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The Brian Jonestown Massacre

By • May 28th, 2010 • Category: gigs

Imagine the movie of your life: you aren’t the best friend, or the love interest or a distracting subplot, you’re the star, the story is about you. And towards the end there’s this scene, an amazing, long shot of you driving down a highway, or a montage of everything that’s led up to this incredible [...]



Simian Mobile Disco

By • Apr 12th, 2010 • Category: short players

So, the first track from Simian Mobile Disco’s new album, Temporary Pleasure. Well, it’s a bit of a disappointment.



We’ll All Be Heroes

By • Apr 6th, 2010 • Category: short players

Post-Hardcore trio We’ll All Be Heroes are not just another ‘we wish we were Lost Prophets’ band. Having only been together for a year, their latest e.p. Everything Must Go is surprisingly catchy and an enticing taster of what may be to come on their debut album out in April.



Detroit Social Club

By • Apr 5th, 2010 • Category: short players

If you’re going to start a band, you want it to have a pretty cool name. It’s hard to find something that’s really, really cool but doesn’t sound pretentious.



Gav Livz

By • Jan 30th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short players

While I’m proud of my Scottish accent, it does sound faintly ridiculous when you hear it in a rap song and to be honest, this CD from Glasgow rapper Gav Livz (real name Gavin Livingston) sounds at first like a piss-take off of YouTube.