Clinic – Tomorrow – Single Review
Clinic, the Liverpudlian band who have for a long time been valiantly plugging away somewhere between the underground and the mainstream returned back in April with their new album ‘Do It!’.  Clinic’s latest single from that album, “Tomorrow” is released on the 24th of November.
The single is released to coincide [...]

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The Retail Sectors - March Of Incurable Workaholic - Distraction Records
Writing music under the name of The Retail Sectors since 2000, Kentaro Togawa, the Japanese multi-instrumentalist takes as his primary inspiration Japanese video game and film music and incorporates this into guitar-driven melodic sound explorations in the same vein as Steve Reich. The experimentation of [...]

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Deerhoof – Offend Maggie – Album Review
In the past, a lot has been made of Deerhoof’s eccentricity, with many finding that whilst the group’s song writing may be incredibly original, it can be rather difficult to swallow. However, there is something compelling about Deerhoof that brings listeners back to them time and again.
Deerhoof fill a [...]

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Animal Collective have announced their first live dates of 2009, coinciding with the release of their remarkable new ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ album (released on Monday the 12th of January, the day of their London Koko show).
UK & European Dates are as follows:
Mon 12-Jan-09 UK London Koko
Tue 13-Jan-09 UK Glasgow Glasgow School of Arts
Wed 14-Jan-09 UK [...]

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Threatmantics - Upbeat Love - Album Review
Threatmantics are Heddwyn Davies, Ceri Mitchell and Huw Davies. They play their own brand of lo-fi rock using limited instrumentation – lead singer Heddwyn Davies plays viola, whilst Mitchell plays guitars and Huw Davies simultaneously takes charge of drumming and keyboard playing.
Evidently they are a bit different to other [...]

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