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Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss

Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss

Review of Glasvegas's Christmas Album A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)Glasvegas have had an amazing 2008. The Glaswegian band have played hundreds of sell out gigs around the UK, supported Oasis and...

Review posted on 27th November 2008

Frightened Rabbit - Nottingham Rock City

Frightened Rabbit - Nottingham Rock City

Review for Frightened Rabbit Live at Nottingham Rock City on Saturday 15th November 2008.Frightened Rabbit are a unique entity in 2008's musical hemisphere. Standing out like a sore thumb amidst the major label connotations of...

Review posted on 17th November 2008

The Kills - Nottingham Rescue Rooms

The Kills - Nottingham Rescue Rooms

Review of The Kills and XX Teens live at Nottingham Rescue Rooms on Monday 10th November 2008. Without dwelling on the obvious too much, it's impossible not to mention The Kills without the name Kate...

Review posted on 13th November 2008

The Peth - The Golden Mile

The Peth - The Golden Mile

Review of The Peth's album The Golden Mile released through Strangetown Records.Dogstar, Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts and Thunderbox might not be familiar names on the music circuit, and having had the unfortunate displeasure of...

Review posted on 12th November 2008

Red Light Company - Scheme Eugene

Red Light Company - Scheme Eugene

Scheme Eugene single review from Red Light Company released through Lavolta Records. London five-piece Red Light Company are one of those bands whose whole demeanour from the way they look to their radio-friendly yet...

Review posted on 12th November 2008

Grammatics, Nottingham Bodega Social Live Review

Grammatics, Nottingham Bodega Social Live Review

Grammatics live review from the Nottingham Bodega Social on Sunday 2nd November 2008.Leeds four-piece Grammatics haven't got the easiest of tasks on this wet and windy Sunday evening. Making their first headline appearance in Nottingham,...

Review posted on 10th November 2008

MGMT - Nottingham Rock City

MGMT - Nottingham Rock City

Live review of MGMT at Nottingham Rock City, Thursday 6th November 2008.Having been thrust into the limelight as the Stateside answer to new rave at the back end of 2007, you could almost be forgiven...

Review posted on 10th November 2008

Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin

Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin

Album review of Motion To Rejoin by Brightblack Morning Light released through Matador Records.Some artists rejoice in the belief that making hideously overblown statements of their so-called intentions is the way forward to success and...

Review posted on 6th November 2008

Asobi Seksu - Me & Mary

Asobi Seksu - Me & Mary

Single review of Me & Mary by Asobi Seksu released through One Little Indian. Relatively unknown a year ago, as 2008 draws to a close the sigh of relief that Asobi Seksu are set to...

Review posted on 6th November 2008

Maybeshewill - This Time Last Year, Last Time This Year/Condor And River

Maybeshewill - This Time Last Year, Last Time This Year/Condor And River

Review of the spilt EP from Maybeshewill and Her Name Is Calla titled This Time Last Year, Last Time This Year/Condor And River released through Field Records. True originality in music is hard to find...

Review posted on 6th November 2008

Northern Star Records - Psychedelica 3

Northern Star Records - Psychedelica 3

Review of the compilation 'Psychedelica 3' released through Northern Star. What Scott Causer doesn't know about the development of offbeat, occasionally substance-enhanced guitar music probably isn't worth knowing about. From the first wave of garage...

Review posted on 6th November 2008

Alberta Cross - The Thief And The Heartbreaker

Alberta Cross - The Thief And The Heartbreaker

EP review for The Thief and the Heartbreaker by Alberta Cross released through Ark Recordings. New York-based country rockers Alberta Cross must be the least likely band anyone could ever have expected the brothers Gallagher...

Review posted on 5th November 2008

Those Dancing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits

Those Dancing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits

Review of Those Dancing Days album In Our Space Hero Suits released through Wichita.You have to go all the way back to the days of Abba and 'Waterloo' to find the last time Sweden provided...

Review posted on 5th November 2008

Chairlift - Does You Inspire You

Chairlift - Does You Inspire You

Album review for Does You Inspire You by Chairlift released through Kanine Records.Brooklyn-based trio Chairlift already have the advantage - if you can call it that - of gaining airplay over here in the UK...

Review posted on 4th November 2008

Feeder - Nottingham Rock City

Feeder - Nottingham Rock City

Feeder live review of their gig at Nottingham Rock City on October 27th 2008.Often derided as being possibly the least "cool" band on the planet, what Feeder lack in trend setting points they more than...

Review posted on 30th October 2008

Keith - Up In The Clouds

Keith - Up In The Clouds

Single review for Up In The Clouds by Keith released through Lucky Number Music. You shouldn't always judge a book by its cover. Likewise, a musical ensemble's geographical placement does not always throw up predictable...

Review posted on 28th October 2008

Frank Turner - Long Live The Queen

Frank Turner - Long Live The Queen

Single review of Long Live The Queen by Frank Turner released through Xtra Mile Recordings.Once an angry young man, always an angry young man. Frank Turner may have left his post-hardcore posturing firmly in the...

Review posted on 28th October 2008

A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

Review of A Place to Bury Strangers debut self-titled album released through Rocket Girl. When this self-titled collection of demos was initially released as A Place To Bury Strangers first album in August of last...

Review posted on 22nd October 2008

Air Formation - Things That Don't Exist/Fires

Air Formation - Things That Don't Exist/Fires

Single review for 'Things That Don't Exist' by Air Formation released through Distant Noise Records. We're not saying that the music industry occasionally get it wrong but.in this age of the three minute pop song...

Review posted on 20th October 2008

Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Kitty Daisy & Lewis

Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Kitty Daisy & Lewis

Album review of Kitty Daisy & Lewis debut self-titled album released through Sunday Best Recordings.From the bizarre to the absurd and back again, this record is almost like the epitome of the noughties fascination with...

Review posted on 20th October 2008

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Album review of Dig Out Your Soul by Oasis released through Big Brother Recordings. The brothers Gallagher and their various incarnations of Oasis have had something of a love-hate relationship not only with each other,...

Review posted on 13th October 2008

Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line

Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line

Album review of Ra Ra Riot's The Rhumb Line released through V2 Records. Little known outside of their native New York until recently, Ra Ra Riot’s most noteworthy moment to date would undoubtedly surround the...

Review posted on 9th October 2008

Tom Morello - The Fabled City

Tom Morello - The Fabled City

Album review of 'The Fabled City' by Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman released through Epic Records. Anyone present at either of this year's Leeds and Reading festivals couldn't have failed to have been swept away by...

Review posted on 9th October 2008

Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left

Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left

Review of Seasick Steve's album 'I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left' released through Warner Brothers. The upsurge in fortunes of one Steve Wold - aka Seasick Steve -...

Review posted on 8th October 2008

Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08

Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08

Album review for 'Matador Singles '08' by Jay Reatard released through Matador records. If it wasn't for the fact Jay Reatard has been around on the peripheries of many a music scene for the last...

Review posted on 8th October 2008

Exit Calm, Live Review

Exit Calm, Live Review

Live review of Exit Calm with support from Model Morning at The Venue, Derby, September 24th 2008. It's never easy going on first, and for local outfits Catharsis and Heroes Of Switzerland it shows. The...

Review posted on 8th October 2008

Daniel Land - Within The Boundaries

Daniel Land - Within The Boundaries

Single review of 'Within The Boundaries' from Daniel Land & The Modern Painters released through Sonic Cathedral.Although initially lambasted by many parts of the music press upon their emergence nearly twenty years ago, the legacy...

Review posted on 8th October 2008

White Lies, The Leadmill, Sheffield

White Lies, The Leadmill, Sheffield

Live review of White Lies at The Leadmill in Sheffield on Friday September 26th 2008 with support from The Joy Formidable.Last month, Contact spoke to White Lies prior to their performance at this year's Leeds...

Review posted on 29th September 2008

I Concur - Oblige

I Concur - Oblige

Single review of Oblige by I Concur released through Brew Records. Leeds four-piece I Concur have an uncanny knack of being able to cross many a musical boundary at random, taking the odd turn here...

Review posted on 29th September 2008

Glasvegas - The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham September 25th 2008

Glasvegas - The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham September 25th 2008

Live review of Glasvegas at The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham on September 25th 2008.From being unsigned this time last year to being 24 hours and a whisker away from taking the coveted number one album slot...

Review posted on 29th September 2008

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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate

Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate

On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]

Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.

WYSE talks to us about her

WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]

With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...

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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a

Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]

Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]

Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]

Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...

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