In the last week we’ve gone mental when seeing Muse and Biffy Clyro live and listening to the Pomegranates record. We’ve gone not so mental listening to Athlete. We also listed our act of the year nominations and decided to stay faithful to music industry out of the kindness of our own hearts. Now a [...]
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MFM Playlist (9th November)
Live: Muse – The O2, Dublin – 06/11/09
Words: Gareth O’MalleyThere was a lot of expectation involved leading up to the moment the lights went down. For instance, I expected that Dublin’s O2 would be absolutely jam-packed by the time I got my place (around 8.05pm, less than 25 minutes before a certain Devon three piece were due on stage). I was rather [...]
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The XX – Infinity (Flufftronix Remix)
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Thanks to The Walrus for this find.If reports are to be believed, The XX are now a three-piece, parting ways with keyboardist/guitarist Baria. The honest reason given that they simply “don’t get along anymore” is decent, although the parting of ways sounds a tad ugly. But this performance of ‘Basic Space’ suggests that little has [...]
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Local Natives: Gorilla Manor
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ALBUM REVIEW: Local Natives – Gorilla Manorwords: Jamie Milton — originally scribed for gigwise.comWho exactly are Local Natives? Well they’re certainly not Fleet Foxes, that much they want you to believe. Their faces are de-constructed and morphed into a scattering of colours and shapes on the artwork of their debut album, an album which corresponds [...]
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Music Fan’s Mic Presents: Act of the Year 2009 – Nominations
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Which artist has achieved the most this year? That’s the question we want you to answer, that’s at the crux of what decides who the Act of the Year is. So many times this is not addressed properly – someone who can storm of success out of nowhere doesn’t always get the credit they deserve.———————————————————————————So [...]
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Words With…The Drums
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Artist:The Drums
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Album:Summertime EP
The Drums *is* new music. At the forefront of everybody’s musical grooms to be and fresh-faced from releasing the near flawless ‘Summertime!‘ EP, the world wants more. This is a band striving for “perfect pop” and getting ever closer to achieving just that. The kind of furore about to explode upon the Drums in 2010 [...]
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Pomegranates: Everybody, Come Outside!
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ALBUM REVIEW: Pomegranates – Everybody, Come Outside!words: Jamie MiltonThe ingredients thrown into the stirring jar that makes up Pomegranates’ second album aren’t entirely unique; first of all, there’s the happy-go-lucky attitude, exemplified in the title, the mood of almost every song. Compiled by rich guitar layers, lyrics about being in the city and wanting to [...]
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Lightspeed Champion returns with Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You
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Artist:Dev Hynes
Due out of 1st February 2010, Dev Hynes, former Test-Icicle, now fully-fledged folk-cuddling star, is set to release his second record.The tracklisting is as follows:1 – Dead Head Blues2 – Marlene3 – There’s Nothing Underwater4 – Intermission5 – Faculty Of Fears6 – The Big Guns Of Highsmith7 – Romart8 – I Don’t Want To Wake [...]
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Live: Biffy Clyro, Manchester Orchestra, Pulled Apart By Horses – Olympia Theatre, Dublin – 29/10/09
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Words: Gareth O’MalleyThey said the doors would open at 7:30pm, but I get in ten minutes later, and it is clear that those sneaky folks at the Olympia pulled a fast one on us. Pulled Apart By Horses are already mid-way through their set by the time I settled in, but they go down very [...]
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Athlete: Black Swan
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ALBUM REVIEW: Athlete – Black Swan (Fiction)words: Jamie Milton — originally written for gigwisePut yourself in the shoes of has-beens. Once you get the taste of success on such a level that ‘Wires‘ did, it must be difficult – no, truly painful not to repeatedly find that feeling of national love towards the music you [...]
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Sleigh Bells
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A huge hit at CMJ festival (which is basically a showcase fest for bloggers and journos), Sleigh Bells emerged, along with Phantogram as the outstanding name on the tip of everyone’s lips. And so when you find that out and then you play ‘Crown On The Ground‘, you’re bound to be a little perplexed…One jolt [...]
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Important Announcement
Music Fan’s Mic will no longer be hosting mp3 files without gaining the relevant permission from a band or a PR company.Reasons:- We don’t want to be seen to exploit artists who produce the wonderful music we write about.- We want this blog to have more integrity in the music press instead of being a [...]
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BEAK> BEAK>
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ALBUM REVIEW: BEAK> – S/Twords: Jamie Milton — originally scribed for gigwiseWhen you move to other places, it’s best not to sound like there’s still a part of your old home in you. Geoff Barrow is the focal point of BEAK> a Bristol-based project united in the goal to record thought-provoking, wide-ranged music. Barrow is [...]
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MFM Playlist: (2nd November)
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Track:Cut Like a Buffalo
words: Jamie MiltonThe writers at MFM are positively up to their necks in new music at the moment, especially considering we’re mere weeks away from listing our top tips for the new decade. So it seemed worthy of compressing some of the songs we’ve been playing into one, succinct blog post. For your reading pleasure, [...]
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Gliss: Devotion Implosion
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ALBUM REVIEW: Gliss – Devotion Implosion (Cordless)words: Jamie Milton — originally scribed for gigwise.comThe title of ‘Devotion Implosion‘ gives enough clues as to this LA-via-Denmark three piece’s intentions. And whilst it could be inferred to suggest Gliss “implode” as to collapse under pressure or to lose control, they actually handle eruptions with class and [...]
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Phantogram: Mouthful Of Diamonds
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Track:Mouthful of Diamonds
It wasn't long ago that we last wrote about Phantogram. That write-up came mere minutes after hearing the gloriously catchy 'When I'm Small' for the first time. Since then I've become accustomed to the debut 'Eyelid Movies' which, because of its re-release next February, looks set to class Phantogram in many "new bands" list which [...]
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MUSIC FAN’S MIC PRESENTS: 20 Albums That Define the Decade – #3-4
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Yeasayer return with ‘Ambling Alp’
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‘Odd Blood’, due February 2010, has just given us a sign. ‘Ambling Alp’ is the lead single, due for release digitally this November from Secretly Canadian. You can get it with one of those awesome t-shirts and vinyl as the colourful picture above demonstrates so well.And so the song: Well, it’s a difficult one to [...]
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HURTS
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HURTS hail from Manchester, they play in the same studio as Lost Knives and Egyptian Hip Hop and they make the kind of swooning, sax-led pop music that many of us have been hoping for ever since Mark Ronson bastardised the instrument.You’d expect most songs this band make won’t feature a saxaphone and some light [...]
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