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Say Psych: Album Review – Sky Is Hell Black by Has A Shadow (Captcha Records/ Fuzz Club Records)

In the past musical trends have tended to be broadly geographical: the Merseybeat scene, West Coast Flower Power, German Krautrock, NY Punk, Coventry’s Two Tone, Madchester – I could go…

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Live: London Grammar, Say Lou Lou & Kyan. O2 Academy Sheffield. 08/02/2014

It’s Saturday night, there’s a relentless squall of rain and me and my girlfriend are stood in an optimistic and good-natured queue that stretches down to High Street. Of course,…

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New Music: Hudson Taylor – Weapons

It seems there is a wealth of acts coming out of Ireland, with people like Kodaline and Gavin James leading the charge in 2013. This year though, it might be…

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Album Review: Young Fathers – Dead

Living in Edinburgh but with the roots all over the place, but principally Scotland, Liberia and Nigeria, Young Fathers aka Alloysious, G and Kayus have made an album, their debut…

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News: The Temperance Movement announce spring European Tour

London-based blues rockers The Temperance Movement are off on tour. Nothing new there, they played over a hundred gigs last year, and have already built a reputation for their live…

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Meet: Angelspit

With a new album imminent Zoog from Electro-punk riot squad Angelspit took some time out to answer a few questions about crowd funding, the new album and having such a…

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New Music: No Bra – Candy

I find it highly unlikely that I’ll hear another album like this in 2014. I was going to say ‘you’ instead of ‘I’ but what do I know about what’s…

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See: J. Roddy Walston & The Business UK Dates, plus new video

We got all enthusiastic about the rather addictive Southern rock of J Roddy Walston & The Business before, with its low slung riffs and scuffed up basslines, and Roddy himself,…

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A Buyers Guide to The Wonder Stuff 1988 – 1994

Few acts split opinion like The Wonder Stuff over the years, on one hand their detractors are plentiful and vocal, yet their fans have been loyal and passionate. Rising to…

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See: Black Submarine release “Here So Rain” video

This was a very, very nice surprise. Black Submarine, previously known as The Black Ships until mid-2012, were formed in November 2008 by former Verve members Nick McCabe and Simon…

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Say Psych: Album Review – Sky Is Hell Black by Has A Shadow (Captcha Records/ Fuzz Club Records)

Live: London Grammar, Say Lou Lou & Kyan. O2 Academy Sheffield. 08/02/2014

New Music: Hudson Taylor – Weapons

Album Review: Young Fathers – Dead

News: The Temperance Movement announce spring European Tour

Meet: Angelspit

New Music: No Bra – Candy

See: J. Roddy Walston & The Business UK Dates, plus new video

A Buyers Guide to The Wonder Stuff 1988 – 1994

See: Black Submarine release “Here So Rain” video