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Feature: 10 Bands to Catch at Tramlines this weekend

So, it’s here again, Sheffield’s brilliant City Centre festival – Tramlines. With (literally) hundreds of bands to choose from all over the city this coming weekend (24th-26th July), it’s an…

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Film Review: The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?

The history of filmmaking is littered with what ifs. What if Tom Selleck played Indiana Jones? What if Sylvester Stallone was cast as Hans Solo? The greatest one perhaps is:…

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Album Review: Lamb Of God- VII: Sturm Und Drang

In the three years since Randy Blythe’s incarceration in the Czech Republic, the Lamb Of God frontman and his band have faced things that some bands could only imagine in…

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News:After The Burial Guitarist Justin Lowe Found Dead

After The Burial guitarist Justin Lowe was found dead on the night of July 21st in Wisconsin. The news comes after reports broke from his sister over the weekend that…

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See: Yo La Tengo release video for Cure cover “Friday I’m In Love”

It was a seemingly innocuous series of events that lead to the apocalypse. Remember when we greeted the start of the weekend with unnecessary cheery pictures of cats, or babies,…

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DVD Review: War and Peace

The story of Frank Oppenheimer and The Manhattan Project has been widely covered in film and on television. The race to build the first atomic bomb may have been the…

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DVD Review: Salute! Sun Yat Sen

When you’ve waited nine years since a director’s last proper feature, you’d be forgiven for expecting something a little special. Not Taiwanese filmmaker Yee Chih-yen, the director of Blue Gate…

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Track: Crystal Castles – Deicide

Its been an eventful year or so for Crystal Castles. Alice Glass went and then ensued a certain amount of back biting and bickering. The upshot of it was that…

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News: On-U Sound reissue Singers & Players’ – “War Of Words”

Whether it be The Clash covering ‘Police & Thieves’, DJ Don Letts spinning reggae at the Roxy or Steel Pulse opening for The Stranglers, dub reggae has been associated with…

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See: Female hip-hop crew Heresy release video for “Da Call Out”

Taken from their self titled debut EP comes a new track and video, Da Call Out, from all-female hip-hop group Heresy. With Grammy nominee Monie Love at the helm, the…

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Feature: 10 Bands to Catch at Tramlines this weekend

Film Review: The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?

Album Review: Lamb Of God- VII: Sturm Und Drang

News:After The Burial Guitarist Justin Lowe Found Dead

See: Yo La Tengo release video for Cure cover “Friday I’m In Love”

DVD Review: War and Peace

DVD Review: Salute! Sun Yat Sen

Track: Crystal Castles – Deicide

News: On-U Sound reissue Singers & Players’ – “War Of Words”

See: Female hip-hop crew Heresy release video for “Da Call Out”