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Touring off the back of their third studio release The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, the Quebec-based The Besnard Lakes returned to London to treat us with some more of their epic Beach Boys meets Spiritualized jams. Given the massive sound present on …The Roaring Night, there was some anticipation in how the band were going to pull this off as a four piece. With the newer tracks being a lot denser and harder to recreate live without either a 10 piece line up or a maze of effects and loop pedals, assistance came via laptop, which helped embellish the sound and keep true to their recorded material.

From the Dresden Dolls to her solo album, Amanda Palmer has never been less than a bold and intriguing character in American rock music. In Australia for a slew of live dates we talk to the force of nature herself about her engagement to Neil Gaiman, her Golden Globes outfit switch-a-roo, the controversy surrounding her new Evelyn Evelyn project, what’s on her bed side table and a dream involving Anna Pavlova wearing a spacesuit… and God.

East meets West in a twee wonderland as Glasgow’s The Pastels collaborate with Japan’s Tenniscoats on Two Sunsets.

You say you want a revolution? Well, Fink’s folk-tinged Sort of Revolution falls sort of… short.

No jokes about rock dinosaurs please, Mascis, Barlow and Murph defy expectation with their ninth disc.

Blue Roses may not exist in nature but there’s nothing artificial about Yorkshire songsmith Laura Groves.

Andrew Bird takes flight with his latest album Noble Beast. Thankfully it’s nothing at all like a Flock of Seagulls.

Animal Collective shake the sand from their fur as they take Merriweather Post Pavillion down to the Beach, Boys.

This August Sweden was graced by a visit from San Diego’s finest, Louis XIV, a band that shocked parents groups in Alabama and who have enticed numerous girls with their classic rock’n’roll moves. But behind the media image the band is bursting with creativity and musical ambition. Louis XIV not only have lots of attitude [...]

SideOneDummy, 2008 The ’59 Sound starts, fittingly, with a sound of romance and antiquity — a needle laid to vinyl. A spindly guitar riff echoes faintly in the distance, then suddenly erupts into an anthem. From this point onward, The ’59 Sound pulses with warmth and energy forged by the fusion of the most basic [...]