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Capricorns, Pelican at London Camden Underworld, Tue 03 Aug
The music gatecrashes your senses like a Trojan Horse, striking from behind fortifications that you'd previously figured would hold.»
Youthmovies - Hurrah! Another year...
Currently on the DiS summer tour with Redjetson...
Oxford's young, post-prog pretenders fire another salvo mainstream-wards. Duck it and forever dwell in safe and predictable indie-ville. Take it full on and revel in its sheer audacity.»
Q And Not U, Bullet Union at London Camden Underworld, Tue 27 Jul
For one night only, Q And Not U own us. Wholly.»
Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
A couple of listens - that's all it takes for 'Highly Refined Pirates' to really take hold of you and not let go. It's an aural bearhug; an all-consuming 45 minutes that silences the world around it.»
Rappers are, like, SO cool...
They look the part, but behind closed doors they all HATE each other.»
Alice Donut - Three Sisters
A number of songs here, if released as singles, could slip inside the top 40 with no fuss; if Jane's Addiction did it, why not these guys too?»
Lars Frederikson & The Bastards - Viking
Being no fan of Rancid, I was expecting exactly diddly-squat from this, Lars' second album with his Bastards.»
Win! Win! Win! Tickets to The Selector's third birthday party!
Wanna win some tickets to The Selector's third birthday bash? Read on...»
MC Lars - The Laptop EP
It's not easy being a university schooled punk-rock rapper, y'know? Stats class one minute, booty shakin' the next... it's a (not so) hard-knock life, for MC Lars.»
Camden Palace to reopen... as Koko
Old London venue gets a makeover...»
Wanna walk in Katie's shoes? Get bidding...*
MOR singer/songwriter Katie Melua (you know the one, she's, like, pretty close to crazy, or something) is in a spot of bother after her work schedule for the rest of the year found its way to internet auction site eBay.»
Soundtrack legend dies
So it's hardly contemporary r'n'r, but worth mentioning nonetheless...»
The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
Truth be told, I don't know a whole lot about music...»
Jakob - Semaphore
After the overground explosions in the sky and a newfound hope in the states, where can post-rock possibly go?»
The Icarus Line: On The Lash with the MC5
The Icarus Line are playing some shows with some guys that are older than Primal Scream...»
London-Reading route to close AGAIN over festival weekend
Going to Reading this year? Live in London? Gutted...»
Venomous Concept - Retroactive Abortion
They're the most handsome rockers out there in their own, slightly skewed-slash-biased opinion, but can this supergroup's debut album cut the punk rock mustard?»
Placebo to go: best of due in October
A best of Placebo collection will hit shelves with a dull thud sometime in October. Splendid...»
BJ Cole - Trouble In Paradise
Whilst BJ Cole's last notable 'solo' venture was a 50-50 collaboration with beats and bleeps mastermind Luke Vibert, 'Trouble In Paradise' sees the pedal steel guru step out with no less than a collaborator a track.»
Hail, Hail, Sigh and Yawn: The Hives return for UK dates
So their new record really isn't that much cop? Never mind, at least The Hives still know how to kick it live...»
Crossrail threatens Astoria with closure
London's recently approved public transport scheme, Crossrail, threatens to force The Astoria into closure.»
Prague at London Electrowerkz, Wed 14 Jul
Never ones to blow their own proverbials, Prague were always underdogs on a London circuit dominated by bands with better haircuts and bigger advances...»
The Mercury? Predictable? Surely not...
The old people in suits have spoken: these ARE the best albums to come out of Britain in recent history...»
BMG-Sony merger gets green light
Officials at the European Commission have giventhe go-ahead to the massive merger of Sony and BMG, the second- and fifth-largest record companies in the world.»
HorrorPop 'til you can't stop: rockabillies on tour!
HorrorPops on tour. Simple as...»
Blood Brothers switch labels
The Blood Brothers have signed themselves away to V2.»
The Wu-union will be televised... sort of
The Wu Tang Clan's performance at this weekend's Rock The Bells festival will be recorded for release on CD and DVD.»
Blink or you'll miss them: Death Cab play arenas on request of pop-punks
Blink 182 have invited Death Cab For Cutie on their winter UK tour.»
Bjork, eclectic? Do wicked witches like flying monkeys?
Just a quick snippet of Bjork news...»