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White Indie Band Fans Deemed Racist For Not Booty Popping And Twerking
Big Freedia receives luke warm reception as Postal Service opener. Does this mean white indie rock fans are….racist? Oh Salon.com, I like many of your articles but sometimes, just sometimes you print...
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Scott and Charlene’s Wedding – interview
An ace new album, a split single with Fawn Spots and a UK tour about to kick off – Sarah Lay has a chat to Scott and Charlene’s Wedding’s Craig Dermody. The latest album from Scott and Charlene’s...
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Greg Ginn Files Lawsuit Against Former Black Flag Members Including Henry...
This is getting silly now. One of the greatest ever guitar players and an artist we really respect Greg Ginn has gone silly on the lawsuit stuff. The NME reports the following… According to The...
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Louder Than War Talk To Some Of The New Artists On Alan Mcgee’s New Label 359...
Three of the first tranche of signings to Alan McGee’s new label, 359 Music -John McCullagh, Chris Grant and Pete Macleod- talk to Louder Than War both about what it feels like to be on McGee’s label...
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Dexys: Stockton Weekender : live Review
Dexys Stockton Weekender 28th July 2013 live review Few artists are as enshrined in mythology and fascination as Kevin Rowland. From iron fisted soul Fuhrer to the sharp, Parisian gentleman of 2013...
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Will you eat lab grown meat?
The announcement of the launch of lab grown meat- the meat grown from the cells of dead animals throws up an interesting few questions. Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the...
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Lego to make Simpsons set next year
Toy company Lego has confirmed it will launch a special series themed on The Simpsons next year. I remember when lego was for making awkward looking models or for chewing the bricks and hurting your...
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Waylayers – top 10 tracks right now
After some great festival performances recently Louder Than War caught up with Waylayers on the Calling Out stage at Kendal Calling where we had a chat with Harry, Dave and Joe about what they’re...
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The Other Side of the Stage : ex Fall man Steve Hanley goes to his first...
The Other Side of the Stage by Olivia Piekarski Having spent the best part of three years writing the real story behind The Fall with their legendary bass player Steve Hanley, as a veteran...
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Manchester Arena renamed Phones4U Arena – who is going to call it that?
Manchester Arena renamed Phones4U Arena – who is going to call it that? The 21 000 capacity Manchester Arena- the second busiest arena in the world has been renamed the phones4U arena after a takeover-...
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Spectres: Threshing Machine – new video & review of hunger ep
The alert amongst you will remember that guitar mangling Bristol based ‘nu gazey’ noise rockers Spectres featured not once but twice in our “Top Tips For 2013″ lists – that is, both in the one compiled...
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Beady Eye guitarist Gem Archer is in hospital after an accident caused him to...
Beady Eye guitarist Gem Archer is in hospital after an accident caused him to suffer a “severe head trauma”. A post on the band’s official website confirmed the cancellation of shows as a result of his...
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Richard Kapp: Talking To The People – album review
Richard Kapp: Talking To The People (self released) CD / DL Out Now 8/10 Richard Kapp has been making Neil Hannon and Ben Folds like pop with a mainland European twist for nigh on ten years now. His...
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Luke Haines: The Borderline, London – live review
Luke Haines, The Borderline, London 30th July 2013 Formerly of mid 90s electro-indie bands The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder Luke Haines is now going solo. Louder Than War review his recent show at...
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Live From Ruth’s House: Unconvention throw the ultimate house party in...
This looks like a great event. Unconvention…who have built up a great reputation for worldwide events joing the underground together are throwing a house party in Manchester on Aug 31st. It will...
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Open letter to the Independent On Sunday about the dropping of your best...
Illustration by Dean Lewis whose website, Older Than Evil, can be found HERE. Wake up! Wake up! You’re already dead…that’s my message to whoever runs the Independent On Sunday. The news that you have...
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Hatcham Social – interview
We’ve mentioned a few times now what a great time we had at Kendal Calling but we’re going to harp on just a little bit longer as we really, really, need to talk about Hatcham Social with you. It’s...
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Bird release new track
Last September we featured Liverpool-band Bird as a New Band of the Day and we’ve continued to be in love with their haunting and atmospheric sound. So, when we got news that they’ve expanded to be a...
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The Computers : AIM nominations party London : live review
The Computers AIM nominations party London Live review August 2013 With suits as sharp as their riffs the Computers take the stage in that worst of all gigs- a music biz launch. Somehow they...
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Cabaret Voltaire: Red Mecca – album review
Cabaret Voltaire – Red Mecca (Mute) Vinyl/CD/DL Out Now 8.5/10 The first of a series of Cabaret Voltaire releases starts with the iconic Red Mecca. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates was eager to...
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