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Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 02:00 in progressive, Alternative, interview, interviews, prog, post-rock, oceansize, mike vennart
The absolute top-best thing about being a music writer is getting the occasional chance to quiz musicians you really admire. This will be the third time I’ve chatted with members of Oceansize (though the first time for TDP), and the novelty sti...
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Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 02:00 in indie, Rock, pop, blues, music reviews, person l, the positives
So, according to the infallible intertubes, Person L are fronted by one Kenny Vasoli, formerly of The Starting Line; apparently he got “frustrated with the limitations of pop punk” (which is something I can sympathise with), and decided to start ...
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Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 02:00 in metal, music reviews, insects, thrash, nu-metal, breed 77
Ah, Breed 77 – a band I’ve been aware of for years, but have never knowingly listened to before now. You couldn’t open a copy of Kerrang! around the Millennium without seeing someone mentioning how awesome they were… and given tha...
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Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 02:00 in hard rock, music reviews, hair metal, rock'n'roll, riot:noise, fight the people
Hey – are you nostalgic for British hair metal circa 1991? Big fan of Def Leppard, Gun, Stiltskin, Thunder, The Almighty and so forth? Then, boy, do we have a band for you – Bristol’s Riot:Noise are the chaps in question, and the Fight The ...
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Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 02:00 in Rock, pop, punk, music reviews, post-hardcore, the hickey underworld
The only thing worse than opening up a nice fresh Jiffy to find what appears to be a psy-trance album is discovering, upon playing, that it is a psy-trance album. At least I used to think so until I received The Hickey Underworld’s eponymous album ...
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Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 02:00 in metal, hardcore, music reviews, metalcore, carcer city, the life we have chosen
At its best, metalcore is the quintessence of modernity : It is music stripped of the tyranny of traditional forms. Freed from the need for verses, choruses, tunes and lyrics, it is an assembly of musical found objects. Clumps of ideas in d...
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