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If you could ask Bob Dylan one question, what would it be? After Saturday’s gig at the O2, my question for Mr Dylan would have to be “Do you even find this fun anymore Bob?” I had formed my opinion of the gig and decided how this review would look (which I will give in more detail in just a... “I knew it was going to be good, but that was amazing” I think this quote from one raving fan after Jason Mraz’s sold out second London show on his most recent tour sums up the night at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo perfectly. I had seen and heard how well his current run of tours dates had been... Benjamin Taylor’s ability to blur the line between cheesy generic singer-songwriter material and credible musicianship coupled with his ability to pen a genuinely well written pop song is remarkable. In reference to the said ‘cheesy’ aspect, the artwork of his latest release ‘She’s Gone’ shows him...
You can easily make a lazy comparison between Side By Side and Sigur Ros. They both feature the same haunting instrumentalization and sparse vocals are evident in both bands albums. This type of music is not my cup of tea at all, so if I’m honest trying to write an impartial review based on the... The debut EP from Young Guns entitled ‘Mirrors’ hooks me from the opening track. They have a refreshing, yet familiar style to their music. Young Guns have pulled out their effects pedals and cranked the echo effect on their microphones up to 11. The result is a staggering slab of infectious rock... The latest album by much hyped band Fake Problems really gets going and starts to connect with me by track two, titled ‘The Dream Team’. This is an epic track complete with "woah woah" backing vocals, a breakdown, guitar solo and plenty of plinky-plonking on the piano. It leaves you breathless...
Type in Church For Sinners in Google. Yes you guessed it. Biblical and religious references dominate the pages. Expected of course. It does seem ironic however, that a band who are clearly making a genre of music that would piss off our almighty leader, should appear on the same page as a website... Written by Natalie Imbruglia, performed by a man who frequently wears a flat cap; it’s difficult to have positive first impressions about ‘Ben’s Brother’s comeback single ‘Apologise’ but stay with me and maybe we can work through this one together. The main thing that seems striking about...

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Ben’s Brother – Apologise [Single]
Flat Cap Records Ltd.
The eclectic and eccentric Blues-Rock sorceress PJ Harvey has reunited with past collaborator John Parish once more to craft an emotionally charged, brutally powerful album that bellows haunting poetry. In the same fashion as their previous effort (Dance Hall at Louse Point), Harvey and Parish...
What a pleasant surprise. 9 times out of 10 when one hears a record by an unknown band the results range from mediocre to unlistenable. Wintermute buck that trend with their wonderful debut album 'Robot Works'. The press release that arrived bolstered to my copy of Robot Sleep claims that...

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Wintermute - Robot Works [Album]
Big Scary Monsters

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 The cover of BLK JKS’s debut Mystery EP shows two African boys running for a train. Quite whether or not this is an intended metaphor for the band’s own journey to this point is unclear, but it serves as an excellent one none-the-less. Forming in 2000 in Johannesburg, the band only made it on to...

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BLK JKS - Mystery [EP]
Secretly Canadian
Hmmm... How should I describe Creepy Crawlers? How about, "Paw Tracks-friendly"? For the uninitiated, Paw Tracks is a record label created by members of Animal Collective that routinely releases, depending on your opinion, either wonderfully-idiosyncratic avant-garde music or disingenuously...
Well. Prepare your brain for this one, in fact you may need a sick bag from being mentally and physically abused after listening to Venetian Snares latest technical mastermind of sound waves. 'Filth' is epic, more confusing than chinese writing and features so much musical content that as a music... Sounding like something conjured up in your local Bull's Head, 'FuckBook' has a certain niche charm to it. It plods along with a dirty, gritty sound. The 'garage' sound is hard to get into at first, especially after listening to endless albums that are polished harder than Kate Winslet's oscar.... Now before I begin it should be known that high energy american style pop-punk is hardly what you'd call 'my cup of tea'. So it was with a great deal of trepidation that I sat down to this (beautifully packaged) record. 'Distances' is a split EP release between Philidelphia's 'The Wonder Years' and...
The easy going, never-fail-to-impress catchy kings of rock are back with this impressive sixteen track album 'Quick The Word Sharp The Action'. Hundred Reasons always confuse me with an ever changing amount of members. It may just be a distinct lack of attention span but I'm sure there only used... First off the mark I have a suggestion for 'Diffusion Records'. You could really make a little more effort with your Promo CD's. Both the Stormy Corner and Crafty Simian releases I received contained no artwork or information about the band and as such didn't make a terrific first impression.... 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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Cool as Fuck CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009 Part ONE
www.cmw.net
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Reason: there's a double

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...
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