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Frightened Rabbit to do a live album
Weegie(ish) indie baladeers Frightened Rabbit are about to release a live album– the oddly-titled ‘Liver! Lung! FR!’– which was recorded at the Captain’s Rest in Glasgow this July. The whole thing is pretty much all listenable over at the FatCat Records site, so enjoy feasting your ears on some rather genius arthouse indie.
Bad news for [...]
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Review: Sian Alice Group - 59:59
Sian Alice Group is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalists Rupert Clerveaux and Ben Crook, with the group’s über-talented line-up completed by Sian Ahern (vocals), Sasha Vine (piano, vocals, violin), Andy Ingle (guitars) and Douglas Hart (bass). The group’s debut album 59:59– a title matched by the record’s length in minutes and seconds– is a wonderfully intoxicating [...]
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DJ Z Trip’s Barack Obama Mixtape
DJ Z Trip has dropped a free mix encouraging American’s to go out and vote Obama next month. Hop on over to Z Trip’s website for some awesome mash-ups featuring folks like Saul Williams, Jello Biafra, DJ Vadim and others; and don’t forget to register your vote.
I encourage you to download it and pass it [...]
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The Story of Muxtape: What really went down
Justin Ouellette– the owner of Muxtape– has finally broken the silence on what really went on since the RIAA decided they couldn’t live in the same world as his music sharing service.
Ouellette has described how he almost signed a licensing deal with the majors to keep Muxtape alive, how it would have meant comprimising the [...]
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Review: Lone - Cluster Dreams EP
Nottingham hip-hop producer Lone is– to use a well worn phrase– “on some other shit.” Better known as Matt Cutler, the former Kids in Tracksuits beatmaker has shed the confines of conventional hip-hop to focus on big beats, inspired analogue synth-play and other-worldly album concepts. Following on from August’s long player The Lemurian, Cluster Dreams [...]
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The podcast is back! Episode #1
Yes the much-neglected Earz-mag podcast is back turning tricks every second Wednesday. We’ll be showcasing exciting new (and occasionally older) sounds from the worldwide music scene. Whatever’s been rocking the HQ here for the last couple of weeks will be posted. If you hear something good please support the flagging industry and cop them on [...]
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Review: Weenliz - Weenliz EP
Glasgow scuzz-troubadours Weenliz’ music has been described as “glitched up super fuzzy plinky plonks… as if rapeman had gone out and bought some stuff from maplins.” After checking their self-titled debut EP on independent blog/label Winning Sperm Party, I have to completely concur. Weenliz is eight tracks of sheer meat– a sporadic pile-up of raw [...]
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Makoto Kawabata in October’s The WIRE
October’s The WIRE magazine (#296) has as the subject of its Invisible Jukebox feature, Makoto Kawabata, the Japanese guitarist responsible for Acid Mothers Temple, its associated label and numerous offshoot bands. I like in the last paragraph where he describes how some innocent misconceptions about Western Rock and Psychedelic music helped to shape his progressive [...]
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Joining the Dots #2: Hard to the Core: Big Beats & Breakbeats
This second instalment in my attempt to map out the musicology of current popular genres will focus on that big, bouncin’, block-rockin’ thing they call Breakbeat, or as some like to call it, simply Breaks. Originating from early Rave into Hardcore before fragmenting into numerous styles, the dance music genre known as Breakbeat is huge [...]
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Pelican @ the Oran Mor, 14 Sep
Glasgow’s Oran Mor venue is bustling tonight, with a mixed breed of metal-hipsters turned out to witness mutli-polar Chicago riffsters Pelican on the UK leg of a European tour. Call it what you like: post-metal, stoner rock, they sure ‘aint easy to classify, and with no vocalist amongst the four-piece it’s a sound that doesn’t [...]
