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Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
While there's always been an aversion for transatlantic influences to rise to the fore as far back as when The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were covering rock and roll standards and obscure delta blues...
Review posted on 14th March 2011
Dolorean - The Unfazed
Without meaning to confuse people too much, it just goes to show how one single solitary letter can make the same word take on a whole new meaning. In this case, let's take the letter...
Review posted on 14th March 2011
Vessels - Helioscope
While post-rock hasn't really recovered from the backlash it's taken in recent years, most of its protagonists have moved on to better, sparser pastures in search of more fulfilling new horizons. Mogwai's 'Hardcore Will Never...
Review posted on 2nd March 2011
Feeder - Nottingham Rock City. 14th February 2011
Review of Feeder live at Nottingham Rock City on 14th February 2011Despite being possibly the most uncool musical ensemble either side of Coldplay, there's something indiscriminately likeable about Feeder that marks them out as something...
Review posted on 21st February 2011
Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence
As one of the longest serving incumbents of Brooklyn's ever-creative Asobi Seksu, they could be described as veterans were it not for the youthful charm and elegant grace their music exudes. Oh, and the fact...
Review posted on 21st February 2011
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
As one of the founder members and undisputed heavyweight champions of the genre known as post-rock, Mogwai have little left to prove to anyone other than themselves. While their legacy has spawned literally hundreds of...
Review posted on 14th February 2011
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
While the word 'progressive' when used in the context of rock and roll can sometimes take an altogether worthy, self-indulgent kind of meaning, for nineteen-year-old Cleveland resident Dylan Baldi it's an ample representation of his...
Review posted on 1st February 2011
The Beets - Stay Home
New York trio The Beets are a curious anomaly. Despite having formed in 2008, their sound has more in common with bands from four decades ago whose most productive times were spent in garage rehearsal...
Review posted on 20th January 2011
Minks - By The Hedge
The classic British sound of early 1980s independent guitar pop is alive and well in New York it seems. Captured Tracks along with fellow Brooklynites Slumberland Records have built (and occasionally shared) rosters in debt...
Review posted on 20th January 2011
Jonsi - Go Live
Without going into the whys and wherewithals behind Jonsi Birgisson's decision to go it alone and record his first solo album, it would be fair to say that the result of his wares, 'Go', found...
Review posted on 20th January 2011
The Go Team - Rolling Blackouts
Brighton collective The Go! Team have always existed on their own terms. While proving something of a nightmare for those adept at subdividing and compartmentalising artists into different genres and so forth, The Go! Team's...
Review posted on 10th January 2011
Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go
Dark Dark Dark might be a new name on the block as far as UK audiences are concerned, but the Minneapolis collective have actually been honing their craft for quite some time. It was back...
Review posted on 4th January 2011
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
For a band who've been erring on the precipice of widespread acclaim for some time, it seems quite late in the day for The Joy Formidable's debut long player to finally make an appearance. Although...
Review posted on 4th January 2011
Various Artists - We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie
The influence of David Bowie on popular culture and music shows no sign of abating, even some forty-three years after his first record landed confusingly on an unsuspecting audience still very much in thrall to...
Review posted on 16th December 2010
Motorifik - Secret Things
Sometimes, names can be deceptive. Take Motorifik for example, surely an ensemble devoted to the past glories of all things krautrock if ever there were one? Of course that description couldn't be further from the...
Review posted on 15th December 2010
Cloud Nothings - Turning On
While there will always be the Luddite preconception that music should follow the art form of progression, and therefore be about creating something audacious and otherworldly, its always healthy to go back to basics every...
Review posted on 11th November 2010
Foals - Nottingham Rock City, 6th November 2010
Having created one of 2010's most inventive records with 'Total Life Forever', Oxford's Foals have already gone someway towards silencing the doubters - yours truly included - unsure about their Bloc Party-esque 4x4 math rock...
Review posted on 9th November 2010
The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster - Nottingham Rescue Rooms
As arguably the most unpredictably raw and preposterously intense live band of the past decade, one would expect Brighton five-piece The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster to have calmed down by now. While many of their...
Review posted on 2nd November 2010
Manic Street Preachers - Derby Assembly Rooms, 12th October 2010
As Great British institutions go, the Manic Street Preachers are surely up there alongside the likes of Twinings Tea and Coronation Street. Now approaching their twenty-fifth year of existence, album number ten having hit the...
Review posted on 18th October 2010
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
When you've already released arguably the best debut album of 2010 the only way is down, right? Wrong. For Jack Tatum, the creator and songwriting force behind Wild Nothing, it seems 'Gemini' was just a...
Review posted on 4th October 2010
Magnetic Man - Magnetic Man
As dance music enjoys something of a rejuvenation, its heartwarming to see such an upsurge of creativity taking place on these very shores. While previous revolutions in beat culture have traditionally occurred in the likes...
Review posted on 20th September 2010
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
There's little doubt that this year's big revolution in sound has come via the growing Stateside based chillwave movement. Indeed, when the curtain finally closes on 2010, it's hard to envisage any other new musical...
Review posted on 20th September 2010
Leeds & Reading Festival - 2010
For so long the bearer of bad timings and an even worse reputation, Leeds and its southern sister festival in Reading haven't exactly enjoyed the most positive of critical reactions in recent years. Whether it...
Review posted on 2nd September 2010
Field Day - Victoria Park, London July 31st 2010
Say what you like about the number of UK festivals currently bombarding the summer calendar months but in terms of quality control, there's no doubt the majority of the more intimate gatherings have upped their...
Review posted on 4th August 2010
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Three years is a long time in music; just ask the likes of Mika, Klaxons or Kanye West, all of whom could do no wrong back in 2007 yet each of which has since fallen...
Review posted on 26th July 2010
Latitude Festival - 2010
Having a built a reputation over the past four years as the UK's most family friendly music festival, it was something of a shock to be greeted on arrival by the news that a teenage...
Review posted on 20th July 2010
Cats and Cats and Cats - If I'd Had An Atlas
Having been online bloggers favourites for a good few years now, it's taken London-based collective Cats And Cats And Cats three years to finally get their debut long player in the few remaining record stores...
Review posted on 13th July 2010
Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006
Daniel Rossen may be better known these days as one quarter of Brooklyn experimental folk rock outfit Grizzly Bear, but ten years ago he was already sketching out his future plans as a songwriter and...
Review posted on 7th July 2010
Latitude Festival - 2010 Preview
Forget the World Cup, Wimbledon or Glastonbury, the main event for the more discerning music fan this summer takes place in a fortnight's time just off the A12 in the glorious Suffolk countryside.Latitude Festival opens...
Review posted on 1st July 2010
Tango In The Attic - Bank Place Locomotive Society
Mention the name Glenrothes and its highly unlikely many people outside the Fife town will would bat an eyelid. More renowned as being part of "Silicon Glen", the term used to describe Scotland's booming electronics...
Review posted on 24th June 2010
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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