Monthly Archives: July 2008

31 Jul

Paul Weller ‘22 Dreams’

Paul Weller ‘22 Dreams’

Paul Weller has reinvented himself many times before. This time he says bye-bye to Dad Rock, the style of well-crafted, mild mannered rock for mature listeners he shaped with ‘Stanley Road’.

 
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30 Jul

White Denim ‘Workout Holiday’

White Denim ‘Workout Holiday’

These Texans are best when they loosen up and come across like a mad cross between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Faces.

 
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29 Jul

Micah P. Hinson ‘Micah P. Hinson And The Red Empire Orchestra’

Micah P. Hinson ‘Micah P. Hinson And The Red Empire Orchestra’

Like Tom Waits meeting Leonard Cohen in a roadside ale house, this album combines lust, rage and sadness with a taste for sleezy late night music. Micah is out in a league of his own.

 
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28 Jul

Surfers’ Choice - The Surf Music Special

Surfers’ Choice - The Surf Music Special

Every year around August, surfing hits the lifestyle pages. It’s less known, that Surfing spawned it’s own raunchy soundtrack in the 1950’s. At its best, it’s ‘Punk’ rock before its time. A genre dominated by real life beach bums and exploitation artists could only produce extreme records - Both in a good and in a bad way. The rush only lasted from roughly 1959 to 1963. After that nobody wanted to know. Apart from The Ramones and Quentin Tarantino.

 
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28 Jul

Summer Holidays Coming Up? Get The Best Surf Music!

Summer Holidays Coming Up? Get The Best Surf Music!

There’s not much music better suited to a beach holiday than Surf Music. Even if you have no truck with surfing, our selection is bound to get your beach party or barbecue started.

 
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25 Jul

The Week In Music - 22nd July

The Week In Music - 22nd July

If you listen to only one album this week, make it ‘Versus’ by Various Production. Tasty remixes of the Sugarbabes and Ian Brown sit next to more adventurous material. Just dig those beats!

 
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24 Jul

Burial Bags First Nomination For Mercury Music Prize

Burial Bags First Nomination For Mercury Music Prize

Dubstep producer Burial clinches his first nomination for the prestigious UK music award, the Nationwide Mercury Prize. His album ‘Untrue’ is a fresh breeze in an otherwise tame line-up.

 
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24 Jul

Primal Scream ‘Beautiful Future’

Primal Scream ‘Beautiful Future’

I was looking forward to that. And I have to say it’s pants. The Primals have lost direction, stumbling aimlessly between their electronic phase and the rock sounds of yore.

 
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23 Jul

Various Production ‘Versus’

Various Production ‘Versus’

Various Production are the remix team that put the bomp into Thom Yorke’s ‘Analyse’ and even succeeded in making the dreadful Sugarbabes palatable. Here’s an album full of wonky beats.

 
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22 Jul

CSS ‘Donkey’

CSS ‘Donkey’

CSS don’t bop like on ‘Let’s Make Love’ anymore. The trashy electronics are gone. Instead, CSS try to sound like a ‘proper’ band. They succeed in sounding a bit like Blondie circa ‘X-Offender’.

 
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