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In some ways Red Hot Chili Peppers have everything to lose on this album. The recent departure of creative polymath John Frusciante, at whose door much of the plaudits for 2006’s ‘Stadium Arcadium’ (and, let’s be honest, all of the band’s best albums, from ‘By The Way’ right back to …

Parent EP 'A Truth Not Far Away'

The latest release from Little Vegas Lies‘ wonderfully titled EP ‘A Truth Not Far Away’, ‘All You Need’ boasts a guitar riff as purely hallucinogenic and dreamy as anything to be found in the back catalogue of Arthur Lee or Slowdive.…

After an interminable recording hiatus since 2006’s beastly double album ‘Stadium Arcadium’, the world’s favourite ragtag crew of L.A. slackers Red Hot Chili Peppers return with new single ‘The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie’.

Following that record should be no mean feat. The Rick Rubin-produced ‘…Arcadium’ bagged five …

Fresh from a blistering set at T in the Park, during which Ed Macfarlane’s David Brent-esque dance moves stirred the crowd into a surging frenzy, the second single from Friendly Fires’ sophomore album, ‘Pala‘, sees release.

‘Hawaiian Air’ is a somewhat hilarious, fun song that is accompanied by …

The Horrors are a band who wear their influences as proudly as John Rambo wore his blood-spattered bandana, and third record ‘Skying‘ is no exception – though this time the influences are far less obvious.

Coming snarling out of, erm, Southend in 2007, The Horrors initially fused a conceptual sound …