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Live
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
After much hype and hyperbaly london fashion band of the moment able on to the tiny southend stage on the first night of their latest tour.
These New Puritans
Beat Pyramid
These new puritans are from southend, spawned from the same club that gave the horrors to the world and they share a similar dark, gothic vein but take a totally different musical approach
Single
Red Track – Pretty Boy
Essex indie bods Red Track delivery a fine slice jagged pop fodder.
Live
Green Velvet - Friday 30th November 2007
Manchester on a Friday night is taut and ready to party. You can hear the thundering bass from the warehouse project long before you can see the entrance....
Radiohead - In Rainbows
There are a number of images and words you associate with Radiohead - pretentious, adventurous, difficult, progressive, smart, depressing, awesome...
Single
The Delta Fiasco
This is the debut single from liverpool trio the delta
fiasco who count ladytron among their fans
album
The Ladybug Transistor
This is the sixth album from brooklyn based indie-popsters the ladybug transistor, and features guest apperances from architecture in helsinki, the clientele, jens lekman and vetiver amongst others.
Single
The Loves
A new ep from the welsh band with 60’s coloured
shades, and its more of the same, toe tapping jangly
pop, and the title track, one-two-three is marc bolan
doing surf-rock, it’s infectious and sunny.
Joanna Newson
There’s an empty seat next to me that was meant to be for someone very special but she can’t be here and I’m missing her terribly, but for two hours Joanna newsom takes us by the hand and leads us into her world where you forget everything else outside.
Lightspeed Champion
it was only a couple of years ago that if you said to anyone that rave would make a come back, only the rapture would be up for it. now you can’t move for new-rave this and new-rave that.
Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
In the center of the sleeve notes for Sheffield troubadour Richard Hawley's new album is a photograph. In that photograph is a wooden barrier with a simple sound bite, graffiti'd on in thick black spray paint. It reads 'macho music is stupid'.
Single
The Pigeon Detectives
Take Her Back
Back when i was 18 i probably would have loved this, now 10 years on, i’ve heard it all before, I ’ve found there’s more to music than four blokes with guitars....
Dinosaur jnr - Crumble
Taken from their first album in 10 years the reformed Dinosaur jnr (complete with Lou Barlow) do exactly what it says on the tin!
Brights Eyes
This is the seventh time I’ve seen Bright Eyes and they’ve never let me down yet, tonight they play a set full of Cassadega songs with a few other gems thrown in.
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
It's pretty good actually and I'm not a natural Klaxons fan. I tend to think of them, along with The Horrors, as a kind of nouvelle cuisine of the music world.....
The Mitchell Brothers - Solemate
What a really fucking clever title. Can you see what they've done there? I hate it when bands do this. Punning has no place in song titles, unless you're Morrissey.....
Kings Of Leon - On Call
Slightly pretentious intro, but then they're a slightly pretentious band. I don't really get the appeal of Kings Of Leon, I find them very boring and this isn't about.....
The Hours - Love You More
He says he loves whoever it is more than his record collection. Presumably, it's a mediocre collection if it inspired this song so he's not really saying much.....
The View - The Don
This is the radio edit apparently, so I assume the bit where he explodes in a tourettes rage has been taken out, shame. It's a bit oompa loompa....
Pepe Deluxe - Pussy Cat Rock
I like the keyboard bits in this, they're kind of 50's in some way I can't really describe, almost B-52's I think. The vocals have that scratchy sound on them but it works okay....
1990's - 1990's
I love the band name, and therefore the track name. I was a teenager in the 90's and was hoping for lots of cultural references and talk of Super Nintendos....
Ash - You Can't Have It All
Pretty much just another Ash song this one. It's one of their better ones though. It's good single fare and should do well for them but it's not really anything new.....
Chungking - Love Is Here To Stay
Ha! Yeah right, just wait and see it'll all be over one day. It's quite a good tune though, if a bit too positive for my misanthropic soul....
Travis - Closer
Oh God, not Travis! Acoustic guitar - check. Whiny, sad vocals - check. It's just so boring. Your mum will like it. She might even buy the album and play it at that barely audible volume......
The Blood Brothers - Laser Life
This is quite good. It has a really nice, upbeat keyboard part going on and the vocals are crazy enough to be interesting and catch your attention....
Fallout Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
God, as if the nations youth weren't illiterate enough already! This is even worse than punning in the title - as mentioned in the Mitchell Bros review....
The Enemy - Away From Here
They sound a bit like The Futureheads and mention Richard and Judy in the first verse. I think they're trying a little hard to affirm that they're British.....
The Priscillas - Gonna Rip Up Your Photograph
Dolly Parton does grunge! Nice enough punky sounds from the guitars are offset with a strangely country-esque vocal style. You get the feeling that....
Bloc Party - I Still Remember
I still remember Bloc Partys' last album. It was pretty good, exciting in places. If this is meant as an indication of the second record then the signs aren't good.....
The Little Flames - Isobella
Sounds a bit like the Long Blondes. That's the problem I think. I like The Long Blondes, but as soon as there's one band doing something another hundred feel the need to crop up......