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Blank Realm: Grassed Inn – album review
Blank Realm – Grassed Inn (Fire Records) CD / DL / LP Available now 8/10 The Australian underground is chucking out some great bands and records at the moment and the new long player from Blank Realm...
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Louder Than War Interview: Dean Cavanagh, Co-author (with Irvine Welsh) of...
Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s “Wedding Belles” is screening at The Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds, on 12th February as part of Chris Madden’s popular Chinwag event. As a precursor to it Louder Than War’s...
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Mode Moderne: Occult Delight – Album Review
Mode Moderne: Occult Delight (Light Organ Records) CD/ DL/ Vinyl Out Now The invention and weirdo pop of Mode Moderne leaves Rob McNamara seduced and almost hypnotised by their new album, Occult...
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Fun Lovin’ Criminals: Manchester Cathedral – live review
Photo of Fun Lovin’ Criminals © Svenja Block Fun Lovin’ Criminals Manchester Cathedral 15th January 2014 9/10 Fun Lovin’ Criminals were out in support of their new live DVD, The Bong Remains The Same,...
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Snuff | Off With Their Heads | Laura Palmer | Up and Atom: The Old Bar,...
Snuff | Laura Palmer | Off With Their Heads | Up and Atom The Old Bar, Fitzroy, Melbourne 21st November 2013 Louder Than War’s Marc Brekau caught long running, Peel session recording, London punk / ska...
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Monica and the Explosion: The Espy and The Fox Hotel, Melbourne – live review
Monica and the Explosion live at The Espy and The Fox Hotel, Melbourne 11th and 22nd Dec 2013 Swedish acoustic punk rock artist Monica and The Explosion went down under at the tail end of 2013 for a...
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Hackney Colliery Band: Band on the Wall, Manchester – live review
Hackney Colliery Band Band on the Wall, Manchester 17th January 2014 9/10 Around two months ago Louder Than War’s Dom Walsh saw Hackney Colliery Band as part of the fabulous Craig Charles Funk, Soul...
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Chrome ‘Half Machine From The Sun’ – album review
Chrome ‘Half Machine From The Sun’ (King Of Spades Records) CD/DL Available now Chrome were a band who really should be higher on that alternative pyramid. Somehow melding Punk, New Wave, Psych,...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top ten favourite albums : number 9
9. ARVO PART: ‘DE PROFUNDIS’ (1980) Arvo Pärt is an Estonian-born, classical composer, best known for his minimalist style and tintinnabular music much influenced by Gergorian chant. Pärt is currently...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top 10 favourite albums : number 2
2. LOW: ‘TRUST’ (2002) Low is an Indie Rock band formed by husband and wife, Alan Sparhawk (guitar and vocals) and Mimi Parker (drums and vocals) in 1993, and were later joined by Steve Garrington...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top 10 favourite albums
EWAN MORRISON: TOP 10 ALBUMS. EWAN MORRISON is an award-winning author, a film-maker and a journalist. He has been described as ‘the most fluent and intelligent writer of his generation.’ His novels...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top 10 favourite albums : number 8
8. CODEINE: ‘THE WHITE BIRCH’ (1994) Codeine was a ‘Slow-core’ band consisting of Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums), and John Engle (guitar). Like Slint, their influence was greater...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top 10 favourite albums : number 3
<blockquote>3. IDAHO: ‘YEAR AFTER YEAR’ (1993)</blockquote> <em>Idaho is an Indie Rock band originally founded as a duo by school friends Jeff Martin and John K. Berry in 1982. Martin...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top 10 favourite albums : number 7
7. JOANNA NEWSOM: ‘THE MILK EYED MENDER’ (2004) Joanna Newsom is a singer, songwriter, harpist, and pianist, whose original home recordings were made on a children’s Fisher-Price tape recorder. Newsom...
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Ewan Morrison author – my top 10 favourite albums : number 6
6. RUSSIAN CIRCLES: ‘STATION’ (2008) Russian Circles are an instrumental Rock/Post-Metal three-piece band, originally consisting of Mike Sullivan (guitar), Colin DeKuiper (bass), and Dave Turncrantz...
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Ewan Morrison author – My top 10 favourite albums : number 5
5. THE COCTEAU TWINS: ‘TREASURE’ (1984) The Cocteau Twins was a highly popular and influential Scottish band that performed a mix of haunting, semi-operatic vocals with textured instrumentation. The...
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Ewan Morrison – author : my top 10 favourite albums : number 4
4. THE REVOLTING COCKS: ‘YOU GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH’ (1987) The band name, The Revolting Cocks, came about after founder members Richard 23, Luc Van Acker and Al Jourgensen were involved in an incident...
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Nick Cave ’20 000 Days On earth’ film review
Our man gets a sneak preview of Nick cave film… Trust Nick Cave to give the conventional a twist. What could have been one of those dusty career retro trips or a , shudder,...
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Listen! New single from The Wolfhounds ‘Middle Aged Freak’ – it’s great
C86 heroes and doyens of the underhand eighties scene the Wolfhounds have got a new single out which is a great blast of punky garage rock. The older these bands get the noisier they become…and this...
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Invada Records To Release Split LP With Esben & The Witch And Thought Forms
Great news coming out of Bristol’s Invada Records – they’re about to release a split LP featuring two great bands who we love, Esben & The Witch And Thought Forms. Check out the artwork above and...
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