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The Dodos-’Visiter’
Two years after their debut release, American folk duo The Dodos return with their second album ‘Visiter’ (”misspelled because it’s from a drawing this kid gave us”. The pair have produced a record which is nothing short of a sheer delight using guitars, drums, keybords, horns and God knows what else to create a rich tapestry of acoustic, psychedelic indie sounds. Read the rest of this entry »
Metronomy- “Night’s Out”
After what seems like an age of waiting, cathing support slots about once a week and getting excited over new remixes, the second album from Metronomy is finally here.
Kings of Leon
In these days of disposable music and ever evolving fashion, it takes a certain kind of band to steadily improve throughout their career to become stadium filling giants with their integrity still intact.
Micah P. Hinson- “Micah P. Hinson And The Red Empire Orchestra” (Full Time Hobby)
Starting with the soft, 1940s Americana style opener “Come Home Quickly, Darlin’”, Hinson continues in this vein throughout the album. With slow, wistful piano led ballads and camp fire style little ditties, this is an album with a lot of familiarity.
Stalkers Interview.
Hailing from New York, Stalkers, are a Punk band just dripping with cool. The five piece, who are signed to One LIttle Indian in the UK, played two dates in the capital recently and were nice enough to answer some of the Cock’s questions. Read the rest of this entry »
Interpol, Ladytron/Sheffield Carling Academy/9.07.2008
Ahead of their headline slots at T in The Park and Latitude Interpol played two so called ‘warm up’ gigs in Sheffield and Manchester. I say “so called” as these shows are often littered with dodgy houselights, questionable sound quality and the odd glitch; three things the New York band’s Sheffield show was definitely free of. Read the rest of this entry »
My Bloody Valentine/Camden Roundhouse/20.06.08
It’s not often that a band whom you’ve not only idolised and adored for years but have also given up on having a chance of ever seeing live announce a generous handful of shows. It’s even less often that said band are responsible for some of the most colossal live shows in popular music history and just happen to book their first show back an mere hour away from where these very words are being typed. My Bloody Valentine at the Roundhouse always promised to be everything your average reunion isn’t, worthwhile, fairly priced and packaged together neatly into some of the countries most perfect venues. Read the rest of this entry »
Ten Kens- “Ten Kens” FatCat Records
Sometimes, very occasionally, you come across something pretty much by accident which turns out to be fantastic. You wonder what you did without it and you get scared at the thought that you might not have ever crossed paths with it. It basically never happens, but with the debut album from Ten Kens, it’s fucking happened.
The Twilight Sad and Broken Records/The Bodega Social/18.06.08
It took less than three months for Scottish indie shoegazers The Twilight Sad to grace Nottingham’s Bodega Social since their last tour and this time around they’ve brought fellow Scots, Broken Records, with them. The seven piece band take to The Bodega’s tiny stage with the greatest of ease carrying a variety of instruments with them making the audience eager and wide eyed before a note is even played. Between them the band make a grand, Arcade Fire like, sound which not only expands the tiny room they’ve found themselves in tonight but also justifies the large amount of industry hype currently bubbling beneath them. Read the rest of this entry »
White Denim @ Bodega Social 07/07/08
Tonight, The Bodega Social is brimming with genuine excitement and anticipation- providing the unusual sight of the venue being already packed for the first support band.
