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Steve Lloyd – Key figure in Manchester music scene RIP
The Manchester music scene is shocked by the sudden death of Steve Lloyd- one of the best sound engineers in the city and co-owner of the Roadhouse after a short and sudden illness. We had known Steve...
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Evil Blizzard: Ducie Bridge, Manchester – photo review. Blood, masks, pigs...
Evil Blizzard Ducie Bridge, Manchester 29th March 2014 Evil Blizzard sold out their recent manchester show. There seems to be no stopping the mask wearing marauders whose zonked out combination of 4...
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Hit The Deck Festival Returns to Bristol and Nottingham in April, this year...
Billed as “The UK’s premiere indoor alternative festival” Hit the Deck will be returning to the twinned cities of Bristol and Nottingham for the second year running next month featuring sets from some...
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Penny Rimbaud & Eve Libertine to present “Yes Sir, I Will” at the Rebellion...
Penny Rimbaud & Eve Libertine to present “Yes Sir, I Will” at the Rebellion Festival 2014 The Rebellion Festival today announced an interesting addition to an already outstanding 2014 line-up. “We...
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Nine Below Zero: Manchester Academy – live review
Nine Below Zero Manchester Academy March 29th 2014 Brilliant R and B band Nine Below Zero ended their current stretch as support slot The Stranglers in style in Manchester on Saturday. The Stranglers...
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The Stranglers: Manchester Academy – live photo review
The Stranglers Manchester Academy 29th March We’ve run numerous Stranglers reviews here recently so no words this time – just s huge gallery of pics from their Manchester show. All photos © Simon Lee....
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Clint Mansell ‘Noah’ soundtrack of the film
Clint Mansell Noah soundtrack 10/10 Of course Darren Aronofsky’s Noah film is an epic exercise in fire and brimstone movie making-a tidal wave of special effects and big acting and those special...
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news flash : Frankie Knuckles RIP – dance music legend dead
news flash : Frankie Knuckles RIP – dance music legend and musical pioneer has died at the age of 59. Knuckles died on Monday, revealed his longtime business partner, Frederick Dunson who emailed...
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Kate Bush Tickets – More About The Secondary Ticketing Fiasco
Keith Goldhanger looks at the re-selling of tickets at vast prices once again, this time fingering the people who help the Viagogos of this world sell tickets. A notable acknowledgement on the subject...
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Louise Distras: Behind the scenes for the making of her new music video
Ian Critchley was “on set” with Louise Distras as her new video for the track ‘Love Me The Way I Am’ was filmed. The video is for a double A sided single due out on the 12th May, both tracks of which...
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65daysofstatic Perform The Fall Of Math: Koko, London – live review
65daysofstatic Perform The Fall Of Math Koko, London 27th March 2014 65daysofstatic celebrate 10 years of pioneering instrumental post rock with The Fall Of Math album show in Camden’s Koko. First up...
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Hauschka: Abandoned City – album review
Hauschka: Abandoned City (City Slang) CD/DL/LP Out Now Hauschka’s spectral elegy to empty urban spaces is an intricate, absorbing work, says Louder Than War’s Paul Margree. Volker Bertelmann – who...
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The Fallen Leaves | Kill Pretty | TV Smith, aka Ged Babey’s 50th: The...
The Fallen Leaves | Kill Pretty | TV Smith (Ged Babeys 50th) The Joiners, Southampton 29th March 2014 To celebrate his 50th Birthday and surviving cancer the UKs Best Small Venue 2013, The Joiners in...
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Ashley Reaks: Compassion Fatigue (1-8) – album review
Ashley Reaks – Compassion Fatigue (1-8) DL Out Now 9/10 Collage artist and experimental musician Ashley releases his new album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates is impressed. With the exception of...
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Jack White Announces His Third Album, Lazaretto, Is Due Out 9th June. Stream...
Above is the new cover art for Jack White’s third album, Lazaretto, which is due out 9th June. We’ve also been teased today with a track off it – High Ball Stepper – which you can stream below....
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Adam Ant: The Ritz, Manchester, 1st April 2014 – live review
Adam Ant and the Ministers of New Super Heavy Funk Punk. Manchester Ritz April 2014 great live shot from Martin Unsworth (more great live shots from him on his Facebook here) When it was first mooted...
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Shonen Knife Announce New Album and Tour – also check out new video
Everyone’s favourite all-female Japanese pop punk band, Shonen Knife, are now in their 33rd year together and they’re still going strong with news of a new album due out in April and another full UK...
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EMA: The Future’s Void – album review
EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang) CD/LP/ DL Out April 7th 9/10 Ema releases her much anticipated second album next week, a dark sounding record about surveillance and the internet. Louder Than War’s...
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New Material By Gil Scott-Heron To Be Released On Record Store Day – listen...
XL Recordings are releasing a new album of Gil Scott-Heron recordings, titled ‘Nothing New’, for Record Store Day, 19th April 2014. They also released a track off it, ‘Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams),...
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Pixies announce art contest for new album Indie Cindy and stream Snakes video
With the late-April release of Indie Cindy, the first new Pixies studio album in more than 20 years, the band, along with legendary graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, is calling upon the Pixies’...
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