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>Today’s New Band – Turquoise Cats
>Sometimes there are bands on ANBAD that trample all over convention: ideas like song structure, composition and ooh, I don’t know, sound itself. In truth, these bands are my favourites, regardless...
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>Today’s New Band – The Witch and The Robot
>Oh yes, I’ve been to Cumbria. For the uninitiated, it’s the very northern, remote part of England; full, as I remember, of natural beauty, rain and – in Barrow-in-Furness at least – very large and...
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>Volcanoes: Five Great Bands, One Super Price!
>Another day, another splash in the swimming pool of confusion, and all centred around one simple question: who are Volcanoes? The trad-guitar-band that makes carefully crafted folky guitar jangles...
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White Fang – Sweat, Crunch and Rockin’ Soul
White Fang: Colourful hats A New Year, a new agenda. So here’s the first new band of the new year – and they’re a band with an agenda, though they’d never admit to it. White Fang‘s songs, their image,...
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Django Django, and Hard Work, Hard Work
Hard work. It’s all about hard work. Repeat that mantra. Don’t let Keith Richard’s fibs fool you. Perpetuating the myth that he dreamt up the riff for (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction might be his idea of...
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Nice Nice: Nice
Sometimes reviews of new bands write themselves: this is an occasion where the band have written it for you and then made it into their name as well. So, Nice Nice. What more is there to add? A little...
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The Whatevers; Peeking Into Lives And An Orgy Of Links
Although ANBAD is, to all intents and purposes, Just Another Music Blog, it doesn’t really behave like one. I mean, yes, it has all the attributes of a blog that made the format so refreshingly de jour...
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Moscow Youth Cult; Poly-this, Poly-that, Poly-Want-A-Cracker?
I’d love to be a polyorchid. Wait – I mean polymath. A polyorchid is a totally different thing entirely, though perhaps both involve having a lot of balls. Some bands are muso-polymathic, producing all...
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The Shondes and The Descent Into Middle Age
I can’t even remember how I discovered today’s new band. I will tentatively claim that I received an email from a rapt fan about them, but frankly it could have been from anyone via any medium. It...
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Gallops – Doubling Back, Burrowing Down
I went to a whisky tasting festival over the weekend. I arrived as a whisky novice and left as a whisky receptacle. I learnt a lot about whisky – mainly that I don’t want to drink whisky again for a...
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