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CD Review: Brandon Flowers – Flamingo

by Matthew Laidlow

The humble indie discotheque, back in the early nineties, were dramatically different to the thousands that clog up every city centre currently. For a start, the cliental were a lot moodier, didn’t give a toss if the night was hosted in an office block and the DJ used physical vinyl instead of simply pressing play [...]

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Myspace Trawl – Autolux

by Matthew Laidlow

Sitting through MySpace on a crap internet connection really isn’t the best idea in the world. Honestly, you get to see horribly crafted MySpace pages where the users list a boring document of who has changed their life and who’d they’d snog if given the chance. Every week, the website is becoming a musical graveyard [...]

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Album Review: Best Coast – Crazy For You

by Rowan Martin

The oppressive dominance of the lone female singer is such that any woman who chooses to have her vocals submerged by – or at least equalised with – instruments suddenly sounds quaint, positively retro. But listen to Best Coast’s album, Crazy For You (ignore the shit power ballad title). Bethany Consantino‘s not ripping her own [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Black Label Society, Charlie Daniels, Red Hot Chilli Pipers

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. Another very diverse week, stretching from ludicrous pomp-metal, through hardcore country, to bagpipe-rock. You heard us: bagpipe-rock. Music this week works its way from Zakk Wylde‘s anarcho nonsense rockers Black Label Society, through lynching aficionado Charlie Daniels, all the way [...]

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Music Review: Walter Gibbons ‘Jungle Music’ V/A

by Mof Gimmers

If you’re reading this expecting a load of junglist riddims, look away now. There’s no broken Amen breaks here for this is the sound of New York disco and the birth of the house DJ. That may sound lame, but there’s a lot of great stuff to be found in the cuts of Walter Gibbons and his ‘Jungle Music – Mixed With Love: Essential & Unreleased Remixes 1976-1986′.

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Free MP3 and Tour Dates from Fuzztastic Black Angels!

by Mof Gimmers

If you like all things sixties, particularly the bands that employed fuzz pedals and heavy use of hallucinogens, then you’ll like the dead-eyed dronerock of the Black Angels. No really. This isn’t being written in a sarcastic tone. The good news is that they’re giving away a track from their new LP!

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Music Review: The Vaselines ‘Sex With An X’

by Mof Gimmers

It’s almost impossible to write about The Vaselines without mentioning Nirvana. Kurt Cobain called the Scottish group his “most favourite song writers in the whole world.” He loved them so much that he took ‘em on tour, covered their songs (‘Molly’s Lips’, ‘Son of a Gun’ and ‘Jesus Don’t Want Me For a Sunbeam’) and named his daughter after Frances McKee.

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Katie Melua, Arcade Fire, Gaelic Storm

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. We think that we’ve picked out a nicely diverse collection of albums this week. We’re not overly fond of all of them, but, hey: we call things as we hear them and then allow you to decide (except for the [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Menomena, Sky Sailing, Jorn, Seu Jorge

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. Another busy week for music. This time: we have some lovely, dreamy Indie tunes (from Menomena and from Sky Sailing); a tribute album to Ronnie James Dio (you read that right, and it’s from Jorn); and a Brazilian man makes [...]

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Album Review: Richard Ashcroft – United Nations Of Sound

by Matthew Laidlow

Hey look! It’s him out of The Verve. You know, the band that shifted the opinions of a nation full of lager swilling blokes in to opening up their emotions after hearing a small piece of orchestral music sampled from a Stones cover. Whilst we’re all for musical diversity and the like, it annoyingly made for pointless singalongs at festivals and woke thousands up when morons sang the melody through the quiet evening streets.

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