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Formed in sleepy New Hampshire in 2005, indie rock outfit Wild Light already provide quite an impressive musical C.V. The foursome can boast to supporting such established artists as, MGMT, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Arcade Fire and The Killers within recent times. Their continued... Hmmm. Hundred Reasons. They're a funny one. I have a real thing against most bands like them. While I like cheesy emo pop punk, I instantly despise bands that are apparently “rocky” for the same reasons; they are completely overproduced and a little bland. And the worrying thing about it is, I know... 'Dream Satellite' begins like the off-cut of some stuffed piggy Smiths' song with it's chiming guitars but where The Smiths were interrupted with Morrissey's morose baritone (not a complaint I'm a fan honest) 'Dream Satellite' has the rather different velvety tones of Mr Eoghan Colgan who seems to...

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Eoghan Colgan - Dream Satellite (Single)
Eject Records - Out Now
The lesser known musical sub-genre bands such as "Isis" choose to inhabit, doesn't yet seem to have an actual concrete name. Some have come to refer to their unique cross-pollination of crushing guitars, molasses rhythms and soaring melodies as "post-metal" aligning the movement with the... With a career already spanning over a decade, Nashville Pussy have established themselves as a big time player in the world of heavy metal. After the relative success of their previous album ‘Say Something Nasty’, 2009 release ‘From Hell to Texas’ hits our shelves with an abundance of... There are two things I really love about Australia: 1. Its close proximity to New Zealand; and 2. Eskimo Joe. So when the three enthralling lads that form Eskimo Joe suggested back at their December gig in London, that to hear some of their new stuff we would have to come back for their...
It’s Saturday Night, silence rules in your living room and there’s not a lot to say to your box of chocolate ice cream. At this moment only one thing can make you feel slightly better: Kelman’s third ‘download only’ single ‘NYE’. The song takes you down on a trip to someone who passed the line...

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Kelman - NYE [Single]
Unsigned
As a nation we seem to be stuck in a bit of a musical rut. Throughout the noughties record buyers have become complacent and will seemingly only fork out their hard earned (sic) cash on the familiar, the tried and tested and the 'safe'. This has had a knock on effect in that it's caused the average... It can’t be a coincidence that, just as Super Furry Animals have a new album out, the sun starts shining again. Perhaps it’s Mother Nature flashing her approval. Or maybe even God his/her self, for it is he/her who said (famously) “let there be light”, thus sparking a series of events culminating...
The seven piece 'Irish American Celtic Punk' band have been around for nearly twelve years now, thats pretty much half my life time. Somehow they still manage to conjure up this new single and have it slap in your face with oodles of quality. You can't help but picture a cozy traditional pub... I’m sorry, what now? Grupo Fantasma come from where??? Texas…Nah, shut up, you’re wrong. So apparently, the internet can be trusted…Texas it is. Not only does the name mislead the origin (generally translating from Spanish to Phantom Group), but there is nothing typically Texan and nothing...

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Grupo Fantasma - Sonidos Gold [album]
Me and My Other Records

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 First on the bill were Manatees, treating us to some very sludgy stoner metal. Although only a three piece Manatees managed to create a sound as large as the sea mammal that they are named after. Throwing out some nice grooves and large amount of chugging. The bass had a bit of a filthy tone,...
Main support tonight were a young group of lads from Sunderland who collectively go by the name of The Casino Brawl. To start with, their sound wasn’t very good, with a lack of clarity and definition between the instruments, but this was slowly resolved. Their style was a mixture of screamo with... The Prodigy = DOMINATION, what more can be said. For years the band have dominated a scene that noone has managed to copy. They have their own genre and they bloody well destroy any venue they hit. Before i bum the band into the ground, the support act needs abit of love. Dizzee Rascall has set... BenSem describe themselves as Indie Pop Rockers but in truth they play melodic AOR. They’d call it timeless – I’d called it dated. They hail from Pontypridd, Wales but sound generically transatlantic. It is competently played and produced but is not as good as they think. Singer and songwriter Sem...

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BenSem – Sunshine [EP]
BenSem Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
Greatest hits tours in many cases are just ways of cashing in on a washed-up group or artists previous successes. They are often very poor quality and simply ‘cheese’ fests aimed at middle aged women who remember the songs from their youth. Simply Red luckily are different, with a back-catalogue... Right first thing first. I can honestly say I didn't care much for their first record (save for the unquestionable beauty of 'Maps' and the bat-shit crazy 'Y Control') and their second effort was patchy at best. That being said the latest release from archetypal New York hipsters Yeah Yeah Yeah's... Ever since 2006's critically acclaimed debut album 'Fur and Gold' Natasha Khan has consistently been held up against either Kate Bush or Bjork. On first listen that is a fair approximation of the Bat For Lashes sound and one could see why so many would come to these two artists for comparison....
I am listening to Boris Smile’s forthcoming EP ‘Beartooth’ for the second time as I start writing this review. By the end of the next paragraph I will have turned it off. From California, Boris Smile are attempting to break into a musical market here in the UK that is already saturated with bands...

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Boris Smile - Beartooth [EP]
Count Your Lucky Stars

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 1990s an appropriate title for this band don't you reckon? They encompass all that was good and at times all that was bad about said era, thankfully they veer much more into the good territory you know the stuff that was catchy and instantly drilled a tunnel into your brain where it would lay and...

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1990s - Kicks (Album)
Rough Trade
Ah Vendor Defender at last you are out into the big wide world i.e. outside Glasgow not that there's anything wrong with Glasgow quite on the contrary as without it I fear you may have been an all-together different proposition - now you've plucked for the moniker of Spanish Pop/New Wave (yeah I...

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Vendor Defender - Dreamphone (Single)
Self-Released - Out Now
Friends can cause a lot of pain and loneliness. It’s the main fact you learn when listening to Guy Taunton’s story about someone who lost his soul mate. With anger and disappointment he observes that someone who’s very dear to him tries to fit in with another gang, while it is obvious to him that... Who cares if it’s raining outside, there are riots in central London and there is a huge economic downturn that is set to ruin our lives for the next decade? If it means that bands make more albums like this sunshine filled delight then it is unfathomable how people can give two shillings. ... It’s all whistles and la’s as title track “Wrong” is playing. “I could be so wrong, I could be so wrong, I could be so wrong” tediously chants the Massachusetts boy, to his acoustic/ surf/ folk, or as he calls it, indie/ acoustic/ rock. Its Jason Mraz meets Jack Johnson. ‘She’s Gone’ is a...
CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009 PART ONE To start things off, this year’s Canadian Music Week had so many great bands at the same time; it was so hard to pick the bands to check out. I scheduled a few and played it by ear, everyone who has done a festival such as this before; all know too well the... A four track single full to the brim of mixes (radio edit, album edit, Tomboy remix and James Braun remix). VETO is a quintet of Danish music makers, their press release explains their music “elegantly mixes together progressive rock and modern electronica, soaring melodies, beeps, clicks”. It will...

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VETO - Built To Fail [Single]
Reset Records
CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009 Part ONE
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After last years stunning return to form with "Narrow Stairs", Death Cab For Cutie keep the ball rolling with this recently released 'companion piece'. It's tempting to simply label this record as a b-sides and off-cuts collection, (deleted scenes if you will) however the band insist these are...
Lazurus is the third full-length release from French metal band Hacride, which, like all their previous records, is released through Listenable records. Lazurus explores quite a variety of different metal styles, ranging from progressive, death, tech with elements of thrash. The progressive element...

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Hacride - Lazurus [Album]
Listenable Records

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 Silversun Pickups are a band that I had heard a lot about but had barely heard any of their music. So when I finally did manage to hear them I was able to appreciate why they had been so greatly accredited. Skip forward a few months and a few dozen plays of Lazy Eye on Guitar Hero, later and I find... The Handsome Family's (aka Brett & Rennie Sparks) eighth album 'Honey Moon', is a collection of love songs "featuring tales of intimate insects and lovers kissing in wet caves", released to mark their 20th wedding anniversary. Maintaining the Gothic Americana Family template of previous albums,...

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The Handsome Family - Honey Moon [Album]
Loose Music - Released 20th April 09
From my previous soul review, you may have caught on that I am of the opinion that soul music is dying in this current pop and rock climate of the 00s, soon to be six feet under like its funk counterpart. I also expressed my hope that Anthoney Wright could be the future driving force to regain some...

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Laura Izibor - Shine [Single]
Atlantic Records
What’s in a name? The cover of ‘Be Not Afraid’ shows an elegant painted landscape with wild deer roaming across sweeping hills. This and that band name suggest some rural folk idylls within. But that’s not what is on offer here. The Slow Life is four Londoners who deliver – as suggested by the name... To answer your question, yes, that is the real De La Soul. Not since the mid-nineties have this hip hop threesome achieved anything near their golden hip hop success, but this Arab hip hop artist has brought them back for this track and he's done well with it. The song starts with a nice hip hop...
I saw It Hugs Back on stage at End of the Road festival in 2007 and made a mental note to look out for more of their chugging guitars-and-organ indie-rock. So when I first started listening to debut album ‘Inside Your Guitar’ I thought either my memory was failing or I had got the wrong band. And... You may not know it but Merriweather Post Pavillion has probably been one of the most anticipated albums of the century. Sure there will have been albums anticipated by more people, but not too many will have been anticipated quite as obsessively as Animal Collective’s latest full length. Blogs... OK. Everyone that is on Altsounds.com listens to music avidly. So why not post a review of your newest CD, a gig you visited or even just a track you like on altsounds.com so that you can get your voice heard?? Unlike other websites, Altsounds.com is built for our users by our users and...
The last time these two collaborated, they produced one of my favourite R&B/Pop songs of this decade (My Love), which might not be the biggest of accolades considering there weren't many to choose from, in my opinion, but congratulations nevertheless. This however fails to live up to that name, and... Having heard plenty about the amazing live experience that is a Last Republic gig, especially from those whose opinions I resolutely trust, I was eager to see what was in store for me. The Welsh quintet take to the stage, and I absently notice the white megaphone with the words “A WEAPON”...

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The Last Republic @ 229 Club, London, 31st March 2009 [Live]
"They are simply a band you must see live."

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 Stevie Wonder, a multi-Grammy award wining soul artist is responsible for writing some of the 20th centuries best soul songs, and was a pioneer of the Motown music scene. In order to cover songs loved by so many and with such reputations you need to have an extremely tight band, the best vocalists...
The overly pretentious anti-folk scene (as it’s been dubbed by many music journos) seems to have practically imploded on itself before it even had a chance to bloom. Bands such as Noah and the Whale and Johnny Flynn appear to have descended back into the abyss they came from, however one survivor...

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Emmy The Great Live in Stoke[Live]
Sugarmill -February 22nd 2009

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 The experimental genius behind prog band Porcupine Tree makes his debut as a solo act with this brilliant record, 'Insurgents'. For those having no knowledge of Porcupine Tree it might be in your interest to check out the album 'Voyage 34: The Complete Trip'. The album is based on an LSD trip, a... Frankmusik, real name Vincent Frank, has been causing a stir in the underground pop/electro scene for a while now, with Radio 1 airplay and a video currently circulating the music channels. So it’s understandable that there was an air of excited anticipation flowing through the sold out crowd at...

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Frankmusik - Dingwalls, Camden [Live]
Single Launch Party 1st April 2009

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
Sometimes, you’ll listen to some music that you don’t like at first, but later do. Sometimes, you’ll listen to some music that you might even hate at first, but eventually learn to love, or at least not mind too much. Sometimes, however, you’ll listen to some music that you not only hate... Mr Bones & The Dreamers are a Midlands six piece with an impressive array of support slots under their belt: Alabama 3, Elvis Perkins, Okkervil River, The Walkmen and The Hold Steady. They play a taut acoustic folk-indie topped off by Mr Bones (I presume) mournful quaver. They may be quite intense...
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