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Denovali Swingfest London 2014 – great experimental music festival announces...
Denovali Records recently announced details of the seventh edition of their unique and exciting festival, Swingfest, which for the second year running also includes dates in the UK. Full lineup, more...
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More Recent Ace Records Releases by Ian Johnston – March 2014
Ian Johnston provides us with reviews of a few recent vital recent releases from Ace, probably one of the best reissue labels in the world. ~ Mary Love – Lay This Burden Down: The Very Best Of Mary...
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New Artist of the Day: Surfin Dead – a crazy blend of synthed up industrial...
Surfin Dead have been around for a while. Old punks with a penchant for the industrial end of the genre they’ve recently comeback with a great new single, The Authentic Voice, which features the...
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Watch This! Brilliant New Video by Esben and the Witch. Plus Upcoming Live Dates
We’ve already told you twice about the forthcoming Invada album featuring Thought Forms and Esben and the Witch (here and here) so we nearly didn’t run this – but then we saw how brilliant the video...
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The first trailer for Frank, the film inspired by the musician Chris Sievey...
The first trailer for the film Frank, based, of course, on the life of musician Chris Sievey and starring Michael Fassbender, has been revealed. Check it out below. Would you believe it was September...
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Indietracks Festival line up announced
Gruff Rhys, frontman of Super Furry Animals, and Allo Darlin’ have been announced as headliners for this year’s Indietracks Festival in Derbyshire. This year Gruff is releasing American Interior, an...
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Further acts announced for Reading and Leeds
Queens of the Stone Age and Paramore have been announced as co-headliners for this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival. Arctic Monkeys and Blink-182 are also set to headline. Taking place at two sites...
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Jingo: When You Want Me – single review
Jingo: When You Want Me DL (For free from Soundcloud) Out Now Louder Than War’s Ian Critchley usually steers clear of single reviews but occasionally he make exceptions. Jingo’s latest single, When...
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New Artist of the Day: Hunters
Brooklyn’s Hunters have taken off, thanks to their notoriously feisty and energetic live shows and a pretty solid debut LP released via Mom + Pop Music in September last year. Hunters is an alternative...
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New Artist of the day: Silver Arm
This is excellent. The third release from Silver Arm on Big Tea Records packs the power of punk sieved through the avalanche of grunge and twisted with the captivating darkness of that line between...
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Punk In Africa: A fascinating documentary with great music – out soon
Sometimes it seems that punk has permeated the whole world but so far Africa seemed to have resisted its noisy charms. There was always mini scenes of hardcore in the north african belt and some sort...
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Bingley Music Festival announces bill -Pet Shop Boys and many others
Yorkshire music festival Bingley Music Live may just have secured the festival coup of 2014. The 16,000 capacity, 3 day festival in Yorkshire has the legendary Pet Shop Boys, who have sold over 50...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees to reissue special Hong Kong Garden for 35th...
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden Special limited celebration edition Released April 7th on Polydor / UMG Hong Kong Garden is one of the greatest debut singles ever released- it helped...
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Watch This! Extraordinary Recording Of A Full Fugazi Set From Brazil In 1997
The good people over at Cvlt Nation website (self confessed “home of underground heavy metal and punk rock music, art, film and features…from the pits of hell”) last week posted this intense full...
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Tinariwen: Emmaar – album review
Tinariwen: Emmaar (Anti-) CD/DL Released February 2014 8.5/10 Tinariwen continue to refine their sound on their latest record, which is given an emotional heft by ongoing problems in Mali, says Louder...
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RMT Leader, Bob Crow, Dies Of Suspected Heart Attack Aged Just 52
Bob Crow, leader of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, has died today at the age of 52. He is reported to have died at Whipps Cross hospital in Leytonstone, East London, after...
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Paradise Circus: Drunk – single review
Paradise Circus – Drunk CD/DL 17 March 2014 8.5/10 Paradise Circus release their soul/rock infused debut single. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. In 1996, Ash released their wonderful single...
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Math The Band: Stupid and Weird – album review
Math The Band – Stupid and Weird (anchorbrain) CD/ DL / LP Out Now 8/10 Math The Band describe themselves as an electro-punk spazz duo, their new album is out now and Louder Than War’s Adrian Bloxham...
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Think Piece : Is it right for Reading Festival to get criticised for not...
Reading festival is getting stick from the (male) dominated media and male dominated internet forum world for not having enough women musicians on its bills. Firstly is it fair that Reading Festival...
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Watch This! New Video From LA Rap-Noise Trio Clipping. Who’ve Just Announced...
LA rap-noise trio clipping. (who stormed into our top 10 albums of the year list last year with their debut album midcity) have just announced details about their debut Sub Pop release along with a...
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