October 2009
65 posts
MUSIC FAN’S MIC PRESENTS: 20 Albums That Define... →
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mp3: Obstacle 1 …
Yeasayer return with ‘Ambling Alp’ →
‘Odd Blood’, due February 2010, has just given us a sign. ‘Ambling Alp’ is the lead single, due for release digitally this November from Secretly Canadian. You can get it with one of those…
MUSIC FAN’S MIC PRESENTS: 20 Albums That Define... →
words: Jamie Milton, David Molloy, Jack Taylor editorial: Jamie Milton
Some familiar faces now and a couple not so. Two of the artists below have already been cited to have released one of the…
HURTS →
HURTS hail from Manchester, they play in the same studio as Lost Knives and Egyptian Hip Hop and they make the kind of swooning, sax-led pop music that many of us…
Music Fan’s Mic Presents: 20 Albums That Define... →
words: Jamie Milton, Ben Ross, Gareth O’Malley
editorial: Jamie Milton
Part three seems to set free some of the bigger names from the list. What all four of these artists have in common is their…
Live: The XX, Esben and the Witch – Audio,... →
words: Jamie Milton
originally scribed for gigwise.com
When The xx first emerged, a lot of the press began to fall head over heels in love with the vocals above the beats, the minimalism,…
Incoming: Midlake – The Courage Of Others →
1st Feb 2010
Ellie Goulding – Under The Sheets →
words: Jamie Milton
photo credit: Louie Banks
Drawing parallels between every female solo artist under the sun should be an act dead and buried by this time next year. Yes, 2010 will see…
Music Fan’s Mic Presents: 20 Albums That Define... →
editorial: Jamie Milton
words: Jamie Milton & Gareth O’Malley
Stage two sees us keeping to the virtue of listing albums that defined how our writers thought, acted and went about listening to…
Cold War Kids return with “Behave Yourself” →
http://www.coldwarkids.com/news/
Music Fan’s Mic Presents: 20 Albums That Define... →
editorial: Jamie Milton
words: Jamie Milton and Matt McDonald
“Lists are subjective, all of them are the same anyway, blah blah blah”. For lists that sum up a decade, publications such as ours…
Live: The Flaws, Codes, The Brilliant Things – Bar... →
Words: Gareth O’Malley
‘How the hell’s this going to work?’ – Those were the very words I murmured to myself many times as I sat in on soundcheck in Bar Ritz last Saturday. To put it…
SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #1 →
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words: Jamie Milton
Antony And The Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone
The emotional has triumphed in MFM’s top 10 songs of the decade….
Kidnapper Bell →
NEW MUSIC: Kidnapper Bell (Birmingham, UK)
words: Jamie Milton photo source: owlgardens
Pop-punk needs to become more pop if it is to lure in the hearts of the mainstream. Heading that…
Incoming: →
November 16th 2009
SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #2 →
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words: Jamie Milton
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
There’s a reason why the central thought stream of ‘Hissing Fauna…’…
Kings of Convenience: Declaration of Dependence →
ALBUM REVIEW: Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence
words: Jamie Milton
The manifesto was set in stone simply by naming the first album ‘Quiet Is The New Loud‘. And although …
Field Music: Measure →
photo source: Simon Filip (what a wonderful photo, might I add)
Pitchfork today announced the return of Field Music, a band of whom many expected to never return what with The Week That…
SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #3 →
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words: Ben Ross
Radiohead – Idioteque
Ice age is coming, Ice age is coming,
Kid A’s defining moment as an album comes in the…
SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #4 →
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words: Ben Ross
Outkast – Hey Ya!
As one of the lead singles for OutKast’s championed 2003 double album; Speakerboxxx/The Love Below; Hey…
SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #5 →
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words: Jamie Milton
Arcade Fire – Wake Up
Moments like this only come along so often. Arcade Fire are playing Reading Festival, post-‘Neon Bible’,…
Future Trends: Moonraker →
NEW MUSIC: Future Trends
words: Jamie Milton
Future Trends is yet to make his mark. With all of 47 listeners on last.fm, to call him underground would be taking the piss. But Andrew G…
Visuals: Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You... →
Last week the video for Frightened Rabbit new single, ‘Swim Until You Can’t See Land‘, taken from the suspiciously-similarly-titled album, due next year, was released….
Atlas Sound: Logos →
ALBUM REVIEW: Atlas Sound – Logos
words: Jamie Milton
The career of Bradford Cox, under the moniker Atlas Sound and fronting critical darlings Deerhunter, is indeterminate. The…
SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #6 →
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words: David Molloy
illustration: Stevie-Marie Terry
LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great
On his early LCD Soundsystem records, James Murphy playfully…
Rihanna: Russian Roulette →
A countdown could only lead to one thing: The return of the woman who sang ‘Umbrella’, whose public appearances have been scarce since Chris Brown’s notorious assault last year, the woman who…
Incoming: Eels – End Times →
19/01/09
TEN SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #7 →
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words: Matt McDonald
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
When a decade is viewed in…
TEN SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #8 →
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words: Jamie Milton
illustration: Stevie-Marie Terry
The Knife – We Share Our…
TEN SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #9 →
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words: Matt McDonald
Beyoncé (Feat. Jay Z) – Crazy In Love
It would be morally repugnant to compose a list of the top songs of the ‘Noughties’…
Visuals: Jamie T – The Man’s Machine →
Jamie T – The Man’s Machine mp3//
The affirmed highlight of ‘Kings & Queens’ arrives in technicolour, as cheeky Jamie T rides golf carts, walks the streets and…
TEN SONGS THAT DEFINE THE DECADE: #10 →
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words: Jamie Milton
illustration: Stevie-Marie Terry
MIA – Paper Planes
Cast…
I Concur: Able Archer →
ALBUM REVIEW: I Concur – Able Archer
Words: Gareth O’Malley
‘So here it is. Two years’ hard work, enough trips down the M1 to last a lifetime and five seasons of The Wire later,…
Johnny Foreigner: Grace And The Bigger Picture →
ALBUM REVIEW: Johnny Foreigner – Grace And The Bigger Picture
Words: Gareth O’Malley
Difficult second album? Pfft. As if. The Birmingham noise-pop trio seem as though they had an…
Bloc Party – Finished? →
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20091014_blocparty.shtml
Matt Tong at least, seems to be on his way out the door.
Visuals: Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone →
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This music video will either go down as one of the most iconic of all time or it’ll be laughed off in a flash. Alex Turner stands alone, tape recorder in hand,…
An In Depth Look At Karen O’s Animal Noises on ‘I... →
This at nature song is placed at the very heart of The Flaming Lips’ wonderful LP ‘Embryonic‘ and for some, it’s just another piece in the jigsaw whereas for others, it’s…
LCD Soundsystem – New Single: Bye Bye Bayou →
Massive thanks to IM//UR for this find.
James Murphy has vowed to return in March and you can expect some pre-Spring pandemonium from the masses, akin to the ruckus amounted before ‘…
Twitter Reviews #2 →
Boredom is setting in on this fine albeit chilly Thursday afternoon. Having just been sent a nasty package from Gigwise with an Athlete CD requiring reviewing, I thought it good time to unleash…
Visuals: GIRLS – Laura →
http://www.nme.com/video/bcid/44775638001/search/NME
“Laura, baby, I’m right here
And I don’t wanna fight anymore
I really wanna be your friend forever
Friend until the end of your-”
Live video: Wild Beasts at the Mercury Lounge →
Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com
Courtesy of Baeblemusic, this rather dimly-light performance of Wild Beasts, showcasing the finest material from this year’s…
Grammatics: Double Negative →
TRACK REVIEW: Grammatics – Double Negative
Words: Gareth O’Malley
Non-album singles are often ventures by bands into entirely new areas. They’re not meant to ‘fit’ on a certain…
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic →
ALBUM REVIEW: The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
words: Jamie Milton
When you approach ‘Embryonic’, it’s not totally unfair to approach it with haste. This is after all a band who, 26 years…
Initial Thoughts: Johnny Foreigner – Grace and the... →
words: Jamie Milton
If we are to believe claims from the band itself, Johnny Foreigner might be in the brink of releasing their last album. Financial meltdown could prompt it. Said meltdown…
Phantogram: When I’m Small →
Taken from this year’s ‘Eyelid Movies‘, set for a February re-release, ‘When I’m Small‘, were it to be stripped from the glossy synthetics, could have been written by a couple of 14-year-olds…
The Drums: ‘Summertime!’ EP →
EP REVIEW: The Drums – ‘Summertime!’
words: Jamie Milton
The Drums choose to have the title of their latest EP placed in inverted commas. That could give some reasoning towards the…
Incoming: The Gothenburg Address: S/T →
07/12/2009
Incoming: Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind →
December 2009
Tubelord: Our First American Friends →
ALBUM REVIEW: Tubelord – Our First American Friends
Words: Gareth O’Malley
Good grief. Where exactly do you start with this band!? I’ll keep it brief: Tubelord hail from Kingston in…
Live: Fanfarlo, First Aid Kit – Brighton Hanbury... →
words: Jamie Milton originally scribed for gigwise
They called it an ‘Indian Summer’, and we knew it was coming. It seems very boring to start a review with the weather situation but it did…