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Vocalist Ann Yu leads her musical army Lovelikefire into the 21st century with debut UK Album "Tear Ourselves Away." Lovelifefire come to us from the gambling state of Las Vegas and with friends like the Killers offering support, it will come as no surprise to us listeners that this will be the... Law Abiding Citizens seem to be the offspring of the British punk scene of the 1970’s. From the 1st second of 'Little L,' the slightly miss-tuned and high-end tone of the guitars take you right back to the glory days of MANY of the greats such as The Clash and The Jam whilst at the same time... Australian rockers JET are finally back with their third full length "Shaka Rock," and no, there isn’t an 'Are you gonna be my girl,' but then again I still have my copy of "Get Born" for that. What matters is that we have twelve new original JET songs and eight out of the twelve are damn good...

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JET - Shaka Rock [Album]
Real Horrorshow Records / EMI
Umek (Uros Umek) is probably Eastern Europe's most famous musical export. He is probably personally responsible for influencing a great horde of new dance artists from that part of the world, and rightfully so. Umek began has trade in Disc Jockeying way back in 1993 and rode the wave of the...

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Umek - ?HellYeah [Album]
Hell Yeah Records
"Live For Today. Hope For Tomorrow". Is that supposed to be cheesy? Instead of a track-listing on the rear of the 'Brave Enough To Fail' EP sleeve; More Than Life choose some thought provoking words. Original? Um, debatable, the same goes for their painful action packed songs. Immediately Gallows... Listening to Mel Keith and the Strombachs opening track - 'Is Anyone Here' - I can see why the promo self titled 8-track CD I've been sent has a sticker that says 'for fans of Lucinda Williams, Sheryl Crow and Kathleen Edwards' - much as I resent being put into a box like that. It's got a bit of a...

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Mel Keith and the Strombachs - Self Titled [EP]
MerleSong / Dangerous Parade
Officer Kicks certainly have been busy over the summer. Playing a number of festivals over the UK including Bestival and the world renowned Glastonbury Festival to name a few. Not to mention a tour of their own and being signed to a UK and Japanese label earlier in the year. Things are certainly...

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Officer Kicks - The Kraken [Single]
We Make Things Records
I was intrigued by this double CD from Drum Dynasty. Intrigued because I am a lapsed (to some extent) drummer, intrigued because although I am a drummer, I have seen very few drum solos that haven't bored me to tears after the first three minutes. OK, so Neil Peart's Solo, from Rush, made me feel... Pearl Jam are not a fashionable band to like, let alone love. In fact, one of my closest friends counts Pearl Jam amongst his favourite bands and he gets nothing but stick for it from all sides. Dig a little deeper and you'll find the roots of a classic rock band firmly in place. The hit debut,...
I had heard a great deal about Set Your Goals preluding to this gig, funnily enough exclusively from the male gender of my friends. Well, it's not that funny really if you think about it; an American punk band with elements of hardcore and screamo? Sounds pretty testosterone aimed to me. A friend...

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Set Your Goals @ The Relentless Garage, London [Live]
31st August 2009, support This City and Fail Safe

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 We're on familiar ground here with The Gaslight Anthems latest single from their breakthrough '59 Sound' album. I can't mention this song (and this band) without bringing up the obvious Springsteen influence, it's just too obvious and all encompassing to ignore. What The Gaslight Anthem have... Some people love to slag Scarborough off, and this makes me angry. I was born in the town, I have moved away from the town on numerous occasions, but I always come back. Some of the locals will tell you there's nothing to do; well I'm sorry there's plenty to do in the town and surrounding area. ...
I love getting new music on on Atlantic Records. For me that has immediate connection to classy stuff like Led Zeppelin or Aretha Franklin - and in any case you hope they're not going to put out any old toss. I had not even heard of Laura Izibor, much less heard her stuff so it's so nice to... Do you enjoy blasting a catchy song on your car stereo and drumming with your hands on your steering wheel as you speed down the road? Are you the type of person who frequently belts out an off key version of an infectious pop tune when you're taking a shower and you know you are the only one... Hey Negrita are a transatlantic (literally) roots-rock band - and as well as straddling continents (members hailing from America and the UK) they straddle genres: a bit Americana, a bit country, a bit rock ‘n’ roll. They have a reputation for raucous live shows including support slots with fellow...
Punk rock is a tricky genre of music to dissect. In one corner, you have the punk rock bands who talk about current affairs, politics and worldwide issues within their music and make albums dedicated to these controversial topics. Albums such as “Sandinista”, “For Blood And Empire” and more... The Black Lips have been known to court controversy. Their live shows have, at one point or another included vomiting, urination, nudity, (straight, male) band members kissing, eletric mini-car races, fireworks, a chicken, and flaming guitars. They were even chased out of India for performing... Lost Prophets have had a phenomenal track record. Their first album ‘The Fake Sound Of Progress’ put them on the map here in the UK. Their second, ‘Start Something’ made them international icons and superstars, and their third ‘Liberation Transmission’ went to number one in the charts. Not bad...

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LostProphets @ Newport Center, Newport [Live]
August 27th 2009, Support The Dead Formats and The Young Guns

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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

We Recommend you buy this CD
 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...





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