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Music can be such a brutal issue, made the scapegoat of everyone's shortcomings and anxieties. Done in the correct way - within the music like countless musicians have - the results are astounding. Radiohead being the chiefs of this particular camp in these modern times. Unfortunately, every culture must have its spin-»
R.E.M, like I said in my last review of theirs, are not the young guns they used to be in the same way Morrissey is. These men have aged. But, unlike Morrissey, R.E.M aren't going to let that get in their way. Reveal is not your average album. It was quietly released by a band that can no longer compete i»
When a band suddenly leaps into my life, I find it like I'm in a snowstorm. They surround me. Little bits of them and their music softly float around, with a few perfect flakes finding me to settle on. Corny? Maybe. True? Certainly. After this cliché few weeks of mental abandon, a relationship ensues. It cracks »
"Oh not again dear, the bed is still on fire…" At this point, I wake up. And she is not there. Damn her and all that might ever sail near her. Yes, I think the very least I deserve in life is my own little Sophie Ellis-Bextor to play beneath my pillows, nibbling my ears as I sleep, turning into a Royal Doulton f»
The morning after, and words are still flying hot off my breath and heavy in my head. I'm just going to write the day as I saw it today…well, last night I was tempted to write a review just saying "Fuck me…" So it seemed a better idea to write it later… Ok, so it started quickly and straight away the party atmosp»
I think its fair to assume that, being a site consistently involved in the promotion of music bordering on the "white indie/punk" area of the market, rap isn't the first thing on your musical menu. Also, considering the eclectic nature of most of the people involved in this site, Eminem (to some the Vanilla Ice that ju»
Oh God. Lock up your daughters, it's the 'Dora. Well, not quite actually. Good as they maybe at making sneeze-and-you-missed-it pop tunes (with enough grunt from Matt "The Pout" Browne, and enough hair from the drummer to be classed punk) they are hardly as dangerous as having Ace Freley babysitting your 13 year old ki»
You ALL know them. Yes you do. When i was a nipper and was still sliding along disco-hall floors i remember a certain track. Not the Time Bomb, or the Star-Trekking song...The words "not to put to put too fine a point on it, lets say i'm the only bee in your bonnet...make a little birdhouse in your soul" come flooding »
MTV. Well that was it wasn't it? The final nail in "alternative" music's short life. Music now was only a share of the big conglomerates, selling style and going against every ideal music is supposed to stand for. Well, that’s what the purists said, and continue to say. And, in the most cynical of moods I can believe t»
I have four words for you, Duran Duran, Ordinary World. Yes, Feeder have slowed down a little for the next slice of conservative pop-pap. You know, the sort of catchy tunes that normal young indie guitarists come up with, who don't know better and couldn't play better anyway. This isn't as bad as th»
It appears, after a number of hints from Radiohead in recent interviews, they have actually been approached by the BBC's Winter Olympic coverage team to contirbute music for its programmes. They've asked to use Amnesiac's "I Might Be Wrong" for the coverage's theme music. Radiohead have pronounced that the»
John Lee Hooker, amongst the last of the true blues pioneers has died. He was found dead friday morning after passing away peacefully in his sleep. 83 year old living legend John inspired a whole generation of bluesman with his old school playing. From his first record release in 1943 through to his death, he he»
I am a passionate person. I'm not the only one. Music is full of many things, passion I believe one of its most sacred products. It could well be the reason that we crave it so, because of the passion it appears to create… I don't read much. Some would say that is a sad fact. Other's would call it stupid. I mysel»
The wheels keep on turning, the cycles keep on working, the tumble down and around world of music is as always full of hope masked by bygone brilliance. Punk has been dead so many times now, I still wonder when it was alive, if at all. Punk though, is Buddhist. It just re-incarnates…but it doesn't wear the togas.»
I've had an idea: I am a huge Radiohead fan and I pride them as being a band I have really connected with in the past. That would make me usually biased on their material. So, I suggested to myself to review the new single off the upcoming "Amnesiac" LP after one listen, and put down what I thought from that alo»
"We are young despite the years, we are concerned…". I love that song. It reminds me of the old carpet in my hall, which I would see every time I went out of my room while my brother played this and many other records just behind a door. It made me feel a little different than I usually did. I remember all the s»
R.E.M are a strange phenomenon. Immediately recognisable they seem to have written the same song over and over yet I never really seemed to get bored of them. There's always that little twist on their art; The lower-fi raw of What's The Frequency Kenneth? to the fluffy open arms of Shiny Happy People»
Love. It’s a simple enough word, and a simple enough concept one would think. Mankind and his feeble emotions have proved though its something worth living over. It's worth dying for it, lying for it and even sighing for it. It is one of those few things that everyone can relate to in at least the most basic way, and n»
Here it comes... Can you hear it... As Free All Angels is about to hit the shelves its almost time for Ash to be named the most exciting and exuberant fuzzy-poppers on every magazine in town (again). "A return to the days of 1977" shall front countless reviews by journo's everywhere and everyone wi»
Ok, what would you do if on a summer walk you were encountered with a drunken Charlatan's on a haystack while Gomez tricycle around them with old Mr O'Neill dusting off his harmonica? It probably would bring a smile to your face, but I doubt you'd stay for Mrs O'Neill to organise the barn dancing. This is»
ZooooOOOOOooooooommmm. OK? What did I miss? Did something happen some time ago when I was flicking over from The Chart Show? For the past few years, I have been bewildered by a selection of 3 rather ordinary faces being touted for another "great" album. One hides behind his tom-toms. Another wears some make-up and gets»
Fads. The pop world loves them. And as soon as The Man Who and Parachutes had found its way to most student bedsides the New Acoustic Movement was suddenly a fad where the question: "Why have passion when you have pretty tunes?" was silently answered to grimace everywhere. With this in mind, its horrendou»
Almost unbearable. Almost forgotten. Pink Moon is to me a very voyeuristic experience. You can almost hear tears dropping on the microphone as a fire disintegrates in the corner. I always feel very exposed to the album. It's blatantly beautiful. The guitar is warm and touching, gently filling the room with his v»
Its been a hectic couple of months in Oxford's little music scene. Radiohead have decided that home is where the heart is and so bless us with a local gig for us local yokels, Whispering Bob changed their name (I'm sure someone batted an eyelid somewhere...), but more importantly a new local band have emerged from nowh»
Rock? Why do we still bother? Surely gigs should be dead with only the smell of Limp Bizkit's in a tepid Wembley arena to move the masses? Luckily, rock doesn't die; it just sleeps, waiting to pounce from its apparent ashes, giving every gig go-er the knowledge of its existence and THAT rush. Though sometimes this perf»
