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One thing's for certain: with Foals’ musical sphere subject to constant change, whatever they do and wherever they go next is sure to be one hell of an erratic-but-exciting adventure...»
This sounds like the prime candidate for the theme tune to BBC1's Tomorrow's World if it were ever to be re-launched...»
...imagine if Los Campesinos!'s elder siblings formed a band...»
By the end of the set, The Maccabbes vocalist Orlando Weeks and his band mates are grinning like Cheshire Cats after one too many wraps of ketamine. As for those of us in the audience, we can only watch on in awe...»
Australian sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone (pictured), Findlay Brown, Alberta Cross and Paris Motel join forces next week for the Longing For Latitude Tour, billed as a lead up to July’s Latitude Festival...»
In the past year or so Napoleon IIIrd has gone from being one of many potentially great artists to someone we've come to expect nothing less than greatness from...»
Perhaps next time a little more focus would be beneficial, as any more False Starts... could lead to a rather premature ending...»
Not literally of course, although there's a rather wide river flowing through the city so I guess the choice is yours...»
Kingston-based singer/songwriter Dave House has been performing both as a solo artist and in various bands (Lucky Thirteen and current outfit The Steal, to name but two) for a good few years now...»
'Louie Louie' sang the Kingsmen forty odd years ago, opening the doors for a million-and-one other DIY rock'n'roll bands to follow suit...»
For many a year now, the streets of Manchester have been littered with the musical equivalent of silver and gold, and with the current crop of DIY artists, labels and clubnights sprouting in and around the city, this present moment in time is no exception...»
Ever had the feeling where you just want to hate a song - and a band for that matter - without ever actually having to hear it...»
York-based indie label Northern Star is fast gaining a reputation alongside more established kindred spirits AC30 and Sonic Cathedral as being one of the leading exponents in unleashing new, noise-based pop onto an unsuspecting but rapidly increasing audience...»
It seems emo/screamo/ridiculous in the extremo combo Bring Me The Horizon have been, shall we say, upsetting a few of their devoted fans this past weekend...»
While it would be foolish to say Mint.Ive are the finished article, their potential is frightening. If they can continue to develop throughout 2007, in six months time you could be looking at one hell of an exciting proposition indeed...»
Birmingham-based experimentalists Shady Bard will release their debut album, From The Ground Up, via Static Caravan Records on download from Monday 14th May and in the shops a fortnight later...»
Based on this, expectations for the future may well be difficult to live up to. But for now, 'The Breeze That Blows' is really all that matters...»
It’s almost certainly inevitable 'Brianstorm' will hit the top of the charts, but this time around the hype surrounding its makers is fully justified...»
Leeds-based independent label Jealous Records has released singles by some of the most exciting bands in the country right now, and as if by some strange quirk of fate, several of them are heading out on the road - not all necessarily together - in the next few weeks...»
Top-quality pop songs of a catchy nature may be short in supply as we say goodbye to the first quarter of 2007, but at least some people are trying...»
DiS favourites GoodBooks release their new single, 'The Illness', on 7th May through Columbia Records. Taken from the band's as-yet-untitled debut album (due out sometime in July 2007)...»
This seven-track album certainly isn't the easiest of listens to begin with...»
File under "Music for Somnambulists". Next...»
Having first got together in 2001, Melbourne trio Love Of Diagrams aren't quite the household names their longevity might paint them to be. Yet...»
Oxford house party organisers and general conveyors of good-time post-punk, dancey-artrock Foals go out on a long, long tour this month...»
As debut singles go, this really is as ambitious a record as you're likely to hear all year, and at last those usually inept comparisons with the good and the great (in this case Arcade Fire) are more than justified...»
If Bloc Party were the philosophy students from Paul Epworth post-graduate school of art-infused rock, then Maximo Park would undoubtedly have been cast as the walking encyclopaedias also known as librarians...»
Once upon a time it would have been difficult to tell Dirty Tux apart from any number of countless Arctic Libertines...»
It's been four years now since Love Ends Disaster! played their first show in front of an assortment of fellow undergraduates and friends, and yet to all intents and purposes they remain a relatively unknown quantity outside the confines of their native East Midlands....»
Whilst not strictly a ‘new’ band - the Gothenburg quintet have been around since 2004 and have half a dozen singles and a critically acclaimed long-player to their name - it does feel as if Love Is All have been overlooked in Britain for whatever reason...»
