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Ben Dalby
Champagne
Ben Dalby’s fourth single is a marked change from his Doctor Can single which wouldn’t have been out of place on the Ashes to Ashes soundtrack.
Champagne is an apt title for a song that still has an echo that wretched Read more...
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Tame Impala
Lucidity
Tame Impala rise from the distant city of Perth, Australia. The 4-piece play hazy stoner rock and on this showing expect them to join the long list of great Aus... Read more...
Ke$ha
Take It Off
Anyone who still has any doubts on what Ke$ha’s message is (party, party and party) just take a listen to her new single, ‘Take It Off’. It won’t take you long ... Read more...
Pendulum
The Island
Beware the ‘Radio Edit’ version of this single – the original is soooooo much more – well, everything.
Concentrating on the original, the beats are dense and... Read more...
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Hurts
Wonderful Life
Manchester duo Hurts have already had a great start to the year, after coming in at Number 4 on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll. And after hearing 'Wonderful Life' ... Read more...
Brandon Flowers
Crossfire
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has just released “Crossfire”, the first single from his debut solo album “Flamingo”. Read more...
Ghostlight
Photographs
Ghostlight are a London via Cambridge 4-piece who play dreary melodic rock, with Photographs the first single to be taken from their yet named debut album. Read more...
Joe Echo
Wonderful Way / The Heart That Knows Desire singles
Ciaran Gribbins is in a good position right now: rebranded as Joe Echo, and fresh off the back of a great summer - including playing alongside the likes of Paul... Read more...
Fyfe Dangerfield
Barricades/She Needs Me
This is the fourth single from Fyfe Dangerfield’s solo album Fly Yellow Moon.
The first track Barricades is a ballad, basically him at the piano wi Read more...
Blacklisters
Belt Party EP
There’s a lot of this about and for Blacklisters to stand out they need to be something special. There’s good and bad on this EP, and I mean really bad. The B... Read more...
Dansette Junior
Paranoid
Those of a certain age and musical taste fear the worst when they see the word Paranoid on a single cover. Is someone really dumb enough to cover that song?! Read more...
One Night Only
Say You Don't Want It
'Say You Don’t Want It' is a mightily catchy track that powers along at some pace. Read more...
The Superimposers
The Beach
Five years have surpassed since the inception of “The Superimposers”, a band that were constructed after a meeting between Dan Solo and Miles Copeland in a joke... Read more...
Middleman
Its Not Over Yet
Leeds’ Middleman have racked up an impressive 200 live gigs, and that experience is obvious in the performance on this new single. Read more...
The Good Natured
Your Body is a Machine
Musicians that bespeak requisitions of Electronic Music not having the bountiful lyrical potentiality of rock specific alternative music, have seemingly never c... Read more...
The Charlatans
Love is Ending
The Charlatans were one of the "shoe gazing" hits of the early 90's, with 'The Only One I Know' being one of the tracks most synonymous with the Madchester scen... Read more...
The Suzukis
Reasons for Leaving
Alternative bands protuberating with just one guitar possess the perspective of being audibly immotile. They rebound an exigency of one of the preponderant esse... Read more...
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Example
Kickstarts
Following his top 10 hit with Won’t Go Quietly, British act Example has had a wild ride of late, benefitting from much support from Radio 1 DJs, T4 coverage and... Read more...
Selah Feat. Sadie Ama & Mz Bratt
Woman's World
It was about time someone came up with a new woman anthem. Newcomer Selah offers us another tune to add to Aretha’s R.E.S.P.E.C.T., Cindy Lauper’s Girls Just Wa... Read more...
Laura Steel
Feedback
It’s not very often a newcoming act offers the musical panorama such a polished product. It’s even less often you come across a song like Feedback. In a pop sce... Read more...
Mother Mother
O My Heart
Peppy and poppy, this track is made slightly more interesting by the offbeat lyrics, described by the band’s lead singer as “a love anthem for the sociopath”. Read more...
Laura Marling
Rambling Man
Laura Marling’s pretty voice is starting to sound more mature on this track from her recently released second album “I speak Because I Can”. No great surprise r... Read more...
Orbital
Don't Stop Me/Get the Gun
Twenty years since Orbital first emerged onto the UK rave scene and six years since they released any material at all, the legendary dance duo are back with thi... Read more...
Violent Soho
Jesus Stole My Girlfriend
The sound is somewhere between punk and slacker- grunge but the overall effect is a bucketing and power-packed little ditty.
They are Australian although you m... Read more...
Professor Green feat. Lily Allen
Just be good to Green
Featuring on Radio Ones ‘A’ list, the spearheading coadunation between East London rapper ‘Professor Green’ and passionate household personality ‘Lily Allen’ is... Read more...
Lauren Pritchard
Painkillers
Coming on like a soulful Lauryn Hill before diving into a Joss Stone admittance of drug relieving heartbreak Lauren Pritchard is the latest voice to tap into th... Read more...
Stephen Dale Petit
California
Not too many rockers take a rap track and make something new of it and fewer still manage to make as satisfying a piece of music as this is.
The Tupac and Dr... Read more...
Sunset Drive
We've Got To Talk EP
Sunset Drive’s origins are in Japan and New Zealand, and by all accounts they have gone down a storm in their respective Read more...
Adrian Roye and the Exiles
The Only Poster Child
Adrian Roye and the Exiles are a four piece London based band that, since their formation in 2008, has gone from strength to strength. Read more...
RPA & The United Nations of Sound
Born Again
Take the DNA of The Verve’s frontman; Richard Ashcroft then modify it with an explosive rock ‘n’ soul sound in the latest single release ‘Born Again’ with his n... Read more...
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