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One can not dispute that this year has been, sadly, the year that Nu-Metal has ruled and spawned countless tribes of pathetic self-absorbed kids desperately attempting to replicate that much coveted Fred Durst look. However if history has taught us well, we must know that the craze is very much on its last legs. Poor »
Once upon a time there were three statisticians who became bored with their jobs and quit to hunt ducks. On their first attempt: the first statistician shot one metre too high, the second shot one metre too low. The third one shouted: "YES, WE'VE GOT HIM !!!" This made-up story can't help but remind me of the brand »
Belle and Sebastian have debuted new songs and bizarre cover versions when, on April 6th, the played their first live show since headlining at the first ever festival at Camber Sands. Belle and Sebastian played at the 'Nice & Sleazy' club in Glasgow to 100 people who snapped up their tickets before the show was even a»
I present before you the single greatest most-horrific crime of the 21st century. It is sebaceous, scrupulous and semi-accoustic. It hails from Manchester, though could've emerged from any cardboard box on Picadilly Circus. It has no greater ambitions than Burnage Folk Club, a mutual respect for Stuart Murdoch and open»
Ooberman are in the final stages of the recording of their second album, the follow up to 1999s critically acclaimed 'The Magic Treehouse' and have described their album as "a melting pot of futuristic folk, towers of harmony and sliding Eastern strings ." Speaking on the band's website www.ooberman.com , front»
What, indeed ? Bunch of fucking shoegazers. Why don't some people just break out of their indie-guitar ghetto ? It is not the manufactured nature of Westlife that makes my blood boil and it's not even the buttock-clenchingly piss-poor nature of their music. Whenever I see Westlife on TV, I don't think "Ohmigod !! Th»
Must life be so unfair that we have a legal system AND a national lottery ? AND a national lottery ??? Let us punish the guilty and reward the randomly chosen. Must life be so unfair that we have Reef AND Richard Ashcroft ?? Reef are guilty and so must be punished , but Richard fucking Ashcroft ?!?!?! Success for a»
Living in the city. Just look out the window. Cars in the street , wires overhead and , above you , the distant trails of an already departed plane. You shudder and step away from the window but you can't escape. S'impossible A newspaper on the floor , plastered with meaningless remote news stories. A»
"WANTED!!!" scream the flyers, "for Attempted Murder of Boring Rock and Roll , Slaughtering of Indie-Rock Dullness , Sonic Terrorism , Shameless Glamour and Excessive Ambition."At the Manchester Roadhouse , a venue usually reserved for local not-quite there chancers like the Clint Boon Experience , guitar»
Every Wednesday I buy myself a copy of the New Musical Express. Every word contained within it's worship-worthy , reverence deserving pages is completely 100% indisputably factually correct. They dictate every purchase I make and all expansion to my already "eclectic" record collection is a result of their advic»
Everyone loves this song don't they. I mean EVERYONE. Even those of us who apparently don't have a functioning irony gland (I fall into this category and the Bloodhound Gang can f* off) still love this song. We all think it's the greatest amalgamation of sounds in the history of sound itself. It effortlessly f»
Wow !!! What a great summer that was. Ok , so maybe the weather wasn't always up to sratch and Steps may have come through it still very much alive but the summer WAS great if only for one notable reason. The respective singles from Coldplay ("Yellow") and Girl Thing ("Last One Standing") went he»
The Offspring conspiracy is, after endless months of late nights finally unearthed. I, though probably putting my life on the line by doing so, hereby decree that the Offspring's songs are tailor made for MTV - Oh my god, shock horror. I think their songs are a bit samey - get back in the knife drawer.»
Take a look at the charts , listen to the radio or pick up a copy of one of the music weeklies and you can't avoid it. The British music market is overflowing with American acts producing brilliant , though sometimes milk-curdlingly awful , music. Marilyn Manson , the God of F* is here casting his shad»
Ah, the smell of the Mercury Music Prize nomination. The smell of critical acclaim. The sweet smell of the inflated record sales. It's almost enough to override the smell of Doves frontman Jimi Goodwin... In essence, a Doves gig is hardly a mouth-watering prospect with it being about as interesting as listening»
One always feels a certain sympathy the poor saps who have to take the role of support band given that all those present would rather they'd merely make way for those who the punters had parted with their cash to see but tonight is an important lesson to whoever threw together the atrocious NOFX meets Backstreet Boys a»
Let's party like it's 1979, cos it'll be the eighties soon. COOOOL !!! No, hang on. It ALREADY IS !!!!!!!!! WAHEY !!!!!! Look around you people. The eighties is happening all over again, and this here hack happens to be loving every minute of it. It seems every single significant movement in musi»
