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Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
As novel projects go, David Longstreth’s latest is a doozie: take the much-admired debut album from an influential hardcore punk band and attempt to rewrite it from memory for your experimental outfit...»
Untitled Musical Project - Untitled Musical Project
So, you still miss Mclusky? Sounds like you need Untitled Musical Project’s is-it-an-EP-or-is-it-a-mini-album release-thing...»
The Dash - Broomhouse Road
Not punk-rock in an anarchy way, more in a The-Jam-meet-The-Libs way – not punk enough to be punk, not mod enough to be mod, not indie enough to be indie...»
Alex Cornish - Until The Traffic Stops
This is what some may brand soul-less guitar music, but there’s enough here in its windswept hooks and ambitious (but not exaggerated) arrangements to keep Until The Traffic Stops from being triumphed solely by people who think Scouting For Girls are groundbreaking...»
Morning Runner split
Reading’s Morning Runner have shuffled from music’s mortal coil.»
Broken Family Band: covering the land in 'Leaps' this month
Slow the presses slightly! News reaches us that Cambridge’s sexiest indie-country-somethingorother act The Broken Family Band are probably coming to a town near you...»
Levy - Glorious
Indie-rock white noise – move along please...»
Two Gallants - Two Gallants
With a reputable label to call their musical home and some decent live performances behind them, it seems likely that I could find a place in my heart for Two Gallants, if only I could find a way to play the copy-protected CD-R...»
The Domino State - Iron Mask
This is no shoddy attempt at downbeat indie-rock - the production is solid and the songwriting competent - but there’s a cutting edge lacking that is desperately needed...»
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences, Lil Lost Lou - Bad Bad Girl / The Evil Thoughts
Either this is secretly great or someone is spiking my water again...»
FrYars - The Ides EP
Produced alongside Clor’s Luke Smith and the solo project of one Ben Garrett, associate of Cajun Dance Party and Bombay Bicycle Club, frYars’ debut release comes across almost as a poppier Royksopp...»
Regina Spektor, Eugene McGuinness at London Royal Festival Hall, Fri 07 Sep
Though tonight doesn't ever reach the heart-stopping heights of one year ago, few people will have reason to leave feeling anything other than satisfied - they have, after all, witnessed a couple of solo acts nearing the top of their game...»
Six Nation State - We Could Be Happy
Sidestepping the carnival-style atmosphere of their forthcoming self-titled debut, ‘We Could Be Happy’ sits slightly apart, the focus here being not on frantically-uptempo party-starting shenanigans, more on melody and music...»
Dieter Schoon - LaBlaza
Dieter Schoon takes much the same unconventional approach to music that thrust Beck into the limelight all those years ago, only with his kooky outlook replaced with a certain darkness...»
Tren Brothers, Mick Turner - Blue Trees
These songs were never meant to sit on one record together, and as a result Blue Trees seems to be a little hit-and-miss...»
The Broken Family Band - Hello Love
Hello Love feels like a complete body of work; cohesive and pleasing all round...»
The Kissaway Trail to support Editors; October headline dates rescheduled
Bella Union’s great Danes, The Kissaway Trail, are to reschedule their proposed headline dates in October after taking up the offer of a support slot on Editors’ forthcoming tour of the UK...»
Lady Fortune - Mr Brown
‘Mr Brown’ is very here and now, with the individually-picked, isolated high notes on the guitar being a familiar trait of the Libertines a few years ago...»
Iron and Wine - Boy With A Coin
A logical step in the right direction, slightly more mature and thicker of sound, ‘Boy With A Coin’ is arguably Beam’s finest work yet..»
Jeff Lewis hearts Crass. Spread it.
Punk-lovin’ comic book artist and general antifolk genius Jeffrey Lewis is to release an album of cover versions borrowed from Epping punk-rock anarchists Crass this autumn.»
28 Costumes get Electrical Fever
Uptempo indie-popping types 28 Costumes are to release a new EP on September 3.»
Six Nation State ready debut album
Party-starting Reading quintet Six Nation State have confirmed details of their debut album...»
The Loyal Trooper - 4 Quid With Flyer EP
Uptempo northern twee-pop full of handclaps and 'la's, highly-singable choruses and true-to-life lyrics, The Loyal Trooper's 4 Quid With Flyer EP walks a line between a one-man Midget and a less-dramatic My Life Story.»
Wilco - Either Way
With Sky Blue Sky having become the fastest selling Wilco album ever, things are looking up for the slow-burning Chicago mainstays, twelve years on from their indifferently-received debut A.M....»
Feist - 1234
A sauntering strumalong; both swaying and seductive...»
The Dilettantes - 101 Tambourines
Despite drawing from both the past and the present in its battle to hold your attention, The Dilettantes’ debut falls sadly flat too often...»
The Indelicates - Julia, We Don't Live In The '60s
The Indelicates have arrived a decade or so too late...»
This is Softcore: Turner, Matranga and friends hit the road.
Ex-shouty man turned folk-dude Frank Turner is to team up with the thoroughly-polite Jonah Matranga and friends for a seventeen-date tour this September.»
Aldershut: West End Centre to close?
Aldershot’s only venue of note – the council-owned West End Centre – may well be on its way out...»