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Brandt Brauer Frick : Visual and Aural Pleasures

February 28, 2013 Articles, Features, News No Comments

 By Robert Freeman

February 28, 2013

THE GERMANS ARE COMING! And with the return of minimal polymath Reich-rockers, Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick to the UK, so are the British Coming! -  along to see the band perform in a series of explosive live dates, that is. Touring new album, ‘Miami’, the Brandt Brauer Frick ensemble arrive in the UK next month, playing Glasgow (19th March), Manchester (20th March) and London (21st March) on a whistle-stop jaunt to our shores. … Continue Reading

Trwbador, Buffalo Bar, Cardiff

February 27, 2013 Gig, News, Reviews 10 Comments

By Matt Jones

February 27, 2013

A Cardiff boy born and bred, I have never thought the Welsh language was ‘cwl’. Uncritically adopting a disdainful sneer towards my land’s mother tongue – which is easily triggered in a teenager forced to complete a GCSE in the language in the English Capital of Wales – I nevertheless find myself as playfully attracted to Trwbador as I am to the Welsh spelling of ‘tacsi’.
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A Few Words With Woodpigeon

February 27, 2013 Articles, Features, Interviews No Comments

By Cat Schaupp

February 27, 2013

February 25 saw the release of Woodpigeon‘s fourth studio album, Thumbtacks & Glue (Fierce Panda), the first full-length release since 2010′s Die Stadt Musikanten. The new album is an accomplished affair from the off: melodically confident and unusual, shot through with gorgeous vocal harmonies that nestle in your head and refuse to budge – perfect for repeated headphones listening on walks around this increasingly spring-like world. … Continue Reading

Everything Everything, Òran Mór, Glasgow

February 27, 2013 Gig, Reviews No Comments

Everything Everything Live Review

By Joe Watson

February 27, 2013

Having released what is arguably one of the best British albums of the year so far, and with their UK tour already well underway, the opportunity to see Everything Everything is supposedly guaranteed to be, well, everything it’s cracked up to be. But so often guilty of thinking into things too much, my dominant feeling upon entry is more one of intrigue than of anything else. … Continue Reading

Classic Album : The Pogues – Red Roses For Me

February 26, 2013 Classic Album, Reviews No Comments

By Jono Coote

February 26, 2013

When a Pogues album is seen in any ‘best of…’ list of albums, you can almost guarantee that it will be If I Should Fall From Grace With God. However while that is undeniably a seminal album, Red Roses For Me is where it all began; spawning a sub-genre which has paved the way for bands like Flogging Molly and The Tossers to meld Irish folk melodies with the barely controlled rage of the punk sounds which had swept through popular music a couple of years previously. … Continue Reading

Shake, Rattle and LOL : The Harlem Shake Phenomenon

February 26, 2013 Articles, Features 1 Comment

By Richard Wink

February 26, 2013

Evidently there are always late comers to the meme party. In the case of the thousands of parodies that sprung up in tribute to Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ it was ‘Norfolk Style’ that rubber stamped the meme’s death. People in the county are usually slow to new cultural trends, so despite broadband being available from Barton Bendish to the Broads, it was no surprise that this was the place where the joke wasn’t funny anymore. … Continue Reading

Villagers, Village Underground, London

February 26, 2013 Gig, News, Reviews 1 Comment

By Russell Warfield

February 26, 2013

Although still pivoted around Connor O’Brien’s distinctive voice and song writing, this year’s stellar {Awayland} was a huge leap forward in sonic ambition for Villagers – a move which has been met with widespread critical acclaim, but also one which threatened to put the band in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation when it came to their stage show, opening a potential fissure between the material of the two LPs. … Continue Reading

Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In

February 25, 2013 Album, News, Reviews 1 Comment

By Danielle Shields

February 25, 2013

Returning from her highly acclaimed debut album, Own Side Now, Caitlin Rose is back with a new found boost of independence showing off her country roots as well as expressing how she is more than a labelled girl from Nashville. She may be a mere 25 years old, but her impressive new album The Stand-In shows how Caitlin is wise beyond her years with her confident easy listening tunes possesses the song writing talents of 1950′s country classics like Patsy Cline, alongside having a rockier edge  distancing herself from mainstream artists like Carrie Underwood. … Continue Reading

Palma Violets – 180

February 25, 2013 Album, News, Reviews No Comments

 

By David Beech

February 25, 2013

London-based quartet Palma Violets are a band with a buzz surrounding them that a swarm of wasps would be proud of. NME gave them the award “Best Song of 2012” for their début single and album opener ‘Best of Friends’; while Zane Lowe selected the band’s second single ‘Step Up for the Cool Cats’ as “the hottest record in the world”. Needless to say the band obviously have a lot to live up to and with expectations raised so highly you could be forgiven for thinking that they might have set the bar a little too high for their forthcoming début album 180. … Continue Reading

Golden Grrrls – Golden Grrrls

February 25, 2013 Album, News, Reviews 1 Comment

By Richard Wink

February 25, 2013

Whenever I listen to a band like Golden Grrrls I’m moved by this sound, a familiar art-school indie pop racket that echoes up and down the country in small broken down venues. This sound almost exists carelessly, without ambition, and a desire to break free in the wandering whispering winds. If you were to suggest a song that best represents this sound then you’d say ‘Son of a Gun’ by The Vaselines. Reinterpreted over and over, the song almost remains the same no matter what band plays it. The same sound, safe and familiar. … Continue Reading

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