This Saturday, live and for cheap, Fucked Up will be playing at Corsica Studios, located at Unit 4/5 Elephant Road SE17. They will be joined by Mob Rules, Male Bonding and The Sceptres plus a lengthy list of top notch DJ’s. Details inside.
TLOBF heads to Doves’ studio! Follow our day here!
TLOBF are at Doves studio today for a playback of the new album ‘Kingdom Of Rust’… We’ll be ‘live tweeting’ all day – none Twitter users fear not, we have implemented the feed within so you can follow our progress and random celebrity sightings to your hearts content.

Favours For Sailors – Furious Sons
Four Londoners playing the power-pop hits as they’d have sounded on American radio in the 1970s, only with some very modern influences. Simon Tyers reviews.

War Child – Heroes
The new charity compilation from War Child turns out to be a decidedly mixed affair.

Young Galaxy return, new album, tour and mp3!
Young Galaxy mark their much welcomed return and get their groove on. Shunning the shoegaze of their previous release for something a little more funkier. It’s good though, trust me. Listen inside.

The Bluetones ‘Expecting To Fly’ gets the deluxe treatment
On this double CD (out 9th March), ‘Expecting To Fly’ is remastered and reissued in its entirety with a second CD of BBC sessions and live recordings, recorded throughout 1995.

Anni Rossi – Rockwell
‘Rockwell’ is a charming, satisfying record and one which exposes a talent that at last may be worthy of “the new Regina” tags that are being thrown around.

Big Scary News
One of our favourite independent labels Big Scary Monsters have been rather busy of late, so we thought we’d fill you in on all the latest bits and pieces.. Inside; news on Native, The Tupolev Ghost, Copy Haho and brand new BSM merchandise!

Crystal Antlers live concert stream this Friday!
A live performance of Crystal Antlers in Amsterdam will be streaming via Fabchannel on Friday evening, from 7pm. Further details within.

Download brand new My Latest Novel song! [TLOBF Exclusive]
‘All In All Is All’ is everything a My Latest Novel track should be; defiant and dramatic with soaring instrumentation and gorgeous harmonies. If this is a hint of what the rest of the album will sound like then Deaths and Entrances could well be reaching for Album Of The Year status pretty damn quickly.
Twitter with Doves – follow us as we meet the band tomorrow!
Rich Hughes will be travelling to Stockport tomorrow. Not normally a news story in itself, but the fact is, he’s going to the Doves studio to meet the band and listen to tracks from their new album. Follow his travels on Twitter!

The Drones – Havilah
Ro Cemm reviews the latest from The Drones – continuing their heady brew of religion, birth, death and everything else in between.
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – The Century Of Self
A flurry of rocking songs and big ambitions, Trail Of Dead are back on fine form with their latest: ‘The Century Of Self’.

Matt & Kim – Grand
Indie darlings Matt & Kim are dishing out more infectious spazzy snyth pop on their sophomore album ‘Grand’. Bridget Helgoth reviews.

Eels announce new album for June!
Eels have announced the release of a brand new album, this coming June.

Parts & Labor – Cargo, London 19/02/09
Parts & Labor are one of the most scintillating live acts around, and if they resist the temptation to sacrifice their more interesting elements for mainstream appeal they’ll continue to be a band well worth your time.
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