Firstly, I like Kasabian. I think their two previous albums were solid stuff and I wait with baited breath for their newest album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, but I can’t help but snigger at this quote from Serge Pizzornio in this week’s NME:
We never were one [a lad rock band]. If you put our [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Max
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No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away is the iTunes-friendly title of the next Mew album. The first single will be Introducing Palace Players and it looks like that the band is still in a progressive mood following their [...]

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I’ve seen many odd ways of releasing music, whether it is through cassette tapes (after cassettes went extinct) or USB memory sticks. Alcopop, a Brighton based record label, have trumped everyone though. They’re releasing a new taster compilation on Monday…in a bottle. The bottle has a map inside it that will lead you to the [...]

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Well, do you? I’m not sure I can think of a single person who would like both as much as each other. The one thing they do have in common is they’re both poor versions of something (Joy Division in the case of White Lies and pretty much every Web 2.0 site in the case [...]

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In a year where a lot of the band members of Sigur Rós were doing solo projects (Jonsi is involving himself with his partner for an instrumental album under the Riceboy Sleeps monikor whilst he will also release a separate solo album), they still have time to write another album. The successor to Með Suð [...]

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