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A Chat With San Cisco & Tour News

March 26, 2013 Gig, News, Single 1 Comment

San Cisco
By Danielle Gibson

March 26, 2013

Bright young Australian four-piece San Cisco are set to release their infectious next single ‘Fred Astaire’ on Saturday May 6. The single is taken from their debut self entitled album which itself hits the shelves in the UK on Saturday July 29. … Continue Reading

Time To Get Excited About Live At Leeds : The Muso’s Guide Preview

March 26, 2013 Features, Festivals, News No Comments

By Rob Aldam & Cat Schaupp

March 26, 2013

Live At Leeds began back in 2007 in order to celebrate the city’s 800th birthday, but has now morphed into a much bigger event that now sprawls itself over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Taking place this year from the 3rd to the 6th of May, the ethos of the festival is to celebrate the best in music that Leeds has to offer, alongside featuring more established international acts. … Continue Reading

Polica, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

March 26, 2013 Gig, News, Reviews No Comments

By Russell Warfield

March 26, 2013

One of the first things which strikes you about the live set of Polica is the surprising lack of intensity to the sound of a band who perform with two live drummers. With so much vocoder and synth work propping up the melodic aspects of the songs, it might be considered the duty of the dual, organic drum patterns not only to provide a sense of anticipated intensity, but also to provide the sense of humanism which the music might otherwise lack. … Continue Reading

Yo La Tengo, Barbican Centre, London

March 25, 2013 Gig, Reviews No Comments

By Andrew Seaton

March 25, 2013

Yo La Tengo often prove to be a spectacle band. Not in the showy Flaming Lips-bouncing-around-in-giant-balls-while-fireworks-go-off kind of way. A tad more understated than that. Previous shows have seen them bring out giant roulette wheels and play songs in accordance with what comes up. Great. … Continue Reading

Book Review : Simon Goddard – Ziggyology : A Brief History Of Ziggy Stardust

March 25, 2013 Books, News, Reviews No Comments

By Kenny McMurtrie

March 25, 2013

Ziggy Stardust “died” seven months before I was born although his hair stayed atop David Bowie’s head up till mid-1974. In the 18 months of his existence it’s fair to say that his influence was pronounced (would Iggy And The The Stooges’ Raw Power or Lou Reed’s Transformer have seen the light of day without Ziggy boosting Bowie’s confidence?) … Continue Reading

Fortuna Pop! Jukebox Singles Club : Tullycraft – Lost In Light Rotation

March 25, 2013 Reviews, Single No Comments

By Kenny McMurtrie

March 25, 2013

So who says you need to start sending a year’s worth of singles out in January? Not Fortuna Pop! anyway as they’ve started their’s off this month. The idea is though that you get a dozen singles through the year & they’re all ready for stacking in your Wurlitzer* as they come minus a centre. Fear not though as they kindly mail you a selection of branded centre adaptors  in different colours (digital links to the songs would be handy too though). … Continue Reading

Full list of Record Store Day releases announced

March 22, 2013 Events, News 4 Comments

By Danielle Gibson

March 22, 2013

Record Store Day has unveiled the full list of exclusive and limited releases available on April 20 for its 2013 edition. We have already been promised releases from the likes of David Bowie, TOY, The Horrors, Paul McCartney & Wings and Tame Impala. Here are some other highlights and notable releases worth checking out: … Continue Reading

Low – The Invisible Way

March 22, 2013 Album, Reviews No Comments

By Russell Warfield

March 22, 2013

You get to a certain point in a musical career (twenty years strong and ten albums deep, in Low’s case) where stripping things back down to basics goes beyond coming full circle, and actually chimes as freshness and innovation. After reconfiguring themselves as a full blooded rock outfit about a decade ago, as well as beginning to incorporate electronic sounds into their minimalist arrangements, The Invisible Way stands as a collection of their most organic and live sounding cuts in several records … Continue Reading

Matmos, XOYO, London

March 22, 2013 Gig, News, Reviews No Comments

By Matt Jones

March 22, 2013

Everything is hipster. Thick-rimmed glasses are hipster. Old things are hipster. Bands not in the mainstream are hipster. Mainstream bands are hipster – if you like them ironically. This opening stream of consciousness is hipster, clearly a rip-off of a King Missile song – who, by the way, are hipster. … Continue Reading

The Weekly Froth!

March 22, 2013 Columns, Reviews, Single No Comments

By Stef Siepel

March 22, 2013

The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. … Continue Reading

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