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New Spiritualized mk IV (or thereabouts) sees Jason Pierce ditch the grandiose song augmentation of previous album ‘Let It Come Down’ in favour of something a bit more raw, a tad less pretentious and a lot less stratospherically-inclined. Is it any wonder that the album suffers as a result? ‘Amazing Gr»
Ah, NME, your soap-opera cup runneth over. I mean it’s perfect; super-hyped band of last year reaches the end of their media shelf-life and they’re hammering out of the doorway in a blitz of sex, drugs, drugs and drugs. So, whilst Pete Doherty lies somewhere in Charing Cross with his life in tatters and so»
It’s like a Protestant stepping into a Catholic service; sure, you can be there if you want, I mean, they’re not going to turn you away; hell, they’re all good people inside, it’s just that you’re not going to fit in. Amongst the converted, the devotionals, you can only be a non-believer. But before mass, »
After the critical acclaim for his last Mercury-nominated album ‘Heathen’, Mr David Jones, as he is known to his friends, returns with a nod to his early seventies heyday. ‘Rush Hour Soul’ is a stomping glammy number with twinkling piano runs, classic vocal hooks and crunchy guitars. Althoug»
Previously the dubious owners of the title ‘token rock band on uber-trendy Mo Wax label’, it would have been a pretty inspired call by someone a year ago to predict that Joel Cadbury et all would be enjoying major radio play and critical laudation in 2003, especially after seeing their previous efforts be»
As a rather exciting addition to this Tuesday’s Drowned in Sound / Fierce Panda FanDiSco at the Dublin Castle, cooler-than-thou =emu= rockers thisGIRL have just been confirmed to play the opening slot. thisGIRL to open a gig at the Dublin Castle you say? Didn’t they headline a jam-packed Garage only»
Remorse, transience, duets, sombreness, chamber strings, aching melodies; 'Sometimes It Hurts' by the Tindersticks wins the 'Song Most Likely To Sound Like Tindersticks' Award by a country mile. But that's the point of the Tindersticks, isn't it? You could fuck off to a gay bar, start a nucle»
Proper soaring jangly indie like wot they used to make. In fact, it's quite possible that this could be Geneva. Until of course, you find out that Andrew Montgomery is in a new band that sounds like Aqualung. Strange world. Continuing this thread, don't you think that the man with the wettest (bu»
Oxford. It's a rum old place that over the last few years has brought us the mighty MBiCR, that five-piece who do that Creep song, the visceral Winnebago Deal and a bubbling underbelly of excellent bands largely viewable at last week's Truck festival. However, eschewing notions of vibrant and exciting music, we ha»
Criminally, we’re six albums into the career of the finest band to ever emerge from Wales, and they’re still nowhere near being recognised as one of the modern day great pop bands. But in all honesty, I like it that way; why share your magic with the masses in an enormodome-shaped venue when you can have it all t»
Coming on like a Soul Train-powered AC/DC, Young Heart Attack are the latest contenders to the newly-rejunvenated Real Rock (newly created tm) crown. And my god, this is one hell of a rock beast; yet instead of being a hairy mutha of beefcake rifferama, this is actually a ladyshave metal vixen »
What with the current appreciation for the dusty doom of sixties anti-hippies Love, this cover of ‘Alone Again Or’ is a deservedly attention-attracting if not slightly zeigtgeist-y release by Calexico. Fortunately its a wonderful take on a classic song; crossing the American border, it’s »
Moving swiftly on from last week’s craze for a late-developed love of The MC5’s and the Nuggets box set, the filthy shit hole that is Camden’s high street is now imbued in the spirit of the Freebird and has taken on the swagger of the home of Stillwater, who surely - for two month’s at least – have become the ne»
Eugene Kelly has written some of the most adored songs of the past 15 years. No-one knows who Eugene Kelly is. Perhaps it would help if I told you that he was in The Vaselines? No? right. Okay, try this; Eugene Kelly wrote ‘Molly’s Lips’, ‘Son Of A Gun’ and most famously, ‘Jesus Don»
As Drowned In Sound becomes the 427th publication to lavish praise upon British Sea Power’s drop-dead spunky double ‘A’ side, the worrying thought sets in that maybe, despite all the favourable words, this could be one of those bands whose greatest triumph is an UnCut feature 20 years in retrospect. And t»
Sometimes it takes a bit of perspective. Three days after watching one of the greatest bands of all time in a 4,000-capacity sweatbox, DiS stands watching the same band in a field in Glastonbury and it’s brilliant; tremendous; wonderful. However you realise that you saw them 72 hours ago and it was so much better. And »
Bit of an anomaly, Clearlake; what with residing on Domino and being a particularly and steadfastly English band. If one was being cruel, you’d say that another anomally for them as a Domino band is that they’re decidely uninteresting. Despite their best efforts, ‘Come Into The Darkness’ chug»
You might remember that yesterday we revealed that CMU, the daily music newsletter of Unlimited Media, reported that AC/DC legend Angus Young died on Thursday at the age of 48. It now appears that the be-uniformed one is not dead, and actually played a gig with the Rolling Stones since his apparent demise.»
Damn the Chili Peppers. Five years ago, they were the coolest; on a one-way road trip to Valhalla, buoyed along on a wave of smack, smack, smack. The legacy had been written; ‘Here lies the hard living, big funking rock warriors; may the remaining calcium from their bones rot away quickly.’ A»
Cool-as-fuck record company Wichita Recordings is to release a compilation of recordings from bands on its roster. 'Gone Fishin', is released on 21 July and will feature music by every act to have shacked up with Wichita so far. The release marks the label’s three-year anniversary. Among the a»
Funk metal musical refugees Incubus have been hit by a lawsuit from former ‘DJ’ Gavin Koppel, a.k.a DJ Lyfe, who thinks that the band might owe him a load of cash. The ‘DJ’ was dumped by the band four years ago, but in light of the group’s recent commercial success, he now realises that the band "fai»
According a posting on MOR legends Toto’s website, keyboardist David Paich is to miss the band’s summer tour due to a scheduled sex change operation. Band Leader Steve Lukather revealed on the band’s news page that; "David will be missing the summer tour due to a sex change operation. His dreams»
Probably the best production team in the world, the Neptunes are, amongst other projects, working on a star-studded compilation featuring artists from its Star Trak label. ‘Star Trak Presents... Clones’ is according to Chad Hugo "our official stamp album. It's a compilation to wave t»
Rock veterans Pearl Jam have amassed more than 50 rare and previously unreleased tracks from their archive for consideration to be included on a retrospective album or even box set tentatively set for release this year. "We have all of the Christmas singles, B sides and benefit-album tracks," re»
In case you were worrying that venerable glitch-filth heroes Warp Records had forsaken all things inaccessible to make way for some hot post-punk chk chk chk-ing action, fear not; travelling in the wake of the unpronounceable ones, is a new EP by young electro protégé Chris Clark. ‘The Gavel’»
When God comes down to judge everyone at the end of time - and it’s looking like it’s not too far away, either – alongside Adolf, Arkan and Atilla in the corner marked ‘no chance in hell’ will be a large gathering of people with the word ‘Evanescence’ stamped across their foreheads. First to be cast into H»
Aptly released the same day as another notoriously 'difficult' band's new album, Mogwai, like Radiohead, find themselves at musical crossroads. Like the Oxford lot, Scotland's finest exponents of beautiful ugly noise find themselves no longer the zeitgeist, the hip and trendy thing, Mogwai were so »
Uber-cool duo, Mommy and Daddy offer us a New York glitterati-shitting electro-thumper which is so arch, it could wash its feet with its hair. You know the score; faintly-bored sounding intonations by a female vocalist who sounds like she'd rip out your throat and pour a Margarita down the gaping hole. Wha»
In 2003, the triumphant return of Massive Attack has been a little less than. The problems of 3D and Daddy G have been well documented, be it external or internal, and it’s a relief to be able to concentrate on more central events with the release of ‘Butterfly Caught’ and another slew of re»
In a pub rammed full of seemingly well-adjusted 18-30
year-olds, a typically scally ticket tout stands psuedo-bartering with a Radiohead fan:
"I’ll give you £25 for it – face value"
"Nah, it’s alright"
"Right, £30, that’s the best I can do”
"No, I can get more for it, I’d want more like £»
