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Favez - Bigger Mountains, Higher Flags
Favez Bigger Mountains, Higher Flags Gentlemen Album Review Quick, name a Swiss rock group... If you're as stumped as most, Favez will now top the list. From Lausanne, this is the band's sixth album of...
Review posted on 10th March 2008
American Music Club - The Golden Age
American Music Club The Golden Age Cooking Vinyl Album Review American Music Club are a band musicians like to namecheck as influential - especially, if, like Wilco, Richmond Fontaine, or Lambchop, you lean towards a...
Review posted on 3rd March 2008
Witch - Paralyzed
Witch Paralyzed Tee-Pee Album Review Whatever J Mascis turns his hand to at the moment, great things result. Witch is something on the side from Dinosaur Jr (although the phrase 'side project' is frowned upon),...
Review posted on 3rd March 2008
Colour Revolt - Beg and Curse
Colour Revolt Plunder, Beg and Curse Fat Possum Album Review Released on the ultra-cool label that saw the Black Keys, RL Burnside and Hayden released, Plunder, Beg and Curse is the debut album release from...
Review posted on 3rd March 2008
Pete And The Pirates - Little Death
Pete and The Pirates Little Death Stolen Album Review UK indie fans don't really demand too much - just that the songs be catchy, the energy high and huge enthusiasm throughout (and ideally the kind...
Review posted on 25th February 2008
Nicolai Dunger - Nicollide and the Carmic Retribution
Nicolai Dunger Nicollide and the Carmic Retribution EMI (Sweden) Album Review One listens to new Van Morrison albums like Geordies travel to Old Trafford - in misplaced optimism, rather than expectation. In 2001, Nicolai Dunger...
Review posted on 25th February 2008
Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark New West Album Review The Drive-By Truckers command fierce loyalty from their followers - the sound of the new 'Southern Rock' (despite three leading members coming from Athens, Georgia)....
Review posted on 25th February 2008
Bob Mould - District Line
Bob Mould District Line Beggars Banquet Album Review Bob Mould is a legend of alternative rock, known for fronting Hüsker Dü in the 80s and Sugar in the 90s - his credibility is guaranteed as...
Review posted on 18th February 2008
Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child Columbia Album Review Manchester Orchestra is the brainchild of singer, songwriter Andy Hull - the band hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and has an average age of...
Review posted on 18th February 2008
Brian Jonestown Massacre, My Bloody Underground Album Review
Brian Jonestown Massacre My Bloody Underground a recordings Album Review Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of those cult bands whom the indie kids like to name-drop - determinedly lo-fi, experimental and often somewhat odd (a...
Review posted on 18th February 2008
School of Language - Sea From Shore
School of Language Sea From Shore Memphis Industries Album Review You may have views about Field Music (I do, and most of them aren't positive), but David Brewis, of that selfsame band, has made a...
Review posted on 12th February 2008
Thao - We Brave Bee Stings And All
Thao We Brave Bee Stings And All Kill Rock Stars Album Review If you fell for Feist after hearing a few iPod Nano adverts (and Yael Naim from the Macbook Air advert), head out immediately...
Review posted on 12th February 2008
Battle Of Land and Sea - Battle of Land and Sea
Battle of Land and Sea Battle of Land and Sea Notenuf Album Review It is hard to miss comparisons to artists like Cat Power and Mazzy Star on this debut from Sarah O'Shura. However, where...
Review posted on 12th February 2008
Black Mountain - In The Future
Black MountainIn The FutureJagjaguwarAlbum Review A slightly ironic title for an album that harks so successfully to the past. In The Future is the second album by Canadian psychedelic rock band Black Mountain, and it...
Review posted on 4th February 2008
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
Six Organs of AdmittanceShelter from the AshDrag CityAlbum Review Six Organs of Admittance is effectively a side-project for Ben Chasny, a guitarist who plies his trade in several indie bands. However, it is clearly not...
Review posted on 4th February 2008
The Whigs - Mission Control
The WhigsMission ControlATO Records Album ReviewOne of the most refreshing rock albums in a while, Mission Control is the second by Athens, Georgia trio The Whigs. To record their first on a shoestring, the band...
Review posted on 4th February 2008
Land Of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
Land of Talk Applause Cheer Boo Hiss One Little Indian Album Review Rock of the highest order, recalling the heady heyday of female pop-grunge (think Juliana Hatfield, Belly, or maybe more recently even Gemma Hayes,...
Review posted on 28th January 2008
Cat Power - Jukebox
Cat Power Jukebox Matador Album Review Cat Power is the stage name of Chan (say 'Shawn') Marshall, a singer who has built an incredible mythology around her stripped down style. Recording since 1995, it was...
Review posted on 28th January 2008
North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando
North Mississippi Allstars Hernando Sounds of the South Album Review North Mississippi Allstars is a trio from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996 - two brothers, Luther and Cody Dickinson (sons of the legendary Memphis producer...
Review posted on 28th January 2008
The Eels - Meet The Eels: Essential Eels Vol 1 1996-2006
Eels Meet The Eels: Essential Eels Vol 1 1996-2006 Universal Album Review Eels are one of those US bands (like Cake) who have remained significant and significantly different for the whole of their career. Mark...
Review posted on 21st January 2008
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? Rough Trade Album Review The Brighton rock group's rabid fan base has helped ensure continued word of mouth for each new release. And while there is little...
Review posted on 21st January 2008
Marah - Angels of Destruction
Marah Angels of Destruction Yep Roc Album Review Marah exist in that uncomplicated rock space enjoyed by so many. Like The Deadstring Brothers, whose Stones' influence is clearly heard, Marah's brand of rock is frequently...
Review posted on 21st January 2008
Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Bowerbirds Hymns for a Dark Horse Bowerbirds Album Review Finding bands to reference for Bowerbirds is difficult - they are part of a new vibe, a new direction of bands that pick up instruments and...
Review posted on 14th January 2008
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin Provogue Album Review The 'problem' with being a rather remarkable blues guitarist is the bits between the solos, especially if you're keen on originals rather than covers. At some point, you're...
Review posted on 14th January 2008
The Silos - Come On Like The Fast Lane
The Silos Come On Like The Fast Lane Blue Rose Album Review The Silos are one of the prototypical Americana rock-soul bands, an organic hard-edged songwriting band that paved the way for so many -...
Review posted on 14th January 2008
Jim Muir Slideshow - ...And With The Fading Of The Light
Jim Muir Slideshow ...And With The Fading Of The Light Tomorrow's World Industry/ Number 1 Album Review Time spent as a junior doctor (with band mate Paul Galpin) led to Jim Muir writing songs, and...
Review posted on 7th January 2008
Alvin Lee - Saguitar
Alvin Lee Saguitar Rare Album Review Alvin Lee is one of the most famous British blues guitarists, catapulted to prominence when his band Ten Years After was captured on film in the Woodstock documentary. Alongside...
Review posted on 7th January 2008
James Taylor - One Man Band
James Taylor One Man Band Universal Album Review James Taylor, like Jackson Browne, seems to have survived in a state of permanent youth since his heyday in the higher echelons of the early 70s singer-songwriter...
Review posted on 7th January 2008
Clara Sanabras - Clara and The Real Lowdown
Clara Sanabras Clara and The Real Lowdown Smudged Records Album Review If the female folk that makes its way onto ads like Audi's and Orange's has any appeal, and you're into performance art, then Clara...
Review posted on 3rd January 2008
Tom Ovans - Party Girl
Tom Ovans Party Girl Evangeline Album Review Party Girl may be the best album Bob Dylan has made in 20 years (think Infidels, rather than Oh Mercy). Unlike the overrated Joe Henry, Tom Ovans' music...
Review posted on 3rd January 2008
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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'.
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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]
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![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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