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07/06/2011 Album Reviews Arctic Monkeys
The volume of double-entendres still roughly exceeds that of the average Carry On film but this time it is meted out with the kind of dreamy sophistication that even Morrissey would be proud of

read: Arctic Monkeys ~ Suck It And See! ~ review

24/05/2011 Album Reviews Wild Beasts
With ruffled cuffs and open chests, this foppish crew of unearthly misfits have all the luxurious decadence of Lord Byron and all the gentle weightless romance of Percy Bysshe Shelley

read: Wild Beasts ~ Smother ~ review

18/05/2011 Album Reviews Cass McCombs
Is it easy listening? Well, if listening to the quiet, desperate screams of a man in terminal isolation makes for an easy experience, then easy it is

read: Cass McCombs ~ Wits End ~ review

17/05/2011 Album Reviews Daedelus
An album as hard to pin as a donkey in a blindfold and twice as stubborn. This is music as Daedelus hears it, sounds fashioned to his owns miscellaneous tastes rather than sounds shared

read: Daedelus ~ Bespoke ~ review

25/04/2011 Album Reviews Crystal Stilts
Channelling another era with much the same enthusiasm as a Living TV Clairvoyant but no less satisfying for it.

read: Crystal Stilts ~ In Love With Oblivion ~ review

25/04/2011 Album Reviews Poly Styrene
They may lack the inspiration and rebellion of the bi-racial feminist proto punk’s earlier incarnation but they’re impressive in their own Blondie meets Pipettes meets La Roux meets Frankenstein fashion

read: Poly Styrene ~ Generation Indigo ~ review

24/04/2011 Album Reviews De Staat
A little bit Captain Beefheart, a little bit Queens of the Stone Age and if the cold, gothic lounge-core of ‘I’ll Never You’ is anything to go by, a little bit French New Wave

read: De Staat ~ Machinery ~ review

20/04/2011 News Stories Young Knives
Leicester's Knives announce tour mates.

read: Young Knives ~ May UK Tour

18/04/2011 News Stories Swimming With Dolphins
Debut album Water Colours out in May.

read: Swimming With Dolphins ~ 'Water Colours'

15/04/2011 News Stories Katy Perry
The other Katy adds extra dates to already well fecund tour schedule.

read: Katy Perry ~ California Dreams 2011 World Tour

15/04/2011 News Stories Anna Calvi
Desirable gothic lass in Monkeys and Mumford invite.

read: Anna Calvi ~ Arctic Monkeys ~ Mumford and Sons Gigs

11/04/2011 News Stories Antony and the Johnsons
Lights, camera, action ... violet ghost. New EP from the lad with the lass's voice.

read: Antony and the Johnsons ~ Swanlights EP

08/04/2011 News Stories Junior Boys
Junior chaps promise to spring no shortage of Shanghai surprises on new release.

read: Junior Boys ~ 'Banana Ripple' single

18/03/2011 News Stories Alex Turner
Alex Turner to release tunes from comical coming of age movie. It's not big and it's not yellow.

read: Alex Turner ~ Submarine EP

Sophie Barker ~ Flights of Fancy/The 'Seagull' has landed. Former Zero 7 singer rejects the contrivances of fashion for the simple things in life.
09/05/11

News November 2010/The Burns Unit ~ An Inconvenient Band/King Creosote, Emma Pollock and various leading lights of the Scottish-Canadian folk-scene collide for an inconvenient but no less sweet sounding truth.
28/04/11

News November 2010/Jon Savage Presents Black Hole: Californian Punk: 1977-80/The West Coast Punks are hip, I really dig those studs they wear. Surfs up for Jon Savage as he trawls through the archives of the Californian Punk Phenomenon of the late '70s and early '80s.
25/03/10

News September 2010/Elliott Smith - An Introduction/A quiet introduction to a quiet man's genius. Crud shies at a coconut of profundity in appreciation of new Smith release.
15/09/10

The Pet Shop Boys – Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, 23.07.2010/Reclaimed. Restocked. Revived. Revisiting. Purveyors of 80s pop-art bounce back with exuberant homecoming gig. Linda Jobling asks what have we done to deserve this?
28/07/10

News June 2010/Bustin Out New Wave To New Beat/Fire Up The Quattro! Gene Genie, DJ Mike Maguire sketches out a road map of the alleyways and tubeways of the early 1980s electronic scene.
01/06/10

News April 2010/LCD Soundsystem/Dance From Above! LCD Soundsystem are preparing to drop their third infectious payload on UK and US Audiences. Collateral damage anticipated.. New album, 'This is Happening' out May 17th.
23/04/10

News April 2010/Lou Rhodes/Songs of innocence and experience. Lou Rhodes explores the haunting vicissitudes of grief with minimal acoustic album. New album, 'One Good Thing' out now.
22/03/10

News April 2010/Turin Brakes/Quiet is STILL the new loud. Perennial folk-duo Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian put the brakes on major releases with scaled-back studio album for Cooking Vinyl. New album 'Outbursts' out now.
25/03/10

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