete... This album will either change the way you think about music or leave you with a grinding headache and a desire to wash out your ears with battery acid. Not since Scott Walkers incomprehensibly intense and awesome 2006 album 'The Drift' has something so dark, powerful and just plain 'different'... Sweeping and epic in scope, Mutiny On The Bounty's first full length album, "Danger Mouth", rides the crest of all that is rad. Burning up my laptop with it's math-driven cadence. I feel the force of each track assaulting my brain meat. I gave this the shower test, and it's definitely worthy of...
Having leaked two months prior to its release date, Bitte Orca has enjoyed early critical success with eminent praises from popular music tasters like Stereogum and Pitchfork and it's hard not to see why, really. It is an album that not only celebrates musical possibilities but it's also bent on... Remember arena rock in the 80's? Big hair, tight pants, the days when a non-ironic falsetto was generally accepted as hardcore. Down a multi-tiered stage in 1985 strides Bob Catley of Magnum. Cocky and resplendent in torn denim and a leather trench coat. His warbled vibrato pelting out the chorus... Electronica/Industrial/Grindcore is how these two Dublin lads tag themselves. I am no expert in this type of music, so it was with trepidation that I set about listening to the latest Planet Mu release. I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I had heard of Decal (one half of the “Two”) before....
The B of the Bang are a collective of human beings (14) that “when gathered together, have the ability to straighten corners”. Hmm, any band that claims to have the ability to turn the bent, straight, has to be listened too! The website of tThe B of the Bang can be found at thebofthebang.co.uk... I am no expert in Emo music. To be honest I am really unsure of what it is, but listening to the unsigned Thornfin Nguyen from New York, I can see why there is a market for it, and The Assembly Line should definitely have a place in the genre. You could trawl through Myspace for days upon days... Don’t be fooled into thinking that the first song on The Fireflow Trade, “Panthalassa”, sets the tone for the rest of the album. “Panthalassa” is probably the poorest effort on this otherwise very highly rated album from Nottingham rockers Swimming. It is odd that they decided to start the album...
Call it metal, hardcore, sludge, doom, crust, noise, whatever…fact is that ‘Icarus, the Sunclimber’, Manatees' latest, is hard, heavy and epic. Despite all the types of music you usually think of when hearing the genres mentioned above, ‘Icarus’ contains more than anger, passion, grunge and noise;...

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Manatees – Icarus, The Sunclimber (Album)
Eyesofsound / Motivesounds
Named after paint and apparently influenced by Smurfs, unwashed hair and smelly band rooms among many other things, Australian representative of melodic rock Yves Klein Blue released their debut EP ‘Draw Attention to Themselves’ more than a year ago. Time differences, crisis in music land and media... The Hanging Doll's album Reason & Madness had to be tackled with a deep breath, a slug of bourbon and a great show of bravado. The friend in the car with me the first time this album was put on defined the experience in one fine sentence: Yip, that pretty much sums it up. It's not that the music...
I must admit I was a little apprehensive of Kieronononon - the random mix of styles, the spray painted home made clothes, the ridiculous hillbilly hair cut on the main man Orta. I sat at the bar wondering if I was up to the challenge. It's been a long time that I've been taken completely off guard... The 7 minute symphony 'Mary Jane' conducted by Swedish electronic maestro Dieter Schöön is a dip down Alice's rabbit hole in the dark. Conducting this blinkered as a creature of the night, Schöön has disseminated all musical niceties and compiled everything he likes into one song. In essence he...

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Dieter Schöön - Mary Jane [single]
Headspin Recordings
Daniel Merriwether will probably be known to most as the vocalist behind Mark Ronson's rendition of The Smith's classic "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before". That song (from Ronson's annoyingly overrated 'Versions' album) pretty much sets the bar for what you can expect from the...
Iceland's main export? Petite pop pixies of course and I was there to see Hafdis Huld coquettishly wink her way into the fold on the second night of her current UK tour. A tiny power pack of energy Hafdis is a natural born show off and clearly loves casting her peculiar magic over the audience....

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Hafdis Huld - Monkey Chews 04.06.09
To Have and to Huld
Ooo la la, Mr Paolo Nutini! Well, I thought you were a bit of alright before, and then you go and release ‘Candy’, singing lyrics like: in your perfectly accented tone, that will no doubt melt any lady for miles, myself included. The single from the 22-year-old Scotsman, of Italian descent, is... I would imagine that the majority of you reading this review would previously know 'Lisa Hannigan' only as the Karen to 'Damien Rice's' Richard Carpenter. Her beautiful, restrained vocal contributions to both of the Irish Troubadours albums did not go unnoticed though and with seasoned session band...
Following the trend of a woman plus the words ‘And The’ followed by another word in pop recently come "Venetia And The Voltage" from Brighton with their third single "Is This The Best?". According to their Myspace page, the Voltage are described as having "an electroclash sound with a mixture of... Mastodon's 2004 album "Leviathan" was easily one of my favourites of that year so I was very happy indeed when this most recent single fell through my letter box this morning! It's indicative of the general state of things that a genre once thought to be the sole refuge of bottom feeding... Like 'The Hold Steady' before them, New Jersey's 'Gaslight Anthem' deal in anthemic, blue-collar American rock heavily indebted to both The Replacements and Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Only here, front man Brian Fallon sounds almost exactly like Replacements singer Paul Westerberg (there's...





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