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Our top records of 2009 countdown continues, with our favourite singles, albums and downloads of the year. We’re now at numbers 60-41.
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60: Crystal Stilts: Love is a wave
Excellent single on Slumberland, a reverb drenched indie Scott Walker fronting Echo & The Bunnymen at their most optimistic.
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Aquarium Drunkard, Gorilla Vs Bear, Largehearted Boy, My Old Kentucky Blog and You Ain’t No Picasso have once again teamed up to bring you Hot Freaks!
The whole megillah is taking place during SxSW at the Mohawk and Club DeVille in Austin, Texas on March 20 and 21. Two days, three stages, 32 acts.
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Who: The Thermals
When: January 31st
Where: The Bell House
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Thoughts: Shit, it has seemed like a long long time since we last heard from The Thermals but apparently they are setting themselves up for a very busy 2009. I believe they’ll be working with a trio when they head out on a quick tour this winter before heading to Europe for a slew of dates. Fear not, if you miss them this...
Going into The Thermals I expected a non-stop whirlwind of fist-pumping power-punk songs which the Portland trio definitely delivered but what I did not expect was a slew of 90’s cover songs ranging from Nirvana’s “Sappy” to Sonic Youth’s “100%” to the classic Green Day anthem, “Basket Case”.
The mixture of their own infectious...
A few years ago, if Pitchfork had given an album a 9.2 rating, I’d be all over it in no time. I wouldn’t necessarily like it, but a high score at least meant it was worth trying. Now I drop in on Pitchfork about once a week, skim read the reviews of bands I already know, and leave it at that. Which meant that No Age slipped entirely under my radar. That is until they were...
Waiting for the Thermals’ next (and 5th) LP - ‘Personal Life’ - is a slow process, with September 7th 2010 the scheduled release date on Kill Rock Stars. To ease the pain, the band have released the new single.. ‘CANADA’.
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Coming in not-that-far-under two and a half minutes, I can’t quite tell if they’re taking the piss or not....
Band name:
New Young Pony Club, Good Shoes, Maximo Park, Broken Family Band and more
Teaser:
Ric reviews this weeks singles, with new releases from Gossip, Broken Family Band, The Thermals, Good Shoes, Maximo Park and more
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Jesus- Beth Ditto is turning into Aretha Franklin and her band are turning into Doctor Teeth and The Electric Mayhem
First para:...
Obits - "Pine On"; Obits may be the new kid in the Sub Pop stable but they are certainly not new kids. The band consists of four members, all of whom have extensive histories in the music world. Now that they are together though they are bringing everything they do well together and amking some boot stomping, straight up rock classics. This tune should have people hanging from rafters...
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Travel News : Penalties
When I got to the First Capital Connect ticket office there was nobody serving. The one member of staff had left his position to go and tell another (who...
iLiKETRAiNS DEMO OF THE WEEK:
ISTVAN & THE KOSMAS / DISCO CLUB IMPERIAL
DAVE: The song started out pretty promisingly, but it didn’t really develop. It could be just me! Having said...
Joe Gideon & The Shark - Civilisation from Bronzerat Records on Vimeo.
Awesome video from Joe Gideon & The Shark. Sharp white suits, Mark E Smith style monologues and NoMeansNo heavy...
What we know about Justin Vernon: he’s a fantastic songwriter with a soulful voice, which has slowly but surely found widespread acclaim with Bon Iver. We also found out from the Blood Bank EP...
Sunday 18th November
Monkey Chews – Friend Of The Bride, Looker, Jon byrne, Marcus Mumford
Cargo – Wire doo dah – Jackie-o motherfkkkccer5, polly shang kuan band
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Concert Review: Magazine, The Forum 12/02/09
Before I describe what it was like to be at a Magazine concert in 2009, I feel I should let you in on what it was like to be at...
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Media News : Free Papers report Diana Inquest
When people complain about the media's prurient interests, they often say 'if people didn't buy it then the papers wouldn't print it...
Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...
To accompany the review of tUnE-yArDs’ Monday gig at Cargo, a few tasty shots of Think about Life, Trash Kit and New England native Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs.
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We have collected some truly heinous examples of recent album covers, from Empire of the Sun’s Star Wars travesty to the banal evil that is Razorlight’s Slipway Fire. Discretionary...
Album art in this gallery was selected based on several simple traits: strong concept, fine graphics including creative typography and general lushness. The first three of ‘The Best Record...
Ahhhh. I love this.
When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...
Not Squares
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland
On debut single ‘Asylum’ (Richter Collective) Irish punktronic (we really do love inventing these meaningless genres !) trio Not Squares...
The Japanese War Effort
From: Scotland, United Kingdom
The Japanese War Effort is a one man band, based in Edinburgh. Martin Moog (surely an adopted name otherwise baby he was born to moog...
There’s a tiny town to the north-east of Paris called Peronne.
It’s in the Somme, so it rains a lot, and both the buildings and surrounding countryside are deeply gashed with marks from...
I knew something didn’t add up. The BBC 6Music kerfuffle drags on and on – with more and more music fans, politicians and BBC bigwigs all competing to see who can yelp their opinions...
Yes Giantess
Boston, Massachusetts,
United States
The current incarnation of the NME may be a pale shadow of itself and struggling with it’s identity, not knowing whether to...
According to This is Horseflesh (the nom de guerre of Egyptian Hip Hop drummer Alex Pierce) this fantastic ‘reincarnation’ of the band’s own "Rad Pitt" was written to...
Bromheads are continuing their free monthly download singles with a genius reworking of ‘Dedicated to the One I Love’, a song made famous by the Shirelles.
Unsubtle mix tape...
If Wyldman’s recent live review has picqued your interest in Japanese Voyeurs, then you might be interested in their free download track ‘Dumb’. They’re biffing it out...
Forming a rock ‘n’ roll band is one of the more deceptive and fickle actions a group of young men (and it’s almost always young men) can take. It seems so easy: get a self-...
Andy Serkis as Ian Dury
Film Review : Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
There have been several music ‘biopics’ over the years, and there seems to be a rash of them recently with...
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Film Review : 3 Idiots
Stumbled by accident into my third Bollywood film ever last week. It concerns an Indian engineering school, and 3 students under considerable...
Not content with sitting on their laurels after we awarded them our number 1 record of 2009 for Ballin Outrageous, the Zookeepers have returned to the studio and biffed out another LP. Holy shit....
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Review : Omen night at the West London Fantasy Film Society 04/02/10I
was back as my brother’s guest at this tiny cinema for enthusiasts of
an old style cinema...
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Technology News: iPad
Two days before the iPad launch, Bill Gates (former chief mekon on Microsoft) was on The Daily Show to promote his charitable work. It was a rather dry...
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Film Review : OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Rio doesn’t answer a.k.a. Lost In Rio)
Legendary Mondo Enduro motorbiking mainstay Austin Vince invited several of us...
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Film Review : Molière
Much to my surprise over Christmas I discovered that you can now watch films again on BBC iPlayer. I guess when the beeb buys films now...
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Film Review: Belle de jour (Buñuel)
Gradually moving through the Luis Buñuel box set I arrived at this legendary sexual fantasy film from 1967....
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TV
News: Stephanie Beacham on Celebrity Big BrotherI
confess I was interested to see who was on Celebrity Big Brother, as
my mother watches it avidly, and it’s being...
Nice Nice are currently giving away downloads of their new EP, before its physical release on 26 November.
It’s a fantastic single. The A-side ‘One Hit’ sounds like a kind of...
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