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The Dirty Dozen - March, 2009
This month's dozen includes Mancunian rock, weird folk and... Dutch soul. But is any of it any good? Nick Mitchell will be the judge Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
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The Bronx - Young Bloods
With the first single from their third album, L.A quintet The Bronx display more of the aggressive punk rock that started a bidding war between labels for th... Read more »| 02 Mar 2009 -
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Enjoy Destroy - Holiday Lover
The fact that their album has been produced by Feeder frontman Grant Nicholas gives us a clue as to Enjoy Destroy's sense of identity. Their pop-rock sound i... Read more »| 27 Feb 2009 -
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Me My Head - Night Is On Fire
Gary Numan's Deadliner is a song inspired by nightmares. Although Night Is On Fire is similarly dystopian, it conveys, rather, the impotent outrage... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
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Bronto Skylift - Eagle/Falcon
What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like Bronto... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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28 Costumes - This Band Has Eaten All Our Money
Dicing rhythms around from start to finish, 28 Costumes are a post-Arctic Monkeys indie band (can we say that yet?) who aren’t going to offer you an in... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009
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Wavves - So Bored
Music fans of a certain age might remember this guy from the nineties called Beck. He made fuzzy, lo-fi, lazy-sounding stoner anthems that hid a wealth of id... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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Le Reno Amps - Outlaws
Le Reno Amps understand the science of putting a song together. Where to put breaks in, where guitar solos work best - they seem to possess an instinct of ho... Read more »| 23 Feb 2009 -
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The Dead Class - The Loneliest Man In The World
The Dead Class courted minor controversy when their last single was removed from online retailers after legal advisors suggested its subject matter - teenage... Read more »| 23 Feb 2009 -
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Threatmantics - Little Bird
Threatmantics pride themselves on their unorthodox line-up, with a viola taking the place of lead guitar and their drummer doubling up on keyboard. With just... Read more »| 23 Feb 2009 -
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New Rhodes - The Joys of Finding and Losing That Girl
Does the world need another troupe of indie kids with guitars singing about girls? Probably not. Has it got one? Only every other day. But New Rhodes deftly ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2009 -
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Eugene McGuinness - Fonz
A puerile pleasure. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
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Soft Toy Emergency - I Kno U Want It
The electro-levies have broke, and now comes the deluge. If 2009 is to be the year kids swap Fender for Casio en masse, then Soft Toy Emergency typify the sh... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
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KateGoes - All We Wanna Do Is OH!
“Cute-core” Brummies KateGoes are a love-it-or-hate-it kind of band whose new single will test the resolve of the former camp and swell the ranks... Read more »| 16 Feb 2009 -
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State Broadcasters - Our Favourite Park
Melancholic, home-grown folk-pop Read more »| 12 Feb 2009