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Big Face are a five piece band who hail from Glasgow. 'I Wanna Be A Style Crusader' is a fairly straightforward indie electro-pop record which is fun and extremely catchy. The bass is the backbone of 'I Wanna Be A Style Crusader' and bassist, Chet, does an excellent job of creating a funky... Being a self-confessed Long Blondes fan i'm delighted to finally get all those early singles on one CD i hate having to play my vinyl so for me this is good. However, i will try and be unbiased in my review for all those that are new to The Long Blondes (shame on you!). So '"Singles"' is a...

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The Long Blondes - "Singles" (Album)
Angular Recording Corporation
The debut single from the Northern Irish rockers In Case of Fire is both refreshing and raging at the same time. 'This Time We Stand' features brilliant vocals from lead singer/guitarist Steve Robinson, and the drum riffs from Colin Robinson are near on superb! The thing I like about this song,...
To begin with, the first time I listened to the track, I had no expression, it felt like there was nothing to it, and it was another synth lead pop song. I was wrong. Fifteen minutes after listening to the track, I found myself singing a song; I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was.... The new release by New Zealand foursome Cut Off Your Hands opens with a beat that builds quickly to produce the kind of music that instantly makes you feel happy. A promising start to the EP which only gets better when the second song ‘Happy As Can Be’ hits you straight in the face and tells you to... This is the follow up to his debut Indianaand pretty much picks up where he left off. The American ‘Singer/Songwriter’ has apparently gone through a transformation since appearing in a Disney film and launching his career from that moment. Even though the entirety of his press releases suggest just...

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John Mclaughlin- Ok Now
Island Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
The Buena Vista Social Club is an institution of Cuban Music. It started when Juan de Marcos González and Ry Cooder got together to record with veteran Cuban musicians and gave it this title. Since then a documentary, filmed by the German film-maker Wim Wenders, has brought it to international... MTV2’s Gonzo Tour is renowned for showcasing the best of the established and upcoming bands that the UK has to offer, and this year was no exception. There was however, a slightly odd combination of Kaiser Chiefs and Late of the Pier to be witnessed on the second night of the tour at the intimate...

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KAISER CHIEFS AND LATE OF THE PIER - LIVE AT ULU
Sunday 12th October, Gonzo Tour 2008
Sunday is for drinking with the Seldom Seen Kid indeed and not a nicer band could you wish to spent the evening in the company of and sink a few cold ones. Elbow are currently riding the crest of a wave with the Mercury Award winning 'The Seldom Seen Kid' and it's no more than they deserve as no...
I live for electro music so I was delighted when I popped this CD in to the computer and iTunes pops up electronic as its genre. The delight however was pretty short lived. Kicking off with ‘Stadiums are OK too’ things sounded promising, it saw me nodding my head to what is a pretty nice dirty...

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Skew - Skew [Album]
It's Bananas Music

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Well first things first this evening is already going to be a dissappointment for me, i walk in through the metal detector 'beep, beep' all is good, i don't need to be inappropriatly touched all is good, so i walk on through get to the ticket girl she smiles takes my ticket all is good, i head up...

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Kaiser Chiefs Live 17th October Glasgow Barrowlands
with The Hair and Alto Elite
The Curve of the Earth is the third full-length release from Canadian boys Attack in Black. The album is a solely acoustic affair, drawing away from the punk-edged sound of their other releases. By doing this they show that they are adept at creating great music across a range of styles and can...
Austrian Death Machine is the brainchild of Tim Lambesis, the singer in heavy weight metal core heroes, As I Lay Dying. The album pays homage to the great and mighty Arnold Schwarzenegger. The track titles include such classic lines as ‘Come With Me If Want To Live’, ‘It’s Not A Tumour’ and ‘Who Is...

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Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Metal Blade Records
Overcast are a band that have been around the block a few times, originally forming back in 1991 and disbanding in 1998, due to never really taking off and being screwed over by labels and promoters for far too long and never getting anywhere. They all then went on to form other various bands, some...

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Overcast - Reborn To Kill Again
Metal Blade Records
Want to hear some new heavy gut wrenching death metal? Then maybe the aptly named album; ‘The Daily Grind’ from the young German band, Anima, may suit your needs. After gigging for several years and the recording of some demo tracks, Metal Blade Records picked up the young band, culminating in the...

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Anima - The Daily Grind
Metal Blade Records
“What happened to you?” howls lofty frontman Hamilton Leithauser, on the first single to be released from The Walkmen’s fourth album, ‘You and Me’, and the honest answer is “not a lot”. Still vastly undiscovered this side of the pond, they have always sounded like a band that feels... We all know Sweden produces great pop music even more frequently than it produces flat-pack furniture. There’s clearly something in the frozen water ‘round them parts. However, with a childhood spent in Portugal, Morocco, Nepal and India, it seems perhaps Lykke Li has more than her homeland to...

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Lykke Li - Little Bit [Single]
LL Recordings
Is there any music that is more appropriate for the summer than reggae? That is partly the reason I’m reviewing this single, to try and hold onto what was quite a poor British summertime. The other reason is down to a fantastic Jools Holland performance a few weeks ago. From the outset the track...

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Natty - Bedroom Eyes [Single]
Atlantic, Vibes and Pressure
I was surprised to hear that Bettie Serveert have been around for 15 years. "That's a long time," I said to myself. When I put some thought into the significance of those 15 years a different type of surprise quickly took over; more a vague panic than any type of surprise as such. Additional... Technically the fith single from Birmingham outfit Johnny Foreigner (third from Best Before Records), "Salt, Peppa and Spinderella" was originally written for a small Kerrang! session at first, but then made it on to their debut album "Waited up til it was light" and then finally as a... Ok, so not exactly a new release but I noticed no one had reviewed it as yet and felt that was a bit of an injustice to such a good, good album. I honestly hadn't expected to like smart casual half as much as I do, when I received it as a promo from a kind friend who represents them, I happily took...
Described as Rock / Happy Hardcore / Progressive, this band are certainly a hefty meal for the ears. This is their first release since June 2007, and they haven’t changed. The glow stick phenomenon was an annoyance, and their music follows suite. Previously demoed back in 2006, ‘We Can Breathe... So, here we are again. You know the drill by now, Belgiun electro-rock-gods Soulwax (A.K.A '2ManyDJs') take a popular track and remix it into a dancefloor anthem; but according to a recent interview with mainman Stef Dewaele in The Guardian, this happens "only if we feel that we can add something... If you haven't heard of Those Dancing Days yet, then you most likely haven't tuned into MTV2 or The NME Channel recently. Televised adverts for their debut album, 'In Our Space Hero Suits', released this week have been HEAVILY on rotation on these channels. A good thing, I think, as it's very hard...
It has taken me a while to understand this band. At first they sound like a manufactured solo artist, but they are the Davincis BAND. They are a singer/songwriter lead trio whose inspired story of overcoming ethnic and artistic adversity to create a band that redefines what pop music could be,...

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Davincis BAND
E.P.
When Heavy Jack's 'Multiply' landed on my doormat, I have to admit I knew absolutely nothing about the band. A bit of internet research and a few listens later, I'm ready to review the debut album from this brotherly garage-rock trio from Vancouver, Canada. My first impression of the 'pirate... Brought to light again thanks to his recent New Zealand Music award win for Best Aotearoa Roots Album, Tiki Taane’s late 2007 release, Past Present Future, is well deserving of the award and the constant praise. The former front man of New Zealand reggae roots group Salmonella Dub offers his first...
After 2006's 'Return To Cookie Mountain' it was going to be difficult to go one better for starters it had David Bowie howling on 'Province' but also it had seen the TVOTR sound honed down into superb songs from their previous avant-garde rabble that had the potential to become actual tunes, well... When it comes to concerts I am usually quite happy chilling about three quarters back so I can see and hear everything but this concert was different. For some reason I was compelled to get as close to the action as possible and I was quite happy with 4 rows back from the front :D. Anyways I... There is obviously the HUGE stigma that comes with Fightstar, but they are a good band. If you can look past the Busted years then you will appreciate Fightstar for what they are, a hard working, Progressive / Rock / Metal band. This single contains all the same elements as the previous...
To be really honest, the very first time I heard this song, I hated the entire three minutes and thirteen seconds of it. The vocals are loose and lack in emotion and the lyrics aren’t the best. “We know where you’ve dug those holes,” for example. The more I listened to it to gain some sort of an...

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Pint Shot Riot - Holes [Single]
Life In The Big City Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Not knowing much about Post War Years before the gig, I jump on MySpace to try and see what I’m in for, only to find them described as “ambient, big beat, indie”… Consequently, I turn up at 229 none the wiser on what to expect, to find the openers, Model Horror, going for gold to the seemingly...

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Post War Years @ CMU Social (229), London
support: Model Horror
The truth is I was very sceptical about listening to this album. The lack of creativity in Trash Fashion’s most acclaimed song –It’s a Rave Dave- made me more contemptuous than Jeremy Kyle; this combined with how angered I am by the fact that strobe lighted indie pop has its own name in Nu Rave...

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Trash Fashion - Nights of Error
Propaganda Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
Having released debut album 'Hold On Now Youngster...' merely 8 months ago this is an unexpected release, though as the band themselves have put it this is no second album not to them anyway but we must all treat it as such because though there is the same spiky way with a tune underneath is a dark... To keep it short and simple and to start off traditionally very British chips-and-mince-pie-with-gravy-and-bread-and-butter-and-maybe-a-pint-of-ale-that-looks-like-shit straight up honest negative viewpoint, Arkells lack originality and are nothing exciting. If you're in a rush to do nothing or to...

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Arkells - Digital Sampler [EP]
Dine Alone Records
There are very few bands that consistently remain at the top of my listening list - for whom a new album is eagerly anticipated like a present on Christmas morning (or Hannukah evening). Rise Against is one of those bands for me. Their previous two albums, "Siren Song of the Counterculture" and...

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Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
There are, of course, songs of love, hope, stories, journeys and action. But at the core, this is a record about making our nation and our world bette
As if we weren’t treated to enough filthy electro from Brazil, there’s another band on the scene. The sexually charged stupidly good-looking boy/girl duo from Sao Paulo "Telepathique". Mylene provides vocals whilst producer and DJ Erico Theobaldo (also known as DJ Periferico) uses his...

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Telepathique - Love & Lust [Single]
Urban Jungle Records/The Control Group
Anyone who noted some of the publicity (or lack of) surrounding new album Everything is Borrowed may have been led to believe that The Streets were in something of a freefall. Yet someone evidently has not told Mike Skinner, or at least it has not let it affect him. Skinner’s supposed penultimate... The debut album from the indie dance rock outfit Friendly Fires is an absolute hum-dinger of a record. All the right material is in each track, layer after layer of beautiful harmonies, funky bass-lines and one hell of a lead vocalist. Upon hearing about this band, my expectations were a heavily...
Finished since April and being lumped around label after label 'Missiles' is as astounding as any other Dears release which makes it all the more surprising that it took so long to find a home. The band desribe it as both 'a beautiful blues album' and 'long and kinda paced for love making' which is...

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The Dears - Missiles (Album)
Dangerbird Records/MapleMusic Recordings
O! The Joy… of the off switch. Maybe that’s a little harsh. After all, the first moments of the title track are promising. These young men from deepest darkest Sacramento have the musical ability of a great band but there’s something wrong. It’s possibly because they’re still trying to find...

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O! The Joy - Zen Mode [CD]
Distile Records
Over the last five years or so the UK music scene has been awash with spiky-riffed, sharp-quipping Northern indie-pop outfits. Since Alex Turner first transferred Mike Skinners bar-propping observational witticisms to a guitar loving (read; wider) audience, a hundred scruffy haired frontmen from...

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ALBUM REVIEW: LITTLE MAN TATE – NOTHING WORTH HAVING COMES EASY
Skint/Yellow Van Records – 15th September 2008 – CD, LP & Download
A cliché scenario – upset young man lugs his gear to the hills and spends 3 whole months in isolation, tortured by upsetting events of the last year and eager to start again. “For Emma, Forever Ago” charts his progress from despair right back to balance and it’s evident that this is a deeply...

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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago [ALBUM]
Jagjaguwar/4AD Records
Lately, I’ve struggled to find a record that I can relate to and that means something to me in a particular aspect or point in my life, then I listened to ‘Wrecking Ball.’ Just like the very first time I heard some of my favourite songs, I got chills when I listened to this album. It is a fantastic... At first I didn't really expect this album to be anything better than average, however I was rather suprised with what I heard. Scream Hello are pretty much unheard of in the UK, but this four-piece from New Jersey, US have already been signed by Red Leader Records. They are rather unique and...





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