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Stream Both Sides Of Demdike Stares New Single – the sixth installment of...
The brilliant Demdike Stare, the occult project of Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty whose collaborations tick all the industrial, experimental, dark, ambient drone boxes (with a Lancastrian twist) are...
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The Minx preview video for new track ‘Jesus And The Mary Chain’ and new single
The Minx facebook page The Minx have been building a reputation and a crowd in Manchester with their Doc Marten driven power pop. With a mish mash of classic street styles from mod...
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Franco And The Dreadnought: Franco And The Dreadnought – album review
Franco And The Dreadnought – Franco And The Dreadnought (Glasstone Records) CD/DL 3rd August 2014 8.5/10 Mancunian multi-instrumentalist releases his debut album as Franco And The Dreadnought. Louder...
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Hard Girls: A Thousand Surfaces – album review
Hard Girls: A Thousand Surfaces (Asian Man) CD/ LP Out now Hard Girls are a new punk supergroup from the Asian Man stable. Ian Critchley reviews the wildest band that ever lived. Supergroups are...
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Andrew WK: The Wardrobe, Leeds – live review
Andrew WK The Wardrobe, Leeds 29th July 2014 Andrew WK plays Leeds - just a room full of people going absolutely mental to a thoroughly uplifting and righteous racket. Andy Santiago bears witness....
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New Model Army Announce New Album Between Wine and Blood
New Model Army have a new album, Between Wine And Blood, due out on September 8th 2014. The album is both a brand new studio mini-album of 6 new songs and an 11 track live album recorded on the band’s...
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Joyce Manor: Never Hungover Again – album review
Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again (Epitaph Records) DL/CD/LP Out Now 9/10 At 10 tracks and 18 minutes, Joyce Manor’s Never Hungover Again is a rush of fraught pop-punk energy. For the last couple of...
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new Primus album out in Oct- based on Willy Wonka!
Tree-mendous Watch this! Primus are a genius band…bass driven madness Rejoice! Rejoice! all ye lovers of mutant slap bass funk gunk…LTW faves, Primus, the band led by Les Claypool who is one of the...
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Suede : Kendal Calling 2014 :Live Review
Suede Kendal Calling Festival Aug 2014 Live Review Brett Anderson is making a sartorial statement as he stands resplendent on stage in the whitest of white shirts for Suede’s headline slot at Kendal...
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will festivals of the future need bands?
The modern music festival is a fast moving beast and changes come thick and fast to turn it into the audio visual wipe out demanded by the new young audience. In them olden days the band was key focal...
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the rise of the dinosaur DJ – are superstar DJ’s overpaid and out of touch?
The DJ is a crucial part of must culture- the great DJ’s have broken barriers and been prime movers in their scenes- just look at Mike pickering at the hacienda in Manchester- not only the most...
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Indietracks Festival: Derbyshire – festival review
With steam trains, owls and indiepop in the Derbyshire sunshine Indietracks set the scene for a weekend of amazing music and happy, happy people. Features editor Sarah Lay hopped aboard the Indietracks...
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Franz Ferdinand Announce New Single And Video
Franz Ferdinand have revealed the new video to their new single, Stand On The Horizon , which is released through Domino. Directed by Karan Kandhari , the director of the award winning film Bye Bye...
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The Sea Kings: Woke In The Devil’s Arms – album review
The Sea Kings: Woke In The Devil’s Arms (Iffy Folk Records) CD/DL/Limited vinyl Out Now 9/10 Album of the year contender (again!) from Glaswegian band with debut album that mixes 20th Century history...
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Interview: Keith Levene – the founding member of The Clash and PiL talks...
Keith Levene was one of the founding members of The Clash along with Mick Jones, a fact which means that when you find out that he’s been busy at work writing a book, titled “I Was a Teenage Guitarist...
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Moon Duo Playlist For Louder Than War – plus details about their new 12″ and...
Psych rock band Moon Duo, formed by Ripley Johnson of Wooden Shjips and Sanae Yamada, have a new 12″ EP ‘Live in Ravenna’ due to be released via Sacred Bones on August 18th, ahead of a lengthy EU tour...
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Public Enemy: Leeds O2 Academy – live review
Photo above and all others on this page © Saffron Tree Public Enemy Leeds O2 Academy 31st July 2014 A bludgeoned Leeds crowd is left in no doubt that if you want intelligent, politically-charged rap...
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Levellers release their collaboration with legendary Billy Bragg.
Levellers release their collaboration with legendary Billy Bragg. ‘Hope Street’, a Number 12 chart hit for Levellers back in 1995, has been re-interpreted by Billy and was re-recorded with the...
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Louder Than War Interview: Harriet Bevan from Black Moth
With their 2nd album, Condemned to Hope, due out in September Louder Than War’s Dom Walsh caught up with the Black Moth’s Harriet Bevan to talk about the album itself, Jim “Grinderman” Sclavunos and...
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Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings: The Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames – live review
Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings The Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames 30th July 2014 Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings take to the stage at the Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames for a two hour set of classics...
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