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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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Album Review: The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) 20th anniversary reissue

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Album Review: Suburban Studs – Slam 2 CD Set On Cherry Red Records

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If you look back at the charts of MTV Brazil’s famous ‘daily top 10 videos’ from about ten years ago(2000-2006), Jay Vaquer was present, bringing his own social criticisms through pretty visuals and through his lyrics, making ascorbic comments our modern society. However, mysteriously, Jay has all but disappeared from the radio and television and …

Melbourne’s Zone Out dabble in the electro pop waters that bands like Beach House, Phantogram, and even newer Wye Oak have been making their names in for some time now. The duo, which consists of Ashley Bundang and Dove Bailey string together dreamy melodies, pop beats, and catchy retro 80s vibes that would be just …

Columbus natives Beartooth are back in 2016 with a brand new album, Aggressive.  The follow up to Disgusting released in 2014, Aggressive is a less angry but still as powerful Beartooth. Opener and title track, Aggressive is huge. The melodic chorus twinned with the lively guitars and gang vocals increases the overall dynamic of the …

I know what you’re thinking if you haven’t yet heard the Sean Lennon and Les Claypool collaboration called The Claypool Lennon Delirium. You’re thinking you have no interest in hearing this band. You’ve heard Primus and all the other nautically-themed records Claypool has put out over the last 20 years on his own and with …

Pop music has always been looked down upon by long haired indie kids in skinny jeans. How do I know? Because I used to be one of said indie kids. The hair is shorter now, but the skinny jeans remain. It has been a genre responsible for filling our charts with many a cheesy criminal …

Scottish trio Fatherson are on the cusp of releasing their sophomore album Open Book, following the critically acclaimed debut I Am An Island released in 2014. The new record will be available on 3rd June 2016, celebrated with a short tour of the Highlands and album launches in both London and Glasgow. ‘Just Past The Point …

For anyone with any history with Paul Allen, Gareth Turner and Jesse Webb, the trio who make up Big Naturals and Anthropropph; you would expect from the outset that this is not going to be an album of harmonic ballads or even gentle lilting space rock. All three have a reputation of delivering hard hitting …

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol (TBWNIAS) is a band that I first came across last year when Cardinal Fuzz released ‘Masters of the Molehill’, apparently the band’s ninth album. Such was it’s impact on me that within a couple of weeks it was on our list of essential albums for 2015. Little did …

Original Hawkwind Saxophonist and flautist Nik Turner recently joined Seattle-based experimental jazz ensemble Flame Tree (Dennis Rea on guitar, Paul “PK” Kemmish on bass, and Jack Gold-Molina on drums) for an unexpected way-out album of improvisation and freaky free form adventure. Jack Gold-Molina, who played in Spectral Waves with Dennis Rea, in the autumn of …

This is Psychic Ills first release since ‘One More Time’, one of my favourite albums of its time and one that helped me cement my love of all things ‘psych’. It was an album that had a beautifully lugubrious approach, so laid back yet with some real bite too it. ‘FBI’, in particular is a …