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Alternative Music Reviews

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing New steampunk album out now, after a minor scuffle (bare knuckled boxing?) with EMI. From Tesla to Brunel to Zombie Prince Albert, thrill to the sounds and lyrics of some of steampunk's finest.


Alternative Music Reviews

50% of us have one. Don't be afraid of... The Slits

The Slits Grrl bands aren’t about hating men and burning bras (an increasingly expensive hobby). They’re punky, fun afficionados of the awesome guitar rift. Britain from the sixties to the eighties sprogged out some fantastic grrl bands and The Slits were no exception.


Alternative Music Reviews

The Limit Club

The Limit club Band Q&A: "I just kick it and everything falls into place. Or aliens. The Limit Club is here because of aliens." Arising from the desert of Phoenix, AZ comes the Limit Club; a psychobilly-deathrock band that's been bringing fresh sound and energy to the music scene since 2005.


Alternative Music Reviews

Is Lady Gaga a Goth?

Lady Gaga Goth Lada Gaga is many things, of course. But we have a look at the gothic influences in her attire and sound in music videos from Bad Romance to Alejandro. And posit the question... is Gaga a secret goth?


Industrial Electronic Music

Uberbyte - DOS

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Electronic Music

Icon of coil - Machines are us

Icon of coil - Machines are us Icon of Coil is a Norwegian electronic music band that started as an art concept and became a bona fide band with a fascinating, quite dark sound. We check out their 2004 album 'Machines are us'.


Metal, Goth and Industrial

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Brand New Eyes - Paramore Music reviews: Paramore talks Risk, Religion, Relationships and Success on Brand New Eyes.


Metal Music Reviews

Dillinger Escape Plan

Dillinger Escape Plan Music reviews: Dillinger Escape Plan has been producing uncompromising metal for more than a decade. Renowned for their wild, energetic live shows and the ingenuity of their output, they are a band that has been labelled as punk jazz and math core (whatever that means).


Metal Music Festivals

Sonisphere - UK music festival is a Metal Ball of Sound

Sonisphere Music festivals: Is there enough room in the UK for another music festival? You bet! This summer, the people behind the original Monsters of Rock, and the creator of Download the Unholy Alliance and Defenders Of The Faith brought you a brand-new festival. Sonisphere...


Electronic and Industrial

Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me - album review

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Women in Music

Kiss Kiss - Reality vs the Optimist

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Women in Music

Emilie Autumn - the winter of our content

Emilie Autumn - the winter of our content

Music reviews: Courtney Love's "anarchy violinist" returns to the stage and is keeping the spotlight all to herself. Fresh off the road as Ms. Love's touring bandmate, Emilie Autumn's devilishly dark lyrics and industrial-strength voice reinvent "gothic" for us all.


Alternative Music Reviews

Radio Tuna - free online radio

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Jrock & Jpop

Kpop Exports: SHINee people

Kpop SHINee, Happy People... Balancing homegrown pop culture with global market appeal. Kpop is currently in export overdrive. Non-Korean fans who grew up streaming Kpop music now have a chance to see bands like SHINee perform LIVE...


Alternative Music Reviews

Theremin - Sound of the future

theremin Music opinion:The eerie theremin is one of history's most underrated instruments. Thanks to Moog music, theremins are still a staple for film soundtracks, out-there indie bands and nouveau classical music!


Alternative Music Reviews

Arrrrrr! Pirate radio.

Pirate radio Pirate radio: There are people out There who have gone beyond passive musical illegalities (music downloads) and into the realm of true Music Pirates. They are the people behind pirate radio. Here's a little guide.


Alternative Music Reviews

Green Day - sold out or giving it away?

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Alternative Music Reviews

The mooky guide to folk festivals

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Alternative Music Reviews

Who killed Amanda Palmer?

Amanda Palmer Music Minx: Free of the sweet shackles of The Dresden Dolls, anglophile and punk rock cabaret queen Amanda Palmer is now not only stepping out with Neil Gaiman but also going solo with a heraldic and glorious UK tour of her new album. Titled, and why not indeed, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?


Alternative Music Reviews

How to be a violinist

violinist Music Minx: You love the violin. You'd like to be a professional violinist in the bitchy, political yet rarified world of classical music. How do you survive an audition that makes you cry? How do you stick to a dream in the face of reality?


Alternative Music Reviews

Music downloads - the new cold war

Music downloads Music Minx: CD sales are down, crippling juggernauts like HMV. Apart from uber-rich and uber-altruistic Radiohead, most bands fear for their financial future. What's the state of play with music downloading today?


Alternative Music Reviews

Girl bands - a sweet treat

The Sounds Girl bands: The last couple of years have seen the rise of both the female solo singer and the band frontwoman. JosieJadore picks a couple of musical female-fronted treats from Industrial to Folk Rock for you to smack your lips on.


Alternative Music Reviews

What sort of band groupie are you?

What sort of band groupie are you? Music Minx: Slightly dark, but true - all bands get groupies, as do all famous and talented people, from Stephen Hawking to Stephen Fry. You may wish to be a groupie. You may be one already, and wonder what sort of groupie you are. This guide will help you decide.


Alternative Music Reviews

How not to look like a groupie freak to the band

how to not look like a band groupie Music Minx: Oh, come on. We've all done it: One minute you're interested in the music, the next you're within flirting distance to your favourite band member. Want that to change? Here's how to bag the front man of a hot band more than once.


Alternative Music Reviews

How to explain a music genre and get away with it

How to explain a music genre and get away with it Music Minx: Hands up if you've ever found yourself trying to explain the variations between subcultures or genres of music. Here's how to explain it to an adult...

How to explain a music genre and get away with it


Alternative Music Reviews

Britophilia

britophilia Opinion: Music scenes peak, expire and move across the water. The british wanted to be american in the fifties, everyone wanted to be out of their heads in the sixties, and in a music scene dominated by MTV, the americans are rediscovering the british sound. Music is like money... it needs to move.

Britophilia


Alternative Music Reviews

How to live with rock'n'roll boyfriends (Bittersweet Symphony)

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Could you handle a rock'n'roll boyfriend?


Alternative Music Reviews

Badass music rules

badass music Miss Amber says it's okay to like badass rappers who talk about their dick, because you can't be mad at a cartoon...

Badass music rules


Alternative Music Reviews

A letter of thanks to the songs you marry that break your heart

love music Do we fall so deeply, immovably in love with musicians because they collect the pieces of their own shattered hearts and craft them into a precious, articulate song that finally expresses the things you felt a deep-rooted need to say?

Hallelujah...


Alternative Music Reviews

Music Controversy

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Controversy sells...


Alternative Music Reviews

Female-fronted internet radio (Pigtails and Army Boots)

feminist internet radio More and more women are taking control of their music by self-producing or self-promoting. It's not just a feminist stance, it's grass-roots. DJ Moonlight talks about her net radio show, Pigtails and Army Boots featuring female artists only!

Check out Pigtails and Army Boots...


Gothic, Indie & Alt Music

Scarlet Grey - Fancy Blood

Norwegian folk - Gate The music scene calls Scarlet Grey's ‘pop with dirt under its nails.’ Scarlet Grey has earned a legion of passionate fans called the Grey Family. After checking out the 'Fancy Blood' album you may discover that, deep inside, your own fancy blood is pumping.


Industrial Dance Music

Uberbyte - DOS

Uberbyte - DOS The 2009 'DOS' album by industrial noise-overloads Uberbyte is full of big beat industrial dance numbers, with a lot of dancefloor fillers and a couple of growers. We like the tracks 'Industrial Bitch' and 'Last Human'...


Electronic Music

Icon of coil - Machines are us

Icon of coil - Machines are us Icon of Coil is a Norwegian electronic music band that started as an art concept and became a bona fide band with a fascinating, quite dark sound. We check out their 2004 album 'Machines are us'.


Electronic Music

Stars of the Lid

Stars of the Lid Who are 'Stars of the Lid', exactly? And what is Ambient Drone? It's a music that blends ambience and 'drones' to create songs that sound like one song that lasts forever. Ooh, clever. It's linked with chillout music, and 'Stars of the Lid' aim to make soundtracks for your mind.


J Music

Shoujo Jikake no Libretto: Lolitawork Libretto

Kanon Japanese cellist Kanon Wakeshima produces J-music on another level. If you wish to feel like a rococo princess trapped in a book, thinking about you ruined love, read on.


Gothic, Indie & Alt Music

Norwegian folk - Gåte!

Norwegian folk - Gate Gåte, (Norwegian for “riddle”) are folk rockers hailing from Trøndelag, Norway, and have been making musicgasms since 2002, though they have been disbanded since 2005. Nordic folk spliced with modern rock and epic voicage. Get ready.


Gothic, Indie & Alt Music

How to be a fabulous killjoy

The fabulous killjoys Misanthropes beware, for this title may mislead you. The Killjoys are the alter-egos of My Chemical Romance. They live (and rebel) in the dystopian future, controlled by a totalitarian government and Better Living Industries. Want to have your own Killjoy alter-ego? You should.


Gothic, Punk & Alt Music

Poly Styrene

Poly Styrene Beth Ditto says the cheeky punk sound of the Xray Spex shaped her identity. Xray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene is back... with a free download.


Gothic, Industrial & Alt Music

Tegan and Sara

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Gothic, Industrial & Alt Music

Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nylo (1968)

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Gothic, Industrial & Alt Music

Creature Feature - The Greatest Show Unearthed

Creature Feature Creature Feature: Formed straight after a Halloween party, Curtis RX and Erik X produce music that is a combination of rock, Goth and horror movies. Sound interesting? Enter... if you dare.


Women in Music

'Light me up' - The Pretty Reckless

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Jrock & Jpop

High and Mighty Color

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Jmusic

Yukiko Okada - Japanese Idol Superstar

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Anti-Folk Art Blues

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

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Jrock

Jrock fans - advice for parents

Jrock fans - advice for parents A niche interest doesn't have to be frightening. Is your child a J-Rock (Japanese Rock) fan or Visual Kei fan? If you're curious and think someone you know might be a Jrocker (or riot grrrl, or just anything niche) here's a guide on how to understand them.


Women in Music

Anti-folk

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Women in Music

Helen Love

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Women in Music

Blaqk Audio

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Women in Music

Mon Frere

Mon Frere Music reviews: 'Mon Frere' is electroshock, jazz-tinged dance-pop with a punk rock attitude. And they only sing about monsters, serial murderesses and vampires who get shitfaced.


Women in Music

The Birthday Massacre

The Birthday Massacre Industrial rock: The Birthday Massacre came life in early 2000 but they're still around - their last album was recorded in 2007, "Walking With Strangers".


Women in Music

The Moldy Peaches

The Moldy Peaches Indie rock: "Here is the church / and here is the steeple. We sure are cute for two ugly people." Bite into Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches, an anti-folk band popularised by 'Juno'.


Women in Music

J music - Exist Trace

J music - Exist Trace J-music: Exist†trace is an all-girl cross-dressing Visual-Kei rock band from Tokyo. It's not screamo, but think heavy metal, melodic death metal, and gothic metal...


Women in Music

Evelyn Evelyn

Evelyn Evelyn Alt folk music: Ladies and gentlemen, critics and hipsters. Have you heard the new disc by the Evelyn sisters? Learn about Evelyn Evelyn, the band discovered by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley.


Women in Music

Celebrate Record Store Day!

theremin Riot Grrl:Like giant pandas and baleen whales, indie record shops are a dying breed. Let's join Amanda Palmer, Spoon and Jack White in dishing love to indie record shops on Record Store Day!


Women in Music

Radio Tuna - free online radio

theremin Free internet music: Radio Tuna gives you real-time search for free online radio. Choose from thousands of free internet radio stations and listen to free music without downloading...


Women in Music

The girl who cried wolf - Sierra Swan

The girl who cried wolf - Sierra Swan Grrrl rock: Why is it that so much dross is splattered over the music charts when real gals never get a look in? Sierra Swan is back with her honestly-titled album, "The girl who cried wolf"...


Women in Music

Blood Red Shoes

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Meet Harmony De'kya

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J music - Hangry & Angry and Ali Project

J music - Hangry & Angry and Ali Project J-music: HANGRY & ANGRY and ALI PROJECT are two Gothic Lolita bands with very similar fashion and sound (gothic and dark). Their music features in animes and they're japanese idol icons...


Women in Music

Skunk Anansie - Smashes and Trashes

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Women in Music

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Brand New Eyes - Paramore Music reviews: Paramore talks Risk, Religion, Relationships and Success on Brand New Eyes.


Women in Music

Vera Lynn - The forces' sweetheart

Vera Lynn Music reviews: The release of "We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn" coincides with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of WW2. A musical goddess of the 1940s, Vera Lynn prepares to enchant the nation once more...


Women in Music

Dillinger Escape Plan

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Women in Music

Spinnerette

Spinnerette Music reviews: After the Distillers split, punk rock queen Brody Dalle formed the Spinnerettes with members from the Distillers and Queens of the Stone Age. She's added dance and emotion but retained her strength. With her latest Spinnerettes album, Brody ain't gonna lose many old fans. Just gain new ones.


Women in Music

Rolo Tomassi

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Vocaloids - the sound of the future

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Deliberate Lies - Art Industrial

Deliberate Lies - Art Industrial Music reviews: Deliberate Lies is the self produced, fully independent musical effort of guitarist Jon Hillyard and singer/pianist Andrew "Rage" Reid. Think Doctor Who crossed with Muse, Emilie Autumn and Rammstein...


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Sonisphere - UK music festival is a Metal Ball of Sound

Sonisphere Music festivals: Is there enough room in the UK for another music festival? You bet! This summer, the people behind the original Monsters of Rock, and the creator of Download the Unholy Alliance and Defenders Of The Faith brought you a brand-new festival. Sonisphere...


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Chatmonchy

Chatmonchy Music reviews: Chatmonchy, a three-piece all girl band from Tokushima, Japan, has been around since 2000 and has had multiple songs hit the top of the charts. Not bad for a band whose name intentionally has no meaning.


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J-rock with Tommy Kawase and The Brilliant Green

J-rock with Tommy Kawase and The Brilliant Green Music reviews: Who can pull off three different styles of J-rock with three different personas? Not a lot of people, that's who. Yet Tomoko Kawase (or Tommy as she is lovingly nicknamed, or Tommy February6, or Tommy Heavenly6) has quite a few tricks up her Elmo-puppeted sleeve.


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The Dead Weather - Horehound

The Dead Weather - Horehound Music reviews: Take a whisk of rock, a syrup spoon of country and a sprinkle of The Kills and The Raconteurs and what do you get? The Dead Weather. But can they live up to their supergroup status?


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Regina Spektor - Far

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La Roux - In for the kill

La Roux - In for the kill Music reviews: La Roux is glitchy, spunky, eighties-retro electropop that has odd roots and packs a punch. And it's nice to know sometimes bands are still formed by friends not Simon Cowell - La Roux met the old-fashioned way. At a party.


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Sierra Swan - Queen of the Valley

Sierra Swan - Queen of the Valley Music reviews: Some mags describe Sierra Swan as lesbian rock. Fools. They'll say any old thing to fill column inches. She's a strong alternative woman who sings hard songs wrapped in Jagermeister. If you like the low throated voices of PJ Harvey, Amanda Palmer and Regina Spektor, Sierra might be what you've been looking for.


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Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me - album review

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Andrea Faithful - all hail the new electro queen

Andrea Faithful - all hail the new electro queen Many claim an electro title for themselves, but disco style, a dance hit and a few paparazzi shots do not an electro queen make. Andrea Faithful is proper scary electric.


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It's Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

It's Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Music reviews: 'It's Blitz!' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is that difficult third album. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are challenging themselves with heavy synth and a disco drive... but will this change of direction work for their regular fans?


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DIOYY - You have no idea what you're getting yourself into

DIOYY What if space aliens were taught human ways by punk rockers, learned how to play music (easy on the distortion there, alien!) then gained popularity as a band? Meet Does It Offend You, Yeah?.


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Lesbians on ecstasy

Lesbians on ecstasy Music reviews: Lesbians On Ecstasy (AKA Lezzies on X) is an electro band from Montreal. If you like Robots in Disguise and the harder electro sound of Peaches, then give these electro terriers a try. Fear ye not - their tuff electro sound won't turn you into a drug-spangled sapphic freak. Probably.


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Isa and the Filthy Tongues

Isa and the Filthy Tongues Music reviews: It's weak sauce to just namecheck people that a band's sound reminds you of, but when those people are Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Sleater Kinney, The Killers and the Pixies, you know you're onto a good thing with dark indie outfit Isa and the Filthy Tongues...


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Dekadens

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Florence and the Machine

Florence and the machine review Music reviews: Florence and the Machine? She's a bit like Kate Bush and she's signed to Moshi Moshi records. Dress code for a Florence gig? None, but consider: Long robes and cape for Florence, MGMT-style psychedelia for you. Mookychick salutes Florence and her Machine!


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Kiss Kiss - Reality vs the Optimist

Kiss kiss band music review - Reality vs. the Optimist and Kiss Kiss lyrics Music reviews: Kiss Kiss are guitary, screamy, haunting, romantic, optimistic about our reality - they have a huge following yet always say thank you for their fan art. For their classical influences and calming yet awakening way of playing, Velma Velvet gives them 4 out of five stars.


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Download Robots in disguise

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Music reviews: Dee Plume and Sue Denim are the main girls behind Robots in disguise, an electro outfit that is witty, sharp and is all about hyping up the superficial in true electro style. Also, Sue Denim used to go out with Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh. We like them big lots, they fill our hearts with little blue lightning strikes! So download their mp3s now...


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Download Elastica

Elastica

Music reviews: Elastica were a predominately female British Britpop band who emerged to great critical acclaim in 1993. Influenced by The Fall and controversially by Wire, Elastica were in the papers as much for their rock lifestyle as for their music (sometimes for nicking other peoples' riffs), but their punchy 2-3 minute punkpop songs were solid as hell.


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Nightmare Revisited

Nightmare Revisited

Music reviews: 'Nightmare Revisited' is the new CD for Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. It features cover versions of the entire soundtrack by bands and singers like Manson, Amy Lee, Shiny Toy Guns and Sparklehorse. Yes, we loved the original musical. Will we like the songs as much when we view them through the looking glass? Alessa Valentin finds out if the spirit of Jack is truly back.


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Emilie Autumn - the winter of our content

Emilie Autumn - the winter of our content

Music reviews: Courtney Love's "anarchy violinist" returns to the stage and is keeping the spotlight all to herself. Fresh off the road as Ms. Love's touring bandmate, Emilie Autumn's devilishly dark lyrics and industrial-strength voice reinvent "gothic" for us all.


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Metric

Metric

Music reviews: Metric are an indie outfit who come on like a new wave dance band. They're verging on mainstream. But the very fashionistas and consumerists they satirised in songs like "Dead Disco," "Combat Baby" and "The List" are now singing along with them.


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The Kills

The Kills

Music reviews: Alison 'VV' Mosshart of Anglo-American indie rock band The Kills (gorgeous lo-fi likened to the White Stripes) has been known to spend her time chainsmoking and vomiting onstage. Nevermind the bollocks, here's The Kills!


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Yelle

Yelle

Music reviews: Yelle (a slamming of Yeah and Elle) is a French electro chick who rose to fame on myspace.com when she posted a song dissing hip-hop band TTC. Find out more!


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Siouxsie Sioux

Siouxsie Sioux

Music reviews: Everyone likes Siouxsie Sioux. She's the queen of the New Wave. Some call her goth, some call her punk... she's influenced everyone from indie rock to trip hop. Find out more.


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Five Tips for Real Karaoke Survival

indie karaoke

Music reviews: Play-nice karaoke was invented by the Japanese 20 years ago, but real karaoke can usually be found in a local pub. Don't worry, there'll be a piece of neon yellow paper in the window advertising 'Steveoke' or 'Okey Dokey Karaoke' to light the way. Once inside, there are certain rules of etiquette to which you must adhere - so the following survival tips should help you get the very best out of your night on the mic.


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Lykke Li

Lykke Li

Music review: Like most things worth bothering about in life, Li Lykke Timotej Zahrisson (Lykke Li for short) is a bundle of seeming contradictions. Already being hyped in ominous proportions by the blogosphere, the 21-year-old Swede has produced an album full of some of the year's loveliest, most compelling sounds.


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We like it edgy: Becoming a music producer

How to become a music producer Careers: We Like It Edgy is a music producer. It's a competitive industry but there are ways to survive and flourish, especially if you go above and beyond your training, buy cheap kit of eBay and know your remixes and mashups. Find out more about being a music producer.


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Love Is All... 9 times that same song

Love Is All... 9 times that same song 'Love Is All' are a bunch of skronky Swedes who somehow got missed in the day-glo rush of 2006. Can you have a band that sings about keeping your boyfriend in a freezer? Wouldn't it be wrong not to?


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Curve

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Music reviews: What on earth were Curve, apart from one of the seminal underground bands of the 1990s? Were they shoegazing indie? Goth? Electronica? We're not quite sure!


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CSS

CSS

Music reviews: CSS and lead singer Lovefoxxx wear glitter catsuits on stage and are impossibly fun and sexy. And yet 'CSS' stands for the Brazilian for 'I got tired of being sexy'...


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Five Tips for Real Karaoke Survival

indie karaoke

Music reviews: Play-nice karaoke was invented by the Japanese 20 years ago, but real karaoke can usually be found in a local pub. Get the very best out of your night on the karaoke mic.


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ShiSho

ShiSho

Music reviews: ShiSho are only about 10 years old but in the vein of Be Your Own Pet they've burst on the kidcore scene with Sufjan Stevens and The Dead Milkmen covers. Punk Rawk girls unite!


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Download The Chubbies

The Chubbies

Music reviews: The Chubbies are a pop punk all-girl garage band who have their own record store and got kicked offstage when go-go dancing for The Offspring. Find out more...


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How to be a drummer grrl

Female drummers How to guides: It's hard to understand why females are such a minority in the drum world. Bevin from The Valentinos tells you how to pick up the sticks and learn the fine art of drumming.


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Download Liz Phair

Liz Phair

Music reviews: Liz Phair recently celebrated her 40th birthday in a Rolling Stone photoshoot under the heading "Hot M.I.L.F.". Now a grown-up Avril Lavigne (tailored to appeal to a commercial market) Liz Phair used to be just Lizzy from the Block. Check out the genius of her early days...)


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Download Bat for lashes

Bat for lashes

Music reviews: Everyone likes Bat for Lashes, especially intelligent blokes (you see throngs of them at Natasha Khan's live gigs videoing her thoughtfully). Taking influence from 70's film soundtracks, weather phenomena, childhood Halloween parties and a David Lynchian vision of suburbia, Bat for Lashes will take you on a very strange journey indeed...


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Download Jackie Levitt

Jackie Levitt

Music reviews: Jackie Levitt is an unsigned Mookychick from NYC who does truth and ethereal yet funky vocals over addictive lo-fi urban dance beats. Her work is New York, but would fit in well with the slew of trip hop bands that came out of Bristol, UK, with its mixed-up bpms, slow beats, and evocative melodies...


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Download The Sounds

The Sounds

Music reviews: The Sounds are one of the latest imports from Sweden - they're kind of new wave with a touch of electro, and they've got a hard driving sound that's offset by melodies that will stick in your head longer than is healthy...


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Download Sierra Swan

Sierra Swan

Music reviews: Ladyland is a gutsy, punchy, powerful album that will have so many good songs you'll be playing one on repeat before you dare let yourself onto the next one...


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Download The Colt 45s

Colt 45s

Music reviews: Probably the easiest way to describe the Colt 45s sound is 'obscure, fiesty electro punk' (The Crack Magazine), but their own term is clatter-pop...


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Download Vix n the Kix

Vix n the Kix

Punk-pop burlesque at your service...

ViX used to be in a huge punkette British band and now she's assembled a new feisty bostin' outfit. If you like a bit of all-girl kitsch punk burlesque pop, this band deserves your love!


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Download The Mighty Roars

The Mighty Roars

Rrrrraaaoowr! It's The Mighty Roars

Music reviews: Meet The Mighty Roars, a dirty twin sister to Debbie Harry and Karen O. It might be naughty, but it's probably the best thing we heard this week!


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Grrrl music reviews

Get girl rock music reviews, free music downloads, new and unsigned bands and our pick of the very best new music from alternative female artists around the globe - Mookychick


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More free, legal, downloadable MP3s from Mookychick:

    ELECTRO

  • Robots in Disguise
  • Yelle
  • INDIE

    Metric
  • Elastica
  • The Kills
  • The Sounds
  • The Gossip
  • The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • Sierra Swan
  • Garbage
  • The Colt 45s
  • The Mighty Roars
  • Liz Phair
  • J-POP

  • Cibo Matto
  • Koiko J-Pop

    ALTERNATIVE, NEW WAVE, FOLK, PINKFLUFF

  • Santogold
  • Siouxsie Sioux
  • Bat for Lashes
  • Jason Webley
  • The Little Bicycles
  • Throwing Muses
  • RETRO, BURLESQUE

  • Vix n the Kix
  • Dresden Dolls
  • The Velterelles
  • The Revelations

    NOISE-POP, PUNK

  • ShiSho
  • The Chubbies
  • The Go Team
  • Noisettes
  • The 5678s
  • Liliput
  • URBAN, DANCE

  • Jackie Levitt
  • Lily Allen
  • The Go! Team
  • Lady Sovereign
  • Purity
  • Jenny Lewis

Get girl rock music reviews, free music downloads, new and unsigned bands and our pick of the very best new music from alternative female artists around the globe

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