The Lock Up Stage is now the stage where all the heavy rock takes place following what seems to be the demise of the rock day at Reading and Leeds. Early on Tuesday morning on Radio 1’s Punk Show the initial wave of acts for that stage were announced. Billy Talent will headline the stage [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Max
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Passion Pit are more just a band that are jumping on the MGMT bandwagon (look no further than Empire Of The Sun for that kind of crapness). What they are is a promising electropop band that have an album out called Manners out on the 18th May. The Reeling was the lead single from that [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Max
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I will admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of this Tom Morello/Boots Riley collaboration when they appeared on the NINJA EP a few weeks ago. However, I’m still open to the possibility that a full-length Street Sweeper Social Club album might be better. This statement I just made coincides with new details of that [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Max
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I love the piano. I think it’s possibly one of my favourite instruments in music as it can convey more than just one feeling. Some bands have used it as a main instrument and have tried experimenting with ways to make it sound new and exciting. Here are five of the best.
1. Space Dementia by [...]

Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Max
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The Meltdown Festival is always an intriguing event. Every year a curator is selected and that artist then is given to the freedom to create their dream lineup of gigs and side-events on London’s South Bank. This year it is the turn of Ornette Coleman, an innovator of the free jazz movement, and the first [...]

Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Max
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