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Normally I do these posts as sets of three but time is short tonight.

Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider has a new side project called Thee American Revolution, who, in turn, have a track called Power House. It’s sort of a standard Detroit garage rock riff and, to be honest, I didn’t really care for [...]

Earlier in the year I reviewed Kid iD who released a fantastic E.P. entitled Black Comedy. I am so proud to be in at the start of a new incarnation featuring former members of the now defunct Kid iD. There are shades of the former in parts but To Kill A king have added more [...]

Honestly, it sounds more like a Beck song featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg than the other way around, but I still like it. These are two I’d have never imagined performing together, yet now that I’ve heard it I wonder why someone hadn’t thought of it before. Sounds like a happy b-side from the Sea Change era. [...]

Blood Red Shoes are from the Long Blondes/Sons & Daughters school of female-fronted punk pop. The duo broke in 2007 with their brilliant ‘It’s Getting Boring By The Sea’ single, but didn’t seem to make as much of a splash with their debut album, Box of Secrets. It wasn’t a bad album by any means [...]

Well, we’re 3 months in to our Best of 2009 Reader’s Poll, and I think it’s pretty obvious who you folks think had the record of the year: The xx. Phoenix was very close, but still a few votes shy of the London trio’s top spot. I was originally going to close the voting on [...]

More breaking Blur news…

Thanks to a cryptic Tweet from Parlophone this evening, I was directed to Blur’s official website where I was greeted by this trailer for a brand spankin’ new documentary about our beloved boys and their decision to reform earlier this year. Looks as if it will include interviews with the band as [...]

I was trying to figure out why this video gave me the heebie jeebies – beyond my lifelong struggle with aquaphobia. There’s nothing particularly scary about the premise that I could work out on a conscious level. Sure, they stole the intro from Raiders of the Lost Ark and this song sounds like every single [...]