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The XX have been riding high on a wave of praise for their debut album since its release a copy of months ago, bolstered by support slots for Florence & The Machine (UK) and Friendly Fires (US) as well as their own headlining shows. So returning to their debut album “XX” now that (some) of the...

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The XX - XX [Album]
Young Turks/XL
Most of you who’ve heard of Killa Kela will know him for his worldwide renowned beatbox antics, drawing praise from the likes of Pharell amongst others. This single 'Everyday' taken from his debut album “Amplified,” shows a distinctive lack of the underground sound we all know Kela for. French... Actor Zach Braff knows when he hears a songwriter with potential. Just ask any of the artists he featured on the phenomenally successful soundtrack “Empire State”. Let's just say, the man has an ear for a catchy folk song. In 2004 singer/songwriter Joshua Radin was lucky enough to have Braff hear...
Grime goes glam with the release of “United Colours of Beggatron.” This time around Foreign Beggars have dropped a much more polished recording than their previous efforts. With a higher production quality, some soulful backing vocals, and a slew of collaborative MC’s, Foreign Beggars have a very... Atmospheric and dark, Kaiowas has crafted an excellent chunk of metal with their "Kaiowas" debut EP. These five tracks run through heavy, melodic grooves with an emphasis on naturalistic song structuring. Casting an insightful eye on metal tropes, Kaiowas still manages to remain user-friendly to...

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Kaiowas - Kaiowas [EP]
DeWulf Entertainment

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 Goodbye, Gadget has a habit of becoming infectious. Damn their pop-punk stylings for growing on me like a cute little tumor. The more I listen to "Because, I'm Not Myself You See" the less I want to chuck it into a bin. I even find myself singing along to the hooks, tapping my foot to 'Let's...
Meh. OK that was my one word review but the truth is that (from this evidence at least) The Bromptons are a very difficult act to work up any kind of enthusiasm over. What we have here is swaggering Rock N' Roll with a capital "N" and while there's nothing wrong with old school rock when it's... Are you a medieval buff? Do you enjoy traditional folk songs based in the medieval era of England? If you answered yes to either of these questions then you’re probably already familiar with the work of Jim Causley and folk band Mawkin. If you answered no then please, read on. ... The second single from Illa J’s acclaimed debut album “Yancey Boys” hits the UK complete with production from Illa J’s older brother, the late great James Yancey aka Jay Dee aka J-Dilla. Coming in at a mere three minutes and twenty seven seconds, one blink and the main track is over, but having...
Ariana Delawari’s new release, “The Lion of Panjshir,” (named after the great Afghan revolutionary leader Ahmed Shah Massoud) has an amazing story behind it. I wasn't familiar with the story when I initially listened to this release as I always like to judge the music on its own merits before... Now if somebody said to you they’d been listening to the Sound Of Guns from Liverpool you might get the wrong impression, it might conjure up certain stereotypes and reinforce the negative attitudes some still have about the city and its inhabitants. Liverpool band Sound Of Guns, could tell you a... This compilation (70 minutes, 14 artists) is a celebration of thirty years of ZE Records. Thirty years!? Ye Gods, I nearly died when I read that. I still have my vinyl copy of the early label compilation “Mutant Disco” from back in the day and could have sworn it was yesterday. And in some ways...
With Kaiser Chiefs taking the back seat, it seems only right that someone attempt to take their place. Guinness poppers; The Blizzards release "Trust Me I'm A Doctor" in the UK - taken from their second album "Domino Effect." There is no surprise then as to what 'Trust Me I'm A Doctor' will... Jarring and Emotive release from Scottish mob. One can imagine just what the bating music loving masses will think if you were simply told “this is another post hardcore EP up for release!” However, please note the title, it says your eyes will burn; not your ears. So if you’re a bit unnerved or... Can anything good come out of a collision between The Smiths and Blur? And what happens if you throw some good old punk in the mix? You wouldn’t think that young indie pop act Eight Legs would hold the answer to these questions, and you surely wouldn’t expect to find such answers upstairs at the...
Interestingly enough the newest recruit to the back catalogue of impenetrable singles from Biffy Clyro; "The Captain" has received an unprecedented amount of poor feedback. It is by no means on the same level as 'Mountains' but still bestows the unstoppable three piece with another hint of what... Mathematics and rock music do not make perfect bed fellows on paper. One is calculated and enjoys a frosty reputation, the other is spontaneous and brimming with youthful energy and vigour. However there do exist rare moments when the twain meet and the results sparkle. Recently New York's...

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Three Trapped Tigers - EP2 [EP]
Blood And Biscuits
The recent history of the Portico Quartet almost reads like a fairy story: from busking on London’s South Bank in 2005 to a Mercury Prize nomination three years later for their first album “Knee-Deep In The North Sea.” They may still be in their early 20's yet the Portico Quartet make instrumental...
It’s always been the case that WHY?’s music is subordinate to its lyrics. This isn’t a disparaging statement, and the music is no worse for it - it just means that the arrangements are carefully crafted around the rhythm of the words. It’s arguably a much better way to go about songwriting than... 3.30pm on Thursday afternoon and I was allowed the privilege of entertaining the very man who would be entertaining hundreds of people, including me, a mere six hours later; Mr Frank Turner. 3.50pm and the interview was over and after being promised a joke on stage that he couldn’t remember in the... Stunning Album From London Indie Lot. Indie is such a rife genre these days. Every second band that emerges from the cold, dark British music nether sports jangly guitars, a Smiths t-shirt and a fucking awful, heavily accented-just-because voice to match. They are quickly chewed through the...
Never mind us getting a 'Round Of Applause,' what have we done? Brad Ellis and Dom Betmead are the ones that deserve the appreciation. Nine years down the line and the two remixers are still pumping out the venomous hip hop beats. This time The Nextmen have collaborated with a chap going by the... Hip-Hop has gone through a transition of late. Yes it has broken through into the mainstream with artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, Kanye and Jay Z, but most real Hip-Hop fans will tell you that is not the real Hip-Hop and that the essence of the genre has been very much lost along the way. Artists...

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Lushlife - Cassette City [Album]
Rapster Records

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 Listening to this predominantly instrumental musical jewel the elegy of Thomas Gray came to mind, that ‘full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.’ This stunning album, a truly magical box of delights, is dedicated to Ivor Angel who died in 2007. Sadly...
Sing Along? That’s the last thing that those familiar with previous Múm albums will expect - dense and experimental expeditions that have more in common with underwater landscaping than they do ‘songs.’ Things start off promisingly; ‘If I were a fish, and you were a seashell, would you marry me... The same month that saw the release of 'The BQO', a sound collage based on the Brooklyn-Queens expressway, Sufjan Stevens also released ‘Run Rabbit Run,’ a classical interpretation of his 2001 album 'Enjoy Your Rabbit'. Much as 'The BQO'. the music is performed by classical trained musicians and... A driving bam-bam-bam-bam and the way the the track 'The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo' drops in I can't decide whether this is Phil Lynott fronting the E Street Band or Clarence Clemons guesting with Thin Lizzy. In fact, it's Memphis band Lucero. After a few bars the Lynott impression fades but...

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Lucero - 1372 Overton Park [Album]
Universal Republic
Danish duo Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner, The Raveonettes to you and I, return with a bang, both in the literal and the figurative sense! ‘Bang’ is the first single from the bands 4th studio album “In And Out Of Control” and is a track that once again demonstrates the bands effortless ability... If there’s such a thing as a special relationship between Britain and the US then this album may be the reason for it! What an astonishing, intelligent and accomplished album "Burn the Whole Place Down" truly is! Hey Negrita is wonderful; Londoners taking on the Yanks at country music and winning... The future, the past and the present of rock’n’roll: if you are at Hammersmith Apollo tonight, you’re going to get it all for the price of one. Not even Tesco could beat that! Black Stone Cherry, a music reality of our days, recently consecrated by their second acclaimed album “Folklore and...

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Black Stone Cherry - London Hammersmith Apollo, October 15 2009
With Duff McKagan's Loaded and The Parlor Mob

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Hoots and Hellmouth, a folk-rock / alt-country / gospel outfit from Philadelphia, home of the Pilgrim Fathers and the Declaration of Independence, are led by songwriters Sean Hoots and Andrew ‘Hellmouth’ Gray. The pair’s musical influences are many and varied, creating ‘offbeat fare’ their fans... Newcastle post punkers avoid the cliches. Just. Lazy Music Journalist Device #138: "The Editors and Interpol sound like Joy Division." No, they fucking don't. A reliable test to help clear up any confusion would be to simply dive in to the exquisite torture of "Unknown Pleasures," suffer the... Distribution companies are becoming serious players in the music world. With so many outlets selling music these days, from download sites, to mobile phone ring-tone sellers, as well as the traditional hard copy selling methods, distribution companies are taking a larger role in the marketing of...
Having little previous knowledge about T.H.White or his music, it was through researching his Myspace page that educated me about this New York based multi-instrumentalist. T.H White's music has been used in a startling amount of television programs and advertisements, the best known probably being...

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T. H. White - Company Book [Album]
Sky Council Recordings
I got it into my head (somehow) that Haroula Rose was from elsewhere. Truth is Haroula Rose is a Californian lady through and through. With her influences from all different parts of the globe, its no wonder that there are so many different aspects to her sound. But, in the end, should we care...

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Haroula Rose - Someday [EP]
Self Released
Let's face it, you're not going to get an unbiased opinion out of me, and why should you? I think I've described myself before as one of the Bat-Faithful, but I guess that's how it is with music anyway. I'm really not that likely to go and listen to bands that I don't like, or at least think I'll...

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Bat For Lashes, Manchester 14th Oct 2009 [Live]
And when the battle was done, I was promised my Sun

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The Jessie Rose Trip are a four piece band who hail from Stockport, just outside Manchester. They're made up of, yep, you guessed it; Jessie Rose on lead vocals / lead guitar / piano along with her band who are James Wood playing Drums / percussion, Jonny Thomson on Trumpet / piano, Mark Lewis on... Said the shotgun to the face, “Castrovalva!” I fell in love with this band instantly. Having recently acquired vocalist Leemun Smith, and swiftly beginning work on the furious "Thug Poetry," Castrovalva are making all the right moves. Not only did "Thug Poetry" immediately grab me by the short... I set off on the 120 mile trip to Manchester with raging toothache. I had made a CD to play on the way containing tracks by artists such as Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Alabama 3, George Thorogood and the Destroyers which I listened to as I contemplated the events that would follow; a gig by...
Lock your doors, there are mischievous CD swappers around. That's all I can put it down to. Earlier on today I listened to this new album called "People Are Soft" by The Swimmers. I heard a decent little record but one overshadowed by its influences, touches of the Rutts, echoes of the Bunnymen... Alright, Takoma Star. “Till The Fall” is an album heavy with expectant potential. This is a promising album from a band that shoots for a pop-emo kind of category, and they are shooting for it. Make no mistake. Citing bands like Jimmy Eat world, Led Zeppelin, and Sunny Day Real Estate as... Living in a small and shockingly closed-minded rural “redneck” community, you become accustomed to certain things. For example, you can’t find any real (not to mention fresh) sushi. As a film buff, I am constantly annoyed over the fact that I am unable to discuss motion pictures with anyone...

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Anna Rose - Self Titled [EP]
Sally Apples

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
Strut records (STRUT) has quite an array of talent signed to their label. Luminaries such as Grandmaster Flash sit alongside up and coming artists such as Kid Creole and Amp Fiddler. With Disco not Disco, Strut Records is attempting to educate a wider audience to the joys of the roots and... Need some retro frat-boy rock in your life? Need not one but TWO albums of this puerile stuff? If the answer is ‘yes’ you would be looking for the single disc re-issue of Mucky Pup’s “A Boy In a Man’s World” from 1985 and “Now” from 1991. The four piece from New Jersey had a ten year career... The newly formed Sweethead hit you with their debut single ‘The Great Disruptors.’ Sweethead are formed of Troy Van Leuuwen of Queens of the Stone Age, Norm Block and Eddie Nappi from the Mark Lanegan Band and new to the scene vocalist Serrina Sims. On first impression the sound is good and...

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Sweethead - The Great Disruptors [Single]
Strange Addiction Records





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