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Album Review: Franz Ferdinand-Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

How many of you like me were enamored with Franz Ferdinand back in 2004? It’s hard to describe, but something about that debut album lit a post-punk fuse in me.…

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See: Editors reveal new video for Formaldehyde, plus November tour news

Sometimes, as much as I love music, the way things look is the thing that makes them beautiful. When I was at University I had a poster of (this might…

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Meet: We chat with The Magic Numbers, with new album news

You know sometimes you get this sort of blinkered memory of something, or somewhere. Like when I first went to Whitby and I thought it was this fantastic place where…

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New Music: Seawaves – Born To Fly

I’ve just come back off holiday. I went to the little Channel Island of Alderney. It’s this small bit of rock, where everything happens, well, whenever. I sort of love…

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ALBUM REVIEW: THE POLYPHONIC SPREE – YES, IT’S TRUE

Ten years ago I got hugely into what was being referred to as the ‘Cosmic Americana’ scene, a loose sub-category of American alt-rock that had given us such instant classics…

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Album Review: Medicine – To The Happy Few

When you hear a song like “Long As The Sun” -the opener on Medicine’s excellent new album To The Happy Few– you don’t think that this is a band that…

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Track: Years & Years – Traps

I reckon pretty much everyone tries a diet at sometime in their life. Whether that’s because they want to get smaller, or more muscle-bound, or fit into a particular dress…

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See: Walla release new Video for ‘Nature’

So I’m accident prone, what of it? The whole reason I started this….whatever its grown into, is (and you’ll know this story backwards by now if you read Backseat Mafia…

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Album Review: Whirr-Around

Whirr are lumped into that genre we Generation X oldsters affectionately call “shoegaze”. And while some of my favorite music is lumped into this category, I have to say it’s…

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New Music: The Very Most – Just A Pup EP

Readers, meet The Very Most. The band are from Boise, Idaho, on which a couple of fucking humungous FACTS. First, the bad fact: Boise is responsible for foisting Curtis Stigers…

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