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HecklerPlay: The Afghan Whigs

by Si Sharp

To celebrate the release of Dynamite Steps, the new album from Greg Dulli’s Twilight Singers project, hecklerspray are taking the opportunity to explain why your life is sadly incomplete without a load of albums by his previous band The Afghan Whigs who were (and this strictly between you and us) one of the best bands [...]

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HecklerPlay: Band of Horses

by Si Sharp

The nineties were dominated by the seemingly unstoppable force of dance music. Constantly changing shape with genres and sub genres born every month. Music was trying to permanently sound like the future and guitars were sneered at by the cool kids. But as the noughties wore on, progress slowed. Then the cyclical nature of alternative [...]

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Lady GaGa Writes The Campest Song Ever With Born This Way (Madonna Furious)

by Mof Gimmers

For the first time, Madonna is lying on the canvass without much hope of getting up. She can clamber up the ropes all she wants, but essentially, she’s the Apollo Creed of pop and Lady GaGa is the Italian Stallion, bouncing around with a fist cocked. Madge has been the undisputed queen of anthemic pop [...]

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Rihanna ‘S&M’ Video: DECODED

by Mof Gimmers

So, Rihanna is back with a new single called S&M, which is set to rock Middle England to its frail little core and frighten America’s Bible Belt so much they’ll no doubt be firing rounds of confused shots into the sky already. Fact is, Ri is pushing her luck with a tale of “chains and [...]

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HecklerPlay: EMA – Best New Guitar Slinger In Town?

by Matthew Laidlow

No you silly dyslexic person! This isn’t some sort of crazy side project by M.I.A or a failed attempt by record label EMI trying to reinvent themselves after speaking to some art students in London’s Brick Lane. These initials make up the full name of Erika M. Anderson. After hearing just a singular track, we [...]

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HecklerPlay: The Wedding Present

by Si Sharp

It’s funny how pop history works. Artists and even entire genres can live in obscurity until they influence the band of the moment, and then, the spotlight of critical re-evaluation is shone upon it. One minute ‘post-punk’ was simply ‘the bit between punk and new-romanticism’, and the next it was eclipsing both and hailed as [...]

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HecklerPlay: Interpol- Live in Manchester

by Si Sharp

Unlike their fellow New Yorkers that broke at the start of the last decade, Interpol have run a marathon rather than a sprint. The Strokes were the band of their generation with the sound of the time, and their subsequent career is often looked, unfairly, through the prism of that brief moment when they were [...]

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Listen To Michael Jackson’s Utterly Feeble New Single ‘Hold My Hand’

by Mof Gimmers

All new Michael Jackson releases will be subjected to the same question – Is that really him singing? On the strength of new single, ‘Hold My Hand’, fans really should be crossing their fingers and saying “I hope to fuck it isn’t!” Seriously. Forgetting Jackson’s turbulent personal life for a moment, Michael was a man [...]

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HecklerPlay: Frightened Rabbit

by Si Sharp

There’s a tired cliché that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Obviously it’s not. It’s like writing about architecture. But with less focus on health and safety legislation. And architecture journalists probably don’t come out with trite descriptions like “Richard Rogers’ Pompidou Centre is architecture of the high-tech style… ON ACID!” However the [...]

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Hecklerplay: Pat Dam Smyth – Good Time Rockin’ Folk

by Matthew Laidlow

Music has a special place in the hearts of the writers of hecklerspray. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to block out the shriek from protesting nut job fans outside our office. Some of us are even externally employed by naïve club promoters to spin vinyl discs and cause disco inferno via booty shaking antics. [...]

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