You know when you hear a rock star complaining about their ‘demons’? Well, Howlin’ Whippet is the man to call and battle them. And he always kicks their arse. Thankfully, he’s put down Jessie J’s for an hour to review a new album for us. Despite the rather unwieldy name, The Unkindness of Ravens deal [...]
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We’ve been fans of the Blood Arm ever since seeing them in Colarado on an NME tour with The Hold Steady and Art Brut. We spent a hugely drunken evening debating the life of a touring rock and roll band. We were staying in a 5-star luxury spa hotel and they were sleeping in their [...]
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News to make your heart sing: Guided By Voices are set to self-release their brand new album Let’s Go Eat The Factory in January 2012. See, we told you you’d like it. After reuniting the classic line-up of Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos and Kevin Fennell last year, the band will release [...]
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A lighthouse offers a beacon of hope in the darkness. How very apt, then, that Pose Victorious‘ new EP draws inspiration from that idea. A Glasgow 5 piece, their sound contains the clipped directness of early Strokes flavoured with a sprinkling of Scottish folk and the earnest passion of acts such as Frightened Rabbit. It’s [...]
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Vespertine checks out the Boston 3-piece. I last caught Boston’s finest purveyors of indie/rock/country/grunge 17 years ago and had worried that this could be nothing but an exercise in nostalgia. I was wrong.
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If you like your music loud enough to strip the enamel from your teeth then Flats may be just what you are after. Officilally the seond loudest band reviewed by ELM – the honour remains with the Fall - Flats bring their own brand of thrashy punk to King Tuts. It may be cold outside [...]
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Doesn’t Valentines Day just make you feel good? Don’t you love paying a fiver for an overpriced piece of card and being grievously ripped off for flowers and chocolates? No? Then give thanks for the Vigo Thieves new single ‘Love Is Dead’. Long-term ELM faves, this is another taster of their forthcoming debut album.
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Some bands just don’t get the respect they are due. Camper Van Beethoven probably do, from about the fifteen of us who like them, and I can’t imagine they’d want it any other way. They are responsible for perhaps the greatest lyric of all time – ‘there isn’t a line here that goes with anything’ [...]
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The Wookie doesn’t ask for much, but he’s been on at me to feature the Gin Blossoms in FFTV for a while now. Forever favourites of Top Gear compilations for their 1994 monster hit ‘Hey Jealousy’, they were actually a very underrated pop-Americana hybrid, if you can countenance such a thing. The band had a [...]
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Yep, a day late. But worth waiting for, we feel. Black Mountain’s new single is called ‘The Hair Song’ and is redolent of when all the cool kids did indeed have long hair. And plaid shirts. And heroin habits. The 80′s revival is dead, is the grunge revival starting now? Look out the german jackets [...]
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