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Remember that first wave of Best Coast singles? Great songs all, whose brevity and lack of pretensions left space for the listener to implant their own memories and fantasies. And how about those ve...
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90s rock band Garbage have returned with their fifth studio album, which also happens to be their first in over seven years. It may not feel like its been seven years, but sadly some of us have been...
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I'm slightly disappointed, but not unexpectedly; after hearing their preview of' It's a Party' to give us a taste of what their mostly anticipated third album would sound like, I even ...
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You can tell that DZ Deathrays have been listening to Pulled Apart By Horses. 'Bloodstreams', a title inspired by Mötley Crüe's autobiography, is filled with the raucous, heavy rock ri...
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Tigercats are everything you could hope to hate about East London's indie scene, turned up to good. The group is completely steeped in the conventions and lore of their stomping ground and their r...
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It can't be easy following the vocal dexterity of four Yorkshiremen singing sea shanties, yet somehow Martyn Joseph manages to upstage the locals with another passionate and polished performance, ...
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After seeing the brilliant Ane Brun, this gig was further proof that the Norwegian music scene is going strong. Hanne Huckelberg, however, is quite the contrast to Ane Brun's accessible brand of f...
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I didn't know anything about Natalie Duncan before going to see her at this little gig in London. She's petite, pretty and feline, and has that bluesy-boozy attitude about her. She can also re...
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Pinkunoizu
The Old Blue Last
Tuesday 24 April 2012
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Yet another band which is made from another band; it's happening a lot these days. Pinkunoizu is half of Le Fiasko, taking that experimental folky sound even further into the depths of psych and s...
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Barn Owl
The Brudenell Social Club
Wednesday 18 April 2012
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The stage at the Brudenell Social Club is bathed in blue light as the three musicians that make up A-Sun Amissa take to the stage. Guitarists Richard Knox and Owen Pegg, along with violinist Angela Ch...
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It's been a hell of a year for This Many Boyfriends. Stalwarts of the Leeds indie scene, they were featured by NME as one the must-hear bands of 2011 and have become, it's fair to say, one of ...
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At Risk Teen (or ART) - a shadowy avant-garde sound coming out of the heat haze of Alabama. Their experimental, sinister noise constantly shifts and pulses, never comfortably settling on one tune when...
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Hailing from Brighton, Birdeatsbaby an unusually talented four-piece who, not fitting into any of today's music genres, discovered their own sound by mixing classical with punk and rock. They take...
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The freshness of a new young guitar band to get your juices flowing in 2012 - check; a confident four-piece effervescent in ideas, confidence and a roaring live act - check. Check list ticked off, peo...
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The 2 Bears, made up of Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and house DJ Raf Daddy, are a whole lot of fun. Seamlessly mixing club-shaking house beats with leftfield electronica and myriad other influences, th...
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April - always a mixed month. One minute it's warm and sunny, the next it's pissing it down and you're bitterly regretting your choice of shorts and t-shirt. It was a mixed month in music ...
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Hooray! Hooray! Tomorrow is Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record shops, and, as usual, a whole host of bands and artists will lend their support, many releasing exclusive, li...
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It's that time again. Here are the people, the sounds, the bands and the threads you've loved, hated, watched and danced to over the last year. You've got taste, people.
Best Album
The Hor...
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After the flashy excesses of the 80s, grunge became a revolt against all the decade represented. Disenchantment grew for the society people were living in, similarly felt by hardcore punks before them...
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New leaves might have been sprouting from the trees, but in the music world March was the month rock's veterans come back to show us how it's done: grizzled rockers Bruce Springsteen and Paul ...
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