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Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – And Now For The Whatchamacallit

Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets new album, And Now For The Whatchamacallit, puts them on a pedestal with their fellow countrymen King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard (I figured I wouldn’t…

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Album Review : Paul Gilbert’s ‘Behold Electric Guitar’

I first discovered Paul Gilbert when I was a freshman in high school. Somewhere around 1988 or 1989 I picked up the Racer X album Second Heat and I was…

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Album Review : Black Mountain’s ‘Destroyer’

I remember when I got my drivers license. I was a late bloomer and didn’t get mine till I was 17. After some shenanigans prior to being 16 and my…

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Album Review : Stray Cats – 40

26 years is not quite the longest ever gap between albums for a band, but it’s long enough to make the new Stray Cats album “40” one of the most…

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Album Review : Flying Lotus’ ‘Flamagra’

Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, has been on an upward swing from the moment he arrived in 2006 with his debut 1983. Falling comfortably into the shoes of producers like…

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Album Review: Christian Fitness – You Are The Ambulance

It’s that time of year again. Actually, like the swallows, Mr Falkous is a a bit later this year with a christian fitness album. But, also like the swallows, it’s…

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Album Review – Froth ‘Duress’

Froth is a band from Los Angeles consisting of Joo-Joo Ashworth (guitar), Jeremy Katz (bass) and Cameron Allen (drums). Together, they’ve explored a range of sounds shoegaze, psychedelia and post-punk…

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Album Review: Pip Blom – Boat

Although sounding like a singular, Pip Blom are actually a band from Amsterdam, although slightly confusingly, they’re led by the aforementioned Pip Blom (singular again). Through an EP, Paycheck, and…

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Album Review: Shonen Knife – Sweet Candy Power.

I’m always incredibly happy when I hear that Shonen Knife are releasing a new album. What’s not to be happy about? Since their formation in Osaka back in 1991, the trio…

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Album Review: Richard Hawley – Further

Sheffield’s Richard Hawley is not only the King of Sheffield (anyone want to argue with that?), he is also the King of Consistency. That might sound like damning with faint…

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