Reviews
Sweet As The Grain - The John Henrys Album Review- Five guys ..create magic.Legendary John Henry was an American folk hero known for his steel –driving prowess on the railroads. Big guy, from all accounts.
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Safe trip Home - Dido Album Review- Reflective slumber …ouch.When you wish someone a ‘safe trip home’ it implies they been somewhere different to their usual surroundings - a change of place or just surroundings, like spaceman Bruce Candless 11 on the CD cover.
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And Winter Came - Enya Album Review- Warm up your frosty mornings with this glowing gem.Looking at the CD packshot, you’d think Enya was being portrayed as some kind of Ice Queen from say the Lord Of The Rings. Not so.
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Leather Penny - Kong Single Review- In Kong’s world of heavily made-up, cello-taped faces, the conventions of punk as we know it are fair game to be distorted, twisted, or simply destroyed altogether. Their debut single, ‘Blood of a Dove’, was a statement of intent - avoiding the stereotypical three cord ...
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- Will and the People Album Sampler Review
- Deep in the corridors of the government intelligence agencies lies a ranked list of things deemed dangerously infectious. The music of Will and the People comes somewhere between tuberculosis and the video of the Star Wars Kid.This five track sampler certainly shows the...
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- Dreadzone,Ruberlaris,Smiling Ivy. - 29/11/2008 - Live Review
- The Corporation turned its attention away from metal for the night and instead welcomed reggae into the dark venue. The night’s line up consisted of local ska acts Smiling Ivy and Ruberlaris, with the headline slot given to Dreadzone, a band championed by legendary DJ J...
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I Am...Sasha Fierce - Beyonce Knowles Album Review- One of 2008’s most eagerly waited album is finally here! Yes, Beyonce has released her latest album . As we know, Beyonce has got two sides to her personality - one side calm and romantic, and then the other side is her diva side! This album shows both of her sides in ...
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Christmas On Mars - Flaming Lips Film/Album Review- Phew, what a mouthful!It's one thing being a cool and great (whacky) rock band: it’s another thing doing soundtracks.
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Fucked Up @ The Roadhouse - 19/11/2008 - Live Review- Several bruises, split lips and busted eardrums later, the Fucked Up members pack away their instruments, much to the dismay of the crowd, who could gladly watch them for another hour. Who could blame them. The 60 minute blistering set of shouts and screams, all fronted...
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Lay Me Down - Tallulah Rendall Single Review- It is quite extraordinary when an artist lists their influences as Patti Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Buckley and Led Zeppelin (quite an eclectic mix) and avoids sounding like any of them! Tallulah Rendall is that artist, not only that but she is also uni...
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- Adam Ficek [Babyshambles],Roses Kings Castles Interview
- After the "baby shambles" of recent times, drummer Adam Ficek, has made some for his own one-man band, “Roses Kings Castles”, whose eponymous debut album went on general release last September, to much acclaim.We caught up with him to fish for news.
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Gossip In The Grain - Ray Lamontagne Album Review- Shy guy returns – a bit happier?On the back of 2007’s stunning ‘Till The Sun Turns Black comes Ray Lamontagne’s third offering. On Gossip In The Grain you get the feeling old Ray’s actually spent more time outta the woods.
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Rocking Horse - Kelli Ali Album Review- Hippydom looms large in 21st century.Much like Alison Goldfrapp’s departure from ‘disco’, former Sneaker Pimps songbird Kelli Ali has gone for the 60s retro sound.
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Albatross - Video Nasties EP Review- High octane, fuzzed up tunes that mixes grit with vehemence and recalls memories of Pavement, The Sonic Youth and to a lesser extent Television. The focal point of self-titled opener is bolting percussion and the desperate vocal lunge of James Churcher. His vocal versat...
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Christmas on Mars - Flaming Lips Film/Album Review- Christmas on Mars is a brilliant science fiction film written, produced and staring the band, crew members and friends of the The Flaming Lips. The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma and have been around since the early eighties. They have released eleven studio albums and ...
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New Dawn - Samuel Markus Album Review- The first thing that really strikes you about Samuel Markus is the great range of music he, and the Only Ones, explore on 'New Dawn'. The album is simply incredible. Fact! The first major shock is that Samuel, with brilliantly intuitive songs and a haunting and mature...
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Down, But Not Out - That Was Something EP Review- Hailing from Detroit (Put your hands up, we love this city?) 'That Was Something' are another band to stroll out of America with barrels of talent.Their new E.P 'Down but not out' is a prime example of their talents, five great songs put together to create a mini maste...
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Just A Silhouette - exlovers Single Review- It's dreamy, it's twee and it's classic girl/boy 'pop' harmonies. Just A Silhouette is the debut single by Exlovers.This newly formed five piece from London are Pete, Laurel, Danny, Chris and Brooke. Musically they remind me of a mixture of Belle and Sebastian, The Scho...
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Greatest Hits - Craig David Album Review- The English R&B singer-songwriter Craig David released his “Greatest Hits” collection earlier this week.The album contains many of David’s biggest hits right through from his garage days to his smooth soul singer look with a couple of brand news tracks added in for an e...
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Grace - Single Review- Will Young has disappeared from the limelight over the past few years. The former Pop Idol star used to be known for his catchy songs such as Leave Right Now, but now he’s back and he’s left his commercial pop sound behind. The second single from his fourth album Let It...
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- There Are More Frightening Things - My American Heart Single Review
- There Are More Frightening Things... epitomises everything good about the pop-punk genre, it’s fast paced, catchy and about as complex as a microwaveable meal. My American Heart haven’t hit the mainstream yet with any of their previous singles, but this song is much mor...
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Faction - Henrik Album Review- Faction, the debut album of London based band Henrik, is a grower in every sense of the word. It has taken a lot of living with this album to appreciate what band members Alex Dickson: guitar, plinky-tronics and vocals and Paul Winter-Hart: drums, rods and yoga (as des...
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- The Kills,XX Teens @ Astoria - 20/11/2008 - Live Review
- With a super trendy-looking young crowd, first support act Naïve New Beaters were just the ticket to kick the evening off with a bang. A French rap/rock outfit with a heavy dose of 1980s fromage (and a touch of the Boosh), they got us all moving with their strutting da...
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Road To Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes - Linkin Park Album Review- People often say that bands are good on a disc, but live they just don’t live up to the hype. I doubt anyone could say, or will say this about Linkin Park, especially after listening to the cheers and roars that are present on this CD/DVD. ‘Road To Revolution’ is a doub...
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- My American Heart - 25/11/2008 - Interview
- A few hours before their set at The Corporation, I caught up with My American Heart’s Jesse Barrera and Nick Logan to see what life is like on their first headlining UK tour. After five minutes of the band assuring me I wasn’t going to cock up my first interview, we eve...
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