All five of these tracks come from Earth’s last full length The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull, a phrase which references part of the story of Samson’s life as given in the Bible. Once you’re done reading about the obligatory rape and murder, the 300 foxes with flaming tails and the women ruining it for everyone, you’re left none the wiser as to why Dylan Carlson and Earth chose it; bu
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The 6,000-odd festie-goers checkingin for Day 1 of ATP 10 come as a shock for some. The faithfulhandful who have stayed on the oddly pacific off-season Butlins HolidayResort sitefor the four days in-between this and last weekend's ATP NightmareBefore Xmas emerge from their hangover-hushed chalets, blinkingfrom grey-glaring sun and bewilderment.
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The fantastical Elliot Smith released a fair amount of material in his lifetime but none stood as truly memorable as his début 'Roman Candle'. It's good news then, that his label Kill Rock Stars have decided to re-release that exact album as well as the brilliant post-humous 2004 effort From A Basement On A Hill.
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Pavement are continuing their world dominating 2010 reunion with another headlining date for one of the big-name Festivals, this time in Norway. They'll take to the main-stage at next years Øya Festival in the countries capital city of Oslo. Other names announced so far include Big Boi of Outkast, The Gaslight Anthem, Surfer Blood, Major Lazer, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Converge and Lindstrøm & Chri.
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The ineffably enjoyable Wild Beasts have added another London date onto on their Spring 2010 UK tour. They originally had ten dates set for the British Isles but that's now been notched up to eleven with an extra date at KOKO on March 22nd.
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Everybody's favourite up-and-coming Welsh originating/London dwelling collective The Joy Formidable are taking care of their fans this Christmas by giving away a rather festive new track on their Myspace page for absolutely free. The new song goes by the wonderfully 'happy' title of My Beerdrunk Soul Is Sadder Than A Hundred Dead Christmas Trees and all you need is your email address to download i
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Danish geniuses Efterklang have a new record out next year by the name of 'Magic Chairs' and to celebrate, they'll descend upon the UK for a handful of live dates. February 22nd is the CD's official release date but its not until just under a month later that the band pack their belongings and take off to our tiny little island for a total of six dates in all.
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Sometimes fantastic, always offensive London rapper Plan B has officially returned to the music scene and this time, he's put all of the rape, murder and death to one side. . . well, for the first single at least. His follow-up L. P to the 2006 début Who Needs Actions When You Got Words is yet to be officially titled but is heavily rumoured to be named The Defamation Of Strickland Banks, the sam
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Next year's incarnation of giant US Festival Coachella has had it's dates finally confirmed and it's coming to California in April. Though not a single artist has been confirmed as of yet, the weekend of April 16th, 17th and 18th have all been designated for the event.
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Yeasayer's forthcoming follow-up record 'Odd Blood' was given a worldwide release date of February 8th way back in October (excluding the US who get it on the 9th) and though we also had it's track-listing back then, we were still awaiting some form of official artwork.
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Retreating to a remote, isolated area in order to muster up an increased creative outlet, there's practically an app for that, and Frightened Rabbit have joined the list. Front-man Scott Hutchison explained his post-Midnight Organ Flight process to The Music Magazine: "I started writing it just after a huge tour in Australia and America,by the end of which I was shot to pieces.
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The head honchos over at the Green Man Festival have gone and announced their very first headlining artist for it's 2010 manifestation and it's none other than bubble-loving, naked-running weirdo-geniuses The Flaming Lips. Taking place over three days, August 20th, 21st and 22nd, the band are set to headline the Saturday night (21st) with tickets for the event going sale today at £120 for the w..
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Back at the end of November, we announced that Jay-Z and The Strokes were two of the three official headliners for the 2010 'Isle Of Wight Festival' and now, a handful more names have been added to the list. Doves, James, Shakespears Sister, Ocean Colour Scene, Paloma Faith, The Saturdays and Daisy Dares You have all been confirmed for the event which takes place between June 11th - 13th next y...
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Analysts are proclaiming 2009 to be the toughest fight for the coveted U. K Christmas number one in many a year, with behemoths Rage Against the Machine currently in first place. The singles chart, which counts all physical and digital single sales between 13-19 December to construct the Christmas singles chart is a two-horse-race between the aforementioned RAtM and the winner of this year's X-...
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Sometimes progression calls for a little regression. A step backwards every so often so as to take stock of where you are with greater clarity. Such a move sums up Mudvayne's approach to their latest album. It was probably needed, since 2008's The New Game was hailed by most as being an "abysmal mess", and that was one of the kinder comments to be found.
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Pop-punkers Green Day will be joining The Beatles as the second band to get their own video game through the MTV Networks Rock Band brand. The game allows players - through the use of custom plastic instruments - to play along with songs by popular artists on either bass, guitar, drums or vocals.
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John Frusciante, who joined Red Hot Chilli Peppers after the death of their original guitarist has left the position once again (temporarily) vacant after leaving the band. He joined the band in 1989, although he left for six years in 1992 after struggling with a heroin addiction and the effects of his sudden fame.
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Over the weekend, Bradford Cox posted a blog on the official Deerhunter blog-site about a set of rare Deerhunter demos that he is now giving away for absolutely free. The post reads: "Responding to several requests I have dug up an old copy of this 2005 Deerhunter CD-R.
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