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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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The godfather of grime himself Wiley has announced that brand new single ‘Reload’ - featuring Chip - will hit shelves on February 24th, as well as unveiling new album ‘The Ascent’.
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Heather McDaid
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Often, album titles can hint towards what the album is about, or can offer some ideas as to how it could differ from past works. The Bronx, however, do not follow convention. Where the likes of Billy Talent eventually broke their eponymous titling last year, we now find ourselves facing the Los Angeles punk outfit's fourth self-titled record. Regardless of giving nothing away in the title, the record feels long overdue, and - in that sense - the fact there is a record at all is enough!
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Ahead of the release of their new album 'Wonderful, Glorious' on 4th February, Eels are streaming the album in full via the Vagrant Records SoundCloud page.
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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London-based singer-songwriter Bluey Robinson has announced a handful of UK headline tour dates this morning, while he finishes supporting Trey Songz on his current UK tour.
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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DJ Bonobo is set to release brand new album 'The North Borders' on 1st April via Ninja Tune. The DJ has also unveiled he will support the release with a rare May UK tour. Every performance on his new tour will include a backing band.
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Ben Bland
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I’ll start with an admission. Biffy Clyro are the band that changed my life. You wouldn’t be reading this review without them. They sparked in me a passion for music that has only grown since the day I first bought 'Infinity Land' (in the St. Albans branch of HMV in case you were interested) as an impressionable thirteen year-old. This Scottish trio not only made music that I found immeasurably appealing, they seemed like three ordinary guys who were prepared to sweat it out for long-overdue success. That’s what they did. Fast forward a few years and Biffy Clyro are the biggest guitar band in Britain, besides Muse. They have earned their success through sheer hard work and dedication to their craft. 2007’s 'Puzzle' and its follow up, 2009’s 'Only Revolutions', may have lacked a bit of the raw excitement of their early material but Biffy Clyro still had a discernible character that was all their own. Their move away from awkward post-hardcore was not selling out, as some would claim; it was just a natural progression of the band’s sound. Biffy moved into creating stadium-sized rock with a heart and a soul, whilst retaining a very real personality that continued to set them apart from lame posturers such as All Time Low and You Me at Six.
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Grammy-nominated hard rockers, Killswitch Engage look set to embark on a UK tour this May.
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Festival News
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Rap icon Eminem is set to perform at Bellahouston Park this summer, as part of the brand new Glasgow Summer Sessions music venture.
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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One of rock’s legendary and defining bands, The Who have unveiled dates for a UK and Ireland arena tour where they’ll perform their iconic 1973 double album 'Quadrophenia' in its entirety, along with a selection of Who classics.
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Sunday, 27 January 2013 |
Written by Alec Chillingworth
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“I’m so sick of singing about hate, it’s never gonna make a change!” These lyrics make me chuckle. Not because they’re funny. No. They make me chuckle because they’re sung by Frank Carter. And the last time I saw Frank Carter, he was at risk of shredding his vocal chords whilst screaming “Misery fucking loves me! And I love her so!” in front of an incessantly violent crowd. At 11 O’clock in the morning. He also got a circle pit going. At 11 O’clock in the morning, ladies and gentlemen. Surely you can all understand how taken aback I was when I heard him sounding, well... happy.
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Saturday, 26 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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One of the world's biggest concert promoters, Live Nation have announced they have secured London's Olympic Park and Stadium for future live music events.
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Noir-Pop New Yorkers MS MR release their brand new single ‘Fantasy’ on March 10th 2013. This will be followed by their debut album ‘Second Hand Rapture’ in May which has been written and produced by the band with additional production and mixing by Tom Elmhirst (who has previously worked on the albums 'Back To Black' and '21').
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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Scottish indie-folk Frightened Rabbit have hit out at fellow folk stars Mumford and Sons, with frontman Scott Hutchinson telling an interview that he ‘fucking hates that band’.
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by James Goodall
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Female-fronted Welsh trio The Joy Formidable return with a follow-up to their 2011 debut offering in the shape of ‘Wolf’s Law’.
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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Mrs Brown’s Boys seems to have taken over the world in the past year, and it’s new live show For the Love of Mrs Brown’ is one of our top ticket sellers. But, as with everything to do with music, theatre, and entertainment, it is subjective, and there are a fair share of you who probably hate her - and this video is for you!
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Ben Bland
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It’s difficult to get a firm grip on what makes Mat Sweet (the man behind Boduf Songs) tick. It would certainly seem that it’s not enough for him to merely present his feelings; he wants to make us feel with him. Such a desire has resulted in a change of musical approach for album number five. The Red House Painters-esque acoustic format previously favoured by Sweet is here ditched for a more varied palate that sees him shooting for the dense, if uncluttered, soundscape approach of Swans as well as the seamlessly contradictory arrangements of Radiohead.
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Ben Bland
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There’s no point in trying, and inevitably failing, to sum up Tomahawk. Let’s just call them a supergroup, and not one of those supergroups that fall into the category just because one of their members is an ex-member of Whitesnake or something. Tomahawk are Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, John Zorn) and John Stanier (Helmet, Battles). All legends in their own right those guys, whether their names leap off the screen to you or not. Dunn is a new member to the fold, replacing Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Melvins) on bass, but otherwise this is the same ensemble cast that made three delightfully intriguing records in the last decade. Never entirely one thing or the other, Tomahawk are perhaps best categorised as a plain old ‘rock’ band, but then such determination to categorise can be misleading.
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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English-Irish outfit The Wanted are seemingly fed-up with their boyband reputation - and have revealed via Twitter that they’ll be taking on a new direction with their next album!
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Greg Ginn’s punk icons Black Flag, fronted by Ron Reyes and not Henry Rollins, return to the UK for the first time in almost 30 years and the only live date the band will play in 2013.
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Friday, 25 January 2013 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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American superstar Justin Timberlake has unveiled more of the details behind his hugely-anticipated comeback album ‘The 20/20 Experience’.
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