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Fairhorns: Medici – album review
Fairhorns: Medici (Kindarad) Ltd Ed Cass (70 available) Available from 3rd March 2014 8/10 Fairhorns is Bristol based musical polymath, Matt Williams (Beak>, MXLX, Team Brick) a musician who is...
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Soviet Soviet – Italian band ‘revamping New Wave in a modern way.’
Soviet Soviet – The long wave of the New Wave by Fabio Pasquarelli Soviet Soviet facebook page Heading from Pesaro, a provincial town on the eastern shores of Italy, Soviet Soviet are a three piece...
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Watch This: New Video From Xiu Xiu – Is this the darkest video ever made?
Is this the darkest video ever made? The claustrophobic and dark music of Stupid In The Dark is the lead track from the new Xiu Xiu album and is perfect introduction to their Suicide / Neubaten...
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The Otherness: Come On – ep review
The Otherness: Come On EP DL Available now. 8/10 Argentinian Rockers The Otherness have been championed by LTW before. Now they have a new EP out, Come On. Mark Ray checks it out. If John Lennon,...
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Lakefield: Swan Songs – album review
Lakefield – Swan Songs DL Released 14 February 2014 9/10 For most bands the end is either a cataclysmic implosion of creative differences or the slow drift away as life pulls the downtrodden apart...
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Sepultura; The Ritz, Manchester 5th February 2014 – photo review
Sepultura The Ritz, Manchester Wednesday 5th February 2014 Brazilian thrash metal monsters Sepultura have just completed a 6 date UK tour, before heading off into Europe. The tour was to promote the...
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Win tickets to the ‘North West Calling Festival’ ft The Exploited, U.K.Subs,...
Win tickets to the ‘North West Calling Festival’ ft The Exploited, U.K.Subs, Goldblade and many more… For our latest competition we have again teamed up with promoters Gigbox and are able to offer two...
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Anna Calvi: The Albert Hall, Manchester – live review w/ photos
Photo of Anna Calvi © Melanie Smith Anna Calvi The Albert Hall, Manchester 6th Feb 2014 On the back of last years brilliant second album, One Breath, Anna Calvi has been on a tour of the UK during...
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Football: The fleecing of the ‘people’s game’. Time for change?
Football: The fleecing of the ‘people’s game’. Football has always been a behind closed doors, smokey room wheels and deals wasps nest of corruption but in the 21st century with the takes and the...
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New Artist Of The Day: Chrissy Barnacle
Young Glaswegian folkstrel Chrissy Barnacle turns heads with gleefully twisted take on traditional balladeering. Now, I’ll admit I’m no fan of folk music. My preconception (which is probably skewed) is...
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Independent Record Label Tangled Talk Give Away Huge 40 Track Sampler – plus...
UK based independent record label Tangled Talk, whose roster of artists include some of the best bands currently trading under the loose umbrella label “hardcore”, have got a brand new website – and to...
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Findlay: Manchester Band On The Wall – live review
Findlay Manchester Band On The Wall 7th February 2014 Findlay returns back home to Manchester and charms a packed Band On The Wall. Natalie Findlay has come a long way since the scratchy acoustic demos...
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More Recent Ace Records Releases by Ian Johnston – February 2014
Ian Johnston brings us the latest of his regular roundups of re-issues from Ace Records, who are still one of the best reissue labels in the world. The Seeds – Raw & Alive Big Beat/Ace’s superb,...
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Punk legend Duane Peters Arrested
Punk and skateboard legend Duane Peters was arrested on a felony offense in Long Beach late Friday night. The 52 year old US Bombs frontman was was picked up by Long Beach police just before midnight,...
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The Death Of Television – The Big Bang Theory
“…set my TVR to record Big Bang Theory. The whole world is watching this thing and I’ve got to know why.” – Dr. Cox (from TV’s Scrubs) Why indeed? The Big Bang Theory is arguably the most watched...
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Glitches / Femme: Dalston – live review
Glitches/Femme Birthdays, Dalston – London 30th January 2014 Glitches and Femme take their own brand of “Boogie with a suitcase Shoobie doobie do wop…” to Birthdays, London. Louder Than War’s Keith...
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Louder Than War Interview: Drenge
They’re the Derbyshire brothers who’ve drove full speed into the UK music scene with nihilism as the selected gear. Drummer, Rory Loveless, reveals plans for 2014 and why UK festivals are like...
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The Laurels – interview
One of the band’s our Sydney correspondent Elena Wewer introduced us to in her recent round up of her city’s scene was The Laurels. Here she chats to vocalist and guitarist Luke O’Farrell. As the...
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Twisted Wheel: Manchester – live review
Twisted Wheel Kraak, Manchester 5th February, 2014 After a near sell out run of four shows at Manchester Kraak Gallery, Twisted Wheel announced that they were adding a final gig to the series – this...
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Keel Her: Keel Her – album review
Keel Her – Keel Her (Critical Heights) CD / LP / DL Released 10 February 2014 9/10 Know for her prolific and highly creative output Rose Keeler-Schaffeler, as Keel Her, has produced a blistering dream...
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