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The Prodigy have been making music since I was in Comprehensive school. Me and my mates used to slam on all the classics such as "Fire" and "Charlie Says" and be amazed by how different it was to anything we had ever heard before. This was before they had garnered any major commercial success a... "Trip is a silver-tongued spitter with a lyrical affinity for the roller coaster ride of city living". That's what it said on the sticker on the CD's card sleeve. After reading it, I had an inkling what to expect. Lyrics about waking up, having a shower, eating breakfast and leaving your house to...

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Trip - River Phoenix [Album]
Autonomy Recordings Ltd.
There’s not an awful lot to say about Ben’s Brother (an encouraging start, I know) –if you liked the debut, ‘Beta Male Fairytales’, back in 2007 then Battling Giants is sure to be a winner and well worth picking up. However, if you were indifferent, as the majority of people using this site in...
There is a lot of hype surrounding Alex Child AKA Trip. Music-News.com states that the album is….. “a great piece of individual modern poetry”. Based in London, 24 year old Alex Child has created an album that is a “tragic-comic kaleidoscope of city life as seen through the eyes of a 24 year old... So, seemingly a song about alcohol abuse by an overly polished boy band with instruments – not really my cup of tea. The problem here I think is that I enjoy alcohol abuse and hate boys bands with instruments but, I do suppose that bands realistically can’t please everyone! ‘Bottle After Bottle’... Anyone who is not a fan of Metric’s latest album, Fantasies, would have been mightily disappointed with this gig, and presumably any on the entire tour. Only five tracks played on Monday night were not from that album, as Metric clearly look to promote Fantasies hard (they played it in its...

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Metric [Live] @ Manchester Academy 3
Monday 11th May 2009
Appearing solo as well as with a backing band on stage, Manchester based singer/ guitarist Simon Connor's first outlet offstage ‘Seaside Surprise’ is a good example of his work, showing his abilities to change personal experiences into film themed stories. The EP starts off with the spooky ‘Open... Fed up with lies, a predictable and secure life and with distaste for everything taught at school, New Jersey based punk/hardcore band One Win Choice decided to break their chains and discover their own road. The journey has recently found its way to Europe, where the band will give away thirty... There’s a fine line between sad 80’s throwback band that wishes time would reverse so the hair metal hay-day could be relived, and an ‘incendiary’ act that seems to transcend all boundaries of generation bias. Thankfully, Northern Ireland’s own The Answer are on the right side of the reminiscent...

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The Answer - Tonight [single]
Albert Productions - Released 24 May 2009
Brighton seems to be hammering out the hardcore screamo bands lately. Brides doing a great job smashing out their debut EP and now this brilliant single from The Ghost Of A Thousand comes in all guns blazing. If this is the first taster of what is to come from this newly signed to Epitaph five... Yawn…. Another Panic At The Disco, Fall Out Boy castaway. “Honesty” is predictable and boring, another simple catchy little diddy that every young emo wannabe punk rock chick that wants to be Avril Lavigne will love and scream over. This will find its way into the charts no worries along with that... A fast pace and abusive debut EP from Brighton boys ‘Brides’. This is an attractive debut EP, they make use of the growing breed of UK kids kicking up a stink in the post-hardcore scene and actually doing a half decent job. Brides would be one of those bands you see supporting and absolutely...

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Brides - Ocular.Unveil [Ep]
Visible Noise
Back in the days when Mastodon were a mere spec in the vast world of heavy rock/metal, they were described as "The next Metallica". The hype built around Mastodon (mainly from your ever bumming Kerrang magazine) had them parading amongst the rock legends. In their own right Mastodon have an...

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Mastodon - Crack The Skye [Album]
Warner Bros. Records

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 With two-thirds of the members of Mi Ami coming from Dischord noise-rockers Black Eyes, I was expecting out-and-out abrasive noise from their new band. But this is something quite different. The two ex-Black Eyes players, guitarist/vocalist Daniel Martin-McCormick and bassist Jacob Long, are joined...

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Mi Ami - Watersports [Album]
Quarterstick Records
The lead ‘single’ from Iggy’s new, and arguably experimental, solo record ‘Préliminaires’ is to be the jazztastic ‘King Of The Dogs’. The album was influenced by the novel ‘The Possibility of an Island’ by French author Michel Houellebecq; my review of it can be found at...

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Iggy Pop - King Of The Dogs [Single]
EMI / Astralwerks

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How to you like your pop music? Over-easy? Full of dancing naked girls? Folk who can't sing but look good in pants? How about whiny miserable blokes in tweed? Hmmm... it's hard to pin down isn't it, but here's one for you to contemplate how would like your pop to be about stalking and sexing and... Fat Cat Records have this unearthly knack of coming north of the border and finding the golden nuggets in amongst all the silt and muck it's a trait that has giving us the wrenched emotion of Frightened Rabbit and the sonic eloquence of The Twilight Sad. On their most recent fact finding mission...

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We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls (Album)
Fat Cat Records - Out 15th June 2009
As you may have gathered from reading my choice of bands that I’ve reviewed so far for this site, I’m a guy that loves his rock and metal! So when I received this album and the first words I read on the back were ‘Mosh and Roll’ the grin on my face was one of "this is going to be pure, raw...
The link between sex and death is certainly not a new one, and vastly more intelligent men than I have far more to offer on the subject than I do, but neither Sigmund Freud nor the French social theorist Michel Foucault discussed the link in regards to London’s self proclaimed “Shriekrockers”,...

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Kasms - Spayed [Album]
Trouble Records
My relationship with Jeffrey Lewis has recently been on the rocks. Snippets I heard from his new album did not fill me with hope, and I decided that this gig would be the make or break. I was willing to put in the effort and come to this gig, to try and recapture all those happy years we shared,... Now DJ Ironik, I want to make myself very clear here: If, after settling on some new original material for a track, you question, “What does this really need to make it a masterpiece?” and the answer you can come up with (after deciding that better lyrics, a decent original hook, and a heavier...
Last year saw the release of William’s debut album Self in Fiction, which received largely positive reviews. This year they make the rather strange, almost backward move of releasing a mini album, Slightly Delighted, but hey, there are no rules on this kind of thing and their fans will be tickled... People may not think of Trail of Dead as an obvious ‘singles band’, but they have produced anthemic moments on albums to date. Songs such as “The Rest Will Follow” and “Let it Dive” were fist-pumpers of the grandest scale (a scale the band certainly like to work on), and their latest album The... When Lacuna Coil are mentioned, most people tend to remember one name, Christina Scabbia. Is it unfair that she is the most talked about member of the Italian 6-piece? Probably. Would they have the same amount of success if Miss Scabbia wasn’t present? Defiantly not. She posses the vocal talent...
At first, I don’t really understand the point behind the somewhat saddening, slightly depressing, and definitely repulsive family snap on the front of Delta Spirit’s latest single, People C’mon, until I realise this is just what the 5 guys from San Diego do for their album... Well, I really couldn’t pick this one. I’ve mulled, I’ve considered, I’ve reflected, and yet I still can’t decide exactly how I feel about the Easy Star All-Stars. Although, I guess I don’t have to be 100% conclusive, so here is where I stand after the Easy Star All-Stars’ set at London’s Koko on... Alfa Matrix, a record label from Belgium had been in existence since 2001. Their goal is to become “a trademark for innovative electronic music, open to various styles including power EBM, dark electro, intelligent industrial, synth pop, electronica, trip hop, drum n’ bass….” Belgium has always...
With new musical genres springing from others every day of the week, Kuduro may well have passed you by. The legendary and recently defunct MTV2 120 Minutes show first brought it to my attention with Lisbon’s Buraka Som Sistema. Angolan born, the foursome of Lil' John, Riot, Conductor and Kalaf... It’s been a long time waiting for Metric fans to get their hands on new material from the band. Sure their last release was only in 2007, but Grow up and Blow Away was actually a delayed release for what should have been their debut album. So as 2005 saw their most recent release of new tracks...

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Metric - Fantasies [Album]
Last Gang Records
Schwarzblut are a Dutch group that have released their debut EP on Alfa-Matrix Records, the Belgium based label that is home to all things dark, noisy, shouty and electronic. The press releases describe Schwarzblut as a “blend of romantic melancholic Weimar poetry with danceable dark electronic...
Sebastian R Komor is the Kommando, and here we are introduced to one of his side projects Komor Kommando. It is a 7 track EP which takes the listener into Hard Dance territory with a little side excursion into very dirty Breakbeat. Komor has a growing list of production credits to his name,... If you look at the band website for 23RainyDays, you will see the Washington DC four-piece have been playing and recording for five years now. The site is glossy, colourful and quite substantial in terms of content. The music of 23RainyDays is equally glossy but lacking of any colour or substance.... From a psychedelic Garden of Eden to romantic summer nights, and from Clint Eastwood westerns to creepy Christmas eves, Spain Colored Orange’s first album Sneaky like a Villain takes you on a colourful journey through imaginary landscapes, consequently giving new life to 1920’s miracle, the radio...
As purveyors of their very own sound (‘Shriekbeat’ in their own words), vernal London four-piece Kasms arrive with some goods that need delivering but “Male Bonding” only makes it as far as the end of your street and not quite ‘right up it’. Siouxsie Soux comparisons are inevitable for singer...

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Kasms - Male Bonding [Single]
Trouble Records
Secrets never last. Especially when disguised as three sharply dressed women, with soulful, warm and emotional voices who bring you songs that sound like a swinging summer in the sixties while spreading around the style, fashion and mood of the romantic nights at the dancehall of the innocent... Though officially a secret, Canadian residents Great Bloomers are North-America’s next step necessary to rule the world - by spoiling the music scene with average stereotyped Americana songs. Mid-tempo piano based songs about everyday life, with Lynyrd Skynyrd inspired licks and sung by an...
Mr Bones & The Dreamers are a collective I have been aware of for some time now and being a Birmingham based musician myself I must first congratulate Mr Bones for going so far against the grain. Around 90% of bands from the midlands consist of either vapid indie poseurs or trad-metal troglodytes.... I know what you’re thinking: oh, the audacity. Any blatant reference to the classical prodigy is a potential boomerang, thus it’s natural to infer that any band having the galls to do so is either way-in-over-their-heads deranged or has members who bear iron spines. So commences the trial of... If Billy Joel, Tom Waits and Rufus Wainwright were to concoct some kind of genome assisted love child.... well lets not beat around the bush, that baby would be one ugly fucker. However if said progeny were to grow into their parents profession the resulting sound would very closely resemble that...
Considering the sheer length of Iggy Pop’s career in the music without a fall from grace, still rightfully earning the respect of even the most arrogant of modern mockstars, the title of his new long player ‘Préliminaires’ ironically translates as ‘Foreplay’. After having spent almost 50 years at...

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Iggy Pop - Préliminaires [Album]
EMI / Astralwerks

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 The latest in a seemingly endless line of bands suffering identity crisis, New York’s BM Linx’s second album Black Entertainment proves that the city certainly isn’t perfect and doesn’t always deliver the goods. Providing the soundtrack to some of the worst lyrics I have heard outside of the UK...

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BM Linx - Black Entertainment [album]
Craze Factory Entertainment
My first experience of St Vincent (alias of ex Polyphonic Spree member and Sufjan Stevens cohort Annie Clark) came early last year when I caught her supporting The National at the Irish Club in Birmingham. It was a striking performance which managed to combine the brittle acoustic anti-folk of her...
What is surprising about the moment you first hear White Light Parade is how developed and full their sound is already, you really could imagine them filling stadiums already. Wake Up is the debut single from the Leeds (and Bradford) four-piece and the first track from their forthcoming album House... “People have sex to my songs,” recounts a flu-stricken, but very charming Rachael Yamagata at her 2-hour concert on Wednesday, April 15th at The Esplanade theatre, Singapore. Despite being slightly under the weather from her 25-hour flight, she radiates with a warm glow and an affectionate slab of...

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Rachael Yamagata Live @ The Esplanade, Singapore
Of cats, bears, ghosts and sex
The Swedish house producer Kleerup, shot to fame with his release feat Robyn – With Every Heartbeat, and probably deservedly so. That record was a proper dance-pop gem. Strong production qualities mixed with a cutting and brooding vocal performance meant that it got a mass of radio and club play....





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