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Primal Screams last album, 'Evil Heat' was a muddled and largely mediocre
mess of ideas. At least in whatever addled state they were in, they saw sense
in releasing this track as a single.
A laid back, eerie groove accompanies an understated syncopated drumbeat, which,
coupled with Bobby »
The departure from their very own label, Chemikal Underground, the arrival of a new producer, (the burgeoning legend that is) Dave Fridmann, a new outlook and an old sound, developed, made new again. It's very much a case of beginnings and ends for the Scottish quartet, and this album is the documen»
What other band would make your ticket to a gig a one-off commemorative T-shirt that you have to wear to get into a gig? Who else would supply the identikit-clad crowd a vast array of inflatable toys to wave and joust with? Its most definitely a Lemon Jelly kinda event. When they initially arrived on »
When the oft-bought but rarely-read Aldous Huxley wrote his novel, 'The Doors of Perception', he hardly thought that I'd be alluding to it in a short review of two bands on the Camden circuit. But I am, albeit tenuously. You see, its all about perception. How you perceive yourself, how other people perceive yo»
Here placed before us, are three unassuming, polite young men from Kingston.
And that's where the problem ultimately lies.
Unless you have a forceful, crunching, way round a yoof anthem ala Hundred
Reasons, or a giant white-hot ball of fury pent up inside of you, forcing
its way out ala
Waiting for that new Strokes album? It's not going to be around for a while, so uh, go look at someone else. Perhaps you could try a band that have been accompanying them across the West Coast of the States recently; The Realistics. Set in the permanent sweatbox that is the »
Perhaps you were worried that the Badly Drawn Boy had lost it a bit after his
Mercury Music Prize. The 'About A Boy' soundtrack contained the odd gem
such as the gorgeous Lennon-esque 'Silent Sigh', but overall it
embodied the term 'treading water'.
You can exhale your own silent»
Weezer, the chart-humping emo superstars, have released for a limited time only, MP3s of their triumphant 12-song set at the Reading leg of the Carling Weekend this year. Of the performance, only 'Keep Fishin' is absent from the website. =W= Bootologists will have to hurry though,»
Gemma Hayes, Mercury Music Prize-nominated and DiS-championed Irish post-rock folkie type, is off on tour at the end of this month and into the next, supporting them wrinkley old men, Suede. Having finished a 12 date headlining tour of her own just yesterday, Gemma will be playing the big the»
And you wonder why this band pisses so many people off? Or should the question be; Are people in the music industry really that retarded? Okay, you're the most fawned over antipodean item since Russell Crowe's beard, and you've debuted two condensed nuclear explosions of singles to the UK p»
Chemikal Underground founders, and current Mantra inhabitants, the mighty Delgados have announced that they are to go out on tour with the equally mighty Doves. Billed as 'special guests', The Delgados will be joined by another band on the triple bill. And of course T»
Ah, the life of a Rock Star tm. So many clichés to trade in, so many
well-trodden paths to retrace.
So its hats off to the Weezer boys, one summer tour and more clichés
packed in then a Tuesday night Champions League match with Ron Atkinson.
Japanese tour. Check»
St Etienne Interviewed by Peter Headen and Mark Brown We start in a room above a pub in Shoreditch, with Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley. Sarah's somewhere else, yet to arrive…. We're bricking it because we've never interviewed anyone before, and now here we are with two thirds of »
"We the people fight for our existence
We don't claim to be perfect but we're free
We dream our dreams alone with no resistance
Fading like the stars we wish to be
Y'know I didn't mean What I just said
But my god woke up on the wrong side of his bed"
The progre»
Have you ever listened to The Buzzcock's 'Going Steady' singles compilation? It's absolutely, utterly fantastic. The same goes for the Pet Shop Boy's 'Discography' and The Cure's 'Standing On A Beach'. Shorn of the inedifying fat of album tracks and 'extras', Singles coll»
The Metro is absolutely packed to the rafters tonight, and it's a noticeable split; while the majority are here to see alt-gonzo rock legend J Mascis, there is a substantial amount of people (largely looking like extras from a Strokes video) here to see London's latest media sensations, Th»
Someone, somewhere warned you not to worship false idols (I think it was Matt Damon in 'Dogma'), and man, are these guys setting themselves up for a major witch-hunt. Posing, attitude-laden, tune deriding, Verve deriving, funk-rock fakers from Kippax. They may set themselves out to be t»
When push comes to shove, Americans always seem to have that lo-fi troubadour thing down better than anyone else; and be assured, the spirit of Dando flows thick through this one. Released on Shoeshine Records, a label formed by Francis Macdonald of Teenage Fanclub an»
Guitars (around 432 of them), glockenspiel, weird gloopy things and kitchen sinks, all these instruments feature heavily in this glorious, progged-out pop epic, an ode to his own, intrinsically fatalistic view of relationships; "I give my all, keep nothing back, I was cynical in my own time, the»
Artifice and Edifice. Two of the key aspects in the career of Rivers Cuomo. Why does a man who can construct songs of such utter sublime brillance and simplicity seem to be such a complex person? And why do I get the feeling that he's never been really, truly honest with me? I mean, is he really still»
It wasn't looking good for The Shining, previously
dismissed by myself at least as shameless beer-and-fags rock relying
on past glories and leaden influences.
Therefore, it's a pleasant surprise that this, the third single»
All this song does is whine whine whine…
Look, I'm not going to mass generalise bands of this ilk, hell, I like most
of them. Well some of them, anyway.
But Saves The Day are guilty of two of the most tepid, whining songs
of the last few months. Previous single, '
Okay, okay, it's Sunday in Chelmsford, and to be honest, my head is completely
screwed. I went to see the Chemical Brothers last night, and it got a little out
of control.
After arguably the worst breakfast in the history of festival cu»
Ahh, Chelmsford. famous for, well, not much really, except for one weekend a year when the glitterati of the MTV-endorsed music world descend on a large park in the local vicinity to rock politely. Darling. Its time for V again, and this time, they've brought the sun with them. Plenty of it too. As »
Oh Ash, let me count the ways that I love thee... No, sorry, too many. The band with the most under-rated second album in music history (and believe me, there are many) return with the precursor to their 'Intergalatic Sonic Sevens' singles collection. This of course provokes two reactions; firstly »
Starting off with strings like a Scorsese epic, this tune's probably the standout track from the Mercury Music Award-winning 'Original Pirate Material'. And within seconds the lush piano loop rolls over and over with hypnotic effect and we're away on the trip of our lives. Literally. It's »
Quite a phenomenon, Goldrush. Its like they've appeared out of the ether as a fully formed proposition; their own label, festival, album (forthcoming in September) and major label support (Virgin). Not surprising really, when they release si»
Hmmm. V2002. it's a bit anodyne, safe, whatever. Or is it? Yes, it is. However, scrape away the surface layer, and then the next few, and you will get to some 10 to 12 ct gold bands. Okay, okay, I'm being cynical, but if you take a look at the Reading/Leeds line-up, you reali»
John Squire, former Stone Rose and Seahorse, releases his debut solo album, "Time Changes Everything", on September 16th 2002. The album will debut his first recorded material in 6 years, the last time he produced any material was from the 1996 Seahorses session»
I Own Kings are goddamn cool. And that's a good start. To be in the best band in the world, there are pretty much two pre-requisites; firstly you've gotta look the bomb. That's a big 15-megaton bomb. Secondly, you have to sound amazing. "Well, duh!" say thee… But how »
