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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... CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009 PART TWO So much to say but I can’t be writing a book with this second half so here it is! Friday night I decided to kick it at the Rivoli most of the time. I wanted to see this band that I missed the night before and was not feeling another over crowded situation....
It is always difficult to look at a band in a positive light when they list Topman and Toni & Guy as their influences. Rather conveniently, only today however did I get a haircut in said salon and bought an overpriced badly made jacket from the store in question. But, embarrassingly timed...

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Overreact - Violent Eyes [EP]
Schizofreniks Records
Starsailor (for me) will always first and foremost be known as the seminal Tim Buckley album I discovered by chance at an obscure record store in Exeter many moons ago. One of the most intense, bizarre and ahead of it's time records I own, it's amongst my favourite albums of all time and the groove... As part of the new wave of punk that’s growing in the UK at the moment comes Crazy Arm, a band hailing from Plymouth that describes themselves on their Myspace as jokingly, ‘Fugazi with banjos, but without banjos!’ They have also been endorsed by Liam and Mike from Cancer Bats (which given the...

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Crazy Arm- Broken By The Wheel [Single]
Xtra Mile Recordings
From Liverpool comes Sound Of Guns a band that have recently played Radio 1’s Big Weekend and have been championed by Huw Stevens and Steve Lamacq which does seem like two very big endorsements for any band these days. On this basis I decided to ignore the Radio 1 hype and gave Sound Of Guns... What do you get when you combine the concept of cricket and Neil Hannon with Thomas Walsh of Pugwash?? The answer is..... one of the most original and weirdest singles I have EVER heard! The Age of Revolution is a nice combination of the melodic folk pop that The Duckworth-Lewis Method have... My favourite bar in the world. Known for it’s quality jukebox, whiskey and the big name metal and rock bands that frequent it when they are in town. The Crobar really is a legendary venue and what better way to celebrate that experience by allowing you to take a little piece of that home with...
Oh score! The new Wyld Stallyns jam! Not really but Bill & Ted would love Steel Panther. Big hair shooting out in all directions and every inch of flesh covered in ink and animal print lycra, Steel Panther are '80's metal, albeit with a tongue firmly planted in its rouged cheek. Playing it... British Sea Power have never walked the path most trodden. Basically they are a group of believers and this new project is another fine example of what you can do if you aren't constrained to the ideal of the jobsworth indie band. This ain't for money. Nup. This is straight up seeing something you... Really, if you’re completely honest, I reckon you’ll be hard pushed to find one artist from our generation who is, by definition, cooler than Ben Harper. I mean, others have tried, even his protégé Jack Johnson came close, but no one seems to encompass the unnerving cool that Harper appears to...
My initial thoughts when I picked up this single for review were “Oh crap, not this guy, I hate this guy”. Probably not a good sign. My first encounter with Jersey Budd was his opening slot for Eskimo Joe’s UK tour in April of this year, so I was pretty much resigned to feeling the same way about...

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Jersey Budd - Shotgun Times [single]
This Feeling Records
Sorry and the Sinatras, “specialise in high octane kick ass punk rock……high on flare, punishing, driving riffs and spit ‘n’ sawdust professionalism”…..this blurb straight from Sorry and the Sinatras self promotion tools on www.myspace.com/sorryandthesinatras. With such a blatant, elevated sense... Awarded with £15,000 by slicethepie.com to record an album, 23 years old singer Tommy Ludgate surrounded herself with a couple of musicians, a well-established producer / mixer and came out of the studio with ‘Wall of Words’. ‘So Cruel’ is the second single off the album and, as mentioned in her...

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Tommy Ludgate - So Cruel (single)
Self-Released - Out Now
Belgium duo Soy un Caballo have teamed up with English folkies This is the Kit for a new multilingual split single. Having ‘collaborated’ this way with experimental folk band Tungg before – Tungg translated Caballo’s ‘Robin’ into English and released a single containing the original version as well... The first time I encountered Alec Empire was during the Intelligence And Sacrifice era in which he provided the sound scape of an impending doom that was coming. Think Terminator Salvation but without SKYNET and all that madness. It helped myself discover the Industrial rock/metal genre and...

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Alec Empire- Shivers [Album]
Eat Your Heart Out Records
Okay, let's see a show of hand (yes this is hypothetical of course I can't see you through my computer screen, or can I?) who likes to shout? Now who likes to shout like the Beach Boys? Okay good so far, and who likes music that's fast like say a rat on the back of a leopard? (did you see that...
Ah Jocasta Sleeps those seemingly wily old foxes of Glasgow's burgeoning music scene it's so good to finally welcome you into the club sit down take a load off would you like a menu? The crayfish you say, ah what a wonderful choice sir, would you like to see the wine list? Sorry just a small...

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Jocasta Sleeps - Crayfish Cocktail
Euphonios - Out 29th June
Has there been some kind of Spanish armada/bean-munching gringo infestation of Scotland of late that I have blindingly missed out on all-together? Damn-it I could have done with a poncho and nobody told me, though clearly like fellow men-who-no-namers Le Reno Amps, Woodenbox with a Fistful of... The idea of post- hardcore and trance styles of music being fused together, sounds very much like a recipe for disaster. Two polar opposites on the music genre scale, most bands wouldn’t dream of infusing the two. Enter Shikari however are not your average band. Their blend of post-hardcore and...
Hordes of Chaos is the 12th studio album from thrash metal veterans Kreator. Bringing in a new producer for this album, Kreator aimed to create an album with a more live feel and not a heavily computerized sound, comprised of absolute perfectly pitched and synchronized beats. This was a very wise... Music is a situational beast - by its very nature, it chameleons itself to accommodate the atmosphere and track the mood. Today the mood was melancholy. Today my friend lost someone very important to her. Today was a bad day. For that reason alone when the Greycoats’ moody debut album Setting Fire... Having listened to electronic music for quite a number of years now, I have yet to hear a Lithuanian artist of any real merit. With Europe being the birthplace of real electronic music and eastern Europe fast becoming one the most progressive areas of the continent, I was excited when I read the...
Yet another Planet Mu release, this time from English Dub-Stepper Milanese with his new album, “Lockout”. Milanese is proving that Dubstep, an ever changing, morphing and evolving sound, also has the ability to remain static. Lockout is a twelve track album that consists of a lot of Milanese... I wasn't entirely sure what I was expecting when I turned up at ULU to see Sing it Loud supporting Cobra Starship. Yes, I had been expecting a fair few amount of kiddies, but when me and my twenty-something friend arrived the vibe decidedly felt more like we were at some childrens organised disco.... Shall we mention The Coral early and get it out the way? After all Hudson Fall are Liverpudlian, so it's a given the stoner god-heads will turn up somewhere along the line. Fact is though, you can hear Hudson Fall's auspicious predecessors writ through every jangley note. This is no bad thing,...
Official Mark Ronson BFF Daniel Merriweather had a choice lying before him after the success of 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before' - use his quite brilliant voice to do something a little off kilter and different, or pretend he was Stevie Wonder and belt out wet, insipid, self-pitying break... Crooked Timber marks 20 years existence for Therapy?, which is marked by their fourteenth release, Crooked Timber. Having maintained a pretty solid line up throughout their career, with very minimal changes, Therapy? have managed to be very consistent in their sound and styling. Crooked Timber... Recently I decided to once again watch what was probably the biggest cult movie of the past two years in Juno, which gained it’s following due to the script but also down to its use of alternative rock getting a revival, Sonic Youth being one of the bands featured. Sonic Youth can be seen as...

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Sonic Youth - The Eternal [Album]
Matador Records (Released 8th June)





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