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Graham Coxon - This Old Town
Graham Coxon & Paul Weller This Old TownSingle ReviewAnd the award for most pointless collaboration of the year goes to.Beyonce and Shakira of course, but this pedestrian effort from two artists who should know better...
Review posted on 18th July 2007
Cherry Ghost - People Help The People
Cherry GhostPeople Help The PeopleSingle ReviewMancunian sextet Cherry Ghost are the latest in a long line of bands who've taken that 'mature' route to pop stardom.'What mature route?' I hear you scream.Why, the same one...
Review posted on 18th June 2007
Gods Of Blitz - Reporting A Mirage
Gods Of BlitzReporting A MirageAlbum ReviewWithout meaning to sound like some St George flag waving nationalist thug, can anyone tell me what some of our European cousins have actually brought to the rock'n'roll melting pot...
Review posted on 18th June 2007
Kubichek! - Stutter
Kubichek!StutterSingle ReviewKubichek! may well be the most exciting live band in the country at the minute, which could be as much of a hindrance as an honour, depending on which way you want to look...
Review posted on 18th June 2007
Maximo Park - Books From Boxes
Maximo ParkBooks From BoxesSingle ReviewTwo years on from their 'A Certain Trigger' opus and Maximo Park just get bigger and better.Not content with just ploughing the same furrow as so many of their contemporaries from...
Review posted on 18th June 2007
My Vitriol - A Pyrrhic Victory
My VitriolA Pyrrhic Victory EPEP ReviewAt the turn of the century two up and coming bands found themselves heavily tipped to drag British rock music kicking and screaming head first into the 21st Century.One of...
Review posted on 18th June 2007
The Spills - Safety In Numbers
The SpillsSafety In NumbersSingle ReviewThe opening salvo of 'four spunky teenage upstarts based around Leeds' seems to come up at least three times a year now, and has done since a certain five-piece predicted a...
Review posted on 18th June 2007
Tiga - Sexor: The Collector's Edition
TigaSexor: The Collector's EditionAlbum ReviewCanadian DJ/producer/remixer and part-time musician Tiga has been around the peripheries of the dance scene since the 80s obsessed fad known as electroclash first emerged at the turn of the decade....
Review posted on 18th June 2007
The Waterboys - Warwick Arts Centre
The WaterboysWarwick Arts CentreLive ReviewIggy Pop to W.B.Yates in one nightFew bands have crossed as many genres as the Waterboys and come out the other side with their fan base still intact. Since the early...
Review posted on 25th May 2007
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Electrelane No Shouts No Calls Album Review Is it just me, or have Brighton's finest exponents of kraut-inspired post-rock mutated into a junior version of Stereolab. Back in the day - or 2004 to be...
Review posted on 14th May 2007
The Voices - The Sound Of Young America
The VoicesThe Sound Of Young AmericaAlbum Review Port Talbot trio The Voices may be the post-millennium sound of New Wales but their hearts quite clearly lay in another time and place, at least a decade...
Review posted on 8th May 2007
Battles - Mirrored
Battles Mirrored Album Review To even contemplate describing Battles via one pun-orientated sound bite would be a near-impossible, mind-boggling experience for even the most experienced of wordsmiths. Quite simply, what started out as a side-project...
Review posted on 8th May 2007
Maximo Park - Nottingham Rock City
Maximo Park & Art Brut Nottingham Rock City Wednesday 25th AprilLive ReviewIt seems incomprehensible that less than two years ago Maximo Park were playing to less than 50 people in this very same city, whereas...
Review posted on 2nd May 2007
Napoleon IIIrd - In Debt To
Napoleon IIIrd In Debt ToAlbum Review"Listen to what I say.Average is not the best you can do".And so says James Mabbett, aka Napoleon IIIrd. What's more, if the eleven compositions that make up 'In Debt...
Review posted on 2nd May 2007
Goodbooks - The Illness
GoodbooksThe IllnessSingle ReviewThe jury is still deliberating over hotly tipped four-piece GoodBooks.Some would call them the best thing since sliced bread, others want them rounded up and sent to the stocks alongside the likes of...
Review posted on 23rd April 2007
Brett Anderson - Love Is Dead
Brett AndersonLove Is DeadSingle ReviewThe words "Brett Anderson" and "veteran" definitely weren't meant to fit together in the same sentence, but with a decade and a half's work behind him, the ex-Suede frontman can hardly...
Review posted on 23rd April 2007
Bloc Party - I Still Remember
Bloc PartyI Still Remember Single ReviewAlong with Radiohead, Bloc Party are fast becoming one of the untouchables in modern day music as far as criticism is concerned, so I guess here is as good a...
Review posted on 23rd April 2007
Battles - Atlas
BattlesAtlasSingle Review What was initially a part-time hobby for Tomahawk's John Stanier has now developed into a fully-fledged microcosm of it's own, and if 'Atlas' is anything to go by, looks set to engage itself...
Review posted on 2nd April 2007
Vib Gyor - The Secret EP
Vib GyorThe Secret EPEP Review Too Nice Recordings It's only a couple of years since Vib Gyor were the hottest name on every A&R man's lips. At the time, if any bookmakers had been taking...
Review posted on 19th March 2007
The Sounds - Tony The Beat EP
The SoundsTony The Beat EPSingle Review (Korova) Swedish five-piece The Sounds claim they are made of mud - literally. No, not the cheesy seventies band that sang about 'Tiger Feet', but the brown sticky stuff...
Review posted on 19th March 2007
The Rakes - We Danced Together
The RakesWe Danced TogetherSingle ReviewAah, The Rakes, everyone's favourite pill-popping, post-punk party animals. Just when we thought they'd disappeared for good, they go and surprise with not only a new single but an album to...
Review posted on 12th March 2007
The Hours - Love You More
The HoursLove You MoreSingle Review(A&M)They say cats get nine lives, which is a little unfair in my book as most of us poor, distraught human beings only get one. Unless your name happens to be...
Review posted on 12th March 2007
ILiKETRAiNS - Spencer Perceval
ILiKETRAiNSSpencer PercevalSingle Review(Beggars Banquet)Just think people, if you'd paid attention and stayed focused during those history lessons at school this could have been you. Instead, most of us decided that monologues about nineteenth century prime...
Review posted on 12th March 2007
Idlewild - Make Another World
IdlewildMake Another WorldAlbum ReviewIt's been a decade now since Roddy Woomble and co. first turned the Britpop union jack an entire shade of blue with their visceral, angst-ridden taunts about 'Satan Polaroid' and 'The Queen...
Review posted on 12th March 2007
Dartz! - This Is My Ship
Dartz!, This Is My Ship, Album Review From the gritty banks of the River Tees to the exclusive hipster haunts of Hoxton might seem like an impossible journey to some, but with 'This Is My...
Review posted on 26th February 2007
les incompetents - End Of An Error (2004 - 2006)
les incompetentsEnd Of An Error (2004 - 2006), Album ReviewOnce upon a time a group of lads decided to enter their school's battle-of-the-bands competition. Only problem was, they didn't have a band.and so Les Incompetents...
Review posted on 26th February 2007
On The Bone - On The Bone Compilation: Number One
On The Bone Compilation: Number OneAlbum ReviewAnother day, another compilation of brand new artists from Leeds drops through the letterbox. And grand it is too, not that we would expect anything else.Indeed Leeds has taken...
Review posted on 8th February 2007
Peter Bjorn And John - Peter Bjorn And John/Falling Out (re-issues) (Wichita)
Hands up all those who thought Peter Bjorn And John began with last summer's ode to whistling and deadpan vocals 'Young Folks'? Well you're all wrong because the three Swedes have been making music together...
Review posted on 5th February 2007
FORWARD RUSSIA - Don't Be A Doctor
iForward Russia!Don't Be A DoctorSinge Review(Dance To The Radio)Having used up the first twenty numbers known to man, it was perhaps quite inevitable that iForward Russia! Would one day refrain from numerical digits as song...
Review posted on 5th February 2007
The Enemy - Nottingham Rescue Rooms
The Enemy Nottingham Rescue RoomsTuesday 30th JanuaryLive ReviewHailing from Coventry, capital city of provincial boredom and all things generally nonentity, one probably wouldn't expect The Enemy to have much to say. Wrong!If anything, the humdrum...
Review posted on 1st February 2007
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