Added on July 15, 2015
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Arctic Monkeys , Ben Green , Hannah Golightly , Josh Liam , Justin Edwards , Lee Adcock , The Clash , The Libertines , Velociraptor
The Libertines – Gunga Din Justin Edwards: I could always understand the appeal of The Libertines in 2002/03 but also considered that they managed to peak between albums with the post-first album Don’t Look Back into the Sun and the pre-second album Can’t Stand Me Now. In 2014 I can’t really understand the appeal of […]
Added on May 7, 2014
Everett True
Alan McGee , Arctic Monkeys , Avatar , Courtney Love , Crazy In Love , Everett True , The Legend , Yoncé
Everett True details what he did tonight instead of watching dad rock revival band Arctic Monkeys. I thought how much I hate the concept of indie bands playing arenas, and wondered whether I’d ever seen a decent one. (Answer: yes. Several times.) I performed on stage in a lecture theatre, spinning a web of myth […]
Added on November 8, 2013
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Arctic Monkeys , Britney Spears , F.U.N.K. , Fall Out Boy , Neil Kulkarni , Rahiem DeVaughn , Robbie Williams
You’d have to have been found swaddled in a wicker basket in a forest clearing and bought up and reared by wankers to ever consider this anything other than time-marking bollocks of the most tedious kind. Legends.
Added on October 5, 2013
Wallace Wylie
Arctic Monkeys , Bob Dylan , haim , Jake Bugg , Jeff Pollack , Maroon 5 , Mojo , Mumford & Sons , Northern Uproar , Oasis , Phantom Planet , Primal Scream , Rolling Stone , Tame Impala , Wallace Wylie
Critics have been falling over themselves to praise their special brand of retro R&B mixed with retro MOR and it will surely only be a matter of time before teenagers find out about them too.
Added on September 11, 2013
Scott Creney
2013 , album review , Arctic Monkeys , Leonard Cohen , Nobody Knows , Scott Creney , The Adventures of Pete & Pete , Vampire Weekend , Willis Earl Beal , XL
Music to bury your parents to. Music to shake yourself to sleep to. Music to make a traffic jam seem poetic. Music to make you a better person. Music to make you the worst person you’ve ever been. Music to stalk children to. Music to save the world to.
Added on June 5, 2011
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Arctic Monkeys , Pen Tip Rips , Sleevie Nicks
“From lad rock to dad rock. All dulled up and nowhere to go.”
Added on April 13, 2011
Hannah Golightly
Arctic Monkeys , Beady Eye , Bird-Brains , Hannah Golightly , Merrill Garbus , The Guardian , tUnE-yArDs , WhoKill
Chapter Four is all about the emergence of sound, style and make do and mend philosophy.
Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , Acid House , Andy Weatherall , Aphex Twin , Arctic Monkeys , Blur , Bobby Gillespie , Bomb The Bass , Britpop , Cabaret Voltaire , Creation Records , Damon Albarn , Definitely Maybe , Depeche Mode , Derrick May , Fool's Gold , Frankie Knuckles , Gary Numan , Give Out But Don’t Give Up , Happy Mondays , Higher Than the Sun , House , Ian Brown , Jack Your Body , Jimmy Miller , Joy Division , Kula Shaker , Led Zeppelin , Let It Be , Loaded , Love , Massive Attack , Morrissey , New Order , Noel Gallagher , Oasis , Orange Juice , Orbital , Paul Weller , Pet Shop Boys , PiL , Primal Scream , Public Enemy , Sally Cinnamon , Screamadelica , Song Of The Day , Suede , Teenage Fanclub , The Associates , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Black Crowes , The Boo Radleys , The Byrds , The Human League , The Jam , The KLF , The Libertines , The Orb , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Smiths , The Soft Boys , The Stone Roses , The Strokes , The Wild Bunch , Uncle Tupelo , Vince Clarke , Visage , Wallace Wylie , We Call It Acieed , WFL , Yazoo
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
