WIN a pair of weekend tickets & camping to the SOLD OUT Latitude festival!
Latitude Festival returns for an incredible 5th Edition on 15-18th July 2010 set in the beautiful countryside of Henham Park Estate on Suffolk’s Sunrise Coast
Live Review: Plan B, Sound, Leicester Square, 19th May
As Kafka once described; "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous insect”, thus a metamorphosis of the self can definitely make a big change, be it for better or worse. With this in mind, Plan B, obviously failing at Plan A, has transformed into a giant insect that climbs walls for pleasure. Ah, not really, he’s just changed in to a male Amy Winehouse (which is similar to be a big insect climbing the walls come to think of it) and he’s managed to blow away critics with his new album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks.
Vampire Weekend to open this summer's Eden Sessions in Cornwall
Vampire Weekend are set to make a return to the UK this summer headlining the Cornish music event, Eden Sessions on June 24 with special guests Broken Bells.The New York indie quartet first played the Eden sessions in 2008 when they were special guests to The Raconteurs.
Band of the Week: Stricken City
Along with bands like Run Toto Run, there’s an incredible wave of stylish, yet warm, girl fronted pop music appearing across Britain. With more heart than the likes of fellow bleep-masters The XX, London based Stricken City are coherently psychedelic with New Wave tones, but wrapping their knob-twiddling indie in a magnetically enticing Bjork-like charm they come off sounding more like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. You can certainly see a bit of the O in songstress Rebekah Raa, and certainly more talent for writing and performing than the current ilk of precious girlie pin-up pop.
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16-18 July, Victoria Park, London
Live Review: Lyrebirds, Camden Barfly, 5th May
In recent years the rise of the indie bands that ironically ‘share’ the same sound as Manchester legends, Joy Division, isn’t something that instantly springs originality to my ears. The first of this sad bunch, and I mean sad in the non-contemporary form (or not), was the hideous Joy Division impersonators, The Editors. Singing songs about not knowing “love like they used to”, could marriage to Radio One DJ Edith Bowman be that bad? They shamelessly dance, sing, and fashion everything (apart from the epileptic fits) that is Ian Curtis, this can only fill me with resent.
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1 WIN a pair of weekend tickets & camping to the SOLD OUT Latitude festival!
2 The Secret Garden Party announce 2010 line up
4 Around the world in 20 festivals
5 Field Day announces headliners for 2010 including main act Phoenix
7 Florence & The Machine and Dizzee Rascal collaboration to be released
8 Band of the Week: Life In Film
9 Album Preview: Mr Scruff, Ninja Tuna (Ninja Tune)
10 Day In The Life: Lucinda Drayton, spiritual singer and MD of Blissful Records
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2 Around the world in 20 festivals
3 Guest Review: Son of Dave, 'Shake a Bone'
5 Band of the Week: The Gaslight Anthem
6 WIN a pair of weekend tickets & camping to the SOLD OUT Latitude festival!
7 Download James Yuill's new track 'Give You Away' for free
8 Band of the Week: The Temper Trap
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