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Exclusive! listen to new Gallon Drunk song from their upcoming album- its...
Gallon Drunk hhave returned and the band are sounding aat the peak of their form with a thrrilling new album and we have an excluusive track to play you here to prove it… Here’s a link to the vidoe:...
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Temples: Sun Structures – album review
Temples: Sun Structures (Heavenly Recordings) CD/LP/DL 10/10 Available from February 10th 2014 Impressive debut album from the kings of the current psychedelic revival. Plenty of reference points, but...
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BongCauldron EP Launch – live review
BongCauldron EP Launch featuring Ten Foot Wizard The Fenton Arms, Leeds January 23rd 2014 If you don’t ask, you don’t get. – Mahatma Gandhi Parcel Force are complete cunts. – BongCauldron It’s one of...
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Various Artists: Rise Up – The Riz Records Story – album review
Various – Rise Up – The Riz Records Story (Reggae Archive Records) LP/CD/DL 27 January 2013 8.5/10 Reggae Archive Records release a compilation of the best of UK roots and dub from the 90s. Louder Than...
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The Jackhammers: Mello Mello 23rd Jan 2014, Liverpool – live review
The Jackhammers Mello Mello, Liverpool 23rd January 2014 I knew nothing about The Jackhammers other than they had previously played with and have been confirmed as the support band for the forthcoming...
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The Devil: The Devil – Album Review
The Devil – The Devil CD/DL Out Now 10/10 Eleven years since forming, The Devil produce a dark, unsettling debut album, liable to release the inner demons. Halima Amin loves it. London-based The...
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Thurston Moore – Free gig & 7″ launch
Thurston Moore will play an intimate set in the basement of Flashback Records, 50 Essex Road, London on the evening of Friday, February 7th 2014 to celebrate the launch of his new solo 7”. The new...
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Hospitality: Trouble – album review
Hospitality – Trouble (Fire Records) CD / LP / DL Released 27 January 2014 8/10 Trouble, the sophomore album from Brooklyn garage pop outfit Hospitality has twinkling hooks and expansive wig outs....
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Henryk Gorecki – ‘Symphony No.3′ In its slow, sinewing growth out of silence, Gorecki’s ‘No.3’ seduces the listener into a terrible darkness, a sense of sorrow and loss, but then beautifies that...
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penny rimbaud- my top 10 favourite albums: number 7
Keith Jarret – ‘The Paris Concert’ Jarrett would turn up, Paris, Koln, Milan, and ‘just do it’ (his way). One man, a piano and a spell. And when the spell was cast, the faeries danced, the...
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penny rimbaud- my top 10 favourite albums: number 8
Richard Strauss – ‘Four Last Songs’ If Romanticism died alongside the millions slaughtered in the First World War, how come Strauss created some of its greatest statements following it? And don’t...
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Johannes Brahms – ‘Symphony No.3′ my father adored Brahms and wasn’t too impressed by my love of Britten. ‘Do you really like that stuff,’ he’d ask derogatively. Do you know what? I’ve just had a...
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Penny Rimbaud – my top 10 favourite albums
Penny Rimbaud website Penny Rimbaud is a key figure in the punk rock discourse. Whilst the Sex Pistols sang about anarchy, Penny’s band, Crass explained what it was. They also built...
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Benjamin Britten – ‘War Requiem’ Probably the greatest musical/lyrical influence of my life. As a young kid I was a chorister and met Britten when he conducted and I sung in what I think was the first...
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Wedding Present annouce ‘At the Edge of the Sea’ special event gig with the...
The Wedding Present have announced the details of their annual mini festival. It will take place in Brighton on Sat 23rd and Sun 24th at the Concorde 2 in Brighton and will feature special guests the...
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Heath Common ‘The Dreams Of Miss Dee’ – album review
Heath Common ‘The Dreams Of Miss Dee’ (Hi 4 Head Records) CD Available now He’s been labelled as being what Jack Kerouac would have sounded like if he came from Manchester, which is pretty spot on...
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Luke Jackson ‘Fumes And Faith’ – album review
Luke Jackson ‘Fumes And Faith’ (Pipe Records) CD/DL Available now Luke Jackson’s accomplished ‘More Than Boys’ 2012 debut was for many, an album of such maturity and quality, that for a nineteen year...
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Shonen Knife announce new album ‘Overdrive’, and European tour 2014!
Shonen Knife announce new album ‘Overdrive’, and European tour 2014! All female Japanese cult trio Shonen Knife hit the road again to tour the UK & Ireland this May, to coincide with a forthcoming...
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Dum Dum Girls: Too True – album review
Dum Dum Girls – Too True (Sub Pop) CD/LP/DL Available from 28th January 2014 7/10 Too True, the third studio album from dream-pop outfit Dum Dum Girls, is a neon glittering declaration of the group’s...
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Disrupt: Dub Matrix With Stereo Sound – album review
Disrupt – Dub Matrix With Stereo Sound (Jahtari) LP/DL Out Now 9/10 Jahtari main man and digital laptop reggae originator, Jan Gleichmar, releases a new album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates...
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