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Last few tickets for Kendal Calling available
Kendal Calling is predicting the remaining tickets for the festival will be snapped up this weekend making it another sell out year for the event. The sun is set to shine as headliners Basement Jaxx,...
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Louder Than War Interview: Alan McGee
Louder Than War talk to Alan McGee about his new label 359, artists on it, his forthcoming bio and the exciting new Liverpool club night recently announced. It’s exciting times for Alan McGee as he...
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Grumbling Fur: Glynnaestra – album review
Grumbling Fur – Glynnaestra (Thrill Jockey) LP/CD 22 July 2013 9/10 Veterans of the UK experimental underground, Grumbling Fur, return with a new album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates gives it a...
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spotify- out of tune on royalties- the debate continues…
On Monday, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke announced that he has pulled his solo songs and those with his offshoot group, Atoms For Peace, from music-streaming service Spotify, prompting a debate about...
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Win a pair of tickets to see The Pastels
Win a pair of tickets to see The Pastels The Pastels formed in Glasgow back in 1981 and delivered a warm yet amateur sound that was in sharp contrast to the raw ‘UK 82’ hardcore punk sound that was...
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Morrissey cancels tour and hints at retirement on website
19 July 2013 Morrissey has cancelled his ill fated south American tour and hints at retirement in the statement on his website … C’mon mate, there’s still great work to be done! If I by chance your...
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East End Live: Various Venues, East London – live review
East End Live Various Venues, East London July 13th 2013 Last weekend in soaring temperatures festival new kid on the block East End Live took over various venues & hostelries in, you guessed it,...
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Mogwai soundtrack Zidane film : live review
Mogwai play the soundtrack to Zidane Albert Hall Manchester International Festival Manchester July 2013 At the end of a mesmerizing and stunning set of hypnotic instrumental music, Stuart...
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Dave Graney (former Moodist) – Top 10 Favourite Albums
Dave Graney appeared on our radar a few decades ago leading the Moodists – a dark hearted bunch of romantic troubadours from Australia who released some great records in the post punk flux. From...
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If it’s so easy to control internet porn what about internet music pirates?
So, the talk is of controlling internet porn with David Cameron urging internet giants to ‘blacklist’ search terms and with pledges to step up fight against extreme material. “I have a very clear...
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Louder Than War Interview: DJ Normski. A photographic journey of hip-hop in...
Capturing the birth of rap culture in the UK, presenter & DJ Norman ‘DJ Normski’ Anderson’s ‘photographic journey of Hip Hop in the UK’, is a fantastic look back to the past, tapping into the...
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The Mob: Rise Up! / There’s Nothing You’ve Got I Want – single review
The Mob – Rise Up!/There’s Nothing You’ve Got I Want (All The Madmen – MAD23) 7″ / DL Release date – August 2013 Cult anarcho-punk band The Mob return with their first slab of vinyl in 30 years. I was...
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Listen to new Manic Street Preachers single here…
The Manic Street preachers return with a bouncy, jaunty Motown (no junk) infused single ‘Show Me the Wonder’….what do you think of it? The post Listen to new Manic Street Preachers single here…...
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Louder Than War Festival Preview: The Secret Garden Party
Next weekend sees the return of the madcap, “glitter-not-litter” extravaganza that is Cambridgeshire’s Secret Garden Party. Boasting a roll call of eclectic acts including house veterans Faithless,...
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Dead Rabbits: The Ticket That Exploded – album review
Dead Rabbits – The Ticket That Exploded (Fuzz Club Records) LP/DL Out Now 7/10 Dead Rabbits take on the current wave of new psychedelia makes for an album that suggests a bright future. Louder Than...
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Poltergeist: Your Mind Is A Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder) – album review
Poltergeist -’Your Mind Is A Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)’ (92 Happy Customers Records) CD / DL Available now Original Bunnymen Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson join forces for a space bound prog...
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Adele, U2, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen,...
Adele, U2, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Ke$ha, Sir Paul McCartney and Sting unite with more than 100 Musicians to call for release of Pussy Riot More than 100...
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The Universe: Explained ft. The Membranes: Gorilla, Manchester
The Universe: Explained ft The Membranes Gorilla, Manchester Saturday 20th July 2013 Words: Rev. David Gray (Punk Monk) My take on how the UNIVERSE was EXPLAINED: What happens if scientists and...
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Will Streaming Save The Music Industry?
Turning the sandstoned corner of Sauchiehall and Buchanan Street, I think back to a time where “the town” was still a metropolitan novelty to me. As I pass the regressively barren branch of HMV –...
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The Minx Release New EP And Announce Biggest Hometown Headline Show
Up-and-coming Manchester self-proclaimed “loud and thrashy” band The Minx have this week finally released their second EP “Hey Mr Warden” and announced their biggest hometown headline date for...
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