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October, 2010

Wolf People – Steeple

Proudly carrying an authentic torch for rock history, Wolf People return with more of their dirty psych grooves.

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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Hoxton Bar & Grill, London 11/10/2010 [Photos]

Valerio Berdini navigated train replacement services, bought 2 CD’s, and generally looked a bit tired the following day, just to bring you these photos of the indie-pop purveyors Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.

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The Mariner’s Children: ‘It Carved Your Name Into The Ground’

The video for the track ‘It Carved Your Name Into The Ground’ belies this. This track is taken from their forthcoming EP New Moore Island, which is out on 1st November via Broken Records.

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Shrag – Life! Death! Prizes!

Second album from Brighton’s mixed gender yelpers calms down a bit and explores the possibilities of their post-punk and indiepop influences.

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The Walkmen – Lisbon

Some hardcore fans may miss the sinister overtones that were more apparent on previous albums but despite it’s themes of disappointment and defeat, Lisbon is an utter triumph.

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Our Broken Garden – Golden Sea

The perils of being too beautiful, and singing too well.

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Galvanised! Festival hits Oto with Teeth of the Sea & more

Galvanised! Festival has been going for four years now, bringing a diverse set of experimental music to the masses. This year’s festival sees two curated nights exploring the ecology of performance, based around the terms of singularities and clusters.

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SOTD #150 // Memoryhouse: ‘Caregiver’

For a band so early on in their undoubtedly fruitful future career, ‘Caregiver’ sounds so forlorn and final that when listening it almost feels like Memoryhouse are playing out their epitaph right before our very eyes.

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John & Jehn tour the UK

Following the release of their second album, Time For The Devil, back in May, the french duo of John & Jehn have announced a UK tour: November 15 – The Cooler Club, Bristol 16 – Old Blue Last, London 17 – Captains Rest, Glasgow 18 – The Deaf Institute, Manchester 19 – Moles, Bath 20 [...]

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Skinny Lister release Kites across the UK

Skinny Lister, whose rather lovely folk we enjoyed recently, have announced details of a new single and UK tour. The single, called ‘Kite Song’, will be release digitally on 1st November. You can see them tour in the run-up to that at the following locations: October 23 – Forge & Flagon – Lutterworth 24 – [...]

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Aaron Wright & The Aprils – Behold The Pale Horse

While highlights appear on the brief horizon, Behold A Pale Horse is strangely forgettable given its EP status – an unforgivable sin in today’s digital marketplace.

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The Snakes – Sometime Soon…

The band takes plenty of risks alongside the more traditional country-tinged rock songs their fans have grown familiar with.

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Tinie Tempah – Disc-o-very

If Tinie uses less contradictive chat about fame and pop culture references and more wordplay, then he clearly witholds the potential to become something more than just another creator of great rap/pop songs.

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Wino starts tour this week

Scott ‘Wino‘ Weinrich has been bringing his unique Sabbath-inspired Doom/Stoner rock to us for the past three decades. Performing under a number of guises including, Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand and most recently in Neurot’s supergroup, Shrinebuilder. Wino’s latest album, Adrift, is a stripped back, acoustic number and contains covers of [...]

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Bellowhead – Hedonism

Bellowhead’s third album of rearranged traditional songs is an addictive listen and a genuine triumph.

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Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz

The Age of Adz spins a fragmented and oblique narrative punctuated by intimate lyrics, electronic glitches and swirling string arrangements.

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