Whippet Out – Pure Reason Revolution, King Tut’s Glasgow

Posted on November 29, 2011 by extremelisteningmode

An example to us all, Howlin’ Whippet defies age, logic and climate to go out in search of more rock and roll redemption. Pure Reason Revolution are one of those odd bands that are somewhat jealously guarded by their fans. It’s almost on a need to know basis, a type of I-could-tell-you-but-I’d-have-to-kill-you situation. This, as [...]

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Foo Fighters – Curiously Unloved

Posted on September 28, 2011 by extremelisteningmode

Howlin’ Whippet looks at Dave Grohl and co and wonders – can anyone ever really escape a shadow THAT big? I’ve never given much thought to the Foo Fighters, but in one of those odd moments of synchronicity that one gets, I found myself surrounded by the hairy-beardy ones several times in the last week. [...]

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Hey Uncle Sam! Is grunge coming back?

Posted on April 13, 2011 by extremelisteningmode

If you subscribe to the theory that music is cyclical – and that everything gets copied eventually – then the last few years have provided a lot of grist for your theoretical mill. From post-punk to techno to electropop, it seems everything that wasn’t nailed down has been re-constituted and adapted by someone. For a [...]

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I know a lot about art, I just don’t know what I like – 10 Classic Album covers

Posted on April 20, 2010 by extremelisteningmode

The Government estimates we produce over 10 million tones of packaging waste each year. The Daily Mail have declared war on the simple plastic bag, declaring it a hazard up there with nuclear war, Labour and immigrants. Even asking for one in Marks and Spencer is now akin to saying ‘I would like you to [...]

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News Nuggets – Now made from 100% mechanically recovered news

Posted on November 10, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

The end of a decade is a strange, unsettling time. Caught on the cusp of what has been and what is yet to come, we huddle in front of our flatscreens desperately trying to make sense of it all. Are you confused just now? You are not alone. The questions, those unanswerable questions, just seem [...]

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The Songs That Saved Your Life – The 90s: Loaded

Posted on November 3, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

The decade where things could only get better brought the world cargo pants, Sunny Delight and Chris Evans. Musically, Grunge and Britpop could lay claim to being the defining movements of the era, though that’s to do a disservice to Jive Bunny. ELM suggests it wasn’t a band who could lay claim to the most [...]

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The Songs That Saved Your Life – The 80s; Where Is My Mind?

Posted on November 2, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

There was more to the 80s than Duran Duran and massive cocaine habits, you know. Scandalously disregarding the work of Sonia, Salamander takes us through the fashions and then goes for a song coming right out of left field. The 80s, then; the decade of big hair and enough hairspray to have caused the ozone [...]

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Hinterland – Interview with De Rosa

Posted on April 14, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

We  first checked out De Rosa at Malcolm Middleton’s Burst Noel in December (see reviews) and were rather impressed with them. With Hinterland coming up, we were keen to chat with them and Chris from the band rather kindly took the time to answer our questions. The result is, in our humble opinion, very interesting [...]

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Extreme Lovin’ Mode – Songs of Obsession

Posted on March 31, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

We’ve been enthralled round these parts this week by ‘Pins and Panzers’, the debut album by New York electropop Plushgun. It’s a shimmering slice of atmospheric quality pop, the kind of thing the Killers tried with ‘Dancer’ and obviously failed so miserably at. More specifically, we’ve been the smitten kitten about their song ‘Just Impolite’, [...]

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The Friday 5 – Totally Bono; Annoying Things In Music

Posted on February 27, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

People, as Depeche Mode once so sagely noted, are people. Similarly unarguable are the merits of the Friday 5. ‘Ver 5′, as no-one calls it, can cover pretty much anything; it’s subject matters are as free range as Jamie Oliver’s dream chicken. Today we felt we’d go a bit Yellow Pages and prove sometimes we’re [...]

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