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Album: Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is
Happiness Is sounds somewhat like a homecoming
Club: Selective Hearing x Hi Ku presents Dense & Pika / Jay Daniel / Alex Coulton / Palms Trax
The teaming up of Selective Hearing and Hi Ku was highly successful
Interview: Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop)
We picked the brains of the Internets busiest music nerd Anthony Fantano on the state of guitar music, why AM sucked and Cal Chuchesta’s Christmas movie.
Club: Now Wave & Triangular presents Jacques Greene & SOPHIE
Two good sets are compromised by a lack of atmosphere
Festival: Bugged Out! Weekender
The experience they have in throwing parties was telling and all aspects of the festival from production to pricing were first-rate
Preview: Steve Aoki @ Victoria Warehouse
Steve Aoki hits Victoria Warehouse on the 5th April.
Album: Real Estate – Atlas
The real beauty lies in how effortless the whole thing sounds
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Live: Kevin Devine
There is only so much to be heard of similar sounding acoustic songs
Live: Lo-Fi launch night with Boddika
Boddika delivers a typically abrasive set of pummelling techno
Album: Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
They’re past the debut of indie teenage angst, the suprise folk and an unexpected electronic tangent – now what?
From the Vault: The Ramones – Leave Home
Released January 1977 Sire Recrods Released barely nine months after their classic debut, The Ramones’s second record consolidated their status as pioneers of New York’s burgeoning punk rock scene and proved their early success was no accident. Leave Home – so titled because of their then-fledgling ambition to tour the world – embellished and improved […]
Album: Mogwai – Rave Tapes
Familiar Mogwai tropes on Rave Tapes are mostly pleasing but occasionally a little dull
Album: Warpaint – Warpaint
Warpaint don’t quite reach their past consistent heights
Opinion: Are music festivals just for Summer?
Sam Bartram considers the role of music festivals outside of Summer
Interview: The Family Rain
Ruby Hoffman talks with The Family Rain about their debut album, highlights of last year and their fashion icon