The Best Albums of 2009: 30-21

Excuse the hopefully unnecessary patronisation, but if you’ve not read how we got this list (y’know, the formulae and the musoing), then you must! You really. Click here now, go on. … Continue Reading

The Best Albums of 2009: 40-31

The countdown continues! And today, we bring you the albums that finished between 40th and 31st in our Top 50. For more information on how we arrived at that figure and how we feel about lists, you can whet your inner geek with a bit of this. … Continue Reading

The Best Albums of 2009: 50-41

The time has come to start our official countdown, from 50 to 1, of the definitive best albums of 2009 – according to our industrious, illustrious bank of writers. Click here for how we got to this list – it’s very important that you understand the workings of our musoisms, mathematicalisms and y’know, stuff. … Continue Reading

Extradition Order show off a birrova disorientating new video

And here we present to you an amazing home-made video by Extradition Order for their new single, ‘Laura In The Water’. They headlined the bill at our first show evarr don’t you know? And they are great. And so is this.

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Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret? – thirteen under-appreciated Beatles songs

The Beatles

The coverage and discussion of The Beatles‘ re-issues this September carried with it the associated feeling that it marks the death of the CD-age in the same way the band helped to usher it in. Coupled with the sense that there’s very little that can be written about the greatest and most popular music of the 20th Century in the 21st, we decided to shine a light on a few of the Fab Four’s fabbest moments that don’t typically find their way onto compilations.

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Muso’s Guide Introduces… Anya Marina

Anya Marina

There can never be too many feisty blondes in the music world, especially when we get someone like Anya Marina. Humbly soft-spoken off of the stage, her official Twitter page is partially dedicated to veganism.

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Muso’s Guide Introduces… RedTrack

RedTrack

They appeared on Zane Lowe’s Fresh Meat and on Kerrang! Radio. They supported Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly on tour. Soon they’ll be releasing their debut full-length album. This Southend band might be en route to stardom, but faced a nasty detour on the way.

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Slow Club: “if you call us twee, we’ll kick you in the tits”

Slow Club

Muso’s Guide caught up with Slow Club in Aberdeen last month whilst they were supporting Jamie T. Here’s what they had to say on the then forthcoming release of their debut album Yeah, So:

The album is out soon, some of the material has been about for a while now. How did you decide what went on, what stayed off?

Charles Watson:  Most of it is pretty new actually; there are re-recordings of older songs though. It felt like an accurate representation of what we were playing live really and were enthusiastic about. There was no label pressure to leave any song on or off, although a few people made suggestions. It came together over time. I think we finalised the track listing on the last day.

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Passion Pit/Fanfarlo, London Vibe Bar

Passion Pit

June 8, 2009

Like Foals, Friendly Fires and The Kooks before them, Passion Pit come into tonight’s OnesToWatch show as the fuel that’s kept the Hype Machine chugging along at full speed during 2009. Undoubtedly the most blog-buzzed band this side of MGMT, the bearded Boston-based five-piece have been planted with every superlative form imaginable since arriving onto the scene, and boy is it easy to see why.

Playing to a packed out audience for the second evening of the five-night Revue, Passion Pit deliver what is without a shadow of a doubt one of 2009’s stand-out pop moments. Kicking off proceedings with the heartfelt rush of ‘Better Things’, it’s clear the bedroom recorded love songs penned for Michael Angelakos’ girlfriend have made a miraculous metamorphosis into a collection of unbridled, overwhelmingly joyous masterpieces.  The crunky opening to ‘Little Secrets’ is entwined with layers of psychedelic swirls and Angelako’s phenomenal falsetto, while the dizzying heights of ‘Make Light’ soars and swoons, showering synth shards over a sweat-soaked crowd so heaving that any furniture to hand gets clambered on in order to gain any sort of vantage point. … Continue Reading

Dirty Projectors’ Stillness Is The Move

Go on, baffle your mind – have a watch of Dirty Projectors‘ wonderous ‘Stillness Is The Move’ right here:

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