In a way, this is the new title for my news in brief style posts (which I kinda stole from these two completely unrelated blogs). But yeah, this is the stuff I didn’t really feel like rambling on about in great detail:
Radiohead have announced some tour supports. As far as the UK and Europe are [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Max
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Aaaah, The Raconteurs. Their debut album release in 2006 called Broken Boy Soldiers wasn’t too shabby. Songs like Steady As She Goes, Store Bought Bones and Hands rocked hard but had an air of pop sensibilities, similar in a sense to the work of Brendan Benson. The one main criticism I had with it though [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Max
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Photo courtesy of Elisa Bryant

Plastic Palace Alice, for those who didn’t read my gleaming post about them two weeks ago , are an Australian six-piece who make epic, lush and beautiful music with some fittingly grandiose lyrics. On the 29th March, they’ll release their debut, The Great Depression, in their own homeland. I’ll be [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Max
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I hate major record labels. I’m sure most of you dear readers share the same hatrid. This story makes me hate them even more.
Be Your Own Pet have just put out their second album called Get Awkward. There’s no hitches in the UK and European release but the American release is missing several songs. Why? [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Max
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I’ve always thought of Guilfest as the only real music festival that the county of Surrey has to offer. What it means is that every year I pay something like £80 to go to a festival that, whilst held with good intentions and a success every year, doesn’t offer me much of the music I [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Max
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