
Sunday, 2 September 2012
Kreidler - Den

Monday, 30 July 2012
A Place To Bury Strangers – Worship
In a world saturated by pop culture cynicism, the association between
rock music and rebellion looking more and more like a bad joke with every
decade, it seems to me that the gradual rise in the underground of what I call
‘rock band self harm’ can be seen as perhaps one of today’s most relevant trends...
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Mr Fogg - Eleven

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Crocodiles - Endless Flowers

Collisions – Believe In This EP

Gossip – A joyful noise
Looking through the comments on youtube videos of old Gossip songs is an uncomfortable exposé on how they hit the big-time in 2006. In amongst all the “you go girl”‘s and tiffs over the sex appeal of larger-than-life women, it doesn’t seem like anyone has anything to say about theirmusic. Back then Beth Ditto may indeed have been a conversation starter, rivalling Adele as the epitome of the anti-model, defiantly baring her gargantuan buttocks in the direction of the twig-thin catwalkers of the glossy magazine rack, but once you stripped them of alternative fashion icon status, Gossip always seemed to be a little short of things to say...
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Nada Surf - ‘The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy’
Prior to the release of their sixth original album, ‘The Stars Are
Indifferent To Astronomy’, Nada Surf announced their intent for a return to a
more visceral, practice room aesthetic. For a band whose retreat from
skate-punk tinged alternative rock testosterone (and with it commercial growth)
came almost immediately after the buzz of their one and only college radio hit
back in ‘95...
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