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Tracks - 26th July
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Built to Spill & Dinosaur Jr: O2 Academy, Birmingham - 16/05/2010
The perennial gig of two halves..
Live ReviewLCD Soundystem: O2 Academy, Bristol - 02/05/2010
The new stuff may have flattered to deceive, but the classics were as good as ever.
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Albums
The Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
..The gods seem aligned when providing new albums by Harvey Milk, Nina Nastasia and The Melvins on the same day...
Sup pop act the missing link between Crowded House and Wilco?
Seminal album gets a little, erm, seminaller with overdue reissue
Clip of the day
Sounding effortlessly like an authentic piece of 70s afro funk, this is actually the very current Whitefield Brothers with 'The Gift', featuring Edan, Mr Lif and plenty of cowbell..
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Tracks - 26th July
Join us as we look at new stuff from Grinderman, Breakbot, Delta Maid and more....
Features
Arcadia - So Red The Rose (Special Edition)
Jason A Parkes finds much to admire in reissue of Duran Duran offshoot..
Seminal dream pop act's back catalogue is given loving reissue treatment by the good folks at Domino. Jason A Parkes is suitably impressed..
6 Music may not be perfect, but according to Jason A Parkes we'll miss it once it's gone..
Oliver W J Rock has a listen to the suitably odd soundtrack to The Mighty Boosh director's new movie..
Live
LCD Soundystem: O2 Academy, Bristol - 02/05/2010
The new stuff may have flattered to deceive, but the classics were as good as ever.
Ecstatic heavy set from the hip hop legend who also acts a bit..
Great gig, shame about the venue..
Pleasing blend of 70s rock and 80s shoegaze, The Besnard Lakes rock surprisingly hard live..
Latest News
15th July: Music News
Tom Jones, Robbie Williams and The Charlatans, all in one day. We're not actually trying to claim that's remotely impressive by the way..
Eminem in 'pampered musician' shocker
Rapper gets right in to the festival spirit..
Alex Kapranos bothers children
Sorry, 'bothers' should of course read as 'helps'..
Gang Starr's Guru passes away aged 47
A truly sad day..
Latest Comments
May 26, 2010 - 07:32 PM
Jamie wrote:
The Cure - Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)
I reckon the Prayer Tour would be my best gig too. There's a second disc of outtakes and a second live version of the album available on the official site. Plus another live album on A Chain of Flowers site with non album stuff.
Apr 27, 2010 - 03:45 PM
Nickthants wrote:
North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks
I'm looking forward to seeing these at the Great Escape this year. There's even some Bob Mould sound in there.
Apr 17, 2010 - 03:59 PM
jasonp wrote:
The Cure to rerelease classic album
Sounds like a very decent reissue job - I think Disintegration remains their peak and they really should have called it a day around then. Though since The Cure is Captain Bob and his fave chum Simon Gallup, hard to know if ending the name 'The Cure' in 1990 would have ceased further albums that veer from quite decent to dull, with the odd inspired work like 'From the Edge of a Deep Green Sea', 'Labyrinth', 'Want', 'Burn', 'Never Enough', 'Trap', 'The Scream' or 'Open'...Still, this looks rather decent, especially with all that live stuff on. I'm pretty sure that the epic Wembley Arena gig on the last night of the Prayer Tour was the best gig I've ever been to...
Apr 17, 2010 - 03:54 PM
jasonp wrote:
La's box set announced
flogging a dead horse/scraping the barrel etc. There are some fantastic songs on the original LP, but I'm not convinced it was that solid a classic. Always thought Waterpistol by Shack was the LP 'The LA's' was meant to be. Still, could be worse - the record company could be reissuing the back-catalogue of Cast...
May 27, 2010 - 03:49 PM
Jamie wrote:
The Cure - Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)
Not sure if the stuff from Chain of Flowers is official though.