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Kasabian haven't been the underdog for quite some time now. With two top five albums in their back pocket it was a strange choice of title for the opener of their third long player, 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'. You get the impression that's how this gang feel about themselves though. Hard... Now to start I have never read the book that Ahab are named after (Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick') and the only exposure I actually got to the tale itself was via Mastodon's 2004 album. This second release however is inspired by a different tale entirely: 'In The Heart Of The Sea' and 'The Wreck Of... Cue the generic bass kick and gentle heart wrenching female vocalist. Yes that’s right it’s that fella that made the really annoying but stupidly catchy tune with the blonde haired timid Scandinavian charmer Robyn. As for one hit wonders this may have been Kleerup’s one and only chance to hit the...

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Kleerup - Kleerup [Album]
Astraworks/Emi Sweden
There’s just something about an all-white male band complete with 5-o’clock shadow and well-groomed-yet-slightly-unkempt-hair that makes me automatically assume they’re another Christian rock group. Indeed, glancing over the CD insert of Green River Ordinance’s Out Of My Hands, I noticed the... This is awful, just plain awful. As a self proclaimed fan of most forms of stoner/doom/drone metal I feel I am more than qualified to view this collection subjectively and there is nothing here that hasn't been done before hundreds of times over and hundreds of times better. The guitars have a real... ‘Whatever gets you off’ is the debut album from rocks newest 5-piece sensation. The Last Vegas deliver a phenomenal amount of energy through guitar driven tracks combined with insanely catchy chorus' and even a few finger-splitting guitar solos all packed into this 11 track debut. Forming in...
This gig held special significance as it was one of the very first gigs to be put on at the newly reopened and newly renamed Relentless Garage in Highbury, North London. The Garage used to be a great little venue and had played host to a massive number of gigs over the years ending in it closing... In a world where electro pop like La Roux tends to be the norm and a world where bands like BrokenCYDE corrupt the charts with their attempts at getting 'down with the kids' (granted the latter are virtually kids but still) there are some bands that prove that music can still be... From the ashes of O! The Joy comes San Fran trio Jeepster, and whilst their name may be inferior, their music is certainly not. What if all the Rebels Died? is strangely both sunnier and darker plus more focused than the rather meandering post punk/prog/EMO leanings of O! The Joy. Whilst that...
Having never fully understood the Ska scene, it is quite difficult to compare and contrast a band like this one. Ska just reminds me of catchy drum beats, clingy guitar chords and those annoying kids that think they are hard because they have a tattoo or a piercing. Punk on the other hand holds a... The album opens with faux radio feedback and a voice proclaiming "The DJ accepts no responsibility for the next record", I am immediately intrigued and hopefull about the content of the album. Track two 'Radio No Go' is a formulaic slab of chugging old school authentic punk rawk! It is an... When The Jesus Lizard announced they were reforming earlier this year, it was largely seen as one of the more exciting of the many comebacks the music world has thrown up over the last few years. According to a recent interview, one group of people who were particularly excited were Antwerp...
Ask anyone if it's possible for Canadians to rock and they will say, "No, of course not. Get the hell away from me - you stink". Well New Brunswick's Motorleague are here to try and turn the tide of accepted popular opinion with their own particular brand of hard rock. Black Noise hits the...

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The Motorleague - Black Noise [Album]
Forward Music Group
The latest single from four piece alternative rock band Fightstar does exactly what it says on the tin. They "never change" by releasing yet another solid three minute experimental rock piece to build their ever growing respect and fan base in the music industry. Fightstar seem to have this...

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Fightstar - Never Change [Single]
Search And Destroy
In theory, I should hate Metro Station: They are technically described as ‘American pop rock’; They actually have a member with the surname Cyrus; Their combined age falls waayy too low on my scale of ageist respectability; I already want to punch both lead singers in his face and tell them to buy...
Like a candy flipping club kid, I shat myself and hugged a stranger as the intro to "Shout At The Doner" began. Before "Mr. Wobbles Nightmare" I was all of the dancing fool my discotechque conception intended me to be. What can I say? I'm a sucker for glitch. A scratchy sample, distorted and... Four-piece band The Soundcarriers from Nottingham found life’s joy through jamming, improvising and experimenting and decided to share their good-natured spirits with the rest of the world, hence ‘Harmonium’. Citing John Barry’s soundtrack of Midnight Cowboy and producer Phil Spector as influences,... So in a rarity I get sent through e-mail another set of demos for a band from New York called "Hoodless" who proclaim on their Myspace page that they're 'different than most that come out of their particular genre and from New York City itself'. After navigating the site to get at the Demos the...

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Hoodless - [Demo]
Unsigned
Ever since Enter Shikari’s early EP’s of "Nodding Acquaintance" and "Sorry You’re Not A Winner" I’ve been intrigued by Shikari’s mixture of rave culture and hardcore guitars. Hell in the case of their first two EP’s bar "Sorry You’re Not A Winner" no synths were present giving them more of a...

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Enter Shikari - Common Dreads [Album]
Ambush Reality Records (Released 15th June)
Union Sundown run a close link to the likes of new rockers The Answer and Black Stone Cherry. Heavy chords and a meaty vocal to match. They all have a couple of features in common, big sound, big bollox but no diversity. Skip through each track and they sound pretty damn similar. For an avid... For those who don’t know, Soft Speaker are a band from Illinois. Chicago to be particular. "Conditions" is their debut release and it’s not bad. However I must be honest and sate that it is a bit boring. Sometimes it’s easy to see what a band are trying to do with their music; however they...
Not one for listening to metal (except for a 3 month period in my mid-teens ) it was a bit of a shock hearing Amnesia. The lead “singer” really sounds like he needs some Strepsils, screaming and shouting like the creature in Jeepers Creatures or something of that ilk. People should only ever sound...

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Amnesia - Versus The Bear [EP]
Blacktop Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Having spent time with son-of-a-James-Taylor- Ben Taylor and his mum, Carly Simon, the singer / songwritery outcome of David Saw’s album ‘Broken Down Figure’ shouldn’t come as a surprise. Armed with an acoustic guitar and with help from a band who, at times play so subtly that you wouldn’t even... First of all this has some wonderful artwork that will have you drooling before you even hear a note and of course with a title such as 'Cake' it's not hard to workout just what Race Horses are singing about. Now is it just me or is something going on in Wales that allows for the churning out of...

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Race Horses - Cake (Single)
Fantastic Plastic Records
Knob-twiddling has never been an art form that I've ever truly appreciated or understood and it becomes even more baffling for me when it's thrown together with some clearly quite impressive musicianship as I feel it's just covering up all the good work only on rare occasions do I find myself...

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Three Trapped Tigers - 7/1 (Single)
Blood and Biscuits
Let's get a little of the press release information out of the way as this might explain things a little bit certainly better than I could: "'Kongulo' is the Icelandic word for spider. The song is about Frenchman Alain Robert, known as the 'human spiderman' famous for climbing skyscrapers using... Reading the list of influences on the MySpace of Beat The Radar throws up little surprises once you've had a cheeky wee listen to 'Telephone Conversation' as they seem to resemble a mish-mash of quite a few of them thus making this track highly unoriginal but no less entertaining as when you are...

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Beat The Radar - Telephone Conversation (Single)
Akoustik Anarchy Recordings
For all that we are embellished with electro/disco sounding bands and the like nowadays it's rare that you come across a band that can perfectly combine the balance of all that's good about 80's synth-pop and the post-millenia nu-rave movement but in Defend Moscow we have our one such band...

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Defend Moscow - Die Tonight (Single)
Kids Records - Out 6th July
If I were to casually utter the phrase "Glaswegian Americana" amongst friends chances are they would eye me up with a mixed sense of bemusement and curiosity. Sparrow and the Workshop could be summed up almost to a 'T' using that very phrase and it is in no way meant as an insult, far from it in... Four Year Strong are currently writing their new album so it came as a huge surprise to me when I received what appeared to be the new Four Year Strong album in the mail for review. What? Hopefully you are as confused as I was. So I put the record on and set to find out what was happening here. ...
Birmingham's Kidnapper Bell do one thing very very well indeed. This is literate, lively and rhythmically engaging pop-rock with it's toes dipped firmly in the western shores of the Atlantic ocean. The stop-start dynamics, propulsive vocals and sheet metal guitars of opening track "The Great...

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Kidnapper Bell - The Great Outdoors [EP]
Stressed Sumo Records

We Recommend you buy this CD
 Hardcore, pop-punkers Billy Talent have been kicking around for a few years now and have appeared to grow more and more polished as they have matured, which is now 3 albums deep. Some may see this as a resolute negative, given punks underlying DIY ethics and attitudes and for others it means a... Any band that has a packed gig list that takes in pretty much every major festival in the UK must be worth more than a pinch of salt. The Dub Pistols will be gracing Glastonbury, Bestival, Glade, Beautiful Day, Rock Ness and Bloom. A busy summer then for those Dubsters. Rum and Coke is the Dub...
Koletzki has been in the electronic music game for quite a while now, with releases on such esteemed labels as Cocoon (Sven Vath) and Kling Klang (Kraftwerk). He has enjoyed relatively high success in his homeland of Germany, if not having quite reached the international success of some of his...

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Oliver Koleztki and Roland Clark - Yes We Can [Single]
Hell Yeah Records/Intergroove
I reckon Planet Mu have the pressing plant on a continuous loop. I also reckon they have a factory in China full of music production uber-nerds churning out song after song until they have something that resembles an album, then the head honchos make up a name and release it. What a great way to...

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Jega - Variance [Album]
Planet Mu
As promotion tools go, a mix CD of the music on show is pretty standard fair. That is not to say that it doesn’t work. It just isn’t that original. Glade festival is fast becoming one of the premier electronic music events on the electronic music calendar, while the festival can’t compete with...

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Glade Sound Of The Headliners [Compilation Album]
(Avaliable on Trackitdown.net)
Ayah Marar hails from Jordan, via the United Kingdom and is in such esteemed company as Jack Penate and Calvin Harris at the moment, “playing make music”. A glance at her myspace AYAH MARAR on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads reveals a busy summer season that...

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Ayah Marar - My Spy [Single]
Self Released
Fingers, pies, strings, bows, all words that would be suitably used in a sentence to describe Omar’s musical activity. Cryptomnesia is the 12th solo release in a 5 year period for Omar, in addition to the 5 Mars Volta releases that happened over that period as well as the array of collaborations,... Who knew anyone still made emo like this anymore? It's pretty brave - up there with those daring donk boys, Blackout Crew, championing happy hardcore. See, this here is what emo used to be like before it became something else and then something else again, eventually ending up as the green hair...

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Joie de Vivre - Summer Months [Album]
Count Your Lucky Stars
Firstly I feel that there has to be some clarification made about 'Journal For Plague Lovers' for all that has been bandied around about the album it isn't The Holy Bible Part II and to come into this album thinking that will leave you feeling maybe a little short changed; that being said, 'Journal... Never heard of them? Neither have I and I kind of wish I never had. This EP fits quite snugly in to the middle of the sea of average releases, by average local level bands. To sum this EP up, it’s just a band copy of Black Sabbath with a few tiny bits of Primus thrown in there for good luck. Add in...

30%

Jizzwagon - Arthur Hand [EP]
Self Released

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 'The day is wasted/If you're not wasted'. No, these aren't the opening lines from the new Babyshambles album, this is much more important than that. Right from the outset it is clear something special is going on here as the delicate tones entice you along on 'You Say The Stupidest Things' you find...
Now this band seem to be everywhere. Alot of hype built up around them prior to their release and tour followed by some rave reviews. This still is completely alien to listeners like myself. Black Lips just sound like a bunch of piss heads coming home from a late one. This might just be one of... I first encountered Crystal Stilts when they supported The Black Lips in Manchester earlier this year, and the two bands proved to be pretty much polar-opposite. While The Black Lips fully engaged with the crowd (singer/guitarist Cole Alexander even danced on top of the bar at one point) and... I'd like to thump a bible, wouldn't you? Give it a good wack with a baseball bat, hammer or whatever is nearby. Without getting into the one thing you don't talk about in a pub (for those who don't know; politics & religion) here is the thoughts and fantasies of Solid Gold's single 'Bible Thumper'...





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