CD Reviews
The Hours: Narcissus Road
This duo are no strangers to the industry – singer Ant Genn produced Joe Strummer s solo album, while Martin Slattery played in Strummer s Mescaleros. So it comes as no surprise to find an album with spades of radio-friendly pop nous. Accomplished guitar...
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Cold War Kids: Robbers And Cowards
Los Angeles Cold War Kids are an enticing prospect, proffering electro blues-rock, random clangs and bangs, lascivious, lurking vocals and a mischievous spirit to anyone crossing their path. And many have been, on the back of spine-tingling recent single...
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The Little Ones - Sing Song
This LA based quintet bring some California sunshine to the UK with this mini-album, Sing Song. This album incorporates easy listening music with simple guitar riffs, a pulsating beat and lyrics that will add a bit more depth to the record for those wanti...
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Desecration Smile
What the Chilli Peppers seem to be experts in doing is releasing songs that sound mediocre on the radio but awesome when performed live. Desecration Smile is no exception to this with its slow paced verses and up-beat chorus it will have audiences going j...
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+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
When Your Heart Stops Beating is the first single taken from the latest band made up of ex-Blink-182 members Travis Barker (drums) and Mark Hoppus (vocals, bass). They both claim +44 is a continuation of their previous band and its music rather than a com...
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Susy Thomas - Free Myself
RISING singer/songwriting star Susy Thomas put out her second single on Monday. Free Myself is about the limbo between knowing you should break up with somebody but finding it difficult to do the deed. The well crafted acoustic number is a ballad which ma...
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Cold War Kids - Hang Me Out to Dry
US chaps Cold War Kids are coming to our shores, are you ready? They have a growing reputation which is only going to get bigger when their new song hits the airwaves this month. Hang Me Out To Dry begins with a simple guitar solo which slowly builds and...
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The Confessions Tour - Madonna
THE Confessions Tour was seen as the moment that Madonna recaptured her crown as the rock diva of our age. Obviously, there is much here that was originally produced on her Confessions on the Floor album: but the concert recording does cover much more, as...
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The Projected Passion Revue - Dexys Midnight Runners
HERE is a collection of almost every recording Dexys Midnight Runners produced in the early 1980s. It includes both a BBC Radio 1 session and a BBC in Concert recording. This was a time when the group was seen to be at its peak – and when it devised a sho...
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DVD Reviews
Farce of the Penguins (15)
OH CRIKEY! A parody of the 2005 smash hit March of the Penguins, Farce of the Penguins is a straight-to-DVD movie which follows two penguins on a trek across Antarctica to find love. With a strong voice cast including Jason Biggs, Whoopi Goldberg, and a n...
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Click (12)
ADAM Sandler s latest incarnation, this time as a workaholic architect who discovers a remote control which works on everyday life, is a bit of a disappointment for diehard fans. In many ways similar to the superior Bruce Almighty, Click lacks those real...
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Little Miss Sunshine
HERE we have one of those heart-warming, tear-jerking stories which is really heart-warming and tear-jerking. The story revolves around the Hoovers from Albuquerque and their journey to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in California. Their seven-year-old...
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The Devil Wears Prada
MERYL Streep rules in a story revolving around the cut-throat world of New York fashion as editor of Runway magazine. In the role of Miranda Priestly she is the most powerful of powerful women – and nothing stands in her way. Her assistants have come and...
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