Ok….if you’re looking for distraction on this Bank Holiday, here’s your weekly singles club. HUDSON MOHAWKE – JOY FANTASTIC: With overtones of Andre 3000′s The Love Below, this camp disco tune is the perfect song for getting ready for a big night. TIGERS THAT TALKED – ARTIFICIAL CLOUDS: The meaningful vocals of Jamie Williams indicate [...]

Slash’s long awaiting solo album has been made available to stream online, though here in the UK we will have to wait till the 10th of May before you can buy it. The album sees slash becoming the Jools Holland of rock in as much as he invites friends to provide vocals over his instrumentals [...]

These New Puritans are back with a new song, Attack Music, taken from their album Hidden. Heavy on the bass, it’s a pounding chant not to be listened to if you’re hungover. A decent soundsystem is also required to get the full joy. These are both mistakes I made – forcing me to pull out [...]

Annie Lovell is an unknown quantity; trained as a classical and opera singer and a history of west end stage performances her first single marks a step into new territory. I Won’t Cry is an anthem for the upbeat, a cold shoulder to adversity, a steeled resolve to make the most of every situation. Whilst [...]

When discussing the various comparisons and likenesses of a still-undeveloped band one has to be careful not to put off any potential fans. However, when the song writing talent of a group is so abundantly clear as with Vernie and Bertrum, the only risk is the band not fulfilling their promise. Drawing influence from many [...]

Rule number one when creating an album: ensure your opening track sets the tone for the remainder of the LP. Fireworks, whose opening track on this album, Geography, Vonnegut And Me, is as explosive as their name, have certainly adhered to this rule

The remastering of the older tracks is minimal, with it just sounding like a lazy producer has, as the kids say, put a donk on it.

2009 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year in which the girls ruled the airwaves.

We Fell To Earth are a collaboration between longtime UNKLE stalwart Richard File and Wendy Rae Fowler (best known for her work with Queens Of The Stone Age and Mark Lanegan). File was clearly aware that he was onto something with this project because his desire to completely focus his attention on it prompted him to quit his day job with UNKLE after nigh on ten years.

Stereophonics have finally allowed themselves to release music from a sanctuary inside a blown up outside world, and since it’s artificiality is matched only by its raw perfection, it doesn’t really allow us to judge or tear it down like we normally would if there was even a glimpse of tangible reality reflected in this music.