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It’s been a tough month for music fans already having to deal with the loss of one legendary 80′s alternative rock band, but that may now be two, following the news of a divorce within the ranks of Sonic Youth. It’s not the end of the world just yet as Thurston Moore has announced a second London date at the Electric Ballroom on December 3 which will showcase the entirety of his 1995 solo LP Psychic Hearts as part of All Tomorrow’s Parties ‘Don’t Look Back’ season.

On November 7, Philadelphia’s rockin’ folker Kurt Vile is set to release a brand new 6-song EP on 12″ vinyl/cd entitled So Outta Reach. The EP contains 5 original songs initially recorded during the sessions for Smoke Ring For My Halo but not used for the album, which were reworked with producer John Agnello this [...]

Concept albums, rock operas, the artistic chasm of failure widens as Fucked Up take the challenge and make the album of their career.

For some reason Fucked Up‘s recently released punk opera David Comes To Life (American Idiot it ain’t) went unheralded by the powers that try to be at Webcuts, which was a dick move if I may say so. As ungainly as the thought of sitting down to a hardcore-delivered tale about a guy who works in a lightbulb factory is, while being liberally shouted by the physically daunting, but incredibly charming man known as Pink Eyes. Over the course of 80 minutes, Fucked Up have in their own small way redefined the genre and recorded their ultimate statement. Where they go from here is anyone’s guess, but where they will be soon, is in London at XOYO on August 25 just ahead of their appearance at the Reading and Leeds Festival. We will be there. You should too. “Queen Of Hearts” is a taste of what to expect from David Comes To Life and this is clip is one of the best we’ve seen all year. Out now on Matador records.

Cold Cave‘s debut album of 2009 Love Comes Close was a unique display of synth-oriented mood disorder, venturing out from the bedroom to the dancefloor, filled with idealistic tales of romance and disillusionment. Band leader Wes Eisold’s spin on the world appeared to share a voice (in both dour baritone and content) with Magnetic Fields Stephin Merritt, if he’d spent his adolescence listening to The Cure and Depeche Mode instead of showtunes. On their second album, Eisold moved beyond the testing of the waters that was Love Comes Close and turned its successor, Cherish The Light Years into his dark dream made manifold.

Ex-New Zealander’s Unnecessarily Long Band Name evoke retro 60′s thrills on their self-titled debut.

Cold Cave‘s debut album of 2009 Love Comes Close was a unique display of synth-oriented mood disorder, venturing out from the bedroom to the dancefloor, full of tales of veiled seduction and bleak vicissitudes. Songwriter and vocalist Wes Eisold’s spin on the world appeared to share a voice (in both dour baritone and content) with Stephin Merritt if he’d spent his adolescence listening to The Cure and Depeche Mode instead of showtunes. On their second album, band leader Wes Eisold has taken the testing of the waters that was Love Comes Close and turned its successor Cherish The Light Years into his dark dream made manifold. The clip for the album closing, New Order channeling “Villains Of The Moon” showcases the new and improved Cold Cave, Eisold rising out of the gloom like a new goth messiah to lead the fold, all the while enjoying a pleasant afternoon’s Staring At The Sea moment down the beach. Cherish The Light Years is out now through Matador Records and the band are currently on tour in the States with The Kills.

Titled like you’d expect a Sonic Youth album, Demolished Thoughts is Thurston Moore’s latest Beck-produced solo record. In the same vein as 2007′s Trees Outside The Academy, it’s a stripped back affair that the very Sonic Youth sounding (if violins were drumstick jammed electric guitars) “Circulation” would attest. In typical Thurston Moore fashion, he explains [...]

Can goth new-wavers Cold Cave come close to the lo-fi synth-brilliance of their debut Love Comes Close? Now, that’s the question.

In a long black leather jacket and hoodie and stacked heels, Cold Cave‘s Wes Eisold looks like any other kid you see in Camden on a Friday night, except that he’s not and it isn’t and before he even opens his mouth, you’re thinking “wow, that leather jacket really is the shit” and it is. It’s also a special day for 80′s synth-obsessives Cold Cave, as Eisold curtly informs the assembled at Rough Trade Records – “Welcome to our album birthing day”. Their second album, the strangely positive sounding Cherish The Light Years showing a marked change from the same Cold Cave that played London back in May 2010.