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Littlemores: Home Sweet Home EP – review
Littlemores Home Sweet Home EP Self-released Download / CD It’s been almost two years since Littlemores released their Idle Idols II EP and eighteen months since Louder Than War featured them as New...
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Main ‘Ablation’ – album review
MAIN ‘Ablation’ (Editions Mego) CD/LP/DL Available now An admission and a confession, the latter of which I am not proud. But first the admission: I have an intense love of Robert Hampson, purely in...
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Badly Drawn Boy: Manchester Deaf Institute – live review
Badly Drawn Boy Manchester Deaf Institute 6th September 2013 This sold-out show at the Deaf Institute in Manchester is Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough)’s first headline show for a couple of years. In...
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Steve Cradock – Top 10 favourite songs
Best known as guitarist with Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller, Steve Cradock is about to head out on a solo tour in support of his new album Travel Wild – Travel Free. The new album features...
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Pulco: Clay Cutlery – album review
Pulco – Clay Cutlery (Folkwit) CD / DL Release date: July 2013 9 / 10 According to the man himself “Pulco music is home-recorded lo-fi experimentalism – observational, poignant and at times laugh out...
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Songs To Get Lost In. The Genius Of Kate Bush And ‘Wuthering Heights’
Pop is so littered with the carcasses of flippant ideas and the 2 minute trash aesthetic that sometimes it’s tricky to even remember that it can be an art form, a platform for moments of pure,...
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Top Ten Great Put Down Or “Diss” Records
Louder Than War’s Carl Stanley puts together his favourite ten put down or “diss” records. Putting together 10 favourite ”diss” records I realised they were all either punk or rap records, but then the...
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The Clash: Hits Back – album review
The Clash: Hits Back (Sony) CD Release Date: 09/09/2013 10/10 The Clash are busy. Two new collections are released this month. Here Louder Than War reviews Hits Back for you. Having a Clash compilation...
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Eels: O2 Academy, Liverpool – live review
The Eels O2 Academy, Liverpool Thursday 5th September Eels played Liverpool and Sean Diamond went along for Louder Than War to watch them straddle a few genres. First time for everything. First time I...
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The Cutler ‘Everything Is Touching Everything Else’ – album review
The Cutler ‘Everything Is Touching Everything Else’ (Steel Tiger Records) DL Available now What a brimful of electronic bubbliness this is, brought to you by Steve Cobby and the Pork-ster ‘RealName’...
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Chris Karloff (Black Onassis) – top 10 new albums
As a founding member and lead guitarist with Kasabian as they rose to fame Chris Karloff describes leaving the band as a ‘kick in the bollocks’ back in 2006. In the aftermath he ditched England and...
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Peter Hook and the Light: The Electric Palace, Bridport – live review
Peter Hook and the Light at The Electric Palace Bridport, 7th September 2013 Louder Than War’s newest writer, Nick Holmes, kicks off in emotional style with the return of Peter Hook & the Light....
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More Recent Ace Records Releases by Ian Johnston
Here are a few more vital recent releases from Ace, probably one of the best reissue labels in the world. Various Artists – Good Vibrations: A Record Shop, A Label, A Film Soundtrack If there was ever...
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White House Down – film review
White House Down Directed by Roland Emmerich Written by James Vanderbilt Starring Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum Release date 13 September 2013 Right wing thugs take over the White House. No change...
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Bloodhound Gang Members Face 5 Years In Prison In Russia
The Bloodhound Gang are in deep trouble in Russia after bass player “Evil” Jared Hasselhoff put the flag down the front of his trousers, pulled it out from the back and threw it into the crowd at a...
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Wire Are About To Tour The Uk: An Interview
We will be at the band’s Manchester show at the great Gorilla venue- this will be a top night- come to the gig, see the band and come and say hello! Click this link for tickets for Wire at Gorilla....
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Elaine Constantine: Northern Soul An Illustrated History – photo book review
Elaine Constantine ‘Northern Soul: An illustrated history’ Photo book of classic scene 10/10 Go to Amazon to order this book now Youth culture is littered with bad documents and misunderstandings of...
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Leonard Cohen: Birmingham – live review
Leonard Cohen LG Arena, Birmingham 8 September 2013 Some people you wait your whole life to see perform live. So it was for our guest reviewer Colleen Marples when she finally saw Leonard Cohen in...
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Hjaltalin: Enter 4 – album review
Hjaltalin – Enter 4 (Hjaltalin) Vinyl/CD/DL 9 September 2013 9/10 Icelandic outfit, Hjaltalin, release their third album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott Bates is impressed. Sigur Ros have a lot to answer...
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Mercury Awards : who will be in the short list? All nice indie or any rock?
In a couple of hours the Mercury Awards short list will be announced. Will it be a celebration of indie or will anything a bit noisier get recognized this year? It’s always tricky to work out the...
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