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In an age where bands rarely last more than five minutes on the seemingly never-ending conveyor belt of new music, it’s certainly a rarity to find an act which stands the test of time. Tesla manages just that, returning with their sixth studio album in a quite incredible twenty-four year period....

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Tesla - Forever More [Album]
Tesla Recordings
Well, if you like sixties and are quite happy for your music not to push the boundaries or stray from that at all, then you'll most definitely like 'If you leave today' by The Bishops. However, if you're like me, and found a lot of the music from the sixties era fairly dull then this song will no... Hindsight is a bitch! After countless attempts to contact the venue to make sure I was on the guestlist, I decided to take the plunge and head on down anyway. There has never been a problem before, so I was sure tonight would be no different. How wrong I was. After receiving the bad news I went...

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Passion Pit [Live] @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Wednesday 25th February 2009
I used to loathe Days Away. For years I passed the band off as a horribly bland take on Stay What You Are-ish Saves The Day, especially after seeing them open for Finch in 2003. Cut to the next time I saw Finch, late last year, and apparently the band had grown leaps and bounds, now opting for much... The Invisible’s eponymous LP is something of a new animal. The whole thing exhibits a fusion of classic soul moods and uncompromisingly modern production, with more than a hint of curious experimentalism. The Invisible feels like a notable paper by some funky scholar, or the sole contents of... We all know the old story. Boy and girl go to high school together, meet in the school orchestra – he takes up the double bass and she handles the flute (cheeky). They hit it off and decide to go to ballroom dance club every Tuesday night as partners. They do the foxtrot, they do the waltz and they...
This single, “Sweet Release” by Tommy Ludgate is so slick, laidback and cool. It is smugness in sonic form. Even people who aren’t fond of soul music will find themselves toe-tapping along to this track in no time. A sweet talk-box guitar solo kicks the song off in a proficient jazz/soul styling.... “They’re the new rock and roll!” squeals one over-excited New Yorker a few moments into the DVD documentary part of the CD/DVD package. 'A Cross the Universe', the second full length release by the French duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, otherwise known as Justice. Unknowingly to the yank... There is one thing I could tell about Oh No Not Stereo ever since I listened to my first track of theirs which was 'Hurricanes' - these guys like to rock out and have an insane time. Music these days is quite depressing as I remember about three or four years back when you used to get at least...

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Oh No Not Stereo - 003 [Album]
Self Released

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If Welcome to the Night Sky by Wintersleep was a TV show, it would be The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. It’s enjoyable and light-hearted (and not afraid to briefly explore darker moods) but ultimately predictable and unfulfilling. For this reason, I have decided to review the CD in the form of a... I know it's early in the year; we haven't even made it out of January yet, but I already know I've found what will probably be my favourite album of the year. I will go on record now as saying that without doubt 'The Pains of Being Pure at Heart' will feature in my top 5 albums come the Altsounds... Gentle pop to soothe the soul. Le Corps Mince De Francoise are uber cool, infact they wreak of cool, you can smell them from a mile off. The three scandinavian sisters have something very special here, a cloud of punkability synth pop underlined with a fresh ambiance that we definitely need in new...
The haunting, melodic beauty of opener “I sat and watched the snow fall” is a perfect entrance to this atmospheric and enigmatic Ep from Cardiff four piece “Stray Borders.” Sounding like a singer-less Biffy Clyro, the instrumentalists deliver a record that although will never gain mainstream... The first thing that hits after clambering down the Transmission Room stairwell is a blanket of heat that envelops everything it encounters. But it’s not the Auckland humidity that warmed up the dark little Queen St dungeon – it’s a fog of human sweat that’s so thick it’s like being immersed in...

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Underoath [Live] @ Transmission Room
New Zealand 19.02.2009

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 Buy this album! It is amazing. Chances are you haven’t heard or heard of Jonezetta. This needs to change ASAP! Their second album Cruel to be Young is incredible. Put down Kings of Leon and go out and buy this album. I can assure you it will not disappoint. The CD opens strong with the...
Northern Irish 4 Piece The Answer have big things planned for 09. A follow up album release, a silly tour supporting rock gods AC/DC and no doubt a ton of single releases off the album. With all this under their belts you would have thought they would be something spectacular. Clearly not the...

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The Answer - On And On [Single]
Albert Productions
Classic rock is on the way out. Although The Answer sold over 100,000 copies of their debut album 'Rise', the genre still feels done and dusted to me. Everything has been done, there's is nothing new to add, a dying breed you could call it. The new wave kids at NME rule the roost now and it...

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The Answer - Everyday Demons [Album]
Albert Productions
Each time I listen to Whole Wheat Bread, there is a complete shift in my opinion of them. I go from really being very annoyed by them to quite liking them and back again with each listen. They use a rather familiar mix of rock and rap with a twist of punk in there to add to the flavour. They’re...
On Ben Kweller's 4th studio album 'Changing Horses' he seems to have taken his singer-songwriter styling in the direction of Nashville possibly via Liverpool. His self-titled previous effort was more grounded in a sixties pop sound though this effort shows no diminishing in quality from Kweller,... Can bands be that shit and persuade the world that they are good? You know when you hear something new for the first time and think, "That is absolutely wank, yet somehow it works". This is the case with Leathermouth's debut album release. All ten tracks are an assault of murderous distortion and... Munroe Effect start off their EP with "The Escape (part one)". It’s an electronic based, finger picked guitar intro; think Radiohead’s In Rainbows. The Portsmouth based band lead you into a subtle verse with background guitar playing that can only be described as a harmony rich trance. The drums...
After months of having this album to review, I finally get around to it. I listened to it once, when I first received Twelve Steps and was completely indifferent to it. I didn't know what to write and the CD fell beneath my bed, among the dirty laundry and dead animals and began gathering dust.... I love electro music, from Kraftwerk to Shy Child with a hidden passion for Gary Numan along the way; it’s definitely my ‘thing’. So when I received a package of 4 cd singles to review and didn’t know where to start I went for the adage of going with what I know best. So Royksopp’s new single...

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Royksopp - Happy Up Here [Single]
EMI/Wall Of Sound
Mickael Jorgensen is maybe better known for his work with Wilco but if the songs on this debut album 'All Is Golden' under the moniker Pronto is anything to go by then there will soon come a time when Wilco will be a secondary recognition as 'All Is Golden' is bright shining star of a pop album...

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Pronto - All Is Golden (Album)
Contraphonic - Out March 10th

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Sin Fang Bous is the new alias of former Seabear frontman and Reykjavik-ian Sindri Mar Sigfusson. According to Sindri, the name is a string of nonsense words comprised of the first three letters of his name, a tribute to his fang-like teeth and …‘Bous’ respectively. It’s a deceptively bewildering... The opening track of Ume’s debut Sunshower EP, “East of Hercules”, starts off a little worryingly , but thankfully that’s the last time the comparison can be made! The latest band to arrive off Austin’s rather prolific production line, Ume (pronounced ooo-may), are Lauren Larsen (vocals/guitar),...

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Ume - Sunshower EP
Self Released
Perhaps rather unfairly The Century of Self is already being heralded as a return to form for Trail of Dead following their acrimonious split with former label Interscope. Not unfair because it’s not of a quality you would hope for if you have enjoyed their previous work, but unfair if like me you...
Like music that’s original, honest, raw and gutsy? Me too. Take my word for it then when I tell you that ‘Before All Time’ are not our kind of band. In their defence, the biography on their MySpace does state that they are “five guys doing what they love. We play songs that we enjoy and hope you... It's not too often that I receive a promo CD quite like this one; the majority are unfortunately often a couple over par and less than average while the remainder are usually so incredibly terrible that I run out of negative words and will to live. ‘Chairkickers’ by ‘Dead Letter Office’ however is...

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Dead Letter Office - Chairkickers [Single]
End Of The Trail Records

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 Who’s ever heard of Sturgis, SD? Anyone, anyone, anyone….Bueller? If this thought happens to pass through your mind as you read the title of this DVD all I can say is, welcome to the club! Maybe if you’re at all into the biker scene Sturgis is the stuff dinner conversations are made of. Sturgis is...
If I had been a New Rhodes fan in the first place, this review might have been a lot different. But as it was, I had never heard of them before. A quick check of their MySpace before I left was really all I had managed and my observations from that; well, I wasn't hugely impressed. And... Sharing much in common with the subject matter of one The Black Lips most loved songs, “Katrina”, this evening’s hurricane of a show is fast-paced, chaotic and endangers lives (more on that later). On tour in support of their forthcoming album, 200 Thousand Million, The Black Lips tear into their... Having released my favourite album of 2008 in the criminally undiscovered Receivers, Parts & Labor returned to my home city of Manchester to play the club I know so well, having shaken my ass there many Friday and Saturday nights. Interestingly I have never shaken said ass to the sounds of Parts &...

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Parts & Labor [Live] @ Star & Garter, Manchester
Tuesday 17th February 2009
Bottle Rocket was a 1996 film made by Wes Anderson starring Luke and Owen Wilson. Prior to this, it was a 1994 short film featuring the same cast. The major difference between the two being the music, the feature film was a score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh whilst the 13-minute short film is... There's an undeniable 1990s quality about New Rhodes and I mean the era not the Scottish band, although that could also be true . These unashamed indie/pop/rock tracks are very reminiscent of the 90s heyday of indie/pop/rock bands. I'm going to fight using the term "Britpop" because New Rhodes...

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New Rhodes - Everybody Loves A Scene (Album)
Salty Cat Records - Out 23rd February
First things third! Just who in the name of sweet Kermit 'the Frickin' Frog are Rollor ? Well, fuck all that background information bollocks. It takes forever and I seriously can't be arsed! All I will tell is this - Rollor make a racket, a big, loud, in-your-face, going to befriend your...

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Rollor - Cod Philosophy (EP)
Iminaquik Records
I get to The Old Blue Last in time to catch the main support to The Xcerts, I write the bands name down but have since discovered my hand writing is illegible if I don't extract the written text the next day while it's still vaguely fresh in my mind. Anyway, the name may come back to me; if it does... Two Tongues is a collaborative project between Max Bemis and Coby Linder of Say Anything and Chris Conley and Dave Soloway of Saves The Day, something which apparently happens with great regularity among indie rock circles (note, for example, the brilliant Razia's Shadow by Forgive Durden, on which...

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Two Tongues - Two Tongues [Album]
Vagrant Records - Released 3rd Feb 09
I first discovered God Is An Astronaut through my interest of post rock and shoe gaze, continuing my love of staring longingly in to the middle of nowhere whilst being aurally fucked to near orgasm, kept on the cusp just long enough to prolong one of the greatest sensations a self confessed muso...
Having the legend that is Bob Dylan as your father certainly gives you big boots to fill so what to do? I guess it's simple really you just don't try to as it's never going to happen, so instead you just go about trying to do your own thing in the vain hope that people will recognise it for what it... "Wake. I am Awake," this record certainly wakes you up. The combination of brutal guitars, up-beat drums and emo lyrics make Ghost On Pegasus Bridge live up to their so called 'Epic-core' genre. There is a mixture of horrifically dark, deep, bass/guitar riffs alongside some double kick... I like Disturbed. Always have. But even I don’t understand what is going on with their latest release Indestructible. First of all, I never really did see the need behind Disturbed’s gimmick mascot, “The Guy”. Even more so now I see it with it's full-bodied, videogame-like depiction on the...
When The Appleseed Cast moved onto the post-rock path, it was as if they had always trodden it, and was the moment they became really quite interesting. It seems that Ontario’s Driving on City Sidewalks believe so too, as there is a massive influence from the Kansas four-piece’s more recent works... Hailing from the musical hotbed that is New York City, Looker certainly invoke the sound of some of their city’s most famous musical icons, from Blondie to The Ramones. They’re the kind of band that remind you how tragic the closure of CBGB’s really was, as it almost seems wrong to listen to them...

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Looker - Looker [EP]
Self Released
Duo acts rarely seem to pack much instrumentation into their acts unless they are powered by some all powerful leeching label and thus have 5000 trumpet playing mice at their beckon-call which is simply just cheating. So, it's quite refreshing to hear Butler-Williams (that's Chris Butler & Noel...

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Butler-Williams - Keep Your Head Down
Self-released - Out Now





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