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I must say, as a fan of much of Mr.Weller's work I was excited to be offered the opportunity to review his headline tour gig at Cardiff International Arena on Thursday 20th November 2008. On the way to the venue I was asked for directions to the CIA. I obliged the couple with the pertinent... The album art of this self titled debut album by Innerpartysystem leaves a lot to be desired. Not exactly a good start as far as they go. Innerpartsystem sounds like something that should be crazy and exiting and the most exiting thing about this album art work is the FBI anti piracy warning. ... “Do you like good music?” A rather odd question once asked by Arthur Conley. Surely everyone’s answer to this would be yes I do, Arthur. If the question had been “Do you like mindless drone?” then the only people who would answer yes would probably be ‘Opera House’ fans. If I had to put a tag on...

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Opera House - Change In Nature [EP]
Marrakesh Records
Runon Fragment's self titled second album reminds me of walking into a bar to discover a local band playing and quickly turning round to walk straight back out. Not because I don't want to listen to live music but because I know how every song is going to sound. Based in LA, Runon Fragment could be... 'Bone Garden' is the first single to be lifted from I Am Ghost's new album 'Those We Leave Behind'. 'Bone Garden' is loud, fast and powerful, the kind of song to start a gig off with. It grabs your attention quickly and the tempo keeps you wrapped up in it right until the end. The most notable... There must have been some sense of pride in Austin when its goliath of a music festival, South by Southwest, finally had a local buzz band. And it’s nice to finally see and hear a much-hyped band that doesn’t look or sound as though huge worldwide success means too much to them. Which is just as...
Twenty years after the release of her debut record, Tracy Chapman is back with a new studio album and is still up there with the best of today's singer /songwriters, which has un-disputably secured her place in the history of popular music. 'Our Bright Future' comes at a time when radio friendly... On arriving at the venue, I was very excited, mainly because Frank was doing his soundcheck, but also because the venue was very small! Bring on the up close and personal music love. I then went to do my interviews with Frank and Chris, who are both wonderfully nice men, and got even more excited... It is generally quite easy to tell whether or not an album is good. You can listen to it a few times and perhaps occasionally add some songs into mix CD's you make for friends, or you can listen to a few tracks, decide it was a mistake and take it back to the store you bought it from. Her Space...
Having followed Lemar all the way through the old-school Fame Academy series (back when the telly format was reasonably fresh!), I’ve always considered the Tottenham-born soulster to have more musical integrity and smoother grooves that many other R&B artists. R&B is not my thing. On the surface... The fourth UK release taken from their debut album, "This is Alphabeat", "What is happening" is a not bad effort from Danish popstrels Alphabeat. Having initially despised Alphabeat from the moment I laid eyes on them (literally, laid eyes on, in the form of their annoying blue peter-esque videos)...

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Alphabeat - What is happening [Single]
Copenhagen Records/EMI
And so for phase three of The Killers David Bowie homage and this time we get the Ashes to Ashes 80's stage of Bowie's career re-enacted by four men from Las Vegas. Does anyone hear the words 'Cabaret', no just me then? Well it's not that bad truthfully and I'm all for Bowie homage's the man is a...

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The Killers - Day And Age (Album)
Mercury Records
'Singularity' is the debut release from Virginia’s metal heavyweights Adversary. This album is released through the well know metal/hardcore label, Trustkill, who have recently been under fire for their dispute with Orange County’s Bleeding Through over apparent lack of funding. So if you are...

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Adversary - Singularity [CD]
Trustkill Records

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 Ugly Stick return after 14 years to bring us a new album, the aptly titled 'Still Glistening'. Known back in the late 80s/early 90s for their pioneering blend of genres, culminating in the label Cowpunk, Ugly Stick like to mix up their sound with rock, country, student rock, indie, pop and... There is always an emphasis, from a marketing point of view, to convey the music on an album through the artwork, so that the purchaser can know roughly what to expect when buying an artist's releases. The Modern Age Slavery have got this one perfect, it is simply brutal, so much so that I can...

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The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [CD]
Napalm Records - Out 1st December
Fast, dreary, punky but not quite, its organised punk. The Front could be the Arctic Monkeys, not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all, that is unless as a band you want to sound like yourselves. Structured, resolved, understood, point taken. I know I will forget about 'Me and My God' when I wake...

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The Front - Me And My God (Single)
Diffusion Records - Out 1st Dec
I don't know what it is about military drum fills and repetitive vocals, and the word 'nothing' that excites me? Maybe because music making has become exactly that. Another indie band singing something about a girl. In this case 'she's easy on the eye'. "Nothing No More" is a short song. A...

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The Wasp Factory - Nothing No More [Single]
End Of The Trail Records - Out 1st Dec
Upon listening to Shake! Appeal various familiar sounds are grouped, rounded, composed, re-arranged, and regurgitated once again blaring out of my speakers, and you bet ya, as usual, there is a Ska sounding song involved. Now I'm not saying I'm not a fan of ska music. Oh no, it's just that to a...

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Shake! Appeal - Control [Single]
End of the Trail Records
Kelli Ali hails from Birmingham for the uninitiated but to listen to this album you certainly won't be thinking of endless motorways, traffic jams, and Frank Skinner (sorry I need to brush up on my Birmingham knowledge) instead you'll be floated above the clouds to some-sort of fantasia where we...

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Kelli Ali - Rocking Horse (Album)
One Little Indian Records - Out 24th Nov

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 Despite the suggestion of the name, this really doesn't sound anything like a Broken Record. In fact, it sounds like the result of an underground experiment like if The Cure had been fed into one end of that big arse Hadron Collider thing in tobleone land and in the other end we inserted Conor...

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Broken Records - Lies (Single)
Distiller Records
Eskimo Joe’s third album Black Fingernails Red Wine is on my list of favourite albums of all time - granted, it’s a pretty big list, this album is still nonetheless on there. Released in Eskimo Joe’s native Australia in June 2006, Black Fingernails Red Wine is a solid, mature, and sublimely dark...
If first impressions are something to go on with 88-Keys’ The Death of Adam, the album cover foretells I’m in for a treat. And considering the Executive Producer is Kanye West, I go in with high hopes. It is either going to be genius or pathetic… My hopes dissipate as soon as opening track... Fleet Foxes are a band for all seasons. I first fell in love with their debut album whilst lounging on my balcony in the fleeting summer sun, and I thought it the perfect summer album, but tonight in Manchester it seemed to have taken on autumnal qualities. The songs seem to have a closeness with...

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Fleet Foxes - Manchester Academy 2, 9th November 2008 [Live]
Manchester Academy 2, 9th November 2008

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 Being only my second visit to the brand spanking Leeds Academy, I was still caught up in the excitement of the place. The Academy is a much welcome addition to the Leeds music scene, launched by the Kaisers last month, it provides a Large but personal arena to jump and shout to your favourite...
Atlantic records - Need To Breathe- fronted by brothers 'Bear' and 'Bo' Rinehart are an American 'radio' rock band which I would absolutely love to hate. Their sound is reminiscent of Bryan Adams or Bon Jovi rocking an acoustic set, and their campfire swing is so close to sickly its almost...

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Need To Breathe - The Heat [Album]
Atlantic Records
Fresh, original and very cool. Dragonette's tracks make you dance, it may even force the grumpiest bastards to have a bit more fun and let loose for once. Their songs are more addictive than crack and coming from a person that would never describe themselves as a dancer, I found myself bopping...

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Dragonette - Galore [Album]
I Surrender Records

We Recommend you buy this CD
 Are these guys never happy? More music from people who never seem to be happy about anything. Oasis are starting to become the kid at school who are always moaning about something, and to begin with you are interested about their heartfelt dismay, but after a while you begin to tire of it and...

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Oasis - Dig out your soul [Album]
Big Brother,Warner Bros. Records
This has to be one of the worst CD's I've been handed all year, and there has been some pretty terrible stuff released this year. 'K' has little to no song-writing skill and his lyrical delivery is so annoying I could hardly make it through the whole CD (and there's only 5 tracks). God forbid...

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K Anderson - 'Foxes EP' [EP]
Self Released

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 From the title of the this four track EP, you'd probably be thinking this was a new Ska/Punk band, however you couldn't be more wrong. Droney 'Isis' style grooves and heavy guitars evoke an 'Oceansize' aural landscape, with tight drums and spacey 'floydesque' clean sections. The only let down are... With no less than nine people making up The Bookhouse Boys (this does actually include one female), you wouldn’t really expect anything other than a cacophony. ‘I Can’t Help Myself’, taken from The Bookhouse Boys self-titled debut album, is three minutes of frenzied entertainment. Sounding like a...
On receiving the Benji Hughes album, I was quite surprised to learn it was a 2 CD album. This is a very ambitious and audacious thing for an artist to do with their debut album. A debut album should effectively be short and sweet. It needs to grab the listener with 10-12 tracks, half of which...

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Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme [Album]
"He loves beer but he loves women even more"
It is a great feeling when a record comes through the door that you actually really like and considering the last few records I’ve reviewed, the Zoos of Berlin demo has come as a much needed relief. With a sound that conjures visual imagery of a theatrical prog adventure through hazy landscapes... The best Christmas songs are often those with a dark, bleak undercurrent that generally gets masked by the tug-at-the-heartstrings of sleigh bells, dry stuffed turkey and a drunken aunt dancing to Agadoo of the family Christmas... this is absolutely no exception and Frightened Rabbit seem to bask...

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Frightened Rabbit - It's Christmas So We'll Stop (7" single)
FatCat Records - Released 15th December

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GEHENNA 777 are a young metalcore band from the UK and Guardians is their debut release on their newly joined label, Basick. Guardians is 5 tracks of what I would refer as typical metcalcore/scene music but with a more hardcore, low growling vocal appose to a shrieking and screaming one. This is... Nine Mile Woods is the second album from the southern sludge metal band, Gallactus. Combining their various influences, such as Sabbath, Clutch, Entombed and the very obvious Motorhead, Gallactus create this grinding sludgy southern rock sound that will have you banging your head and gurning like...

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Gallactus - Nine Mile Woods (CD)
Diminished Fifth Records
He wears ear-muffs, with a hand knitted scarf, and very soon he will balance a guitar on his face. The well-mannered Bushwalla thanks me kindly as he returns his empty tea cup to the bar and politely ascends to the stage. I knew a little of Bushwalla before our interview this evening, and...

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Bushwalla [LIVE] in London
4/11/08 - upstairs at the Roebuck, The Great Indoors Show

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The “Strike Sparks Anywhere” EP is not dressed-up Bravery-esque pop shite, neither is it the clumsy, raging rock and rollin’ I’m normally quick to pigeonhole – this EP sits somewhere in the middle; somewhere murky, somewhere deep, and best of all, infuriatingly, This is Radio Freedom leave you... I have to admit, I was pretty damn excited to get my hands on the highly anticipated Jurassic 5 deluxe re-issue. This exclusive bonus set contains their original release of the Jurassic 5 EP, plus a rare 15 track bonus disc, and a DVD that includes the London date of their first world tour. ... The Raid must have been desperate to release a single in order to release 'Oh Lillee'. It's an okay track, but it could be so much better and far more innovative than it is. To start with the negatives, 'Oh Lillee' is annoyingly Indie, and what I mean by this is that some Indie tracks are...
Well, let's begin with the fact that 'Let It Rock' is not what I expected. Kevin Rudolf is reasonably new on the music scene and so seeing Lil Wayne named on 'Let It Rock' automatically made me assume it was going to be a typical hip-hop track with the rap-as-fast-as-you-can-do attitude that they... The new single 'No Sunlight' from 'Death Cab for Cutie', is off their 7th full-length album 'Narrow Stairs'. It's a decent single, from a band whose music spans so many genres it's hard to classify them. This track however, is definitely indie, and that is how Death Cab for Cutie refer to... As part of Alter Bridge's 2008 Blackbird tour, it was time that the band came to Wolverhampton, which was maybe a smaller gig seeing as Alter Bridge are playing cities like London, Munich and Madrid as part of the tour. After waiting 3 months to go to this gig, I was certainly hoping and expecting...
The Computers - ‘You Can’t Hide From The Computers’ ‘You Can’t Hide From The Computers’ is absolute spot on, they will give you nightmares! Opening with a terrifying screaming vocal of “Destroy everything! Repent every sin! Destroy everything, as we’re all going down and we’re all giving in!”... It’s hard to believe that Frank Turner was once lead singer of underground punk outfit MillionDead. He doesn’t look like it. He looks like he should be a purveyor of Folk, and his latest offering ‘Love, Ire & Song’ is exactly that. It’s diverse, and the content of the songs is exactly what it says...

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Frank Turner - Love, Ire & Song (Album)
Xtra Mile Recordings Limited
Now I for the life of me can't fathom why New Rhodes aren't more popular in this country, they write wonderfully catchy 80's-lite pop songs such as the superb 'I Wish I Was You' and 'You've Given Me Something That I Can't Give Back' and yet still no NME cover shoot or drooling all over them (maybe...

74%

New Rhodes - Everybody Loves A Scene (Single)
Salty Cat Records - Free Download Out 17th Nov





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