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Maximo Park @ Brixton Academy, London

Elbow @ Wembley Arena

Animal Collective @ the Brudenell Club Leeds

Eels/BBC4 Parallel Worlds

Cold War Kids @ Elerctric Ballroom London

Twilight Sad @ ICA London

Yo La Tengo Royal Festival Hall London

Nick Cave @ Hammersmith Apollo

Last Shadow Puppets ~ Age of Understatement

Guillemots Shepherd’s Bush Empire London

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Frightened Rabbit
CD and DVD music reviews this week includes Ocean Colour Scene, Fyfe Dangerfield, Blockehead, Athlete and more!!

Eugene McGuinness
Video and audio full-length streams for Robert Wyatt, The Verve, Oh Laura, White Williams, Hot Chip and more!!

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17/12/2009 Album Reviews Thavius Beck
You need fibre optic ears to even begin to appreciate the droning, buzzing signal rate of tracks like ‘Hardcrore’ and the sweet cyber overtures of ‘IDC’

read: Thavius Beck ~ Dialogue ~ review

16/12/2009 Album Reviews Athlete
Not for Athlete the gallant baroque of the Shadow Puppet’s ‘Age of Understatement’ or the belligerent dysphasia of the Lip’s ‘Embryonic’ – just chiming and really rather lovely tunes

read: Athlete ~ Black Swan (US Release) ~ review

11/12/2009 Album Reviews Japandroids
Japandroids' appeal lies in the invigorating sense of freedom and release that reverberates throughout their debut album's unabashed 36 minutes.

read: Japandroids ~ Post Nothing ~ review

08/12/2009 Album Reviews Kill Hannah
When people like Morello cut the words ‘4 Real’ into their arm they do so using sterilized surgical instruments and a local anaesthetic

read: Kill Hannah ~ Wake Up The Sleepers ~ review

07/12/2009 Album Reviews Stanley Brinks
Contrary to what many would have us believe genius is not defined by either a pair of oversized glasses, a thin nasal whine or one’s ability to feature ladders, ashtrays, milk cartons and Martians in the same sentence

read: Stanley Brinks ~ And The Wave Pictures ~ review

02/12/2009 Album Reviews Sgt Wolfbanger
An edgy, sparkling five-piece who can out jump McFly, out chorus Feeder and out drum The Bongos. It’s chirpy (if occasionally pedestrian) pop-rock as sure to tickle the teens as a roll-on deodorant

read: Sgt Wolfbanger ~ Think Inside The Box ~ review

28/11/2009 Album Reviews The Twilight Sad
There’s more than enough intricate layering and arresting soundscaping to put The Twilight Sad in the stellar company of Explosions in the Sky and much celebrated Scottish compatriots Mogwai.

read: The Twilight Sad ~ Forget The Night Ahead ~ review

18/11/2009 Album Reviews Asobi Seksu
If ‘empty’ was ever a compliment to be paid it’s now with this album which has emptied out so much effect and arrangement from previous releases and left us with the fine bones and filigree of the band’s music

read: Asobi Seksu ~ Acoustic at Olympic Studios ~ review

13/11/2009 Album Reviews Counter Records - Various Artists
What we actually get is a gloriously retro-feel to the collection, as if it were a history of imagined bands from the 70’s NYC punk scene and beyond

read: Counter Records - Various Artists ~ Strike ~ review

13/11/2009 Album Reviews Brakes
Pay special attention to the souped-up and explosive, 'Porcupine or Pineapple' at the Concorde in Brighton. Short, sharp, shocks - in that order

read: Brakes ~ Rock Is Dodeelijk ~ review

21/12/2009 News Stories Jon and Tracy Morter
Dodgy Essex Couple Kick Up Sods on the The Astroturf For Xmas No.1 Slot. Tracy Morter talks to Crud.

read: Jon and Tracy Morter ~ Rage Factor Xmas No. 1 Winners

17/12/2009 News Stories VV Brown
VV Brown - Reborn in the USA. Yanks to get their first taste of Vanessa in Twennie-Ten.

read: VV Brown ~ Travelling Like The Light’ - February 9th

17/12/2009 News Stories Memory Tapes
Back to the drawing board from extra chip chap.

read: Memory Tapes ~ 'Graphics' new single

17/12/2009 News Stories Kathryn Williams
Unpredictable crazy rock chick Kathryn Williams fastracks it into the new decade with 'sinister' new album.

read: Kathryn Williams ~ 'The Quickening'

17/12/2009 News Stories Lightspeed Champion
Champion of Light and Speed takes Marlene off the wall and releases her as a single.

read: Lightspeed Champion ~ New single – Marlene – 25th January 2010

13/12/2009 News Stories To Rococo Rot
Rococo let the rot set in at Faust's Studio in Sheer.

read: To Rococo Rot ~ 'Speculation' - new album - Out 29 March 2010.

12/12/2009 News Stories Tunng
They of strange, wacky instruments and outlook get sea-legs and see land.

read: Tunng ~ New album - 'And Then We saw Land'

12/12/2009 News Stories X-Factor / Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine Rage WITH the Machine in Sony Warner Xmas stunt. Losers in no particular order ...

read: X-Factor / Rage Against The Machine ~ Xmas Number One

04/12/2009 News Stories Wild Beasts
Have a Wild Wild Christmas. New Date set in December

read: Wild Beasts ~ Homecoming Xmas Party

04/12/2009 News Stories Decemberists
It's that time of the month. Decemberists release full-length video download live thingy.

read: Decemberists ~ Here Come The Waves: The Hazards Of Love Visualized

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Best Albums of the Noughties - Top 40 Albums 2000-2009/What better way to celebrate Crud Magazine's ten year reign as best-loved least-read music magazine than by taking a leisurely look back at the releases that rang our bells the most. Stroke Your National Monkey. Yeaaaah. 22/12/09

Coordinates Interview/We Were Promised Jetpacks/Crud asks Adam Thompson of We Were Promised Jetpacks, Where's Your Head At? New album 'Forget The Night Ahead' out now! 17/12/09

Era$e/Rew]nd - All Over Me/Irfan Shah takes a 'riotous' look at new coming of age flick, 'All Over Me'. Soundtrack includes: Ani De Franco; Babes in Toyland; Cornershop; Patti Smith; The Jesus and Mary Chain; The Amps; Drugstore; Sleater Kinney. 08/12/09

Arctic Monkeys @ Wembley Arena, London 18.11.09/Tom Collins experiences all the right shivers in all the right places as an icy blast from the arctic rips threw a packed out Wembley Winter. Welcome to the carnival. 02/12/09

Coordinates Interview/Charlotte Hatherley/Crud asks Charlotte Hatherley, Where's Your Head At? New album 'New Worlds' out now! 22/11/09

Flaming Lips @ Troxy, London 11.11.09/Don't worry about the road being rough - Wayne Coyne has a ball. The Lips abort the challenging Embryonics for a night of dry-ice, lasers, confetti, crowd-balling and all the usual fearless malarky. Tom Collins has the details. 25/11/09

The National @ Royal Festival Hall, London, 10.08.2009/James Berry refuses to hedge his bets on the enduring and 'comfortable' grandiosity of Brooklyn-based post-punkers, The National. 11/09/09

Era$e/Rew]nd - The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror/Carry on Screaming - Irfan Shah turns the (breakfast) tables on the establishment with a 'memento' style look at films they didn't want you to see. This time it's French farce done by Hammer Horror - with anal. 25/08/09

The Twilight Sad / We Were Promised Jetpacks @ ICA, London, 09.07.2009/James Berry and the Kilsyth Four (or Five) pursue a path of sad, negative equity over the Forth Road Bridge ahead of a much 'noisier and bigger' new album. 13/08/09

Era$e/Rew]nd - Before Stonewall/Under Pressure - Irfan Shah turns the hose back on the establishment with a 'memento' style look at ''Before Stonewall' - an exploration of prejudice and gay pride in 1960s America - re-released with extras. 12/08/09

Metric @ Electric Ballroom, London, 19.05.09/James Berry puts internal conflicts aside and enters the fantasies of Canada's prevailing ice-queen, Emily Haines and plants a big fat smacker on her frothing cherry-red lips. So to speak. 06/07/09

Maximo Park @ Brixton Academy, London/Maximo Park usher in the Summer of '09 with a predictably testing performance at the Litmus Academy in London. It's a dipping your toe in the acid kind of thingy for new album, 'Quicken of the Heart'. 25/06/09

Crud Radio ~ 'Music For the Anti Masses'/So ok, it's not an exact science. It's not E=mc^2. In fact it's not a science at all but we've still put in the research and come up with an hour's worth of quirks, quarks and terrifcally top-notch 'choons' and stuffed them into one byte-sized tinternet broadcast. First up the 'Kosmos Mix'. 23/02/09

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