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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... For the first 15 seconds 'Before The Walls Came Down', the title track on Computerclub’s debut album, sounds exactly like a John Barry 60s spy movie score. For the next two minutes and thirty four seconds it sounds exactly like a long-lost Echo & the Bunnymen B-side. No, really. EXACTLY. Younger...
For the very exclusive bunch of enthusiasts who always wondered what life would be like if Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell were born out of the same egg, there’s hope on the horizon. Of course it is a bit of a cliché to come up with old acts to describe a new one, but there is something about Rachael... For a band who – because of the melodic music, the personal lyrics and the voice of singer Jacob de Greeuw – is often compared to the likes of John Lennon, Crowded House and R.E.M. and is as popular as well in Holland, three albums in twelve years isn't much of a catalogue. And so it was time to... So the guitars start roaring and the drums are bashed and Computer Club are on the stereo. It is obvious that they have had an upbringing of Interpol, Joy Division and (I hate to say it) The Pigeon Detectives. This is a mainstream indie song, no doubt. It’s very obvious, the melody and lyrics come...
First impressions are a great starting point and Namaste do a great job with their presentation. The Single comes in a little brown paper bag with a sort of stamp print logo on the front, stuck together with a cheeky little Namaste sticker advertising their site and myspace. This is pretty...

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Namaste - Expired [Single]
Crater 8 Records
If Hadouken where American then i suspect this is exactly how they would sound. Cue the basic drum beat, catchy chorus and simple use of synths. Taken from their self titled debut album described as "a collection of sounds and lyrics reflecting the energy of our moment". Indeed this is correct,... Every now and again its nice to listen to something you normally wouldn't. Acoustic Folk? No thankyou he would normally say. Its really refreshing to open your ears to something different from the typical genres people attach themselfs too. Being an open minded individual myself when it comes to...

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Lau - Arc Light [Album]
Navigator Records
Captain Beefheart’s impact on the music world is incalculable (and not just because of his utterly superb choice of name). While general society has squashed him down for midnight meanders and those evenings when the crazy needs to get released, the pioneers of music are still very much coloured... Being one of the most alternative rappers in the business today that exists not on the Def Jux label MF Doom is normally a refreshing breath of fresh air from the usual three ‘core’ elements of hip-hop: guns, girls and drugs. As the masked alter ego combined with Viktor Vaughn (a play on the first... Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry have unleashed a mild creature of an album by the name of Face Control. The second attempt at musical diversity for Boeckner (from his two other projects: Wolf Parade and Atlas Stragetic) sees him working once again with his wife, Perry, in their indie-electro band,...
London Based five piece deserve merit for two things ; first for creating an extremely impressive debut single that requires the repeat button to be pressed constantly. Secondly for creating their own sub-genre, titled 'Dirty folk'. What a band needs to do to be dubbed 'dirty folk' is never... Planet Mu have been releasing a lot of albums over the last year. A testament to Planet Mu’s massive artist roster, coupled with the increasing usability and availability of music production software. Shitmat's (otherwise known as Henry Collins) new album "One Foot in the Rave", is the Brighton... Having released two mixed-bag albums under his own name, Brooklyn’s Luke Temple has adopted the moniker Here we go Magic to release his third album of the same name, and coincidence or not, the new name has arrived alongside his finest work to date. Album opener “Only Pieces” sets the scene...
Mrs Vee - Manifesto – Audvee05 - is a compilation album that is put together by the community based website Mrs Vee. The compilations are released under the creative commons licence, which is quite refreshing, unfortunately the music on them isn’t! A glance at the Mrs Vee website lets us know... There is no hiding the fact that Metro Station are a manufactured American Pop band, controlled by Sony, who expertly market them as the next big thing. A glance at Metro Station’s Myspace music player (metro station (cd out now) on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads)... Last week was a horrendous week, crazily busy, manic even, but come Thursday it was all to get better, infinitely better. This was because today was the day the guys, or should I say Farmers, down at AudioFarm brought Evil Nine to Manchester or more precisely to Moho Live. Many of you will probably...

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Evil Nine LIVE at AudioFarm
A blissful night of electronic mayhem

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When a reviewer that traditionally has no real love for a genre of music finds themselves repeatedly listening to something sent to them you know you have produced a quality record. This can be said for Worcester Based hardcore punk band Fights and Fires with their long awaited debut E.P/ Mini... It was very clear from the off that this evening was going to be good, crowds queuing around the venue at opening time is always a good sign that there is going to be a decent band on. And Gojira were deemed to be that band. To start the evening Pilgrimz treat the audience to their brand of metal,... London is a strange city. There are so many things always going on, people constantly in a rush to get somewhere, tapping away on their blackberries and working on the train, boys wanting to be rock stars and girls wanting to be Kate Moss (or Daisy Lowe or Brody Dahl…) in light of this, there are...
Now this here single ain’t half bad. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band ring in the release of their fourth studio album, with a preview single featuring two impressive tracks, ‘Mama’s Fried Potatoes’ and ‘Can’t Pay The Bill’, from their appropriately named album, The Whole Fam Damnily. ‘Mama’s... Akoustik Anarkhy (Manchester club night and label) has always ploughed its own highly idiosyncratic and avowedly DIY-aesthetic furrow. Their latest signing its a buffalo (look: no apostrophe! all in lower case!) share some of their label’s shambolic wilfulness and failings-are-our-strengths... I annoyingly arrived waaaay too early for this show. OK well, for any other show it was just normal arrival time but in this case it was waaaaay too early as it was just early enough to encounter the band directly before the populist screamo five piece I was planning to review. This outstandingly...

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Deaf Havana @ Bar Islington Academy - 16th March 2009
Including interview with front man Ryan Mellar!
Manchester City fans in particular will no doubt approach The B of the Bang with trepidation, as they share a name with a rather gaudy looking sculpture that sits rusting outside their stadium, ready to impale a hapless passer-by with its rather large precarious spikes. The sculpture’s future... First of all my apologies to Le Reno Amps for my disgraceful delay in getting this review up and running but now I'm here and prepared let's get the show on the road. 'Tear It Open' is Le Reno Amps second long-player and really sharpens their particular brand of country / funk / rock / pop / reggae...

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Le Reno Amps - Tear It Open (Album)
Drift Records - Out Now
The animals may well have gone in two by two, but currently female singer-songwriters seem to be arriving en-mass. 18 year old Alessi Laurent-Marke from West London is the latest in a steady stream of such songbirds, poached from the pages of Myspace. Her debut album, the twee-as-fook entitled...

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Alessi's Ark - Over The Hill [Single]
Virgin/ EMI Records
Croydon indie-poppers The Tunics (surely there are no more nouns left to plunder?) are quite aptly named seeing as the tune from ‘Shine On’ has been nicked from Britpop hits of the 90’s, and welded to the back-end of more recent Britpop such as The Arctic Monkeys, The Razorlight and The...

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The Tunics - Shine On [Single]
Manta Ray Music
The great debate over whether or not rock music has lost its originality, its innovators confined to history, is an oft debated one, and will be ‘til the prodigal cows return home to feast on the fattened son. What is not so widely discussed is just how unoriginal band names have always been, but... While numerous musicians have been inspired by the combination of mainstream song and avant-garde noise to be found in the music of MBV, JAMC and Sonic Youth (i.e. Smashing Pumpkins, Wavves and Nirvana, respectively and famously), I cannot recall many, if any, who have been inspired to strip away...





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    The Wildhearts - London Shepherd's Bush Empire, October 1st 2009 [Live]    


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    The Candle Thieves - The Sunshine Song [EP]    


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    The Longcut - Open Hearts [Album]    


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    Rachael Dunn [Live] @ Baby Blue, Liverpool    


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