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Glastonbury 2014: Worthy Farm, Pilton – live review
Glastonbury 2014 Worthy Farm, Pilton 26th June – 27th June This year we had two reviewers at Glastonbury, John, of course, and Keith Goldhanger who starts his reflections by having a go at the...
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Jessie J | Leah McFall: Delamere Forest – live and photo review
Photo of Jessie J above © Melanie Smith Jessie J / Leah McFall Delamere Forest July 5th 2014 Melanie Smith goes deep into the forest and discovers the chart topping pop diva Jessie J performing to a...
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Cat Meat: Eldritch City Dwellers – album review
Cat Meat – Eldritch City Dwellers (Self Released) Download only – name your price (even if it’s nowt) Out Now 9/10 Alt. country blues band Cat Meat have a new album out and, as per all their releases,...
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Listening habits to be tracked with second annual Harkive day
Music fans are being asked to keep track of their listening and share the results as part of the second annual Harkive day. The mass observation project asks fans to share the how, what and why of what...
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Eagles of Death Metal: Berlin – live review
Eagles of Death Metal White Trash, Treptow, Berlin 16 June 2014 Our correspondent in Berlin Barry Lanigan gets re-aquainted with those Eagles of Death Metal. Upon hearing that Eagles of Death Metal...
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Libertines: Hyde Park, London – live review
Libertines Hyde Park 5th July 2014 Louder Than War’s Josh Norcliffe was at last weekend’s Libertines gig at Hyde Park. Check out his review of their “heroic and wonderfully shambolic” performance...
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Video Premiere: Mat Motte and the People That Hate Him – Summer Song
Louder Than War are thrilled to be able to premiere the new video by London singer songwriter Mat Motte and his new band. They’re collectively called Mat Motte and the People That Hate Him and the...
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Arctic Monkeys, George Michael, katie Melua latest stars named in tax...
Music is a fleeting business and the money can dry up as fast as it is earned but there is increasing concern over the tax avoidance schemes and legal loopholes being used by stars accountants to...
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Capital Letters: Smoking My Ganga (The Rootikal Remix EP) – ep review
Capital Letters – Smoking My Ganga (The Rootikal Remix EP) (Sugar Shack Records) LP/DL 7 July 2014 8.5/10 A new remix EP from Wolverhampton reggae artists Capital Letters. Louder Than War’s Paul...
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True Neutral Crew: #POPPUNK – album review
True Neutral Crew: #POPPUNK (Deathbomb Arc) DL (Pay What You Want – even if it’s nowt!) Out Now! 8/10 Genre mangling experimental LA band True Neutral Crew find the perfect balance on their most recent...
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Video Premiere: Living Dead Lights – rock band managed by music industry...
Hollywood band Living Dead Lights are currently creating waves under the watchful eye of former Guns and Roses manager and music industry legend Doug Goldstein. Following the release of their debut...
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Ian Mclagan: The Half Moon, Putney – live review
Ian Mclagan The Half Moon, Putney 4th July 2014 Keyboard legend, Ian McLagan, of Small Fames fame, graces fans with an intimate performance at Putney’s Half Moon. LTW’s Craig Chaligne was there to...
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Turn To Crime: Can’t Love – album review
Turn To Crime – Can’t Love (Mugg & Bopp Records/Old Flame Records) LP/Cassette/CD/DL Out Now 8.5/10 Detroit Indie/Drift-Rock trio release their debut album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bate...
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Theatre Royal: We Don’t Know Where We Are – album review
Theatre Royal – We Don’t Know Where We Are (Vacilando ’68 Recordings) LP/DL 14 July 2014 Named after a now demolished music hall in Chatham, Theatre Royal are one of many bands to have emerged from the...
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Signor Benedick the Moor: El Negro – album review
Signor Benedick the Moor 0 El Negro (Deathbomb Arc DL / CD Out Now 9/10 Virtuoso rapper and multi-instrumentalist, Signor Benedick The Moor, whose video we premiered a couple of months ago, recently...
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NARC Festival: Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle – festival review
NARC Festival Various venues in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle 5th July 2014 One of the highlights of the North East’s musical calendar, a raft of bands from the North East and beyond gather in some...
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Louder Than War Interview: Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai
As we reported back in April, Mogwai’s iconic second album, Come On Die Young is soon to be reissued on Chemikal Underground Records. Exciting news, and with it being 15 years after its initial...
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Bernard Sumner to release his autobiography
Chapter and Verse – New Order, Joy Division and Me Bernard Sumner (Bantam Press, 25th September 2014 hardback and ebook) The long-awaited autobiography of an influential legend of the Manchester...
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does it matter that Britney Spears is singing flat on the vocal warm up clip...
There is a clip of Britney Spears singing really flat and all over the place on her song Alien floating around the internet. It’s become this generation equivalent of the Linda McCartney vocal tapes...
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Sparks to perform ‘Kimono My House’ with Heritage Orchestra in London
Sparks to perform ‘Kimono My House’ with Heritage Orchestra Friday 19 December 2014 Barbican Hall, London, UK http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=16809 7.30pm Tickets: £22.50 – £30...
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