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“I don’t wanna be the one to say good-bye…but I will” Ingrid Michaelson has a knack for coy and clever lyrics like this one, found on her latest single ‘Maybe,’ taken from her most recent full-length album "Everybody." The single is a brighter spin on a sad break-up song, which is always a... Otep are a band I had previously heard of via a few contacts, particularly during the era where a band was deemed nu-metal regardless if they had elements of other genres. After managing to gain support from Sharon Osbourne while unsigned, they’ve managed to gain somewhat of a cult following over... It's only a short evolutionary boogie from Disco to House music and in Volume 1 of Mighty Mouse's new compilation we get a comprehensive examination of that particular branch of dance music's family tree. Thirty tracks over two discs take in everything from old '70's tunes like 'Kiss Me Again' by...
A surprising debut single from Tell It To The Marines. They provide a soft-core, Ambient Pop sound reminiscent of Editors with a sore throat. Lead vocalist Timi Hyland dominates the track with a raspy voice, showing all of his might on the last 30 seconds of the track, repeating "Your always... My third foray into the Young and Lost singles club this week sees me tackling some rather infectious electro-pop in the shape of the curiously named 'Ou Est Le Swimming Pool.' It's pretty damn catchy I'll say that much, with a chorus hook which should ear-mark it as a future indie disco classic. ... "Fight The People" is the new four song EP from Riot: Noise. "Fight The People" is the bands' first release and it is quite the promising one. The steady tempo of the songs and thick riffs give it all the best qualities that a modern day rock and roll band should possess and it shows as "Fight...
Undo your ponytail and blow the dust off your air guitar, Blackie Lawless is back! “Babylon” is presented to the press as W.A.S.P.’s new concept album, evolving around the tale of the Apocalypse Four Horsemen, represented on the front cover in an unequivocally metal version. This was later denied...

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W.A.S.P. - Babylon [Album]
Demolition Records
"Verizon Shine" is name of the debut LP from Rifle Recoil. I had to spend several days listening to this album before I felt ready to review it. That should be considered a compliment I guess. This is a dense, layered, challenging, and at times a beautiful album. The most remarkable thing about... 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...
‘"We're Fake Problems and were from Naples, Florida!’" Judging by the start of this band it is apparent that you could not get further from this nights predecessor ‘Beans on Toast’ whose honest outlook on Britain’s current state and stripped down musicianship won the crowd over from the... Cheap Trick is one of those weird rock’n’roll phenomenons. One of those bands you never find in the charts or printed on TopShop’s trendy shirts, but many artists you like, old and new, will mention them as a main influence ioncluding The Ramones, AC/DC and Zeppelin, The Wildhearts, Greenday (who...

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Cheap Trick - The Latest [Album]
Cheap Trick Unlimited

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 This is a one-song single release, meant as a snippet of what A-Stout’s forthcoming debut album has in store, so it’s a fair assumption to say that this is the track that A-Stout feel represents the best of what they do as artists. With this in mind, and as a new group proclaiming themselves to be...
Loverman appear to be one of those bands you have to 'get' to really enjoy and for the most part I just don't get it. Crucifiction is an enjoyable enough slice of down-tuned scuzz rock with suitably perverse lyrics ("let's play crucifixion, you be the body and I'll be the cross") and the guitars...

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Loverman - Crucifiction [Single]
Young & Lost Club
There was a period in my life when the music about me was sung by the great Trinidad calypsonians, Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow and their like. As time went on I discovered the reggae and dub of Prince Buster and Lee Perry from Jamaica, geographically so close but with very different musical... Is there any such thing as “the perfect gig”? Because I don’t think my live music experience is going to get any better than tonight. It’s like real love after a hundred teenage crushes which you thought every time were the real thing. But let’s start from the beginning. We’re in Wembley Arena,...

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ZZ Top - Wembley Arena, October 28th 2009 [Live]
Special Guests: Steel Panther

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Bewildering is the best way to describe the songs on this 4 CD compilation. But that's just what John Peel's shows were to me. Utterly bewildering and slightly wonderful. This isn't a view of the life of the man born John Ravenscroft. Or perhaps it is in some way, given that his music WAS his... Occupying the same, self-knowingly 'hip' territory as erstwhile synth rockers MGMT, and sprinkling the sound with a generous splash of 'nu-gaze' (christ I hope nobody takes that term seriously) Magic Wands are almost guaranteed underground succes. They even have the look down pat (they could both... Parallel Schizophrenic / Brickface is the 8th (yes, eighth!) EP from RepoMen, recently signed by Phantom Power Records, after years of unsigned gigging and recording in the anonymity of the prolific Sheffield indie underground scene. And when you listen to these five tracks, while the rest of the...

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Repomen - Paranoid Schizophrenic [EP]
Phantom Power Records
Survive Atlantica are a young band, a new band that have only been together two years. "I Woke The Devil" is their first album and you'd never know it. From the assured swagger to the minor sonic boom that kicks this off, there is big noise that comes swirling across at us here. I generally...

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Survive Atlantica - I Woke The Devil [Album]
A Wolf At Your Door Records

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 Poster boy emo. Don't Bother. There's a debate ongoing at Altsounds about where the zeitgeist of modern rock is located - here in Britain, or across the Atlantic. It's a vexed discussion for certain, as Joy Division take on The Stooges, The Smiths do battle with Pavement and the Arctic Monkeys... Some times, some classics should be just left in peace and watched / listened to with nothing else but respect and humility. Sorry for sounding like your usual old fart, I’m all for the whole “High School Musical” craze with youngsters, but just stick to that and don’t try and turn “Fame” into...
So have you heard The Drums yet then? No, where the hell have you been?!?! Tipped as the next big thing to come out of New York, The Drums have been receiving plaudits from all the usual candidates who line-up to drool and dribble over the next big thing to come out of anybody's arse. For...

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The Drums - Let's Go Surfing [Single]
Moshi Moshi Records - Out Now

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 For a debut single this packs a fair old punch. Kind of like being casually assaulted on a saunter around Glasgow that is possibly inspiration for that ludicrously meaty bass thunk. Yes Paper Planes are from Glasgow with a touch of that little country over the pond thrown in for good measure...

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Paper Planes - Doris Day [Single]
Lucky Number Nine Records / Say Dirty Records - Out Now
This is a record of many surprises. Sadly none of them are welcome or interesting. 'Rockstars' starts with a bass-heavy keyboard riff with a vocal refrain which (first surprise) turns out to be “Pop! I kill rockstars.” Oh, a bit of controversy ahoy. I start looking forward to where this goes...

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Pink Punk - Rockstars [Single]
Freeport/Universal Digital

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
It think this is how things must have sounded in 1963 just before we got Beatlemania and they went all weird and made some awesome music in the process (what happened to those guys?). The Ray Summers have got that retro feel covered especially in lead track 'The Shepherd' it's got that indie big...

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The Ray Summers - The Shepherd [Single]
King Tuts Recordings - Out Now
“Come Revisit El Paso!” is the debut album by Pennsylvania five piece So Long, Pluto. So young they couldn’t even buy cigarettes in the US, these kids have built up quite a following in their local area (Scranton), and curiosity always has the best of me when it comes to these urban tales of love... I just listened to “Black River Killer” - the new 7-track EP from Blitzen Trapper. A six-piece Folk Rock band from Portland, OR. The sound is organic, with mostly acoustic instruments, except for the variety of keyboards which keep this from sounding too much like Folk music. These are well-written...
On the Exponential Records website, Ernest Gonzales tells us that growing up in Texas as the only child of an electrician and a Home Depot customer service rep, he spent his childhood hooked on video games,pizza pockets, drawing trees, making bows and arrows and watching too much MTV. Whilst he... Historically The Boxer Rebellion, was a violent anti-imperialist, anti-Christian, some might say, slightly delusional movement; for like R.Kelly the Boxers believed they really could fly. All they needed to do was adhere to a strict training programme, eat a frugal diet, become masters of martial... I’ve seen Bowling for Soup before, it was I 2002 at the Astoria. Brilliant gig, fun and well played. What a shame, I thought, the audience was mainly kids, with adults probably being driven away by their non serious side and their happy-go-lucky videos, failing to spot some more than decent...
Isis' latest album “Wavering Radiant” left me a bit dubious after a first dig, but I always appreciated this band more live, so I’m looking forward to seeing if their new work will work its magic once again on stage. First, supporting band Mothlite has the hard task of warming up a very demanding... It was a temperate Monday evening in mid October and with a long night of metal ahead of them the metalites with their long hair, band t-shirts and camouflage, were queuing in abundance along Camden’s dimly lit high street. Our friends across the sea are often treated to line ups of a similar... “Splitting the Atom” is the new four-song EP from Trip Hop pioneers Massive Attack. These guys have been at it since the 80s, working with a wide variety of vocalists, writing some of their own music, remixing the music of others, and just generally littering the music landscape with gold and...
Awol One has been an MC for 15 years. He broke in on what was called Underground Hip Hop. That really just means he wasn’t signed to a major label, but he was able to build a loyal fan base via Internet distribution and touring both as a solo act and as a member of The Shapeshifters. His early... ‘Childish Prodigy’ marks Kurt Vile’s - with or without his band, The War on Drugs - gradual ascent from the murky swamp of lo-fi. It’s not a complete exodus - it’s as if the album knows that it’s under the full scrutiny of daylight now so buries itself back in the mire every so often where it can... I always think a good way to tell if you are enjoying a band live is how much you feel the need to drink while watching them. If you haven’t even noticed that your £2 Carlsberg is running low, or if you have already hiffed your pint over the unaware crowd in front in a fit of excitement, then...
Taster track ‘The End’ introduces Voodeux’s “The Paranormal” with spooky sounds reminiscent of an 80s horror movie: when the ethereal, half naked lady - panting in her white night dress - is about to be stabbed, and we all know she should have run the other way: It’s chilling like a knife being... My grandmother used to say of an ugly baby that only a mother could love it. "Nightingale Hall" by Lyrian is one heck of an ugly baby; it’s a 500-disk pressing and for a vanity project of such excruciating awfulness, that’s possibly 499 too many. However, having heard the disk in its entirety,...

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Lyrian - Nightingale Hall [Album]
Medieval Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Talking with a chum who’s an academic I'm aware of just how easy it is to create language that becomes a barrier to understanding. The same thing happens with music. Music lovers can be scared off by labels that become barriers not only to their understanding but also to their greater enjoyment....
I have a bit of a problem with Blu-Ray, as I had only just spent my hard earned cash on a rather flash HD DVD player at Christmas 2008, when it was announced by Warner Brothers the very next month that they would only produce new releases for Blu-Ray, effectively signalling the end of the High...

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Spectrum 7 - Blue Wray [Single]
Xtramilerecordings
It feels like these guys have been around forever now but Sizzla and Cutty Ranks are still making fresh music straight out of Jamaica thus the “Kingston Book” EP. Me being the lucky boy I am have received this nice little CD with not just one EP on it but the best part of two! “New York Book” sees...

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Talen - Kingston Book / New York Book [EP]
Mouthwatering Records
Either it's Halloween or Fightstar have morphed into Slipknot, with masks and jump-suits being the order of the day. The opening chords don't shed any light on the confusion either cos guess what, it's heavy. This is some thick stringed music. It's all a long way from "you know where" as...
Joss Stone has some serious soul and anyone who disagrees with that fact is downright crazy, or deaf, but probably just crazy. As cliché as it sounds, Joss Stone literally could sing the phone book and turn the tracks into a multi-platinum record. The young and extremely talented British...

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Joss Stone - Colour Me Free [Album]
Virgin Records America

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 It’s Bonobo, so it’s click-sharping, hi-freqing claps and hats, sub-zero bass lines and a healthy dollop of tuned percussion. If you like trip-hop, you’ll definitely be familiar with Bonobo, a stalwart of both Ninja Tune and Tru Thoughts. Some of his albums have set benchmarks in what is... It'd been a lovely night. We'd met at eight in Covent Garden, she looked gorgeous in a mid-calf beige dress and matching shoes. Sensual, but classy I thought to myself, suddenly worrying that my accent would betray those early, awkward teenage years in the provinces. We ate sparsely, but well. She...

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Ghostlight - Breathing Underwater [Single]
Patched up but still melting

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided





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