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The always fruity Peaches is back with fourth album I Feel Cream which finds her giving the past a slip and whipping it real good.
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Peaches - I Feel Cream
Drop Nineteens - Delaware
Welcome reissue of Boston shoegazers debut effort from 1992 complete with bonus tracks. It's wicked pissa!
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Britpop bonanza - Best of Blur and the Britpop era
You are one of the most successful alternative bands in English history and although seen as Britpop’s poster-child your career was actually multi-faceted ranging from madchester lite pop, to mining the best British rock from the ’60s to ’90s with addtional excursions into post-grunge and art-rock. However you face a dilemma. Whilst you’ve buried the hatchet [...]
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The Horrors - Primary Colours
The Horrors pull off the surprise reinvention act of the century and lift the curse of the sophomore slump forever.
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Arctic Monkeys go Mojave on New Album
To be honest, I don’t care for the Arctic Monkeys. If someone sent me the album to review, I’d most likely roll my eyes and fling it out the window, but it’s a slow news day and for some reason I was really taken aback and intrigued by that photo. Is that really the Arctic [...]
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Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart
From the girl who gave us a "Kiss with a Fist" comes "Rabbit Heart", the new single from the London-based Florence & The Machine, taken from her debut album Lungs released on July 2 through Island Records. Florence sounds like Annie Lennox on this one, all soulful and Eurythmic slick in this Kate Bush meets Stevie Nicks forest frolic. Some corners are calling Lungs album of the year, but we'll ...
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Blue Roses - Blue Roses
Blue Roses may not exist in nature but there's nothing artificial about Yorkshire songsmith Laura Groves.
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British Sea Power - Man of Aran
British Sea Power take to the Irish Coast to provide a fresh soundtrack to this 1934 documentary on the people of Aran.
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Searching for the Sailboat with Animal Collective
Having just released the second single “Summertime Clothes” from their acclaimed eighth album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Chris Berkley from Static spoke to David Portner from Baltimore, Maryland’s favourite sons, Animal Collective and asked, among other things, what lurked behind the eye-catching artwork and whether or not they had been invited to play the venue they [...]
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Jay Reatard ‘Fails’ on New Album
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The man who was born to rock and release records all night long, Jay Reatard, has another album cooked and ready to go for release on Matador Records on August 18, entitled Watch Me Fall. Yes, you read right, not a bunch of limited edition 7″ vinyl time bombs, but an album. Following his pair [...]
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Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
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Stop Press, an official video has been released for "Two Weeks" and is every bit as magical as you'd expect. As we said in our review of Veckatimest (out 26 May) -- only the second album to get a perfect score here -- "Brian Wilson would kill to have as exquisite harmonies as these but, as is true of the whole record, it’s the entire arrangement that is so wonderful." Put your headphones on, wa.
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
How much can a grizzly bear? We're not sure but this Brooklyn four piece's third album gets a perfect 10/10.
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Deerhunter - London - 18 May 2009
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DeerhunterScala, London18th May 2009Palpable expectation, a sold out crowd, a critically received album, a loud northerner standing beside me naively exclaiming “I hope they play something off Turn It Up, Faggot” and an unlikely intro tape of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run”. This is how it begins. Four boys from Atlanta, Georgia casually stroll across [...]
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Top Ten - Soundtracks
The era of the celebrated cult movie soundtrack is something of the past. It has long since been used as a decisive marketing ploy and operates as an essential and cloying part of the movie-making process. In recent years we’ve had our Juno and Nick and Norah’s Ultimate Playlist, but what are they really but [...]
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Shaw Thing - Jimmy Shaw from Metric Q&A
As predicted Metric have blown up, but not blown away, big time. Fantasies reached number eight on the Canadian charts and crept into the Australian Top 40 and US Top 100, while incessant touring in Europe and North America has further strengthened their fan base. Webcuts emailed Metric guitarist and half of Metric’s lead songwriting [...]
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Animal Collective Free Download
The sun is out, summer is here (in this part of the world) and Animal Collective have decided to get in on the action by releasing “Summertime Clothes” as the second single from their Webcuts-approved Merriweather Post Pavilon album which will be released on June 29 on 12″ and digital single. “Summertime Clothes” is a [...]
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The Church - Untitled #23
Moving on from Uninvited, Like The Clouds to Untitled #23, The Church near the end of the alphabet but not the end of their career.
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Okkervil River - Brisbane - May 3 2009
Okkervil RiverThe Zoo, Brisbane3rd May 2009“No one wants to hear about your 97th tear” offers Will Sheff, he of red beard, bookish glasses and shaggy hair, during tonight’s opening rhyme heavy “Plus Ones”. Oh but we do. We want to hear ninety odd minutes of heartbreak and loss, songs about self harm, child abuse, life [...]
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Jarvis Cocker - Angela
Throw in a dash of Marc Bolan, add some electric shock guitar riffs and handclaps and you have "Angela", the first single taken from Jarvis Cocker's second solo album Future Complications released on May 18 through Rough Trade Records. The video clip was filmed last week in Paris as part of Jarvis' week long exhibition at Galerie Chapp in Paris. Roll on the Glam Rock revival.
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God Help the Girl offers subscription package
Fans of Belle and Sebastian and disciples of vocalist/songwriter Stuart Murdoch will be able to purchase copies of his forthcoming project “God Help The Girl” as part of a new subscription service. The self-titled album released on Rough Trade on June 22nd is available to listen now as a stream for those who purchase a [...]
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