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When I was younger, I wasn't really concerned about labels. Did it really matter who released the music I was listening to? Yet, I was clearly missing a trick as finding a good label can open you ...
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Thatcher - Huh! What was she good for? Absolutely nothing, except setting the pop charts alight with some of the best protest songs ever written. I mean, she's only been dead a week and already we...
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Record Store Day, that annual celebration of all things vinyl-based, rare, musical, collectable and, lets be honest, wonderfully geeky is here again. On Saturday, April 20 Across the UK and US, inde...
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As Coil, John Balance and Peter Christopherson (aka Sleazy) created one of the most eclectic and interesting back catalogues you could hope to hear. If I had to choose one album to introduce anyone to...
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Mouse on Mars with Soft Circle and E*Vax (of Ratatat) are playing Santos House Party in downtown Manhattan this Sunday, March 3.
Soundblab have a pair of tickets to give away but you need to be quick!...
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January, like December, is often a quiet month in music, a slow start while consumers (sorry - discerning music fans) recover from the twin financial drains of Christmas and New Year, But January 2013...
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December, inevitably, is a quiet month for music. Aside from the annual, always ludicrous, always over-hyped battle for the UK Christmas number one (in which the interest of the genuine music fan exte...
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Detriot trio Royal Hoax have already started turning heads in the US with their infectious brand of alt-pop. Now they're looking to UK audiences to put on their dancing shoes with their video for ...
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It's hard being a music site, trying to keep abreast with every crazy new trend the internet burps out of its Tumblrs and farts out from its YouTubes and Tweeters. I mean, seapunk - what the fuck ...
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November is traditionally a time when the year's music release schedule starts to wind down, giving way to bargain-bin, nan-friendly compilations and whatever the major labels are pinning their Ch...
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After recently performing at Brixton Academy, Shepherds Bush Empire, The 100 Club and some of the UK's most respected venues, The Lines now prepare for their biggest headline show to date at the W...
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Well, 2012 is nearly over and just before the year ends early due to a non-existent Mayan prophecy, here is my rundown. 2012, while excelling in sport, doesn't seem to have been a vintage year for...
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When commentators look back and evaluate the musical landscape of the year it always seems tempting to organise everything into suitably convenient boxes. Each year comes to signify the emergence of a...
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OK, you know the drill. You're gonna get loads of these from now till Jan 1 2013. This is mine. It goes in ascending order. Got it? Good. List begins!
The 2 Bears - 'Work' (Be Strong)
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We all know about those movies with legendary soundtracks. Whether it's the like of pioneering likes of A Hard Day's Night and Performance bringing rock to the masses in the 60s, or the soul a...
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Compiling a list of autumn's key releases, it's striking just how many important records came out in September and October, rarely viewed as the halcyon months of the year. First, there are th...
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Since 2005, Germany's Denovali Records has been consistently releasing experimental music of high quality from around Europe. Two of their artists, London's Petrels, and Sardinia's Saffron...
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We all know what psychedelic is, right? Maybe not the actual specific definition (from the Ancient Greek word 'psyche': mind. soul, breath, spirit - source: Wikipedia) but in lifestyle and mus...
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A true lost classic this, as it's long been out of print. Lord knows why or how that's been allowed to happen. My Name is... may not be viewed as Albert Ayler's definitive work (that honou...
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Well, August - 'silly season' as it's known in the press - may have been a bit quieter than usual on the music front but what it lacked in quantity it certainly made up in quality. First u...
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Every true music obsessive knows well the joys of the indie music store - flicking through endless vinyl and CDs; being dragged gleefully off course by some obscure gem you had no idea existed but jus...
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One of the most experimental groups to emerge from the 70s Jap-rock milieu, Taj Mahal Travellers eschewed the prog leanings of many of their contemporaries to focus on ambient noise and free-form impr...
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July was a good month for thinking outside the box, if music releases were anything to go by. In the mainstream, in pop, in r&b, hip hop and rock, surprises were to be found. Odd Future cohort Fra...
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France's contribution to music is often underestimated. In the UK, there are occasional fads as well as the odd hit from across the Channel, and of course, every serious music fan has encountered ...
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Les Rita Mitsouko is not a name which means much outside France, but it really should. After all, this duo, who originated from Paris' squat-scene in the early 80s, attracted some pretty influenti...
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So... June. Was it good for you? It was certainly a healthy month for music. Looking back at the key releases, it's striking how many are mould-breakers, some subtle, some bold. Releases from Snor...
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You gotta wonder how many more indignities NME can stand. Once the market-leader in alternative music cool (it could justifiably claim this title up till the mid-to-late-90s), it now appears so cluele...
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So May arrived and it actually felt like summer, with heat and sun and everything. Could the music world match nature for hotness and brightness? Well, get ready to shout 'synergy!', because y...
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Festivals! We love 'em. And what's better than a festival? That's right - a festival in sunny Spain! Why's it so great? Because it's a festival and a holiday in one. That's why...
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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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A band most are unlikely to have heard of, Redjetson were a group from Essex with a big heart and a huge sound. Emerging around the same time as 'big noise' guitar botherers Bloc Party, Editor...
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Before Krautrock, so received wisdom tells us, Germany was something of a musical wasteland. There were the internationally respected and influential electronic experiments of Stockhausen, of course, ...
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"Fuck her mind so they can fuck her silly!"
Penis Envy - one the fiercest punk records ever made, released when most had written the genre off as dead. A ferocious, laceratingly intelligent,...
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By most accounts, the first flash of punk burned intensely and brightly but faded surprisingly quickly. In a way, the first wave of UK punks were almost too good at getting the attention they craved. ...
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The hesitant breath of Spring is on the air, February has wrapped up and it feels as if this year's music releases are rolling up a gear. An unusually busy January release schedule continued into ...
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From the same period as the happy-clappy, black-slapping and swaggering, cheerful smugness of Britpop was an album by a Scottish band riding a different wave. Telstar Ponies produced a stark contrast ...
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Well, I guess it's that time of year again. The music mags, sites and blogs have blessed us with their best of the year lists (including us, of course) and The Brits have swung round once more to ...
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Who says January is grim, grey and desolate? Well, anyone who's taken a look out the bloody window, I guess. But not so in the world of music, as we've seen an unusually busy month here at For...
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The great Britpop debate. This article is one half and argues that Britpop wasn't really that good. Have your say and check out the other article here.
'I am working on a new song called '...
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The great Britpop debate. This article is one half and argues that Britpop was actually very good. Have your say and check out the other article here.
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With the end of each year comes the inevitable glut of top-ten lists. Every magazine from Mojo to NME will be declaring their love for the latest acts to 'hit the charts'. NME, keen to appear ...
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The cover version gets a bit of a bum deal in today's pop culture, despite the fact that up until The Beatles, recording versions of other artists' songs was normal practice. Singers and perfo...
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Although I live pretty much in Manchester, I'm not from Manchester, but even I know the effect The Stone Roses had on the Madchester scene back in the very late 80s and early 90s. With one classic...
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A couple of months back, I wrote about how 70s Brazil was a hotbed of musical genius - which it was, FACT. I talked about the freakiness of the Pernambuco psych-folk scene, the gender-bending outrageo...
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One of the most imaginative bands of our time have decided to call it a day. With a wealth of songs at their disposal which showcase the band at their peak, by picking one track from each of their 15 ...
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Jonathan Richman is one of those artists so venerated by his nutball fans that it can be hard to take his music on its own merits. Best known for the proto-punk, Velvets-indebted 'Roadrunner',...
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Here's one for all you 'heads', as they used to say. Parallel World is a very, very trippy record by 70s Japanese group Far East Family Band. Produced by Krautrock legend and one-time Tang...
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There's a lot of criticism being aimed at East Oakland rapper Kreayshawn right now: she's a fake; she's a hipster-hopper, a dilettante; her lyrics are misogynist; she uses black people lik...
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At the record company party/ On their hands - a dead star/ The sycophantic slags all say/ "I knew him first, and I knew him well"
I can't be the only one to find the lyrics to The Smiths...
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It's a funny old thing, the Mercury Prize. It's never been cool; in fact, it definitively blew any chances of being cool in 1994, when it passed over the likes of Blur, Pulp and Elastica to gi...
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More unjustly overlooked cult British movies from the 1970s (and one from the 1940s). Deep End (1970) Requiem for a Village (1975) will be re-released in dual format edition (Blu-ray and DVD) on the F...
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Nic Roeg's chilling 1973 drama arrives on Blu-Ray for the first time this week. We assess whether it's worth around 20 of your hard-earned pounds.
When their young daughter is drowned, John an...
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Alas, poor Brother, we knew them well. In fact, it looks like we saw them coming, had their number and quickly gave them the brush off. At least the recent change of moniker to Viva Brother (due to a ...
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Just a couple of weeks ago on Soundblab we were singing the praises of weirdy Italian music show Stryx and reflecting on how YouTube and rest means you can discover, sometimes inadvertently, whole mus...
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Another quick round up of superb recent releases from one of the best reissue labels in the world - Ace.
1. COME TOGETHER: BLACK AMERICA SINGS LENNON & McCARTNEY - VARIOUS ARTISTS
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One of the wonderful things about YouTube and this whole ker-razy digital wonderverse we live in is the way previously obscure pop artefacts, buried beneath the teetering edifice of Michael Jackson vi...
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"Kaiser Chiefs Revolutionise the Music Industry," yells the cover of this week's NME. If you're not clear on what's going here, or how a band best know for going "WOOOOOH!&q...
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This is one half a of a two article debate. You can read the other half here.
So far, the music of 2011 has been short on controversy, unless you count Lady Gaga badly photo-shopping herself onto a bi...
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This is one half a of a two article debate. You can read the other half here.
The first thing to point out is that Tyler and Odd Future are intentionally provocative, they want to test boundaries and ...
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you probably haven't heard of this band or this album. Which is fine. Great, in fact, since that's the point of this, an occasional new series whi...
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That's right, festival time will soon be upon us once more and every music mag, paper and weekend supplement will be swaped with the obligatory photos of pretty girls with nice long, blonde hair p...
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At the start of this year, Emily Allen wondered if 2011 would herald the return of angry pop music. That is, music which is both anti-establishment and popular: think of The Specials' 'Ghost T...
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Renowned journalist Kris Needs embarks on mammoth project documenting the history of New York's Musical History from 1945 through to 2000s...Watch the Closing Doors!
Watch the Closing Doors: A Hi...
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Poly Styrene, who passed away yesterday (Monday April 25), aged 53, was an iconoclast and a rebel in a way today's crop of guitar bands can only dream of. A daringly dressed explosion of fierce in...
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Two more unjustly overlooked cult British movies from the 1960s, both of which in their own fashion reflect the changing attitudes towards sex and masculine and feminine parity in the UK during that t...
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Anyone who's heard any of Ron Sexsmith's music over the years or caught Douglas Arrowsmith's excellent doc Love Shines, about the recording of Ron's new album, will know the melodic Ca...
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Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record shops, rolls round again on Friday April 16 and, as usual, a whole host of bands and artists will lend their support, many releasing excl...
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The Britpop legends, who were extremely influential in the Britpop movement, have, after 17 years and 6 albums, decided to call it a day.
The Bluetones achieved 13 top 40 singles, and their debut Expe...
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Results time! Yes, it's time to announce the winners and not-quite winners of the second annual Soundblab Awards, voted for by our contributors, members and users. So, without further ado, below i...
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Another quick round up of recent releases from one of the best reissue labels in the world - Ace.
1. BEFORE THE FALL - Various Artists
A truly fantastic compilation of 24 diverse original songs covere...
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"What time is it?" asked Public Enemy's Flavour Flav famously. For him, it was probably crack o'clock; for you, it's time to vote in the second annual Soundblab Awards. Don't...
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Last year saw some truly sensational albums from the likes of The National and Arcade Fire among others, but with Radiohead limping along slightly with King of Limbs and REM now, after nearly 20 years...
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Disco. It's still something of a dirty word, isn't it? Sure, over the last decade or so - what with electroclash, cosmic disco, the whole 80s revival thing and acts as diverse as LCD Soundsyst...
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No sax, please. That, infamously, was one of the pearls of advice given by John Peel to aspiring musicians planning to pop a demo in the post for his edification. In this, as in almost nothing else, t...
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FIVE REASONS WHY.......
1999 was the best year in music for me:
Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar (EP) - the vocal just sends a shiver down my spine and something which sounded so original and remote...
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Some of the reasons that Hedoniacs sounds the way it sounds...
(firstly i want to say that this is from my perspective, the rest of the boys may or may not agree with me... just because we are in a b...
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With an economic crisis and a controversial Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in power, will 2011 bring the return of 'angry pop'? Could the scathing spending cuts cause us to...
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Four more unjustly overlooked cult British movies from the 1960s and 1970s finally receive DVD/Blueray release this month: MORGAN - A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT (1966, Optimum Releasing), PRIVATE ROA...
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Now I know Soundblab doesn't do pop music. There's a reason for that - most of it's rubbish. This year has been no better or worse than normal but, sifting through the dross, there have be...
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The Good Natured have been quietly creating a buzz in blogland for quite some time now. 2011 could see them really make a name for themselves, so we thought we'd catch up with lead singer Sarah Mc...
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January 17 2011 sees the release of 'Joanna', the new single by Newcastle's Little Comets. Closely followed by their debut album In Search of Elusive Little Comets on January 31 and a nati...
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"Christmas time, mistletoe and wine....."
If the age-old dulcet tones of good old Sir Cliff don't fill you with musical Christmas cheer and you're now fed up of Band Aid's worthy...
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Over the last decade, Kitsuné Maison has become a byword for the kind of gold-dust cool cachet that most trucker cap wearing hipsters would gladly damage their nethers with suicidally skinny jeans to...
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NEW MODEL ARMY released an exclusive, limited edition, 30th Anniversary box-set on November 8 2010. (Check the site later this week for a full review).
Formed by singer Justin Sullivan in Bradford in ...
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Ah, the long lost art of the single! I remember when a single would have four tracks, interesting cover art and a cracking cover version that would spark debate around the school yard all day long… ...
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Have to say that so far I have been impressed by the output for this year. I was flicking through the stuff I have and came up with this list, in no particular order:
Frightened Rabbit - Winter of Mi...
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Brooklyn, Venice Beach and Wicker Park have all become famous for hipster-fueled development, and now Washington, D.C.'s neighborhoods are etching their names onto that list.
With all the rock bar...
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Sweden's Mono Stereo return with new single 'Me And My Machine' on November 8 on Minty Highway. The lead track will be backed by a brand new, acoustically led track - 'You Gotta Take M...
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Once again we have a free t-shirt to give away to one lucky member.
This time round, Them:Youth have teamed up with Shrimp Sauce, from Savannah, Georgia whose speciality are tees designed with a littl...
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Salford Lads Club's place in music history was assured the moment four likely lads posed in front of its entrance. Snapped in 1986, the picture which graced the inside cover of The Smiths' cla...
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Continuing our series, Greg Puciato from Dillinger Escape Plan gives us his top five metal and harcore bands of all time.
Death - Hopefully you've all heard of 'em. Chuck Schuldiner, in my opi...
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Another quick round up of recent releases from one of the best reissue labels in the world - Ace.
1. MOSTLY GHOSTLY - MORE HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN - Various Artists
A fabulous sequel to Ace's 2005 c...
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The place: Manchester. The sound: great music of almost every variety. The feeling: unbridled joy. Kicking off today, Manchester's In the City festival returns with a new location, a brand new hub...
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It's Yeasayer competition time again!
For a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Yeasayer on 20th October at Manchester Academy, just answer this simple question.
Name just one of the three sing...
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Mt. Desolation is the alt-country side-project from Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin. Keane haters should leave their prejudices at the door when coming to Mt. Desolation. 'State of Our A...
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In what we're hoping will become a regular feature. To start with, we asked Archive about their influences, here's what they said:
Rosko John
OK, influential - Dillinja's 'Warrior'...
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Okay folks, Them:Youth is back with another fine collaboration, this time with Amsterdam's premium fashion and art brand, Outlaw Freelancers
The band's got a brand new official video out for ...
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All I Ever Wanted is the first DVD from The Airborne Toxic Event filmed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall last year, in the band's home city of Los Angeles.
The show features concert footage, contai...
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FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SIVERT'S EXCLUSIVE LONDON CARGO DATE PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR DETAILS TO INFO@SOUNDBLAB.COM BY OCTOBER 3 2010
Sivert Höyem
UK October Tour
London's Ca...
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The first decade of the 21st century has seen something of a vindication of geek culture, which has now been fully embraced by contemporary consumer media. A predisposition to the internet and video g...
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The BFI's Flipside label has surpassed itself yet again, re-releasing and beautifully restoring, on very high quality Dual Format DVD & Blu-ray discs, two classic late 1960s British cult films...
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When asked about his song writing craft for an interview disc to promote his 2002 record For Every Solution There's a Problem (a collection of previously unreleased material), the late, great prod...
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With all the manufactured pap around it's easy to get passionate about hard-working music acts that don't seem to get the recognition they deserve. Some do (Arctic Monkeys etc) while others se...
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The 1950s are often overlooked in the celebration of pop music as they are overshadowed by the revolutionary nature and the exuberance of the 1960s. The hallowed music of the 60s has been mined for al...
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...Rhino Vinyl Reissues
In 2004, Iggy Pop was asked by a leading UK music magazine to compile a CD of tracks that had influenced him and The Stooges during their formative years. Iggy proffered a list...
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You don't have to think about it too long before you realise that Scotland is responsible for a wealth of excellent music. From 80s Edinburgh based indie-popsters The Shop Assistants to Glasgow...
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Roger Armstrong's Ace Records is the best British reissue label par none, specialising in golden age rock 'n' roll/blues/ r&b/do-wop/funk/soul/freak beat re-releases and compilation CD...
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Glasgow's finest band come with enough West Coast harmonies to belie their harsher Scottish roots. Picking one track from each of their albums through the years we aim to arrive at their ultimate ...
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Lauded by the great and the good for their post-folk, experimental indie-pop psychedelia (or, perhaps not, depends on who you read), Animal Collective has veritably vaulted towards the upper reaches o...
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Since Serge Gainsbourg's death at the age of 62 in 1991, the international reputation of the iconic French singer, songwriter, actor, director, painter, gifted tunesmith and brilliant lyricist (co...
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The 70s gave us many great things: The tank top. Larry Grayson. The Wonder Woman TV series, starring the fabulous Lynda Carter. Compulsory bugger-grips for every adult male face. And then there was th...
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One of the most imaginative bands of our time have a wealth of songs at their disposal, but which showcases the band at their peak? Picking one track from each of their albums through the years, we ai...
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In a decade signified by big hair, bright colours and John Hughes films several bands delivered key records and a few solo artists created signature albums. Therefore these five, though obvious, are c...
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With few of the 90s bands releasing anything resembling a 'classic' (although fans of Radiohead's Kid A might disagree), it was left for a new crop to emerge amidst the talent-show talentl...
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Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
Glasgow's finest produced the 90s' most underrated album and their best with this 1995 effort. Full of catchy melodies, signature guitar pop and pitch-perfect harm...
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There's a reason New York lives up to its reputation. It's that little bit extra. The wider streets and sidewalks, the taller buildings, the grander bridges. Live music's no different. It&...
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...Who's that ghost? What's that monster?
There are already many games involving horror movies, most of which stipulate that the players consume a certain amount of cheap liquor at specific in...
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DIANA DORS
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary and My Wife's Lodger.
Buxom movie star Diana Dors embodied British rock'n'roll flash before such an entity as British rock'n'roll eve...
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Attempted 'chart revolution' draws near
After six months brewing, the 'Storm the Charts' download week starts Sunday 27th June. See below for a full list of the tracks aiming to take o...
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Two Limited Edition Designer Tees to giveaway
Them:Youth has teamed up with Channel 3 to bring you this limited edition tee from Channel 3.
This tee is hand screen-printed with flicked on white cosmo...
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Magic music moments don't come along that often on film (Click on the links for video). While many utilise or give birth to great soundtracks it takes a special kind of director to use music creat...
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Many films have great soundtracks; a collection of other people's songs chosen with love by a director who clearly knows how music complements his or her work. Spielberg uses John Williams, Camero...
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"We are not groupies" - so says Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) in Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous(2000) about a young Rolling Stones journalist touring with the band S...
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The Big Chill House, on Pentonville Road, has fast become one of London's Meccas for electronic music ranging from dubstep to hip hop, 80s-referencing synth pop to intelligent dance. The venue, wh...
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In May last year the BFI launched Flipside, a new label presenting off-beat, bizarre and dazzling British films in new, remastered high-quality editions on DVD and Blu-ray. The first three releases in...
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It's competition time!
For a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Dum Dum Girls in Leeds this Saturday 15th May, simply answer the following question.
Q. On what record label did Dum Dum Girls r...
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Hailing from sunny, sunny Bournemouth, classy three-piece, The Fanclub land somewhere on the thin line between Editors and The Smiths. With youth on their side, they've already nailed a very confi...
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2010, a year with its arms wide open to the movement behind electro music and everything that's coming with it. Last year saw the rise of names like Crookers, Fake Blood and Steve Aoki smashing th...
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A state-of-the-art studio in Lancashire has extended a unique loan scheme which helps bands get a leg up in the industry.
Based in Heywood, Astar Studios provides musicians with interest free loans of...
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A global event which aims to celebrate the continuing contribution of music stores kicks off this Saturday.
Record Store Day will see a thousand record stores across 18 countries and four continents c...
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It has become a byword for both musical innovation and eardrum shredding noise, from Aphex Twin to Squarepusher. But Warp Records, which is 21-years-old this year, was actually started by two guys in ...
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It's the Soundblab Awards
So the results are in, the winners have been chosen and a certain publication has spunked most of its budget for the year on a tawdry celebration of commercial rock in fr...
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Head Strong
No sooner had Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory packed up the psychedelic circus tent of 2008's Seventh Tree then the rumour mill began grinding once more about where Goldfrapp will ventur...
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Celebrating the Same Old Scene
Lists, awards, best ofs, and worst ofs. If you've been paying regular attention to the music mags, sites and blogs over the last couple of months, then chances a...
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Top tips lists are mostly rubbish, aren't they? Some nincompoop telling you what you're going to be listening to over the coming year, what will be the soundtrack to your nights out, your days in, the...
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