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Tommy Lee - Good Times
In which Tommy Lee pukes his mind into the stuffy basin of his frat house and…well, nothing much else happens, really.»
Young Knives, Snow White, Good Shoes, The Rumble Strips at Highbury Garage, Islington, Mon 07 Nov
Then the Young Knives come on, and they’re good, efficient and definitely well schooled. It’s by the ties you tell.»
Kiss Me Deadly - Misty Medley
With skittering rhythm humid guitars begin to oscillate; the resultant cyclone scattering debris and whipping her up into such dizzy delirium that the only suitable release is an atmosphere-piercing shriek.»
The Glitterati - Back in Power
Where danger is daylight, fun is forever, and you will have it LARGE.»
Roll Deep - The Avenue
Even before this flared up like a brilliantly scratchable bout of chicken pox all 'cross the media, I've held its bastardised, grimdisco hook hostage in my throat all summer; the cut's insatiable chorus never two minutes from my cracked lips.»
Cagedbaby - Disco Biscuit
Question: What do you get when you cross flower power parenthood, an uncanny knack for tickling the ebony and ivory and a background in fishmongery? Answer: This - glorious filth.»
Heavy Trash - Heavy Trash
I see John Spencer every Summer. Working for a fairground, I expect the usual ‘pikey’/’carney’ taunts, but not from the self-proclaimed demagogue of the rocky roll.»
Capdown - Live in M.K.
This CD marks the end of part one in the Capdown story, and if they can evade the clutches of the puritanically PC Household Name records, then the future could be every bit as bright as skacore classics ‘Kained but Able’ and ‘Ska Wars’.»
My Chemical Romance - Helena
In the words of My Chemical Romance’s frontman Gerard Way, “We’re threatening. Unstoppable. Undefeatable. Dangerous. You can’t ignore us anymore.”»
The Forecast - Late Night Conversations
Emo-shmemo. Hailing from smalltown America, the most important thing with the Forecast is that you make no mistake: these are the most loyal of hometown sons and daughters.»
The Rifles - When I'm Alone
‘When I’m Alone’ creeps warily between Billy Bragg’s bewildered working man's brogue and the glistening guitar waves of My Vitriol, but treads carefully enough not to wake either of them up.»
Hiding with Girls - Shortround
I could tell you how contrived, stagnant and inconsequential this single is, but it feels wrong. Like sneaking up on the last lonely Dodo with a rail-gun, or shooting into a barrel of (blind) fish.»
Autolux at London Koko, Fri 22 Apr
Onstage the band transpire, and kick out volumes of noise. Ridiculous amounts of noise; for a trio. But it’s not pointless noise, it sounds new and fresh whilst retaining just enough soul and shape to be pop, and it drips with the absolute melting-ice cool of Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground.»
Bloc Party - Banquet
The first time I heard this band, it was Banquet. The first time I heard Banquet I knew this band were special.»
Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight
The consensus among the national music rags seems to be that this bunch of skank-slinging Staines boys are leading the pack in the race to be crowned as 'Specials mark II' - a sprint which, in all honesty, doesn't seem so tough when the only other contenders you've got snapping at your restless heels are the Dead 60s.»
The Others - William
Attention hipsters! You know that guilty rush you get when you really like a song, but admitting as much to your friends would be tantamount to indie treason?»
Wheatus - Suck Fony
Pssst! Remember Wheatus? I know you do, y’know. ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ and all that jive. Seems like such a long time ago, doesn’t it? The summer of 2001…‘Is This It?’ and ‘White Blood Cells’; everything scuzzy garage guitars and greaseboy uber-cool.»
The Dropkick Murphys - Singles
Why you should listen to the Dropkicks rather than 90 per cent of the mediocrats on the punk rock scene has nothing to do with any pretence of pioneering originality, but everything to do with their ability to mould choruses of Everest-sized proportions from nothing but those time-honoured three chords and a pair of bagpipes.»
Four Volts - Triple Your Work Force
Four Volts are post-punk pirates, fun but threatening, incongruous yet harmonious, inherently crazed yet still, at times, darn clever. Whilst plundering the treasure of those that sailed these waters before them, they put their own mark on what they find; the four-piece diving into pretty much all the various pools of post-rock and coming up for air with something that is to my ears unique.»
The Charlatans - Loving You Is Easy
This could have been so much worse. Having not heard The Charlatans latest offering, one glance at the title triggered memories of Tim Burgess’ falsetto on the last album…»
The Kinison - You’ll Never Guess Who Died
'..countless Yankee boybands trying to vomit out their lungs to a soundtrack of guitars so discordant and rhythms so angular that they would give Ian Mackaye himself a Hiroshima of a migraine..'»
Goldie Lookin Chain - You Knows I Loves You
Comedy cheese rap-lite surfs awkwardly over a Casio-keyboard instrumental. A Lionel Richie soundalike ooo’s and aaa’s his way throughout the track. Whispered backing vocals lustily proclaim “electrical love.” In Welsh. Somewhere, a woman screams»
The Futureheads, Maximo Park at London ULU, Thu 09 Dec
'...Modern classics ‘A to B’ and ‘Decent Days and Nights’ run maniacally off into the London night almost as soon as they announce their arrival; crashing through alleyways and smashing together dustbin lids...' Sunderland's finest finish the year in a blaze of glory...»