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TRACK REVIEW: Sunrise Skater Kids – Rylo Ken
If you couldn’t tell from the release date of Sunrise Skater Kids debut album being April 1st then it’s worth mentioning the band are as much of a legitimate emo band as The Lonely Island are a hip hop act. After last year’s success with his satirical album Beating A Dead Horse, Jarrod Alonge is…
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TOP 5: SXSW Acts To Listen Out For
SXSW (short for South By Southwest) is special to say the least. Ever since it began in 1987, the festival has aimed and succeeded to grow in size and scope continuously, covering a range of entertainment and art from film to interactive media though the indisputable reason why everyone travels to Austin, Texas for the annual event…
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TRACK REVIEW: Hovvdy – Problem
As I write this review, a strange occurrence has happened in Scotland and that is sunny weather. Just like any other part of the U.K., we’re as likely to get this kind of weather as we are a new Muse album that is any good. However, a gift from Texas in the form of Hovvdy are the…
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TRACK REVIEW: Biffy Clyro – Wolves Of Winter
Roguish Scottish rockers make their return, sounding angrier than ever on their latest single It’s been a while since we last heard a brand new album from bearded three piece act Biffy Clyro (3 years, 1 month, 22 days but who’s counting?) who since the release of ambitious double LP Opposites have been touring extensively, playing…
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Are We About To Witness A New Age For Albums?
Kanye’s The Life Of Pablo is being updated and changed weeks after release: could this be the new standard? “Ima fix wolves”. These were the words uttered on Twitter by hip hop artist and self proclaimed god Kanye West mere hours after releasing his highly anticipated seventh LP The Life Of Pablo and unsurprisingly, this…
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This Week In Music: 12th – 19th March
Covering the biggest music stories of the past seven days to keep you in the know! Death Grips open up about Bottomless Pit After stating that their 2015 release Jenny Death would be the band’s last, Death Grips quickly followed up that news with the announcement of Bottomless Pit and last night we got our first details.Album…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Macklemore + Ryan Lewis – This Unruly Mess I’ve Made
Hip hop chart toppers deliver a divisive release that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang. Just as Kendrick Lamar is the golden child of Hip Hop who can do no wrong in the eyes of many, Macklemore is the polar opposite: a man that receives a lot of flack and whose name…
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GIG REVIEW: Wolf Alice @ Barrowlands
It’s fair to say that Wolf Alice are a totem to indie rock, dominating 2015 with their grunge-lite sound and powerful live shows during the annual festival season as well as their drenge supported tour that was a wet dream for anyone who has picked up a copy of NME. So whenever I walked up…
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EP REVIEW: Fake Boyfriend – Mercy
RELEASE OF THE WEEK Looking at the tags on Fake Boyfriend’s bandcamp will tell you all you need to know about them before diving right into this punk rock rich release: existential crises, heartbreakers, heartbroken, and philly sad girls. On Mercy, their first EP, it’s clear that they’ve hit all these tags quite well, most of all…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Horse Jumper of Love – Horse Jumper of Love
While the mention of horses brings an expectation of fast, strong and majestic, Boston slow rock trio Horse Jumper of Love have done quite the opposite on their self-titled debut. While it may pack the same strength and resilience of a stallion, the band’s songs seem to enjoy wallowing in their dreary, distorted mess of…
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