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Top 100 records of 2009: 100-81
 Grammatics Choosing a top 100 records of 2009 may seem a little excessive but it has been a fucking awesome year for music.  No question.  We’ve mixed together albums, singles and individual tracks in our list, because we can.  The first batch is our top 100-81 and even though they’re at the lower reaches of our countdown, they’re all still amazing....
Mercury mundanity
Ah, the Mercury prize. Every year, providing the opportunity for music fans to complain about how it’s a bad representation of British music, because it doesn’t contain X, Y and Z albums - and what’s that one doing on there? It’s crap. And so on. This year, as with every year, the list contains albums I like, some I don’t and some I don’t care about....
Emmy the Great @ ULU, 27 February 2009
It’s a few songs into Emmy the Great’s set and she’s playing a solo acoustic version of The Hypnotist’s Son, the b-side of her first single, Secret Circus. And I’m feeling proud. This is an odd feeling, because apart for a few people who I know have come to love Emmy’s music through this blog, I can claim absolutely no credit for her career whatsoever. Then...
Indietracks 2009: Saturday
(Apologies for the lateness of these reviews. I came back from Indietracks and quickly came down with something I immediately feared to be swine flu. Thankfully, I was quickly reassured that it was merely twee flu and that it was perfectly normal. What a relief.) Indietracks isn’t the first festival I’ve gone to this year, nor will it be the last. It’s hard to see how...
Music festivals in Kent 2009
As part as our ongoing attempts to cover what little exists of a Kent music scene, it seemed only prudent to put together a brief guide to the major music festivals taking place in the county over the next couple of months. A few years ago such a thing would have been impossible due to a lack of said events, but now new festivals seem to be popping up each year. Obviously not all of them work (...
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If we were in charge of.. The Mercury Music Prize
When I was first approached by BBC Music to put together a list of albums I think should be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, I was initially hesitant. First of all because I don’t much care for awards, and if I’m honest, have never paid attention to the Mercury Prize. Secondly, because I hardly ever listen to complete albums these days. I want to be an elitist snob and...
Emmy the Great
For myself, the wait for Emmy the Great’s debut album First Love, has only been a little over a year.  But for many more long-time fans, the wait has been what I imagine is a more excruciating three or four years. Throughout the short time that i’ve known of this Hong Kong-born, now London-based musician, i’ve accrued almost a laundry lists worth of demos, EPs, live tracks...
MAP January
Here’s the January installment of the Music Alliance Pact. This month, we’ve gained Romania but lost Denmark, so we’re still on 21 blogging nations. And oddly enough, MAP got full-page coverage in an Argentinian daily newspaper! ARGENTINA – Zonaindie Bicicletas – 11 y 20 We started the year listening non-stop to this brand new song by Bicicletas, a superb space-...
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  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...

  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...

  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...

  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...

  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...
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