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Oct 11, 2011

Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams

Los Angeles starlets Dum Dum Girls’ second offering is the delightful Only In Dreams. Released on the much loved Sub Pop, this album offers up light, dreamy melodies partnered by impressive, confident instrumentation by the band. Their first LP, I Will Be, was well received when released in 2010, but this new material takes them in a bolder direction. The album, recorded in...

Oct 11, 2011

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Adam Cohen – Like A Man

Like many creative people with famous parents before him Adam Cohen strived to make his own name, his own place in the music industry without the link to his father, Leonard. However, to deny your father’s accomplishments is to deny your father and Adam later came to realise that he had no need to backhand the success behind his family name. He states; ‘Like A Man is steeped in...

Oct 10, 2011

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10/10/2011 | Joshua Radin – Club Academy, Ma...

Sweaty. That’s one word to describe Joshua Radin’s gig in the basement of the University of Manchester’s Student’s Union. It was sweaty, hot and intimate. Let me get this out of the way first, Joshua Radin is a beautiful man. He seems aware of this, though not obnoxiously, and he was quick to inform the audience of his hope that they were here for his brains and not his...

Oct 9, 2011

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06/10/2011 | Nerina Pallot – Shepherds Bush ...

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed. Nerina confesses during her set that she was reluctant to return to the Shepherds Bush Empire, her last performance having ended in tears and cuddling a borrowed cat (or something like that). Tonight it seems as if the place is very much out to get her again and as the sound system messes with her vocals...

Oct 8, 2011

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Lisa Hannigan – Passenger

A Mercury Prize nomination can sometimes be a poisoned chalice. You receive wonderfully positive press coverage, immense demand, and probably a slot on Later With Jools Holland, but in return you owe the press, your new fans and Jools a truly unbelievable follow up album. So it would be fair to say that something pretty top notch is expected from Lisa Hannigan’s sophomore effort,...

Oct 8, 2011

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08/10/2011 | Brooke Fraser – Manchester Acad...

Academy 3 is effectively a shoebox. It’s a tiny venue stuffed away at the top of the Student’s Union at the University of Manchester and the ceiling could definitely do with a lick of paint. It is, however, a shoebox that Brooke Fraser made her own. For such an intimate venue, it was no surprise that there was a strong rapport between Fraser and the tightly packed crowd....

Oct 7, 2011

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Ed Sheeran – +

There’s something about Ed Sheeran that separates him from the thousands of other young singer songwriters out there: Commercial success. What is it that’s made him progress from being another constantly gigging singer songwriter to someone with a number one album? + helps give listeners an idea of why he’s succeeded. The thing about him that is immediately evident is that...

Oct 6, 2011

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Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

It’s hard to believe that Laura Marling is so young. At just 21, she has released three albums, growing in depth and maturity with each one, her voice becoming even better as time goes by. Both her last records were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, and she won the Best Female Solo Artist award at this years Brits; that’s a damn fine achievement for one so young. Her music...

Oct 4, 2011

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01/10/2011 | Annie Mac Presents – Liquid Roo...

Edinburgh’s famous Castle and indeed the rest of the city was under a dark grey cloud on October the 1st, while most of the UK was enjoying an unexpected autumnal heat wave. Coincidentally, this was also the night that the Annie Mac Presents tour was hitting Edinburgh for a night put on in conjunction with clothing/raving company We Own and club-night specialists Bedbug. Annie...

Oct 3, 2011

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29/09/2011 | Beth Jeans Houghton – The Lexin...

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed. Beth Jeans Houghton embraced Glastonbury’s Park stage in 2010, ranking her name alongside Florence & The Machine, Kate Nash and a whole host of other female artists who weren’t afraid to break the rules. Following the natural order of the industry I then anticipated an album release and...