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Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits
Review of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's album 'Greatest Hits'Unsurprisingly, The Boss's new album is released to coincide with his UK tour and appearance at Glastonbury. With at least two fairly comprehensive Greatest...
Review posted on 29th June 2009
David Kitt - The Nightsaver
Review of David Kitt's album The NightsaverIt may surprise to know that this relatively unknown Irish singer-songwriter is in fact six albums into his career. It's not always been plain sailing for Kitt. In 2001...
Review posted on 18th May 2009
The Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
Review of The Noisettes' album 'Wild Young Hearts' London trio The Noisettes are back, and if you've seen the adverts you'll know they've been tarted up like the proverbial dog's dinner. Not that Shangai Shoniwa,...
Review posted on 27th April 2009
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
Review of The Whitest Boy Alive's album 'Rules' It seems that it simply isn't enough to be part of just one band, and generally any artist worth their salt has a dalliance or two elsewhere....
Review posted on 27th April 2009
The Bishops - For Now
Review of The Bishops album 'For Now'It's not as if the music industry is short of bands that cite The Beatles, the most successful band of all time, as a major influence. But here come...
Review posted on 8th April 2009
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
Review of Dananananaykroyd's album 'Hey Everyone'.It's a pretty self explanatory album title- there's no doubt that Dananananaykroyd have clear intentions of introducing themselves to the world. By way of a further introduction (on 'watch this!'),...
Review posted on 8th April 2009
Who Made Who - The Plot
Review of Who Made Who's album 'The Plot'.What would you expect of a band that shares its name with an AC/DC album? Frivolity, presumably. And judging from the promo shots of the band, Who Made...
Review posted on 1st April 2009
Twisted Wheel - We Are Us
Review of Twisted Wheel's single We Are Us.Being Oasis's next endorsement must be a daunting prospect. After all, Big Brother's Little Brothers haven't always fared so well (see Proud Mary, Shack, Hurricane #1 et al)....
Review posted on 1st April 2009
Blue Roses - Eponymous
Review of Blue Roses' debut album 'Eponymous'.You may not have heard of Blue Roses. Similarly, you may not have heard of Laura Groves. But, whether you have or you haven't, you now know that they...
Review posted on 1st April 2009
Mr Bones and The Dreamers - Are These Actual Miles?
Review of Mr Bones and The Dreamers' single 'Are These Actual Miles?'Less is more with pathos, generally speaking. As is the case with Mr Bones and the Dreamers, it can sound very overused. His voice...
Review posted on 1st April 2009
Fight Like Apes - Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Review of Fight Like Apes debut album 'Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion'.It's hard to know where to begin with an album title like this! Dublin's self-professed 'highly motivated couch potatoes'...
Review posted on 9th March 2009
Red Light Company - Fine Fascination
Review of 'Fine Fascination' the debut album from Red Light Company.Fascinating: something that many bands want to be. Some bands achieve it with seemingly little or no effort, whilst others struggle to manufacture it for...
Review posted on 9th March 2009
La Roux - In for the Kill
Review of La Roux's single 'In For The Kill'.Proof that eighties revival simply will not lie down and die, synth-pop act La Roux return with new single 'In for the Kill.' You may know them...
Review posted on 3rd March 2009
Pete Doherty - Last of the English Roses
Review of Pete Doherty's single 'Last of the English Roses'Everyone's favourite mockney urchin has returned, but with disappointingly standard fare. Pete revisits his own well-trodden ground of vaguely nostalgic sentiments: Kinks-style memories of a forgotten...
Review posted on 3rd March 2009
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Review of Animal Collective's album 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' released through Domino. The haunting opening chords to Merriweather Post Pavilion's first track 'In the Flowers' transports us once more into Animal Collective's strange parallel universe. They've...
Review posted on 3rd March 2009
Leeds Festival 2007
Leeds Festival 2007ReviewSomehow it managed to slip under the noses of the BBC that Bramham Park, Leeds, was once again populated by tens of thousands of young music fans this past August Bank Holiday Weekend....
Review posted on 5th September 2007
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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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