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(07/10/2008) [Read More] Eva Cassidy - Somewhere ALBUM REVIEW 'Somewhere' comes after the late Eva Cassidy's guitarist Keith Grimes found a box of recordings five years ago that had been "packed away and forgotten" ... (02/09/2008) [Read More] Dutch Schultz - Carve Our Names ALBUM REVIEW Russell Crookes have mastered a uniquely vibrant sound and have now climbed the initial summit firmly planting their flag ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Mötorhead - Mötorizer ALBUM REVIEW After 33 years in the business and 19 albums not including the live albums and the multiple humdrum 'Best Of' releases under their belts, these greasy leather clad chaps have ... (29/08/2008) [Read More] The Vines - Melodia ALBUM REVIEW Just when you thought you'd heard the last of these Aussie garage rockers, they're back shortly after churning out the clichéd Greatest Hits collection through former major record label, Capitol (01/08/2008) [Read More] Primal Scream - Beautiful Future ALBUM REVIEW Album releases from Primal Scream can almost be seen as a long term style-hopping tapestry which these eclectic post-modern Glaswegian rockers have weaved so well in the past ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Further on Down the Road - The Markus Band ALBUM REVIEW A lot can happen in 25 years. Marriages are made in heaven and sometimes destroyed in hell; children are born; jobs are lost and dreams trickle like water through your fingers ... (19/07/2008) [Read More] Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider ALBUM REVIEW Words such as dark, iconic and gothic all best describe Vincent Fernier's creative rock alias, Alice Cooper. If you've never heard the name, your probably either five years old or ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Stone Gods - Silver Spoons & Broken Bones ALBUM REVIEW Another British rock band to grace the stage now emerges and has wasted no time in getting out there to strut their stuff to the crowds ... (08/07/2008) [Read More] Paper Rival - Dialog ALBUM REVIEW Paper Rival are a foursome that formed three years ago in Nashville, Tennessee and have already built strong foundations based on their rich deep song writing and have created something quite special ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Mikal Blue - Gold ALBUM REVIEW You can't really blame album producer Mikal Blue for wanting to finally release material that has been floating around in his head for a while; finally putting pen to paper and creating a full solo album has been a long time coming ... (13/06/2008) [Read More] Parka - Attack Of The Hundred Yard Hardman ALBUM REVIEW The Scottish scene has laid down the foundations for many bands rise into success - NME-supported Glasvegas, mediocre pop band The View and the 'ascension' of The Dykeenies ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles ALBUM REVIEW As contemporary rap double acts come, these two characters have slowly emerged throughout the music scene barely un-noticed ... (13/05/2008) [Read More] Portishead - Third ALBUM REVIEW Ten years between albums is a hell of a long time to wait, so if you're finally going to stick your head above the parapet and release something new, it ... (07/05/2008) [Read More] Cajun Dance Party - The Colourful Life ALBUM REVIEW I can't even begin to wonder how hard it is to be revising for your A-Levels at the same time as pioneering a youthful London overflowing with talent, making it ... (25/04/2008) [Read More] Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha ALBUM REVIEW One of the best and original bands to come out of South England are back once again. This is the band critics love to label as the poorer cousin among ... (16/04/2008) [Read More] Panic At The Disco - Pretty Odd ALBUM REVIEW In 2006, it was popular demand that had thrust these baby-faced Las Vegas boys into the spotlight. NME tours and much glossy pop-press pushed their popularity to respectable heights which ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Envy And Other Sins - We Leave At Dawn ALBUM REVIEW After defeating the likes of The Headliners, Bad Robots and Hijak Oscar to be given the prestigious 2007 Mobile Act Best Unsigned Band award this album comes as a bit ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad ALBUM REVIEW Whitesnake are more of an institution than a rock band. Steeped in rock history they have included over 30 different musicians since their beginning in 1977. David Coverdale proudly being ... (04/04/2008) [Read More] Boy Kill Boy - Stars and the Sea ALBUM REVIEW Brit-Pop is no longer a fashionable phrase, but unless you've been living in a cave the last two years you may of noticed the shear volume of British Indie bands invading our eardrums ... (28/03/2008) [Read More] Four Year Strong - Rise or Die Trying ALBUM REVIEW Four Year Strong certainly make bad first impressions - with the album title a questionable parody of 50 Cent's infamous debut, and song titles that look like they were rejects from ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The Whip - X Marks Destination ALBUM REVIEW The Whip are one of those bands which you'll probably either love or hate. Or love to hate. Or just hate.If you're into your electro-pop-dance acts, the chances are you ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The Black Keys - Attack & Release ALBUM REVIEW A challenge is prompted for all of you music lovers who are strangers to this particular pairing. The challenge is to simply indulge in something that is refreshingly different, artistically refined and intelligent ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Voodoo Six - First Hit For Free ALBUM REVIEW The girly earthquakes that recently shook Britain are nothing compared to the tremors within the British rock scene of late, with keen debutants arousing interest as we approach the festival season ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-V ALBUM REVIEW It only seems like yesterday that Year Zero was hitting the shops, but here we are with a brand new Nine Inch Nails album ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Caspa & Rusko - Fabriclive 37 ALBUM REVIEW Justice must be annoyed. After their mix was publicly kicked out by one of the world's foremost clubs - Fabric - almost complete unknowns, from the underground dubstep scene, were chosen to take their place ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo ALBUM REVIEW Nerdy and eccentric front man from surf rock band Weezer really is a song writing machine. From the early nineties, Rivers Cuomo has churned out song after song and finally ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Black Tide - Light From Above ALBUM REVIEW Time escapes all of us too fast in the nougties - stark reflection too that leather clad arena rock era comforts those of us of a certain age. Fond memories ... (15/02/2008) [Read More] Burial - Untrue ALBUM REVIEW Would you award the "Album of the Year" to an artist that only five people knew? Well, that's just what The Wire did ... (06/02/2008) [Read more] Econoline Crush - Ignite ALBUM REVIEW Canada doesn't quite haemorrhage the same volume of alt-rock bands as much as their big neighbours have in recent years. But when a band emerges from this country it usually bears healthy fruit ... (06/02/2008) [Read more] Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor ALBUM REVIEW The history of popular music is littered with songs that would've been a damn sight better if only somebody had plucked up the courage to say "Tell you what, let's ... (06/02/2008) [Read More] Another Animal - Another Animal ALBUM REVIEW Finally, the US have released an alternative rock band and subsequent debut album that has big brass balls and as much power as a Russian nuclear power station ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Seether - Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces ALBUM REVIEW If you are unfamiliar to South African alternative post-grungsters, Seether, you've been missing out on a grand scale (07/10/2008) [Read More] Zico Chain - Food ALBUM REVIEW You know when you've stumbled upon a good album. Just try and find something wrong with this. Bet that even if you dissect each track you'll come up short ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Alter Bridge - Blackbird ALBUM REVIEW Rodimus Prime. In 1986 there was an animated movie of Transformers, cunningly titled Transformers: The Movie. Simple plot - the leader of the good guys, Optimus Prime, dies, everyone faffs about ... (26/10/2007) [Read More] Radiohead - In Rainbows ALBUM REVIEW Depending on which side of the fence you sit, Radiohead have either done something incredibly stupid or something incredibly brilliant. Their six album deal with Parlophone ended with Hail To ... (16/10/2007) [Read More] The Dykeenies - Nothing Means Everything ALBUM REVIEW Remember the indie versus emo war not too long ago? No, thought not. Well, it was hardly a war really, barely even a kerfuffle. More handbags at six paces, some ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The Coral - Roots & Echoes ALBUM REVIEW Towards the end of touring their last album The Invisible Invasion in 2005,The Coral almost imploded. Their fourth top five album in under three years had spawned the band's most successful ... (31/08/2007) [Read More] Daughtry - Daughtry ALBUM REVIEW Chris Daughtry came to the US's attention as a finalist on the fifth series of the hit show American Idol in 2006. He was tipped to win the talent show and ... (31/08/2007) [Read More] Bowfinger - Bowfinger (live album) ALBUM REVIEW Some things in life are a constant. Death and taxes will always get you, Ian Beale will always be in EastEnders, the rain will always ruin your barbecue ... (09/08/2007) [Read More] Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris ALBUM REVIEW A Queens of the Stone Age record should mean but one thing - dirty great big man riffs. What else from rock's only outlaws? - The biggest, baddest, wildest and weirdest ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Editors - An End Has A Start ALBUM REVIEW Editors are a big favourite with some of my colleagues but I have to admit I've never seen the reason for all the excitement ... (26/06/2007) [Read More] The Films - Don't Dance Rattlesnake ALBUM REVIEW Good move by The Films to up sticks from Hicksville USA and head to New York to become 'a faster living band,' because they and this debut record are the ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Trabant - Emotional ALBUM REVIEW With a penchant for champagne and glitter, a goal to be 'bigger than Queen,' and members consisting of one rap producer with the sailor's blood, a death metal guru, a ... (15/06/2007) [Read More] Goldspot - Tally of the Yes Men ALBUM REVIEW The biography of LA based Goldspot is a breath of fresh air. No, not a story of touring the toilet circuits, sure their big break was within touching distance if they ... (09/06/2007) [Read More] The Holloways - Land of Hope and Glory ALBUM Do you remember when bands were all 'Blighty this' and 'Union Jack that?' No sooner has Edward Larrikin proclaimed in song his longing to cut and and run from this green and pleasant land ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak ALBUM As the first signings to independent label Brille the south London four piece have been one of those impatient waits music lovers have to endure every now and again while ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue Album review I don't know about you, but the best music tends to come from people who are left alone to do whatever they want and to hell with chart ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] The Vincent Black Shadow - Fears in the Water Album review Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Especially if that woman happens to be Filipino / Canadian seductress-come-vocalist, Cassandra Ford, of the curiously named The Vincent Black Shadow ... (13/05/2007) [Read More] The Maccabees - Colour It In Album review Gadzooks! You don't get many bands these days brave enough to release a single entirely about the childhood escapades to be had in the local swimming baths ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Chris Cornell - Carry On ALBUM REVIEW Ah, the old second solo album, but 13th studio album syndrome - unlucky for some, unlucky for Chris Cornell. Fresh from writing the worst Bond theme ever, 'You Know My Name' ... (30/05/2007) [Read More] Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long Album review Ten million sales, two Grammy's and an album that went platinum in 35 countries scream that somebody must be prolonging the career of Maroon 5 ... (20/05/2007) [Read More] The Rakes - Ten New Messages Album review The Rakes return is that tricky second album where bands feel the need to 'develop' their sound. So often that decision just highlights the old adage that if it ain't broke ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers Album review I have to admit the thought of a new Manics album didn't exactly fill me with eager anticipation. To be truthful I've found recent offerings a bit dirge like so was ... (17/05/2007) [Read More] Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots ALBUM At last the answer to the infinite monkey theorem. But rather than the room full of monkeys on typewriters randomly typing out the complete works of Billy Shakespeare it appears ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver ALBUM James Murphy, producer and founder of the cult label DFA, recently claimed that the only reason he started making his own music was because he was so disappointed with all ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank ALBUM REVIEW In a world where artists are either increasingly experimental to the point of obscurity or simply playing what's been done so many times before it is unbelievably relieving to come ... (12/02/2008) [Read More] Idlewild - Make Another World ALBUM With single 'No Emotion' released tomorrow and a UK tour coming up in March, Idlewild are once again in the public eye. And listening to this latest offering it's clear to ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] SoundARC Compilation Volume 1 Album review It's here! It's here! Nu-rave is here! Oh Don't mention nu-rave? Right-ho I read about 'that label' in 'that weekly music paper!' It's all London art-school kids taking MDMA and dressing ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Capdown - Wind up Toys ALBUM 'You've got to take risks if you want to break through/ Be a part of something music that makes a difference,' sings vocalist Jake Sims-Fielding on 'Commuity Service' - a ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future ALBUM It's here! It's here! Nu-rave is here! Oh Don't mention nu-rave? Right-ho I read about 'that label' in 'that weekly music paper!' It's all London art-school kids taking MDMA and dressing ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Windmill - Puddle City Racing Lights Album review It seems like a million light years ago when The Scene first stumbled across Newport Pagnell's finest new singer-songwriter Windmill aka Matt Dillon. It was, in fact, only back in ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus Album review As big fans of The Earlies' debut album The Scene had been waiting in anticipation for this, the next instalment. As innovative as the music that they make the guys have ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The Hours - Narcissus Road Album review There are plenty of rock/ indie acts around at the moment, but for so much choice there's little in the way of difference. In come The Hours who've taken the ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The View - Hats off to the Buskers Album review Ever since the clock struck 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve I've come over all 1994. Funny, as I can't say I noticed a flash and a bang, nor a ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] The Ruby Suns - 'The Ruby Suns' Album review "Compare the plants and trees/ In all the different countries/ And then you'll find you're moving far." Strangely, the prevailing feeling of this album is one of a Californian surf rock ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Hed Kandi Presents Nu Cool Album review Need something to brighten up those cold winter days now that Christmas is over? The new compilation from Hed Kandi might do just that. The new compilation from Hed Kandi arrives ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Dirty Zine - Pedestrian 02 Album review The trouble with compilations is that they usually try to please everyone. They get labelled an 'eclectic mix' or 'songs for everyone', which always steers me in the direction of ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Field Music - Tones of Town Album review Since The Futureheads released their brilliant debut back in 2004 they prompted an influx of other bands influenced by the angular, mechanical guitar and artificial drum beats of post-punk ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] Make Good Your Escape - Never Look Back Here Again Album review This seems to be the first offering for a while from Fierce Panda. In the blurb Make Good Your Escape are described as 'purveyors of euphoric rock'. I'd take issue with ... (09/05/2007) [Read More] Oasis - Stop the Clocks ALBUM As the inlay booklet says: "This is the definitive sonic document of how Oasis transformed everything, how they kick-started the real 90s, how line by line, riff by riff, sneer ... (27/09/2007) [Read More] Working For A Nuclear Free City - 'Working For A Nuclear Free City' Album review It may be a belated love affair but the self-titled debut from Manchester's uniquely named Working For A Nuclear Free City makes The Scene swoon ... (07/10/2008) [Read More] (+44) - 'When Your Heart Stops Beating' (album sampler) Album review Ex-Blink 182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker obviously think so much of their new band (pronounced Plus 44) that they have only pre-released a sampler of forthcoming album 'When ... (09/05/2007) [Read More] Ordinary Boys - 'How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted Wanted In Ten Easy Steps Album Review Ah, the fickle finger of fame. First you're snot nosed, angry young punks with a penchant for ska. The next you're gossip column fodder, by way of front man ... (17/05/2007) [Read More] The Killers - Sam's Town Album review Much hyped and long awaited, the follow up to 'Hot Fuss' looks like going in at Number One in the album charts on Sunday. It's a well deserved achievement though finding ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] Radio 1s Live Lounge - Compilation Album review Jo whiley is officially cool, there's no doubt about it. Even Grazia magazine 'Britain's best selling (only) glossy weekly' has billed her as the country's 'coolest 42-year-old' ... (17/05/2007) [Read More] Jet - Shine Album review A few years ago the only being more omnipotent than Australian retro rockers Jet was the Almighty himself. With the Cester siblings billed as the Antipodean answer to the Gallagher ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] Juliette Lewis and The Licks - Four on the Floor Album review It has occured to me that we men might just be becoming ever so slowly obsolete. If it isn't those plastic rabbits in bedside tables rendering our bedroom gymnastics second ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] Larrikin Love - The Freedom Spark Album review It's a mutiny I tell ya! The good ship Albion has been captured, all comparisons to the old guard have been made to walk the plank, a cutlass has been ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] Kasabian - Empire Album review The inevitable second record. A well known battlefield for all bands that seemed to have greatness, and the world in the palm of their hands ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men Album review Dust off your tweed jackets, iron out your corduroys, and get your NHS spectacles at the ready, because the rise of the nerd is here and The Young Knives are ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High Album review Photographs show Australia's The Grates to all be big girls and boys, but a listen to the three-piece's debut shows the sound of a band that never want to grow up ... (19/04/2007) [Read More] Muse - Black Holes and Revelations Album review If the end of the world was nigh and some bright spark thought it would be oh so nice to welcome in the four horsemen with a soundtrack you could ... (18/04/2007) [Read More]