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There are some bands every so often that you feel should have been discovered a lot sooner than usual, Sondura are one of these. When this album starts off it has a very Nickelback "Dark Horse" vibe (talking about sex via metaphors) and you know that there's going to be some fun to be had with... Ever get a feeling of deja vu? Special Ops's latest album gave me the biggest case of deja vu that I have experienced in a long while with it's mixture of Megadeth, Fear Factory without the synths and the production on the album is by the guy that has done the Nashville Pussy albums. It's tricky... It was about 2001 when all those pop punk bands started populating Kerrang! TV. Sum 41, Good Charlotte and a whole lot of other bands sounding all pretty much the same, like always seems to happen with new trends. As it always happens though, even in this forgettable bunch some quality emerged,...

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New Found Glory [Live] @ The Relentless Garage, London
August 22nd 2009 /w Kids in Glass Houses
If you are new to Mexican classical guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela and the thought of two people playing two guitars for eleven songs over forty-five minutes strikes you as slightly dull, prepare to be enlightened. The guitarists have followed up their hugely successful eponymous album with a new... I’ll admit, when I first heard You Me At Six about two years ago I wasn’t a fan. I thought their music was boring and had no major hooks. But as of late, You Me At Six seem to have grown into a decent band with each of their singles being just as good as the last. ‘Kiss and Tell’ is a good...

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You Me At Six - Kiss and Tell [Single]
Virgin / Slam Dunk Records
Southern fried Leon. “Screech, Screech…” sings lead singer Caleb Followill, as the soft rock guitar chugs behind him. This album is not only whiny and high pitched, it’s also whiny and high pitched. Is there anything you need to know about the album? Has this description not already caused you...

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Kings of Leon - Only by the night [Album]
Sony BMG, RCA, Columbia
I’m going to be honest and admit that I’ve never purchased any The Pretenders’ albums, or singles, or even been tempted to despite their household name and decades of releases. So conveniently, there was no better album of theirs for me to pick up for review than their latest double CD which... Azzido da Bass (also known as Ingo Martens) is a German based producer of Electro House. Ingo has been in the dance scene for a good number of years now and first came to prominence internationally when the Timo Mass remix of his “Dooms Night” reached number 8 in the British Charts. Even though...

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Azzido Da Bass - I Want You [Single]
Cocomachete Records
'Broken Fingers', from Brighton noise merchants Offcuts, is a dirty way to start a demo and one of the best ways to piss off your bastard neighbours. It's a shame the recording is so messy, production wise, as it loses a lot of its heavy bulk in the static. Second track 'Like Wow' has got an...
Ignorance is one hell of a tune. I’ve been a fan of Paramore since their first album ‘All We Know Is Falling’ and they just keep making really good music! On top of this song being awesome, Hayley Williams is pretty damn sexy in the video for Ignorance (definitely one to check out in your own...

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Paramore - Ignorance [Single]
Fueled By Ramen

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 Who could ever forget Bananarama eh? Well, not so much the music of Bananarama, but more their name. But, much like all of the other (surviving) 80s pop icons, Bananarama is making a comeback. Or rather, they are trying to make a comeback. Apparently, they’ve been attempting to do so for... Often the true test of a great band, is their ability to not only influence others, but inspire excellence from them. It’s far easier to influence the talentless and deluded, than it is to inspire those with talent to take a certain direction or simply to take up music in the first place. Pixies...

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Le Loup - Family [Album]
Talitres (UK) & Hardly Art (US)

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Transit from Massachusetts, USA are a melodic post-hardcore band, almost raging with the testosterone fuelled angst you’re likely to find in your younger brothers bedroom. You know the type I’m talking about... the dark schizophrenic corners of the hormonal boy, emotions so spiky and raw they’re...

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Transit - Stay Home [EP]
Run For Cover Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Brad Baloo and Dom Search (The Nextmen) have already released “The Lions Den” Single and this follow up release features six remixes. Having reviewed the original single, I was slightly intrigued as to how the six different remixes would match up to the catchy and current sounding original. First... Straight away there's a distinct mood set by 'Love and Terror.' It's a mood that's like those misty woods you see in Werewolf movies. You know where someone is running away from some big hairy animal and there's this throbbing, pulsating timbre that's implying some sort of impending doom. ...

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The Cinematics - Love and Terror [Single]
The Orchard - Out Now on Digital Download
The DIY aesthetic is one which has become increasingly more popular in music in recent years, as artists take advantage of the internet’s powers to help them produce and promote their music without ever needing to leave the sanctuary of their bedrooms. This approach seems to have burgeoned fuzzy...

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Daestro - Moondagger [Album]
Ghostly International
Meaty riffs - BIG old slabs of uncooked beef - come shuddering out the speakers when you put on the cartoonishly named Knievel Genius' debut single 'Daylight'. It's gonna be a lot of fun to play on Rock Band XXVII. To be frank those massive ball crushing stutters are the only thing that's going... “Audiobulb “are a Sheffield based exploratory electronic record label that is home to some of the finest purveyors of all things experimental. “Works supported by Audiobulb often explore the interface between the electronic and natural world. We embrace the complexity of unique electronics,...

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Hans Van Eck - BassBox [Album]
Audiobulb Recordings
Electro Pop is shaking up the music world at the moment, well the Pop world anyway, with Lady Gaga having the most downloaded song ever, and new pretenders to the throne like La Roux, Little Boots and Pixie Lott hot on her heels. Addictive are a twosome from East London that have known each other... As far as guilty pleasures go this single from The Red Light Company does a fair job of making you feel bad about yourself. It's so wonderfully inoffensive you can almost see the movie credits roll as the latest kids blockbuster ends with some bright eyed scamp getting his hair ruffled by the... The ticking of a clock signifying the passage of time is how Breed 77 have decided to kick off their first album in three years (if you don’t count the Spanish language album) with ‘Wake Up’ a song that signifies one particular message: Breed 77 have returned to mix their Spanish influenced sounds...
The Too Pure Singles Club has returned this year - limited edition releases on 7” vinyl and digital download to subscribers. 'Just Two Girls' is the latest instalment courtesy of Edinburgh’s The Vivians. “You tried to rule me like a nuclear war” goes a line in 'Just Two Girls' reminding me of an... InMe have been kicking around for a while now (since I was in high school anyway) and have never really reached the creative and commercial peak they seemed destined for at the beginning of the noughties. If 'Single Of The Weak' (fucking awful pun by the way) is any indication, the world at large...

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InMe - Single Of The Weak [Single]
Graphite Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 The press release for indie wonder Eight Legs’ new single was a bit disturbing: NME calls them “the music equivalent of Cristiano Ronaldo”, who to me is an overrated, self important prick. Luckily, eight legs that make up this band are actually as good as they say on the cover and hopefully the...
This album makes me feel like I just tripped over a bag of dead kittens. The real problem is, now the only thing I want to do is poke their poor, lifeless corpses with a stick. I will do my best to insert some real journalism into this review, but the truth is, I just listened to Paul Steel's debut...

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Paul Steel - Moon Rock [Album]
Raygun Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Not many people know this but other than being a huge fan of metal and rock music I do have a secret (well it was!) affinity for country music on the odd occasion. Artists such as Johnny Cash, Neil Young and the odd alt country such as Hank Williams III. Willie Nelson however I knew only little...

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Willie Nelson - American Classic [Album]
EMI/Blue Note Records

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 Thought Forms have created an ethereal masterpiece of soaring soundscapes. Like the philosophy of the book that shares their name, the listener is presented with an almost fully realized mental terrain to explore. A shared idea, given life by the artist and maintained by the audience. Thought...
Now I am usually a fan of Billy Talent’s music, they have got quality guitar riffs, jazzy basslines and more often than not nice vocal melodies but something wasn't quite right and I just wasn’t feeling it with 'Devil On My Shoulder'. I found myself wanting to like 'Devil On My Shoulder' while I... Bristol metalcore youngsters Evita grace us with their debut full length "Minutes and Miles", released through Basick records, who seem to keep finding some very good English metal bands, indeed. After the release of their debut EP "Like an Ocean We Rise Again" in 2007 Evita have toured constantly,... Widely recognised (probably) as the band most likely to gratuitously use the word "Geezer" now that Karl Hyde is on the wagon. The idea of Dub Pistols big-beat-meets-ska cocktail sounds as attractive in late 2009 as the back of a Stratford lock up. But don't throw away that pork pie hat just yet,...
Well, what can I say about Blazin’ Squad? You probably remember them as being a bunch of kids singing annoying songs you loved to hate, the biggest being ‘Crossroads’ at the start of the millennium. As irritating as that song was it did push them into the spotlight at a very young age. Blazin'... The word that gets bandied about most when describing Dinosaur Pile-Up is “grunge” which is fairly accurate. The word I’d like to bandy about as well is “Weezer” - which is also fairly accurate and a compliment. Sure the Leeds based power-trio churn out huge fuzzed-up riffs like we are still... There’s lo-fi and then there’s LO-FI. Joining fellow noise-mongers Wavves in the race to make the year’s most distorted pop album here comes Ohio’s Times New Viking. This three piece - guitarist Jared Phillips, drummer Adam Elliott and Beth Murphy on keyboards - are now on their fourth album. ...

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Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited [Album]
Matador (released 21 September)

We Recommend you buy this CD
I already thought I was naff at putting albums in genre classifications, what do I do with this? Jazz, 70s funk, psychedelia, folk, blues, rock and everything in between, all cut up and put back together like a huge musical jigsaw. Gaslamp Killer has taken a selection of the Finders Keepers... We all know that bland indie rock is all the rage at the moment and everyone is following in the wake of those who came before. How is an indie band supposed to rise to the top of the ocean of crap that is careening it's way through the charts, the radio and the internet of late. It'll have to... Tiger Shadow from Leeds cite Roots Manuva, Pink Floyd, Sharepusher, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead and Led Zeppelin amongst their key influences. They describe their music as sounding like crossing Hip-Hop, Funk, Rock, Electronica, Blues, Jazz and anything else we can lay our hands on. Tiger Shadow...
There's something really endearing about The Perry Lane Sect. Their music has a very low production value, they aren't the best musicians in the world, but my god, they try hard. There's such passion behind the way that they play, I find it really hard to hate them, not that I'm trying to. ... 'Ballerina' is the new two-song EP from RazorBladeKisses, a full-on Gothic band from Southampton, UK. These guys are shooting for eerie. They like minor keys and dark lyrics and though the songs are perhaps a little heavy-handed, they are well crafted and well produced, and I think they reach the... Some of you reading this will be familiar with the sad tale of Yonlu. While knowing the story isn’t essential to listening to his music, it does add a great deal of depth to the experience. Vinicius Gageiro Marques was a 16 year-old boy living in Porto Allegre, Brazil and the only child of...
Positive reviews are quite plentiful for their first album, with most reviewers hailing them as one of the few metal / emo bands not lacking imagination. Considering the name they self penned for their music- melodic beard punk, the intensity showed during their live shows and song titles like... I first found Wye Oak - Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack - 2 friends from Baltimore - via their last album 'If Children'. This was a frankly random purchase from the Indie / USA bin at the excellent Vinyl Exchange Records store in Manchester. What drew me then was Jenn's hoarse, sweet, personal vocal...

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Wye Oak - The Knot [Album]
Affairs Of The Heart

We Recommend you buy this CD
 It's always exciting for me to get a CD from a Welsh band in the mail. But not this time! The ****ing Blackout? Who signed them? Turns out that it's Fierce Panda. Dumb asses. The Blackout are one of those bands that screams not because they are feeling really emotional about the subject, but...
Over the past year The Big Pink have become one of the bands that seem to be getting the sort of coverage from NME as if they have just discovered a brand new puppy and want to give it as much love and attention as they possibly can. The band have also played to sold out crowds at The Camden...

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The Big Pink- A Brief History Of Love [Album]
4AD (Out 14th September)
The Ventura Project is led by Joey Slater and Matthew Milligan who live in Gloucester, England and Long Island, NY, respectively. Though separated by the Atlantic Ocean, the two collaborate on music via the Internet. Their single, 'Heroes,' was released in August and is available on iTunes. At...

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The Ventura Project - Heroes [Single]
Hero Squad Records
Cymbals Eat Guitars’ much-lauded debut album (“Why There Are Mountains”) gets a full UK release in October, nearly 10 months after its Stateside one - self-released initially by the Staten Island four-piece. In advance of that here is a taster by way of single “...And the Hazy Sea”. However it is...





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