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Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal (Album Review)
Periphery have always, and no doubt will always, be something of a love/hate band. Their brand of ‘djent’ is guilty of featuring all the clichés of the ‘genre’ alongside even more bombastic segments reminiscent of prog metal titans Dream Theater. Perhaps it would be fair to think of them as a bit like Protest the Hero…except a Protest the Hero that seemed determined to make themselves as hard to like as possible.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Tuesday, 03 July 2012
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Bradley Johnson - Boomerang (Single Review)
Do you remember Bradley Johnson? The former X Factor contestant overcame school expulsions, arrests and underage binge drinking to reach the giddy heights of the X Factor live shows. Bradley and his band Nu Vibe were voted off the show to save pasty-faced womanizer Frankie Cocozza, but now he’s back, solo, and coming at us like a curved Australian stick.
Written by: V O'Hagan | Date: Tuesday, 03 July 2012
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Cheryl - A Million Lights (Album Review)
“Please welcome to the stage, Gary Barlow and...Cheryl!” And so the newly surname-less Cheryl pranced onto the Jubilee stage like the most beautiful deer in the entire world, opened her mouth, and then Twitter exploded.
Written by: V O'Hagan | Date: Tuesday, 03 July 2012
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Patti Smith - Banga (Album Review)
The opening song to 'Banga' re-introduces Smith with ‘Amergio’. Describing the track as “our overture, contemplating the exploits of navigator Amergio Vespucci, from whom America got its name. I imagined Vespucci coming to the New World with great expectations that they would convert the natives, only to find himself utterly transformed by the purity of the land and people” Patti Smith explains in the album’s sleeve notes. Including spoken-word aspects and the poetically driven lyrics she is so well known for, (Smith was once brilliantly described as a ‘Rimbaud with Marshall amps’) she commands the first track with her powerful voice running parallel to rhythmic, stabbing guitars and strings.
Written by: Emma-Louise Newlyn | Date: Tuesday, 03 July 2012
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Danko Jones - Bring The Mountain (DVD Review)
Sometimes in life we have to accept that we miss out on great bands, and by watching a DVD I have discovered that a band perfectly tailored to my music taste has - until now - slipped through the net. I've always said that watching a band's DVD when you're unfamiliar is like a crash course 1.01 in said subject and, taking that to be the case, I'm glad to have finally been educated in the world of Danko Jones.
Written by: Heather McDaid | Date: Monday, 02 July 2012
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We Are Augustines - Rise Ye Sunken Ships (Album Review)
Brooklyn, New York is an area more or less synonymous with big, uncompromising, American hip hop, yet out of the city haze have come We Are Augustines, one of the most promising of 2012’s indie rock crop.
Written by: Owen Sheppard | Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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Moya - Lost And Found (Single Review)
There's not really much to be said about 21 year old singer Moya at the moment. No reflection on her as an artist, there's just genuinely not a lot on the internet about her at the moment. This will all change though, once her single 'Lost and Found' is released.
Written by: Emma Dodds | Date: Monday, 25 June 2012
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The View - Cheeky For A Reason (Album Review)
Dundee based indie-rockers The View have worked practically non-stop since the release of their debut album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' back in January 2007. Albums, tours, festivals and a No.3 single in 'Same Jeans' has seen the young band gain a slow, steady but loyal following, and 2012 sees them on the verge of releasing their fourth studio album, 'Cheeky For A Reason'.
Written by: Katie Territt | Date: Monday, 25 June 2012
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania (Album Review)
Billy Corgan and co are finally back. After a long, but not Guns and Roses-esque, five year wait for a brand new full-length release following 2007s epic 'Zeitgeist' record, we find the Pumpkins in a more able, creative mood than before. After all, when this is billed as an “album within an album”, you have to be going through a process of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Written by: James Ball | Date: Friday, 22 June 2012
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Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Album Review)
When people talk about the great metal bands of our time there are those that will, with any justice, be lost in the mists of time (Bullet for My Valentine) and those that will sadly, but perhaps inevitably, be prematurely forgotten (Cult of Luna). However there will also be those who, without ever compromising their musical integrity, go down as genuinely brilliant bands. Gojira are one such band. Over the course of their career so far they have perfected their unique strand of progressive death metal to the point that 'L’Enfant Sauvage' not only is likely to mark yet another critical peak of Gojira’s career, but another commercial one as well.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Thursday, 21 June 2012
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Cheryl - A Million Lights (Album Review)
Cheryl is officially back! Currently Number 1 in the UK Top 40 Singles Chart with new single 'Call My Name', Cheryl’s third studio album 'A Million Lights' also looks set to hit the Number 1 spot this weekend.
Written by: Lara Rainsforth | Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2012
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M83 - Reunion (Single Review)
So M83 came to prominence last year when the song 'Midnight City' was used as the theme music for Made In Chelsea. That in itself is a good song; slightly odd, but without a doubt worth a listen.
Written by: Emma Dodds | Date: Friday, 15 June 2012
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Guns Or Knives - Can’t Beat Him, Can’t Join Him (Album Review)
Stef Ketteringham’s first full-length solo release proper under the name Guns or Knives, 'Can’t Beat Him, Can’t Join Him is a bizarre listen to say the least. The guitarist/vocalist in experimental rockers Shield Your Eyes, Ketteringham is renowned for his inventive guitar playing but perhaps less so for his consistency in the songwriting department. Of course, you shouldn’t listen to this album with the expectation that it will be a standard singer-songwriter material. To do so would be utterly hopeless.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Friday, 15 June 2012
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Nately's Whore's Kid Sister - Ribs (Album Review)
'Ribs', the debut mini-album from the confusingly named Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister, is a funny old beast. The band are keen to proclaim the influence of art rock legends such as Bjork and Radiohead upon their sound and, whilst such elements are apparent here, it is the spectre of forward thinking metal bands like Neurosis and Tool that translates most aptly to descriptions of this record.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Friday, 15 June 2012
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Various Artists - Music Is Great Britain DVD (Live DVD Review)
Music is Great Britain is a DVD of the most iconic live music acts that Britain has produced. The DVD was released as part of Music is Great week and all proceeds made from sales are donated to the Save The Children charity.
Written by: Lara Rainsforth | Date: Wednesday, 13 June 2012
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Download Festival - Donington Park - 8th-10th June 2012 (Overview)
100,000 people descended on a drenched Donington Park this weekend to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UK’s premier rock festival: Download. From downpour to downright brilliant, over 100 bands played across five stages, including headliners The Prodigy, Metallica and Black Sabbath.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 13 June 2012
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A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship (Album Review)
How do you define a band like A Place to Bury Strangers? After all they really are one of those bands that seem to take an uncommon delight in being hard to pin down. It would be very easy to just call them a noise rock band but then that fails to quite capture the dark post-punk facet that is crucial to their sound, as well as the undeniable pop tinge that is sometimes allowed to break through all the feedback and take control. What is for sure is that, over the course of two well-received albums, A Place to Bury Strangers have managed to cement themselves a position as one of the loudest, and indeed finest, bands in modern alternative rock.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Wednesday, 13 June 2012
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Bleech - Nude (Album Review)
If rock n’ roll is on the way out, then Bleech certainly didn’t receive the memo. For anyone who is starting to doubt whether that next Queens Of The Stone Age album is ever going to happen, or whether Feeder have completely lost all song-writing capability, or for anyone who actually liked The Arctic Monkeys’ third album, pay a warm welcome to the up-and-coming London based three-piece.
Written by: Owen Sheppard | Date: Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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Master And The Mule - The View From Nowhere (Album Review)
Having changed their name from Immune back in 2009, it has taken a while for Master & the Mule to get a new album out. With the exception of the odd well received track on their bandcamp page, things have been pretty quiet from the Leeds based quartet. 'The View from Nowhere' therefore marks a hugely important watershed in their career. The pressure is most certainly on.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Thursday, 07 June 2012
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