Gary Numan – Live Sat 25/07/09

[By Jamie Halliday.  Apologies for the tardiness of this review but other things have been happening too. Ed]

I totally just saw Gary Numan! As a wee Goth in the year 2000, Gary Numan was King. Inspired by the tragedy of his wife’s miscarriage, he had come out with PURE; the biggest, baddest, bitterest and most beautiful industrial rock album I had ever heard; one that’s a million miles away from MACHINE & SOUL, METAL RHYTHM and even REPLICAS. I was having a great time being completely miserable.

CompareDownload.com

[By Lisa Goodall]

“CompareDownload.com is a search engine, price comparison and general information website for music and legal music downloads. Comparedownload.com has brought together all of the major and independent retailers of legal music downloads and put them all on one page for you to browse through and purchase from in a safe a legal environment.”

Kieronononon^ – live Thur 23/07/09, Fox & Firkin

[By Jamie Halliday]

With lights flashing, feedback blaring, sound warping, instruments crumbling, fools fleeing, ears peeling, synth bleeping and an Argos toy guitar rattling – I realise that The Beatles really aren’t that big a deal.

Kieronononononon^ononononononononon [spelling is variable - Ed]are in the house. Whos’ house? Their house. Quite.

One band a day, every day, 28 Daytrotter Session songs each week

[By Lisa Goodall]

Daytrotter helps to make the world better, giving us vibrant sounding, beautiful sessions & creating visually stimulating, original artwork which will hold your gaze for a dangerously considerable amount of time!

“Daytrotter is a recording studio with a website. We invite musicians to our studio, record their songs, and give (give, as in “for free, no strings attached”) them to you, from our website. Simple. Please tell your friends. There are plenty of songs for everyone.”

There is a truly astounding amount of talent here, including the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy, Death Cab For Cutie & Andrew Bird.

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We Are Hunted – The Music Chart For The Digital Generation.

[By Lisa Goodall]

Once upon a time music magazines & radio were considered the main forum in which to explore music. Today though we’re luckily enough to have a wealth of great, diverse online avenues; it’s now music bloggers & sites like Daytrotter who are influencing what’s hot & what’s not.

We Are Hunted trawls through blogs, social networks, torrents, P2P networks, & Twitter. The end result is 99 songs that the social web has declared worthy of listening to.

Review: Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free

[By Jamie Halliday]

Artist: Akron / Family

Album: Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free

Label: Crammed Discs

It’s nice when this happens. Having risen fast to the absolute top of my profession, it can be easy to become jaded and tired; my worn, greying eyes seeing nothing but bottom lines and tax deductions – but sometimes this happens, sometimes something truly inspiring and exciting falls onto our desks and rocks our worlds*. In this instance it happened with a Crammed Discs release (coming through our friends in Proper Note) by the name of SET ‘EM WILD, SET ‘EM FREE. The offending artist? AKRON/FAMILY.

Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free

Ladytron headline “Remix All Nighter” at Matter on July 17th

[By Lisa Goodall]

This Friday you can witness live the sleek, electro-pop maneuvers of Ladytron at London’s Matter. For those of you who haven’t dipped your toes into Ladytron’s distinctive synth-pop pulses then I highly recommend checking out their splendid catalogue. Their most recent album, Velocifero which literally means ‘bringer of speed’ mixes enigmatic hooks, jagged guitar & melodic distinctive vocals.

Charlie Winston – Wed 01/07/09, Pigalle

[By Jamie Halliday]

Real World Round Up:

Charlie Winston – Hobo album launch.

The Pigalle, Piccadilly. July 1^st 2009.

Charlie Winston (by Jon Roffey)

Having convinced the French that he’s the single best thing Euros can buy (racking up a platinum album and a no.1 single), Suffolk songster Charlie Winston made his much anticipated return to London for the UK launch of his debut album proper Hobo. Mon Dieu!

Hitting the stage one by one, his band, The Oxymorons, arrive with an every-man-for-himself urgency – fighting one another to open the set. It was very novel. When the trio finally found themselves united, they worked seamlessly, creating a grand enough backing to lure the night’s star onto the stage. Dancing his way into the opening lines of excellent new single In Your Hands and thrashing at his keyboard like a dandy (and digital) Jerry Lee Lewis – Charlie Winston had officially arrived in London Town.

Busk it with The Take Away Shows

[By Lisa Goodall]

Take Away Shows

The unstructured nature of the music videos filmed for The (glorious) Take-Away Shows sees indie bands take to the streets of Paris, with stimulating & innovative results.

Baddies!

Baddies seem to be making a lot of waves recently, earning such fans as Louis Mills of our good friends at Proper Records. Here’s what he has to say about the up-and-coming wonk-indie pop-rock band…

Baddies, yesterday.

Baddies are here… and they’re on a mission to make you listen.

Breaking out at last year’s music expo ‘In The City’, Baddies quickly got swept up by the curse of the so-called “hype machine”. Careful not to get too carried away, they took a step back and decided to set up their own label, Medical, which meant that they would have total control of their music.