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			The Wedding Present How The West Was Won Ep Collection Review The digital age has brought about much lamenting about past formats. Read More The Time Of The Assassins - Nickel Eye CD Album Review Strapped for a new group name? Then why not use your own? That’s what Nikolai Fraiture, bassist with The Strokes, did in creating Nickel Eye. Read More Lily Allen Announces UK Tour Lily Allen and her band will play a full UK tour in March 2009. The singer, who sold out her recently announced show at London’s Koko in less than an hour, last toured the UK two years ago. Read More Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Gig Review It's been a busy year for veteran goth rocker Nick Cave: back to back touring with two different bands (Grinderman and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and a new critically acclaimed album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! released in the spring. Read More Neverland Gig Review If Neverland is a dreamworld of neverending childhood and happiness, then what is Nevereverland? Well, we do know it’s in Australia. Read More Namasté Gig Review Kicking off an evening of loud, electric entertainment were two up and coming bands, Burgundy and 4 Hours, the latter being a surprisingly decent three-piece, until they met with a slow song they couldn’t quite pull off. Read More Threatmantics - Upbeat Love Album Review Weirdness abounds with Threatmantics, the latest rock and roll band to emerge from the Welsh Valleys. Read More Only Men Aloud! Album Review If you like expansive soundscapes, then do not turn your nose up at choir music. Earlier this year, the BBC screened a fascinating show called ‘Last Choir Standing’, which most domestic TV sound systems would have failed to do justice to. Read More Lou Reed’s Berlin DVD Review Living legend Lou Reed has been at the forefront of narrative musical cool for over three decades. Read More Eartha Kitt Live at the Cheltenham Jazz festival DVD & CD Album Review The name ‘Eartha Kitt’ draws a lot of blank faces, and those who do know the name only know it due to the Christmas song “Santa baby.” Read More Fatboy Slim to play Snowbombing What better way to kick off the 10th birthday celebrations than to announce the legendary Fatboy Slim as the first act to play Snowbombing 2009! Read More Le Le - Flage Album Review Taking its inspiration from almost any form of ‘new music’ that you might care to name, the quirky and eminently enjoyable Le Le is an Amsterdam trio, of which you will soon start to hear loads more. Read More AC-DC - No Bull - The Director’s Cut DVD Review Here’s a little known fact - Australian rock band AC-DC has enjoyed a long career that has made them every bit as powerful as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. Read More Ladytron Announce UK Tour Dates The almighty four-piece return to Blighty with a full tour fresh from sold out dates across North America. The fourth album "Velocifero" was released earlier this year to huge critical acclaim and features singles such as 'Ghost' and more recently 'Runaway'. Read More Woodpigeon - Songbook Album Review Canadian art-rocker Woodpigeon is actually Mark Hamilton, a multi-talented, multi-faceted muso, who composes pop music in much the same way as some of the world’s greatest writers lay their words onto A4 stock. Read More David Gilmour, Live in Gdansk Album Review The sad news that Rick Wright has succumbed to cancer, adds a poignancy to the launch of David Gilmour’s final concert of his solo ‘On An Island’ tour. Read More New CSS Video - Move Fresh from the release of their sophomore album ‘Donkey’ earlier this July, which showcased a tighter, more ambitious sound, as well as a raft of fresh influences forged together in archetypal CSS fashion Read More The Streets - 'Everything is Borrowed' Video The Streets fourth album is complete and set for release on September 15th. Read More Kitty, Daisy and Lewis by Kitty, Daisy and Lewis Durham Forget all preconceptions about the youth of today, because three north London siblings, currently aged 15, 18 and 17 years in album name order, are set to rock your world, with their phenomenal mix of classical rock ’n roll and rockabilly sounds. Read More No End in Sight - The Very Best of Foreigner Late-1970s rock is proving to have more staying power than ever, with the release of a ‘Very Best of’ double-CD from the grand masters of trans-Atlantic musicianship, Foreigner. Read More Stereo Sushi - Vol 13 - 2CD Album Review Slick, impeccably produced and reminiscent of only the coolest club-land sounds you may have ever heard, ‘Stereo Sushi Vol 13’ is the consummate accompaniment to whatever pleases you most in your life. Read More There’ll Always Be an England: Sex Pistols live at Brixton Academy It could be said that now is undoubtedly the right time to go for music based (or in this case wholly musical) DVD releases, what with Control and Joy Division having successfully whet the appetite of the UK audience. Read More Xavier Rudd - ‘Dark Shades Of Blue’ Album Review It is rare indeed, in these days of creative titling to happen across a new album that lives up to its name. However, Dark Shades Of Blue, the seventh album from Australian surf-enthusiast, Xavier Rudd, is both dark and very bluesy. Read More Prok & Fitch New Album And Dates Ka-boom It's here. History in the making. Make a note of where you are now as your first promo from Floorplay Music hits. Read More The Wedding Present Gig Review It was a trip down memory lane for many at the Forum as the Wedding Present rolled back the years. Read More The View - new album, single & UK tour The View have announced details of the release of their second album. Read More Greg Weeks Gig Review There is no doubt that Greg Weeks is well respected by his folk peers, with both opening acts Festival and Kelli Ali citing him as an inspiration and influence on their own works. Read More The Faint Gig Review My night began just as Ulterior, tonight’s penultimate offering, exited the stage with a note sharper than any the band had performed in the previous thirty minutes. Read More Lily Allen - Exclusive UK Gig Lily Allen to perform exclusive UK gig at London’s Koko on Wednesday, January 28th 2009. Read More Black Keys Gig Review Politically, Ohio is considered a swing state, and it certainly helped Barack Obama roll to victory in the US elections the other week. Read More Bryan Ferry The Bête Noire Tour DVD Review Bryan Ferry etched himself into the public consciousness as singer/songwriter of Roxy Music back in the 70s. Read More Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (Album Review) Canadian he may be but Neil Young became resident in Ann Arbor, California, around the same time as a wealth of vibrant talent from several other genres of popular music in the late-1960s. Read More Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo DVD Review Getting to see a big name band up close and personal is typically the preserve of photographers, roadies and the occasional celebrity back stage blagger. Read More The Bosshoss Tour Dates The BossHoss are a seven piece hailing from Berlin Mississippi. Their Country Trash Punk Rock is unique to them – it’s their shtick! Read More Three remastered albums - Buzzcocks Album Review Underrated is an overrated word. It is often employed to describe any bands with a couple of great songs, yet never achieved the success of some of their peers. Read More News of Lily Allen’s second album Lily Allen, the Wordsworth of the MySpace generation, returns with the much anticipated release of her second album “It’s Not Me, It’s You” on Regal Recordings on February 9, 2009. Read More Metalica UK Dates Metallica are set to play a full tour of the UK for the first time since October 1996. All the dates will be performed in the round with general admission tickets situated on the floor, with reserved seating off the floor. Read More The Move Anthology 1966 – 1972 Boxset Review The Move are rightly held high in the roll call of psychedelic superstars. Formed in 1966 the band consisted of Roy Wood, Carl Wayne, Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan with Jeff Lynne joining a few singles Read More The Research - The Old Terminal Album Review Sounding like a cross between Graeme Coxon and Robert Smith’s ‘The Cure’ but without the arty professionalism, The Research could be single bloke or group, the problem is, it is a mystery to me Read More GU35:Lima - Nick Warren Album Review A master of the house music scene, Bristol-based Nick Warren has been at the forefront of DJ-ing for the past 20 years and has already enjoyed phenomenal success with his Global Underground series Read More Style Of Eye - Duck, Cover And Hold Sweden is a wonderful country. Clean. Fresh. Vital. Which makes you wonder why the nation has among the highest suicide rates in the world. Read More The Big Sing 2008 The Big Sing is back, and bigger than ever. Once again it’s time for schools nationwide to get singing in an attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for the biggest simultaneous sing along!!! Read More Rock N Rolla - Soundtrack Review If you have not yet seen the latest movie from ‘Mr Madonna’…sorry, I meant Mr Guy Ritchie, then you may be blissfully unaware that musical accompaniment is a vital part of the Ritchie franchise. Read More Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell Album Review From the instant I heard Green Day’s re-recorded ‘Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)’ as performed by Country & Western signing legend Glen Campbell, I knew that a winning album was on the way. Read More Enigma - Seven Lives Many Faces Album Review Although German musician, Michael Cretu, had been involved in the music business since the mid-1970s, even he was starting to lose faith in it, when he formed the Enigma electronic music project in 1990 Read More Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos Album Review He is back. Tim Simenon, the sometime seminal master of electronica, has returned in his alter ego as ‘Bomb The Bass’, with a brand new album that delves deeply into a neo-classical, yet non-popular music vibe that figures on its origins somewhere back in the late-1980s. Read More The Punk Rock Movie DVD Review How strangely unthreatening the whole punk era now seems, as Don Letts’ original 1978 ‘movie’ is released on DVD. Just be aware that this ‘widescreen special edition’, as the rolling credits declare, is more of a hand-held 35mm rockumentary than conventional movie. Read More Hed Kandi Presents - Beach House Double Album Review It’s the summer! Well, that’s the rumour and to get us all in the mood Hed Kandi have compiled this sun worshipping collection of Latin rhythms and Balearic beats to get us all in the holiday spirit. Read More
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