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On Friday 19th October, Foals announced (to their mailing list) that their third studio album Holy Fire will be released soon. The band will start their mini tour at the end…

Who remembers MySpace?! It helped a lot of struggling artists find an audience and sparked an amazing era for indie music. Even I got signed through it. Anyway, during one of…

After many blinding live shows from this New Zealand three piece, it’s great to finally see the arrival of the finished album. They’ve played all over the world, done a stint…

Good Shoes are from Morden which is right on the edge of London. They wrote rather a good song about it called ‘Morden’. Their debut album ‘Think Before You Speak’ is…

Yay! French electro label Ed Banger (run by Ed Banger’s very own Busy P) have released their second installment of wall shaking, earth trembling beats. The cover features a diagonal stripey…

I like this album, it rocks. This is a solid and impressive debut from much talked about London trio, the Noisettes. From the very first track they’re straight in there, cracking…

As a fan of their first self titled album, I was anticipating good things before I even pressed play. But we know how it is sometimes with second albums – they…

I am trying so hard to fall in love with The Shins at the moment but I have mixed thoughts on this album so keep up with my review as it…

The greatest album of this millenium and the most anticipated. I feel like my whole life has been a drum roll to the moment this album went on sale. I bought it…

Kubicheck! are Al, Frog, Nelson and Mc Greevy from Newcastle Upon Tyne. They where on Fantastic Plastic Records (who launched Guillemots before they where snapped up by Polydor) but now they’re…

Compilations are often put together assuming your musical tastes are based on one particular genre, and often full of crap. The songs you do like, you already have and the songs…

The Grates (make sure you spell it correctly, there isn’t a band called ‘The Greats’!) are an Australian three piece fronted by the energetic Patience and signed to Dew Process. They’ve…

How do I describe this album? Imagine an amazingly happy Daft Punk crossed with a splash Junior Senior and The Go! Team. It’s very cheesey, but in a good way. It’s…

Released on the little known Regal Records (famous for signing The Beta Band), Lily Allen’s debut album ‘Alright Still’ defines 21st Century pop. It is clear by how well this album…

Back once again from the firey depths of Warp Records, Tom Jenkinson is releasing another epic album that all well respected electronic music fanatics cannot survive without. ‘Hello Everything’ is coming…

As soon as this CD dropped through my door, I thought to myself ‘Oh no!, a compilation CD!’. I hate compilation CDs. If I were ever invited onto Room 101, I…

This is the soundtrack to the summer and from a band that have literally come out of nowhere. ‘Heat Exchange’ is their debut single and comes out in August. I wish…

Their debut album ‘Too Low To Miss’ is an absolute essential buy if you’re into your electroclash. The whole album screams of Chk Chk Chk with elements of Soulwax and Depeche…

What kind of a music magazine would this be if we didn’t mention Thom Yorke’s solo debut? For those of you that don’t know who Thom Yorke is, I’m not even…