Cher Lloyd – ‘Swagger Jagger’ This review was submitted by Philip Lickley, who runs the music blog .Wav Goodbye. If you were born in the mid-eighties like myself then, when choosing a television channel to watch, you would have ended up on ‘Cartoon Network’, a 24-hour channel dedicated to nothing but cartoons. Before the explosion…
Bloc Party are elder statesmen of the uber-trendy-electro-indie movement of the past decade, so I’ve got high hopes that new album Four, their first for ages following their recent hiatus, will be something of a grown-up, masters-of-their-art classic. I know it may be a bit unreasonable to expect brilliant masterpieces all the time. But it’s…
Interpol have today revealed ‘All The Rage Back Home’ as the first single proper from their upcoming new album El Pintor. The single got it’s first airing on Radio 1 this evening, which was quickly followed up with this moody video: ‘All The Way Back Home’ becomes the third song from El Pintor to be revealed…
Newly reformed post-hardcore legends At The Drive-In have confirmed the location of their special UK show today. As reported last week, the band opened up a ballot for fans to register for pre-sale tickets for a gig at an unknown time and place in the UK at some point in August. Today, At The Drive-In…
If you’re anything like me, those 10 year old PC speakers you’ve never got round to updating are probably starting to look and sound a bit dated. But luckily, you can win a brand new set of OneConcept PC/Laptop speakers courtesy of HiFi-Tower, with the following spec: 2.1 active system with 16W RMS power (10W…
Friendly Fires front-man Ed Macfarlane has revealed the St Albans band may be moving away from their trademark ‘indie-rave’ sound in recording sessions for their third album. Speaking of the sessions, Macfarlane told The Sunday Mirror: “We’ve been working on eight-minute long tracks that don’t sound anything like what we do now.” The singer went…
Paul Cook and The Chronicles – Volume 1 [rating:4/5] I don’t usually bother too much with acoustic singer-songwriter types – mostly because they tend to be a bit dull and try so hard to strike an emotional chord they forget to actually write good tunes. Not so with this guy. I featured his single ‘Candlelight’…
Rage Against The Machine’s guitarist Tom Morello has announced his new band, Street Sweeper Social Club, will release a new EP in August. Posting on Myspace, the axe-man said the EP will be entitled ‘The Ghetto Blaster’ and is due for release on August 10. As well as new songs ‘Ghetto Blaster’, ‘Everythang’ and ‘The…
Kasabian – Days Are Forgotten Kasabian continued their gradual buzz-building for new album Velociraptor! last night with the surprise announcement of the albums first single proper, ‘Days Are Forgotten’. Following the release of ‘Switchblade Smiles’ as a free download and the unveiling of title track ‘Velociraptor’ at their recent live shows, ‘Days Are Forgotten’ is…
Top 40 of 2012 So Far: 40-21 By Philip Lickley It’s always difficult to come up with a favourite list of songs from a year as opinions change and songs either grow or fade with each listen. But, that said and knowing this list will probably be heavily disputed by those who read it, here…
