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I have to hit the ground running this evening as the moment the barmaid hands me my Jack Daniels & Coke than local post-rockers Aeroplane Attack take to the stage built on the rock solid foundation of Rusty Sheriff’s drums and K.O. Desai’s throbbing bass, their three guitarists overlap, supporting each other one moment and [...]

Hello! I just wanted to express my apologies for the lack of updates this week. Due to an extremely hectic schedule and the lack of a decent internet connection it’s been a barren week here on the site. Things will return to normal starting tomorrow though and I hope you’ll pop back to check the [...]

Having already toured numerous countries across the globe including Mexico, Japan and Thailand, Placebo are ready to head out on their winter 2009 tour, where they will play to over 300,000 people across Europe.   To get fans buzzing for the dates, Placebo have put together a free Tour Bundle download which features tracks from [...]

Hello, and welcome to backwards America. Land of banjos, streams and steer. You can come up, we’ll go for a hike and when it gets dark we’ll play some guitar round a fire, you can meet the nice girls-next-door and we’ll drink some whiskey. Somehow it is welcoming, warm and friendly. The calculated lifestyle pretence [...]

FOUR FREE DOWNLOADS: http://www.wintersleep.com/giveaway/ (one song from Wintersleep’s first album, two from their second and as a bonus a Live recording of ‘Search Party’ from current album ‘Welcome To The Night Sky’   WINTERSLEEP are currently on their biggest European tour to date as special guests to EDITORS. Having spent the last month writing and [...]

I want to start this review by saying I have major R E S P E C T for Cosmo Jarvis. This is mainly because I had a flick through his booklet and realised this double CD (18 tracks in all) was almost completely recorded, engieneered and produced by the man himself. That said, his [...]

Davy Knowles is a lucky dude. You see, he got to produce his CD “Coming Up For Air”, with Peter Frampton. Quite an honour. He even got the grizzled rock music legend to play some guitar and EVEN do a “rock and roll count it!” on ‘Keep on Searching’. When I first thought about the [...]

November 9th 2009 marks the release of ‘Highway’, the debut single by hot new Parisian four-piece Fortune. The band are set to make a serious mark on the remainder of ‘09 before scaling great heights in 2010.   ‘Highway’ is a bouncy, loose limbed piece of uplifting-boogie-meets-disco-meets-blue-eyed-soul-meets-perfect-electro-indie-pop! The track climaxes with glistening, dappled ornamentation reminiscent [...]

Ok, so before I begin, I must let you know that I know NOTHING about dance music. I went to a club once and I didn’t like it. I also have it on good authority that ‘Bonkers’ by Dizzee Rascal did OK this year. But this release, a compilation mix of Umek’s work, is venturing [...]

It’s time once again for Call Upon The Author to offer you, our ever lovely readers, some rather special free music. We’ve teamed up with some of our favourite PR teams and the hottest new talent to present some really interesting samples for you to wrap your ears around.   Lets start with The Boy [...]