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It may be all too easy these days for the hardened cynic to see the music world as an alienating, amoral, biasly conservative industry run by corporate sharks who have little to no understanding – or actual passionate interest-  in real music. Solely in it to see how many units…

In case the curious rookie listener, who hasn’t been exposed to this trio before, is wondering: Band Of Skulls don’t create plastic pop tunes. So turn back, now, if that is what’s desired, for in no uncertain terms do this band make anything close to an apology for their take…

There are some albums for which the ‘skip’ button is a bit defunct, and there are some for which the consumer can be infinitely grateful that there is an ‘eject’ button… Luckily, this latest offering by The Rifles most definitely falls into the former category – unless one is in…

In some respects Warpaint have been slow starters since forming back in 2004. While other, lesser acts have already released a clutch of records, this LA quartet have been busy exploring and honing their craft with a constant round of gigging and touring during the intervening years, and are only…

With another series of essential music videos, gigs, tracks and albums in the bag, now it’s our writers’ turn to pick their own favourite album of 2013 – across six selected LPs there’s a ‘head rush of pulsing punk rock rhythms and unsettling psych-pop melodies’, some ‘mastery of techno’, ‘a…

In a world where the album chart seems to have become the musical equivalent of a shelf full of cheap plonk, it’s good to know that, not too far out there, artists are still embarking on quests to create records that don’t immediately pander to the instant gratification of fair…

As the world and its wife already knows, Alan McGee has always been the possessor of an uncanny musical Midas touch, spotting talent which has gone on to achieve stratospheric success and often culturally define an era, Oasis and Primal Scream being obvious cases in point. One of McGee’s chief…

‘Innocents‘ is Richard Melville Hall’s eleventh studio album in a career that first had him hitting the limelight as a solo artist with the dance classic ‘Go!‘ back in 1990; the former multi-instrumentalist-punk morphing into a techno producing DJ and gun for hire, who not only released a…

The release of ‘Mechanical Bull‘ at least quashes any rumours floating around that, as a band, Kings Of Leon have reached the end of the road following a number of inter-related problems which dogged the quartet during the making – and touring – of their last record ‘Come Around Sundown‘.…

Intriguingly, ‘Rewind The Film‘ is the result of an abundance of material recorded during sessions at Faster studios, as well as at the famous RockField studios, with producer Alex Silva – one of two records that have been constructed and described, by the band, as being part of a two…

With it being a full five years since the release of their last album ‘Ode to J.Smith‘, many people could be forgiven for thinking that Travis had quietly retired from the music scene, safe in the knowledge that they’d collectively brought a little sunshine, at least for a while, to…

David Lynch is probably best known as the slightly weird, chain-smoking oddball auteur who has directed a wide and eclectic range of films and television programmes. However, Lynch is also an exhibiting painter, photographer, animator, writer, spokesman for transcendental meditation, and all round multimedia renaissance man, with the uncanny ability…

For the past fifty years, Liverpool has been a hot bed of incubation for a whole host of musicians who have gone on to achieve global acclaim – led by The Beatles, and through to lost geniuses such as The La‘s Lee Mavers and a new wave of more contemporary…

Unorthodox producer Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton has become synonymous with applying a Midas-like touch to the work of many an eclectic band or artist over the course of the last decade. A man whose impressive C.V has seen him toasting tunes for everyone from Gorillaz through to MF Doom and,…

Currently supporting a host of very notable artists including Suede, The Vaccines and The Rolling Stones, as well as grabbing the attention, and admiration, of other rock royalty, Temples are due to release their second single ‘Colours To Life‘ on the 24th June through Heavenly Records. Related news:…

Over the years, the vibrant Glaswegian music scene has spawned a rich and eclectic range of talent; from Primal Scream, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and The Alex Harvey Band through to Chvrches, Franz Ferdinand, Glasvegas and Belle & Sebastian, to name just a few. Looking to join that impressive list…