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The new Sky Larkin EP - Still Windmills, is released by Wichita on 2nd August.  They’re streaming it from their website and you can have a listen to it here: It’s a great tune, suggesting that their second album, produced by John Goodmanson (Girls, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney) is likely to be a bit of a winner. They’re also about to head out on...
MUSIC IS EXCITING, ISN’T IT? Being on tour for a while makes you forget how fantastic music is. Going to your own shows becomes a strange ritual where you are flung head-first into a vat of Groundhog Day familiarity, emerging a few hours later with a glaze of confusable goo lining the inside of your clothing. So, last week I went to some ‘live gigs’ and listened to some records...
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Sky Larkin - Antibodies from Sky Larkin on Vimeo. It took me a little while to come around to Sky Larkin’s debut album The Golden Spike. Perhaps it was being a little too familiar with a bunch of the songs, or that the production was rather more polished than on anything they had done previously. Time has worked in it’s favour though, and it now feels like a record that will...
Download Here 1. Mr Russia - It’s True (Lens) Mr Russia are neither a man or hail from the former Soviet Union. In fact they are just three blokes from Chicago who happen to have made a bloody good record. The bands debut album is called "Teething" and will be released on 14th February. 2. Little Comets - One Night In October (Lucky Number) This is a track from the Newcastle...
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Venue: Brixton Windmill Teaser: Beware the moon, my pretties! Sky Larkin are playing the Brixton Windmill - but their drummer is morphing into a strange beast. Don Blandford packs the silver bullets… Pull quote 2: Nestor’s been mouthing the lyrics throughout the set - possibly as an incantation to enslave the innocent Campesinos fans… First para: Blame...
Venue: Hill Farm, Oxfordshire Teaser: It was flooded, cancelled, and rescheduled - but Truck Festival has bounced back with an unparalleled cast of stunning new bands. In what must be the last festival of the season (surely!) Don Blandford and Sally Saveall bring us these words and pictures… Pull quote 2: Some fella had his locks shorn on stage during the Electric Soft...
Band name: Asobi Seksu, Lightspeed Champion, The Mitchell Brothers and more Label: various coolio schmoolios Teaser: Japanese space monsters! Garage Rock apocalypse! Messages to aliens! Messages to Michael Jackson! The Age Of Aquarius reimagined! If only real life were as exciting as this week’s singles, reviewed by Ric Rawlins… Pull quote 2: It would make a...
Venue: The Spitz Teaser: Wyldman catches a triple bill of new rock n roll at the Spitz, headlined by a refreshingly enthusiastic “seven piece explosion of a band from Cardiff”… Pull quote 2: they are just so gosh golly delighted to be here and playing to an adoring audience that their enthusiasm brooks all criticism First para: The one who catches...
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