Album released this week in… 2010: Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
“HOLY s**t, I can’t believe it, we won!” Arcade Fire front man Win Butler exclaimed in front of the televised audience of the 2011 Grammy Awards, as the group picked up the award for...
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Killer Be Killed: The calm that follows the storm
“WHAT’S your dream band line-up?” is the kind of question that can fuel a pub debate for a whole evening, but sometimes you just have to agree on the huge potential of certain fictional...
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Mandatory Fun: Still weird after all these years
THE ALBUM cover is a spoof of various communist propaganda posters. There, centre stage, stands Weird Al Yankovic, a man of average height and long curly hair that plays pop parodies on an accordion. Also he’s...
Album released this week in…. 1993: The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
SOMETIMES, great art comes at a price. For Billy Corgan, James Iha, D’Arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlain, AKA The Smashing Pumpkins, that price was the near disintegration of the band. Their debut album, Gish, had been...
Album Review: La Roux – Trouble in Paradise
GO BACK to 2009 and you’d be hard pressed to find a person who didn’t know the songs ‘In for the Kill’ or ‘Bulletproof’. Ah, 2009; the year Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid ruled. The...
The Libertines at Hyde Park – A grand reunion
THE ANTICIPATION that rose like a tsunami when the Libertines announced the Hyde Park gig crashed in a sea of likely lads and lasses on a night where little else went right. Pete, Carl, John...
Our favourite albums of 2014… So far
AS WE ENTER July, we begin to reminisce about 2014, and what has come to pass in the first half of the year. Daft Punk stormed this year’s Grammy Awards, Kate Bush announced her...
The Libertines announce support acts
POST-GARAGE-ROCK Gods The Libertines announced more reunion tour dates last week via their Facebook, playing Alexandra Palace in London. The band have now revealed which lucky acts will be joining them as support. The...
Drowned in Sound, Google and censoring album art
WHEN an artist puts an album out, it is, of course, accompanied by album art. This art can be beautiful, it can be comical and is more than often reflective of the music you are...
Album Review: Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun
MASTODON is a band that’s worked hard and earned their respect through touring hard for nearly fifteen years and repeatedly writing phenomenal records that are bursting with character. They’ve pioneered a multi-layered sound of equal...
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