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Review: Single – The Bishops – City Lights

The Bishops

9:54pm Monday 3rd November 2008

BEAT combo is definitely the best way to describe this rhythm and blues influenced London trio.

Review: Album – Marc Collin – Hollywood Mon Amour

Review: Album – Marc Collin – Hollywood Mon Amour

9:42pm Monday 3rd November 2008

AN intriguing album of ultra-cool lounge takes on 1980s film soundtracks.

Review: Single – Run Hide Survive – Dyson / Pigeon

Review: Single – Run Hide Survive – Dyson / Pigeon

4:12pm Friday 24th October 2008

ONE of the most gripping electro releases of the year has arrived – all the way from a room above a pub in Sheffield.

Review: Album – Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling

Review: Album – Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling

11:14am Friday 24th October 2008

IT would be very strange if the dourest of post-rock combos, Mogwai, decided to make an album of bubble-gum pop.

Review: Album - Katy Perry - One of the Boys

Review: Katy Perry - One of the Boys

9:00am Monday 22nd September 2008

SHE’S been number one in the singles chart, had reams written about her and now it’s time for the album.

Review: Album - Queen and Paul Rodgers - Cosmos Rocks

Review: Album - Queen and Paul Rodgers - Cosmos Rocks

9:00am Monday 15th September 2008

SOME things are just wrong.

Review: Album – Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble – Before the Ruin

Review: Album – Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble – Before the Ruin

9:36pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

THE twisted world of folk music has sucked in Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble.

Review: Single – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday

Review: Single – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday

10:18pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

GIVING stuff away free is a good way to get people to like your music.

Review: Single – Tokyo Police Club – Graves

Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

10:28am Wednesday 22nd October 2008

GRAVES is the fourth single from this spiky Canadian indie-rock quartet's début album, Elephant Shell.

Review: Album - The Blow Monkeys - Devil’s Tavern

9:00am Monday 18th August 2008

TALK about a blast from the past.

Review: Album – Late of the Pier – Fantasy Black Channel

Review: Album – Late Of The Pier – Fantasy Black Channel

10:59am Monday 20th October 2008

THIS debut album by four cutting-edge youngsters from Castle Donington leaves all in its musical wake.

Review: Album - The Levellers - Letters From The Underground

Review: Album - The Levellers - Letters From The Underground

3:24pm Friday 15th August 2008

IF there’s one band who have remained true to their principles all these years it has to be The Levellers.

Review: Album - Noah And The Whale - Peaceful The World Lays Me Down

Review: Album - Noah And The Whale - Peaceful The World Lays Me Down

9:00am Monday 11th August 2008

FOLK these days comes in many forms and this is a very good example of the broad church available.

Review: Album - Man Like I - Natty

Review: Album - Man Like I - Natty

9:00am Monday 4th August 2008

IF country is an area much overlooked, the same could be said of reggae.

Review: Album - Randy Newman - Harps and Angels

Review: Album - Randy Newman - Harps and Angels

9:00am Monday 4th August 2008

WITH all his success with film scores it’s easy to overlook Randy Newman the songwriter.

Review: Album - Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy Of The Soul

Review: Album - Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy Of The Soul

1:42pm Friday 8th August 2008

Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian singer songwriter who has been quietly going about his business for some time.

Review: Album - XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island

Review: Album -  XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island

9:00am Monday 28th July 2008

FOR a band making their debut CD the XX Teens certainly have a swagger about them which comes over via this album.

Review: Album - Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

Review: Album - Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

9:00am Monday 28th July 2008

THERE have been many imitators but there will only ever be one Alice Cooper and thankfully he’s back on form with that old chestnut, a concept album.

Review: Single – The Go! Team – Milk Crisis

The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth Album

3:43pm Friday 8th August 2008

THE cheerleader-sampling, shambolic funk outfit are giving their latest single – and a lot more – away for free.

Review: Single – Crystal Castles – Vanished

Review: Single – Crystal Castles – Vanished

11:48am Tuesday 5th August 2008

CANADIAN electro-nihilist duo Crystal Castles need to choose their single releases more wisely.

Review: Album – The Blakes – The Blakes

Single: The Blakes – Don't Want That Now

11:53am Monday 4th August 2008

A FANTASTICALLY sleazy garage-rock band whose lack of coherence only adds to their appeal.

Review: Album – Jupiter One – Jupiter One

Review: Album – Jupiter One – Jupiter One

11:11am Tuesday 5th August 2008

TAKING classic sci-fi show Lost In Space and 80s legends Talking Heads as the lift-off points for your new musical outfit certainly has possibilities.

Review: Single – Neon Neon – I Told Her On Alderaan

Neon Neon - Stainless Style Album

12:28pm Monday 4th August 2008

SUPER Furry Animals' singer Gruff Rhys has gained his second Mercury Prize nomination for this collaboration with American producer Boom Bip.

Review: Single - The Brute Chorus – Grow Fins

Single: The Brute Chorus – Grow Fins

5:23pm Friday 25th July 2008

THE Brute Chorus can be a little raucous at times, but their bluesy garage music is certainly not brutish.

Review: Single – The Thirst – My Everything

Review: Single – The Thirst – My Everything

12:57pm Monday 4th August 2008

THE Libertines have a lot to answer for: whilst variously adored and despised, the jangly mess they unleashed on Britain at the start of the century has certainly inspired an awful lot of dross.

Review: Single - Jupiter One – Platform Moon

Single: Jupiter One – Platform Moon

4:58pm Thursday 24th July 2008

EIGHTIES revivalism seems to work better coming from the mouths of Americans – and once again, a band from Brooklyn leads the way.

Review: Album - Rory Ellis - Two Feathers

Review - Album - Rory Ellis - Two Feathers

3:43pm Friday 25th July 2008

A VOICE so deep and gravelly, if this had been released on vinyl you’d swear your turntable was playing slow.

Review: Single - The Blakes – Don't Want That Now

Single: The Blakes – Don't Want That Now

5:17pm Thursday 24th July 2008

SWAGGERING, effortlessly cool rock from Seattle, from a band who look gratifyingly like they really don't give a damn.

Review: Single - The Dodos – Red & Purple

10:54am Monday 14th July 2008

A chirpy debut UK release from a San Franciscan psych-folk duo – featuring what might be child's toy instrument as the musical hook.

Review: Single - The Dodos – Red & Purple

10:54am Monday 14th July 2008

A chirpy debut UK release from a San Franciscan psych-folk duo – featuring what might be child's toy insgtrument as the musical hook.


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