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Band Profile: Master & The Mule
Master & The Mule deliver dark, heavy, slightly unusual guitar based music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13271/ | 443 hits
Band Profile: Master Shortie
Let there be no mistake, Master Shortie - rapper, entrepreneur - samplemeister - indie/rap pioneer and musical trail-blazer - is a man who always gets what he wants.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11128/ | 149 hits
News Article: Debut album from Master & The Mule to be released in March
Leeds based four piece Master & The Mule have today announced the release of their debut album, 'The View from Nowhere', which will be released on 19th March 2012.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16069/ | 183 hits
CD Review: The Quails - Master Of Imperfection
Quail: - a collective name for several of mid-sized birds. This flock are led by Singer Dan Steer with guitarist Max Armstrong and a rhythm section of Sam Banks and Chris Prentice.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13356/ | 463 hits
Band Profile: Cut Yourself In Half
Bradford's Acid Rock Riff Master's
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/14454/ | 355 hits
CD Review: Flowered Third - She is the Monkey Master
This is a 16 song (count'em), labour of love from the Harrogate lo-fiers. It is peppered with Steven Malkmus inspired alt cuts, fidgeting guitars, meticulously picky rhythms, don't give a f*ck vocals and more time signature swapping than you can imagine a drummer being able to cope with...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/591/ | 217 hits
Band Profile: Sooner Than Now
Electro-screams-and-breakdown-core
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15994/ | 78 hits
Band Profile: Betray these Angels
metal
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2519/ | 870 hits
CD Review: Trost - Trust Me
Annika Line Trost might be best recognised for her exploits with electro pop outfit Cobra Killer, but the Berlin based artist's self-produced 2nd solo album Trust Me certainly deserves some acknowledgment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10222/ | 233 hits
Band Profile: Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation is an alternative electronica band from London, England. Formed in 1993, their style blends breakbeat, dub, dancehall, hip-hop and reggae with distinct Asian influences.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9770/ | 133 hits
Band Profile: InSatellites
InSatellites are an alternative rock three piece from Leeds
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/14525/ | 428 hits
CD Review: K.O.Kaine - Untitled
In their own words "K.O.Kaine are a post-modern flurry of anger guitars, tormented words, hellish shrieks and bastardized beatings" Fair enough!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/268/ | 394 hits
Live Review: Happy Mondays + The Sunshine Underground
I could tell it was going to be a good night, when a old guy who looked a little worse for wear, started to dance in a ballroom dance fashion to the music before the first band came on.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8900/ | 778 hits
Band Profile: Marc Otway
Singer/Songwriter
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16086/ | 103 hits
CD Review: Goldie Lookin' Chain - Guns Don't Kill People Rappers Do
Newport's finest supporters of leisurewear are back with their second single on Must Destroy. Based over a cool repetitive groove the collective take it in turns to extol the mantra that 'the gun is the tool, the mind is the weapon'.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3017/ | 1,155 hits
CD Review: Jont - One Long Song EP
What happens if you have Chris Martin fronting Athlete (first album) heavily influenced by David Gray and providing a soundtrack for people reading the Guardian whilst supping a Latte in Starbucks.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6106/ | 350 hits
News Article: I Like Trains reveal details of their new album
Leeds band I Like Trains have this month revealed the details of their second album, but need the support of fans in making it happen.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13183/ | 285 hits
Band Profile: The Bambinos
Tim Garbutt plays guitar; Jay Lawrance sings; Liam Pease-Smith writes words; Pete Richards plays bass guitar and Sam Vickers drums.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9664/ | 403 hits
CD Review: Stateless - Bloodstream EP
Bloody hell aren't we all lucky to be part of the Leeds scene these days?  Almost every week there's another great band churning out yet another rather splendid CD.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4112/ | 2,177 hits
News Article: Leeds Festival 2009: full Dance Stage line-up revealed
Just hours after confirming Faith No More as headliners of the NME / Radio One Stage at Leeds 2009, organisers Festival Republic have this evening announced the full line-up for the Dance Stage.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10853/ | 914 hits
CD Review: British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
After leaving a trail of leaves and twigs across venue stages everywhere British Sea Power release their first full length offering on Rough Trade building on the success of several well received EP/singles.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/577/ | 360 hits
CD Review: Adem - These Are Your Friends
Cult chilled outfit Fridge have spawned yet another success with another 3rd of their ranks following in the footsteps of Four Tet and producing a damn fine solo project.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2704/ | 430 hits
News Article: MMF and Bright Young Things offer Leeds musicians free music business classes...
MMF Music Management, in association with Leeds City Council's initiative Bright Young Things, is to offer a series of 10 FREE Master Classes exploring and updating the practical realities of the Music Business.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3351/ | 549 hits
Band Profile: Blue Sky Project
Concocted deep in 2003 in response to a deficit of ambitious or interesting music, Blue Sky Project is the brainchild of Leeds-based solo artist and ex-Mr.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7374/ | 890 hits
News Article: SXSW 2006: West Yorkshire record labels' showcase CD details
West Yorkshire's Timeless Music Project will be attending SXSW 2006 in Austin, Texas next week with a mission to promote the region's vibrant music scene to the annual conference via a series of discussion groups and a CD sampler.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6477/ | 783 hits
CD Review: Kenosha - One Percenter
[Having received this CD second hand from another reviewer and then promptly forgotten about it, this review begins with an apology for the delay...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2629/ | 373 hits
CD Review: Kid iD - Broken Little Monkey EP
American styley alt-soft-rock-folksy voice boy Ralph Pelleymounter has emerged from the bottomless pit of solo acoustic performers and lends his sultry vocals to the backdrop of a full line up, thus Kid iD are born and henceforth comes this natty little EP.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4084/ | 686 hits
CD Review: Andy Clare - Only in Your Glory
Andy Clare follows his three track demo with a consistently well tempered 6 track mini album "Only in Your Glory".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/146/ | 324 hits
Live Review: Hawkwind
33 years ago, Hawkwind came onto the psychedelic scene, and have continued to push music outer and further away from the mainstream, while influencing space and post rock and to a large extent the techno end of the dance spectrum.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1069/ | 524 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - Soma Compilation 2004
Bloody, battered and bruised, dance music has gone a full ten rounds with the media world fervently announcing its death.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3394/ | 669 hits
News Article: Line up for Brainwash Festival V announced
The line up for Brainwash Festival V has been announced this week, with around 50 bands scheduled to appear on stages at both the Brudenell Social Club and Royal Park Cellars venues between 22nd and 24th October 2010.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13290/ | 447 hits
CD Review: Goldie Lookin' Chain - Safe As Fuck
Those Newport Boys are back. Unlike debut 'Greatest Hits', which featured many songs that had beeing doing the rounds of the 'Port for many years, this is a batch of brand new songs from the GLC.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4232/ | 719 hits
CD Review: The Myth - Untitled
Despite sitting down to listen to this demo with something approaching a hangover, my sluggish mind cannot be fooled into thinking it is rubbish.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3002/ | 256 hits
CD Review: Sandfly - Untitled
For the most part, this Lincolnshire based folk-rock outfit, offer pretty ordinary acoustic picking/strumming tunes of the brand that will be eternally popular in pubs whose name begins O' or round the campfires of crusty festivals.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/528/ | 325 hits
Band Profile: Atropine
There are two artists with the name Atropine. The first Atropine was founded as a side-project to the Oslo-based EBM-group Anstalt in 1996 to explore the harsher side of the genre.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4608/ | 131 hits
Live Review: Dead Meadow + Arbouretum + Held In Hands
With long instrumental sections and packing the small stage with a cacophony of noise, Held In Hands delivered a chaotic and often clashing set.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8746/ | 319 hits
CD Review: Lail Arad - Someone New
Her voice sounds like it contains her entire personality, giggles, flirty flickering eye lashes, tears and jeers.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13102/ | 725 hits
Band Profile: Mercurial
psychedelic rock
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8073/ | 262 hits
Live Review: Wild Beasts
The Dance To The Radio Stage on pre-Festival Thursday is a typically smart Wild Beasts' move. They did play the Festival Republic Stage last year, but today's Leeds Festival is moving as close to Nemesis as their particular music can travel.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11175/ | 387 hits
CD Review: The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
Come on, hands up who out there is a cynic? Ha ha, I see a number of you putting your arms up! Nice and straight, eager to grab sir's attention, good, good!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6565/ | 1,021 hits
Live Review: Jamie xx
If you haven't heard of the rise of Jamie xx you must have been living under a rock for the past year.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/14749/ | 363 hits
CD Review: Cash Mattock - 21st Century Sleaze
God this is a tricky one, so it's going to be really brief. First off because this album contains 17 songs of which describing each ones sound would take me forever (the press release which came with this CD is 4 A4 sheets long!), but primarily because this guy is a bloody nut, and his album hums with this undertone.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4137/ | 284 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - The Trip: Compiled By Joey Negro
Joey Negro is described in his biography as the "master of all things dance-floor and credible", which he probably is if you live in the kind of world where you refer to the act of making love as making sweet music and you don't mean it as a joke.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6531/ | 281 hits
CD Review: Decoration - I tried it, I liked it, I loved it
John Peel loves them and he's not the only one! This 3 track follow up to the astonishingly good "Thomas Pink Session" is another warning shot across the bows of the music listening public - whistling past with the words "you will adore us" ringing in the ears of all those who dare get in their way.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2936/ | 865 hits
Live Review: The Music + Superstring
Review featured with permission from www.manchestermusic.co.uk Not unlike the amount of feather boas and leopard print present for the Manic Street Preachers, or backwards caps for Limp Bizkit, the traditional demin clad bowlheads fill Manchester's Roadhouse for the most hyped band this year.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/688/ | 450 hits
Band Profile: Jack Flash
Jack Flash is a hiphop artist that embodies individuality, honesty, raw talent and intelligent music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15974/ | 58 hits
CD Review: Libero - Defined and Refined
They hail from Wakefield. A lady I thank you and 3 Gentlemen folk. Spangly bittersweet guitar melodies been the sound that the masses may or may not sway along to.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6085/ | 322 hits
Band Profile: Joakim
Joakim is a French modern electronic music artist. Multi talented and well-cultivated, he has released two audacious albums on Versatile Records (Tigersushi in 1999 and Fantomes in 2003) and founder of Label and Proteinic website Tigersushi.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8183/ | 133 hits
Feature: Advent Calendar: 24th December
Day 24 of LMS's Advent Calendar 2011
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15959/ | 1,249 hits
CD Review: Tempting Kate - Demonstrations
Two words: Unlucky & Resilient....for if you are to make it in this business you must expect the former and master the latter.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/119/ | 351 hits
CD Review: four day Hombre - Experiments in Living
Since 1999, four day Hombre have been known and respected amongst the Leeds scene as hard working, hard harmonising and perhaps a bit hard done by.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6470/ | 503 hits
CD Review: White Lies - Ritual
It's not easy to review an album that you don't like, when most of the music press is stating it's going to save British guitar music or something equally hyperbolic, and now I'm scared I've given away what will be the general tone of this review.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/14139/ | 564 hits
Live Review: Pearl Jam + Broken Social Scene + Slayer
Another year, another chance for the great pillaging hordes of festival-goers to descend upon Branham Park for a weekend of music, debauchery and the chance to stick two fingers up at "the man" by paying three quid for a pint of beer.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7227/ | 382 hits
Band Profile: K.O.Kaine
metal
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2038/ | 1,151 hits
Live Review: Radiohead + Gallows + Yeah Yeah Yeahs + Crystal Castles + The Old Romantic Killer Band
Facebook Aug 26th: "I'm off to Leeds Fest as it's the only place on earth I can be absolutely sure of not seeing The Killers, even then I'll take a high powered sniper rifle, just in case" Yep.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11126/ | 1,214 hits
Live Review: Stephen Fretwell + Letrix
Valentine's Day and yet the Cockpit brims with expectation tonight and many of the young lovers making up the crowd know that a sure guarantee of romance will come from the lilting serenade of Stephen Fretwell.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3569/ | 965 hits
CD Review: Shallowend - The Waterfall EP
Aaaaaghh I must cross the line forbidden to all reviewers and do the unthinkable....review someone I know!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1/ | 258 hits
Band Profile: The Fall of Troy
The Fall of Troy was a three-piece progressive band from Mukilteo, Washington, United States. Members consisted of Thomas Erak (lead vocals, guitar), Andrew Forsman, (drums), and Frank Ene (bass, backup vocals).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8871/ | 192 hits
CD Review: Fulc - Biting Insomnia
There are few bands on the local scene that are capable of producing a piece of work as accomplished as this.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/305/ | 564 hits
Band Profile: Ethos Theory
All Rock Band<br />All Rock Band!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15529/ | 207 hits
CD Review: The Sleepy Jackson - Personality (One Was a Spider One Was a Bird)
The Sleepy Jackson made a critical impact with their 2003 debut Lovers and in the eyes of many this could only ever be a difficult second album by comparison.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7108/ | 282 hits
CD Review: Living Colour - The Chair In The Doorway
Is it better to be a jack of all trades, or a master of one? Throughout their 25 year history, Living Colour have tried their hands at Metal, Punk, Jazz and Hip-Hop, and with their latest effort, 'The Chair In The Doorway,' they still haven't settled for one genre.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11365/ | 346 hits
Band Profile: Envy
Since their formation in 1992, Envy has become a dominant band in the independent hardcore and screamo scene in Japan.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15627/ | 31 hits
Live Review: Jon Gomm + Tim Canfer
Playing acoustic guitar before Jon Gomm must be a rather daunting experience but Tim knocks out quite a strong set of songs with confessional and indeed rather poetic lyrics with fresh sounding strummy guitar.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2675/ | 762 hits
Band Profile: Make It Better Later
Make It Better Later were formed in November 2005, the first thing they did was book a gig two weeks later.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10659/ | 168 hits
News Article: Cut Yourself In Half give free download from upcoming album
There must be something in the water in Yorkshire which brings about kick ass heavy riffing. With the emergence of Pulled Apart By Horses, Hawk Eyes, Blacklisters, Humanfly, something must be feeding the land of the dark, satanic mills with pummelling riffs and fiendish intent.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/17342/ | 144 hits
Live Review: Eureka Machines
Eureka Machines charge up the whole show for the next three days by demolishing Friday's graveyard slot, tearing out classic rock songs like Saturday night was already half way through and speeding us all up to life-threatening pulse levels.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9961/ | 363 hits
CD Review: Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
The follow up to their acclaimed international debut The Heat Can Melt Your Brain sees man and wife team Viva Voce broaden their sound...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7085/ | 295 hits
Band Profile: Rothko
Based in London, Rothko were in existence from the spring of 1997, to October 2010. They played their first show at The Hope and Anchor in Islington in August '97 and their last in November 2009 at The Union Chapel in Islington, just a stones throw from the Hope and Anchor .
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10052/ | 168 hits
CD Review: Jacqui Dankworth - It Happens Quietly
Jazz music is something that for me has never gone out of fashion and the songs are timeless and this album is a testament to some songs that have stood the test of time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15161/ | 223 hits
CD Review: The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
What's the usual form for a band releasing their fifth long player, taking into account a dwindling public profile and a forthcoming tour of ever more 'intimate' venues?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10780/ | 260 hits
CD Review: Graceadelica - On EP
Here are six recorded songs from a Halifax band with the same name as a tune by muso wonderbillies Dark Star.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2718/ | 623 hits
Live Review: Bilge Pump + David Thomas Broughton + Dungeon Dungeon
Was I the only person left in Leeds who hadn't seen Bilge Pump yet? I suspect there might be one or two guitar band members who haven't had the experience.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2456/ | 967 hits
Live Review: Jon Gomm + Stateless + d-koy
d-koy have hair that has not been seen since Hundred Reasons first graced the stage all those years ago.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7842/ | 614 hits
Live Review: DJ Scotch Egg + Bilge Pump + Gentleman's Pistols + Red Stars Parade + Pixel! Pixel! Pixel!
As expected from a night run by omnipresent and ever-insane Leeds musicians / promoters / general busybodies Adam Benbow-Browne (Café Adam, Ad Hoc) and Matt Reid (Chickenhawk, The Grand March, ex-Whores Whores Whores), things get off to an unusual start with a rabbit playing Street Fighter in the middle of the room.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9192/ | 669 hits
Live Review: The Arrogance Of King Canute + Juno + The Reign + Elliott Morris + Jack, and Gill's Daughter
Jack, and Gill's Daughter make for an excellent opener to the night - soulful tunes ornamented by fantastic guitar technique á Jon Gomm.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15240/ | 615 hits
Band Profile: Oh No Not Stereo
Fueled by passionately focused energy, Oh No Not Stereo embody all that is truly exciting about rock 'n' roll.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10347/ | 110 hits
Band Profile: RZA
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA (pronounced /?r?z?/; born July 5, 1969), is an American Grammy winning music producer, author, rapper, and occasional actor, director, and screenwriter.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10486/ | 121 hits
CD Review: Grimper - Straight out with the Worcesters
Grimper are very nearly wonderful. "Straight out with the Worcesters" is a private labour of much love and great ambition.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2342/ | 550 hits
Live Review: Duncan McFarlane Band
What Otley has rightly become used to when the Duncan McFarlane Band plays the Folk Festival there, is a glowingly satisfied home crowd with a similar reaction from visitors who know the band's sound - and amidst all this, many new listeners simply astounded at the quality of Duncan and his musicians.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10059/ | 615 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - Dance To The Radio: What We All Want
If you don't live, eat and breath it, the Leeds music landscape has almost been unfathomably applauded for the bands it produces and the nights that exist within its figurative walls in recent years.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6358/ | 1,084 hits
CD Review: Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
Having dropped out of Boise State University, Idaho, Trevor Powers (aka Youth Lagoon) has released a record that simply oozes nostalgia.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16136/ | 285 hits
Live Review: Snipereyes + Finka + Speakeasy + The Restaurant
Sounding like a hybrid of The La's accompanied by Beach Boys-esque style vocals The Restaurant open a mixed evening at the Vine in terms of style and quality.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3272/ | 709 hits
Band Profile: Scurge
Born in the grimy urban butthole of Kettering, Northamptonshire, in 1999, The Scurge arrived fully-formed and fucking furious; a bug-eyed, belligerent four-man screech into the cavernous abyss of everyday drudgery.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5476/ | 201 hits
Band Profile: 50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975 in South Jamaica, Queens, New York), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is a Grammy award nominated rapper, actor, singer, entrepreneur, author and founder of the hip hop group and label G-Unit.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4627/ | 224 hits
Live Review: Random Impulse + Post War Glamour Girls + The Spills
Much more than just a gig, Big Fish, in conjunction with Leeds City College, offers aspiring journalists and media students the opportunity to gain experience whilst studying.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/17432/ | 202 hits
Live Review: Billy Talent + Santigold + Dear Prudence + Black Moth + Pure Love
Gallows are doing just fine since the departure of Frank Carter last summer proving that the singer doesn't make the band; meanwhile the world awaits Carter's latest offering in new incarnation Pure Love.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16947/ | 291 hits
Live Review: The Hold Steady + i concur
A sound that is lacking in music today, i concur's dirty layer upon layer of guitar and vocals, plus the thumping rhythms carrying the tunes along with the tricky bass lines, sound so wrong but so tight at the same time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8658/ | 1,026 hits
Live Review: Lorimer + Zane + four day Hombre
Can the quality of unsigned Leeds bands get any higher? The FutureSound 2000 has certainly opened a lot of people's eyes to the standard of music out there in Leeds, and if you think of the bands that aren't even playing...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/898/ | 308 hits
Band Profile: Akron/Family
Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and is currently based in New York on the Dead Oceans label.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16819/ | 12 hits
CD Review: Chris Barber - Memories Of My Trip
This new offering from legendary English jazz trombonist Chris Barber is a double CD retrospective of his sixty years in the music industry working with some of the most important names around.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15131/ | 404 hits
Band Profile: Magic Arm
Magic Arm - who, in 2009, you will see erroneously described as a singer-songwriter; laptop-folk troubadour; and more - is otherwise known as Marc Rigelsford.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8642/ | 182 hits
Band Profile: Alexander Tucker
Alexander Tucker is an English musician from Kent who writes, records and performs alone and in collaboration with a varied array of artists.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15382/ | 52 hits
Band Profile: Fun Lovin Criminals
An alternative rock band from New York, United States. Their music is a blend of many styles, most notably hip-hop, rock and blues, and their songs deal with everyday life in New York: drugs, organized crime and politics.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9752/ | 112 hits
Interview: Crystal Stilts
Amelia Rivas caught up with Crystal Stilts after their Leeds gig at the Brudenell Social Club
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10592/ | 500 hits
Band Profile: Chops
CHOPS (1): US hip hop solo artist and producer from Philly (???? -) CHOPS (2): UK avant-wonk-pop group from Leeds (2007 -) (1) CHOPS, from the Philly-based group the Mountain Brothers, has become a successful solo artist and producer.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11048/ | 194 hits
Band Profile: a.P.A.t.T.
a.P.A.t.T. sound like the best bits of eveything you've ever heard. YOUR favourite mixtape! File next to ABBA / Zappa.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11044/ | 161 hits
Live Review: The Mooney Suzuki + The Capital Years
The Mooney Suzuki in Leeds. The Mooney who?! Luckily, a few raw enthusiasts for this New York beat combo managed to rustle up a crowd barely reaching a hundred, a real shame for a band whose live reputation back in the USA is huge.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1226/ | 229 hits
Live Review: Kimono + Johnny Poindexter + Vessels
I've been harbouring a prejudice for a long time now. To me, there is something innately distrustful about underground/unsigned bands who have that polished sheen of 9-5s spent in the rehearsal room about them.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6348/ | 871 hits
Band Profile: Last Days Of April
For over a decade main LDOA engine and songwriter Karl Larsson has steered the band from frustrated emotional hardcore to well-produced pop songs, without ever giving in to current fads and trends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8384/ | 165 hits
CD Review: Luke Haines - Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop
It is 1993. Seattle is the centre of the musical universe and the Labour Party (RIP) has lost its fourth general election on the bounce.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7496/ | 1,248 hits
Live Review: Sons Of Cream
For those of you out there reading this, who grew up listening to your parents' record collection, depending on their musical persuasions, then you may have come across the elders of this band.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/17608/ | 80 hits
CD Review: Grammatics - Krupt
There is a certain bittersweet inevitability about the final chapter in the Grammatics story - they were a complicated proposition right from the start.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13466/ | 798 hits
Live Review: Sawthroat + Misled Vision + Esclavage
ESCLAVAGE A rather melodic beginning for a band that seem ready to tear the new roscoe down. This song turns into a roaring mosh-fest in seconds with all members showing good stage presence.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1104/ | 365 hits
Band Profile: Metallica
Metallica is an American metal band formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, United States when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in The Recycler.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9408/ | 221 hits
Live Review: Hawkwind
It all begins at the Irish Centre in Leeds on a Friday evening in February. It's a venue that I've seen Hawkwind in on numerous occasions over the 20 odd years I've lived in Leeds, but tonight we have Hawklords, which as you'll know was Hawkwind's "temporary" name in the late 70s while ownership of the name Hawkwind went through the courts.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12790/ | 890 hits
Band Profile: The Cubical
The Cubical are coming and you better run for cover! This ostensibly blues/garage band will provide the long overdue kick in the teeth that the music scene has been desperately crying out for.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13929/ | 257 hits
Band Profile: Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney (raised in Rochester, Kent, England) is a london-based composer and dj of various styles of music, including jazz, drum and bass, hip-hop, flamenco and modern orchestral compositions.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10177/ | 136 hits
Band Profile: Dinosaur Jr
Dinosaur Jr. formed as Dinosaur in 1983 in Amherst, Massachusetts by J Mascis (guitar and vocals) and his high school classmate Lou Barlow (bass guitar), following the break-up of their hardcore punk band Deep Wound.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8209/ | 182 hits
CD Review: Joanna Newsom - Ys
This is an interesting beast. It's a mere five tracks in length, but sprawls out over an hour's playing time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7599/ | 635 hits
Band Profile: Black Soul Strangers
Strangers are people you don't know... Black Soul Strangers are the band you want to know... Possessing a raw energy that few artists can convincingly convey the Irish Pop Rock quartet have already been championed by NME and Radio 2's Janice Long and Dermot O'Leary as well as bagging an army of cyber fans including Uk.music-jobs who described them as "Serious contenders for next big thing status".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11425/ | 163 hits
Band Profile: Solace
There is more than one artist with this name: 1. American Stoner Rock band 2. Karl Schubach (Misery Signals vocalist) side project 3.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1857/ | 342 hits
Band Profile: Battle
1) Battle:Also a Korean male band with dance beat genre. 2) Battle was a Finnish black metal band before they changed their name to Ravening.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7698/ | 171 hits
Live Review: Elbow + Goldrush
So I'm wondering where my drunken comrades are and thinking if I'm going to get my coat back from the bag they have before I have to brave it back out into the winter night.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/720/ | 667 hits
Live Review: Pteroglyph + Bludger + Apnoea + Pillars Of Heresy
Pteroglyph + Bludger + Apnoea + Pillars Of Heresy @ 360 Club, Leeds 13th April 2013 The 360 club played host to its first all metal line up on Saturday night, featuring an eclectic mix of top local talent.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/17523/ | 433 hits
Band Profile: Paddy Casey
Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin. Paddy Casey's music is appealing to a wide audience.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5334/ | 195 hits
Band Profile: The Get Up Kids
The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American rock band. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-90's emo scene, otherwise known as the "second wave" of emo music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5000/ | 194 hits
Band Profile: Electric Six
Electric Six is a six-piece Detroit-based rock band that plays a mix of rock, funk and disco. The band's first notorious formation comprised Dick Valentine (vocals), Rock and Roll Indian (guitar), Surge Joebot (guitar), Disco (bass, former member of Detroit Cobras), and M (drums).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5139/ | 195 hits
Interview: Zico Chain
James Elson talks with Zico Chain.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16358/ | 636 hits
Interview: Ash
Will Ridge interviews Tim Wheeler and Rick McMullen of the band Ash and tries to establish what the future has in hold for them now they have turned their back on the conventional album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8973/ | 780 hits
Band Profile: Themselves
themselves are Dose One and Jel, from California. Jel became familiar with dose through his good friend and radio partner, Kevin Beacham.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5030/ | 140 hits
CD Review: Mastodon - The Hunter
The eight legged prehistoric prog-metal pachyderm has migrated beyond the security of concept album territory and arrived at pastures new.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16109/ | 221 hits
CD Review: The Black Box Revelation - Set Your Head On Fire
The debut album from Brussels' The Black Box Revelation kicks off with the sleazy rock and roll of 'Love, Love Is On My Mind.' Erratic drumbeats, jerky riffs and Jan Paternoster's all-over-the-place vocals give this album-opener the sort of vibrant-but-ramshackle energy you'd expect from a live performance.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10543/ | 568 hits
Interview: Funeral for a Friend
John Harvey talks with Darren from Welsh emo hardcore band Funeral for a Friend, who recently headlined the NME tour in Leeds...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2338/ | 3,557 hits
Band Profile: Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961 in Paris, France) is a French filmscore composer.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16646/ | 34 hits
CD Review: None The Less - The Way To Save Ourselves
There's no denying that None The Less' mini album is an impressive one, but it's also one that has some very clear negative points, in addition to good ones.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10800/ | 624 hits
Band Profile: Iron Maiden
There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Iron Maiden is a New Wave of British Heavy Metal or nwobhm band from the United Kingdom.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5886/ | 263 hits
Band Profile: A Storm of Light
A Storm of Light is a band from Brooklyn, New York, United States which is sometimes referred to as post-metal.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16713/ | 24 hits
Interview: The Plight
Joseph Seager caught up with Alistair Mancrief, lead singer of The Plight as they prepare to release their album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11374/ | 635 hits
Band Profile: Chicks
There are at least two bands with the name Chicks: 1. Chicks was a band from Brisbane in Australia formed in the mid 1970s, originally called Chicks Incorporated.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9747/ | 171 hits
Band Profile: Stampin' Ground
Stampin' Ground are a band from England who have long been seen to have the vision, dedication and perseverance required to take themselves to the peak of the international metal scene.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5298/ | 138 hits
Band Profile: Machine Head
Machine Head is an American metal band, formed in 1992 in Oakland, California. Founded by former Vio-Lence guitarist Robert Flynn and Adam Duce, and has only had 3 personnel changes since its inception 17 years ago.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5617/ | 204 hits
Interview: Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Following their packed-out gig at the Cockpit, I was fortunate enough to get some time with Chloe, Dan and James of Does It Offend You, Yeah?. Fresh off touring with bands such as Linkin Park and The Prodigy, I was keen to see what these guys had to say about touring, music, and, of course, hats.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/14379/ | 918 hits
Live Review: Orka + Mr Shiraz + Juno 2 + Catylyst
I have to say I was pleased that this event was taking place, my 82-year-old gran had a full right mastectomy to fight breast cancer only 3 years ago, and I have lost an Aunt to cancer.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1176/ | 415 hits
Band Profile: Tenacious D
Tenacious D (often referred to as "The D" and sometimes introduced as "The Greatest Band in the world.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9945/ | 133 hits
CD Review: The Ghost Of A Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
You have to feel sorry for The Ghost Of A Thousand. 'New Hopes, New Demonstrations' is an inwards-looking, absolutely massive-sounding hardcore album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10748/ | 1,141 hits
Band Profile: Thomas Tantrum
Hey, as we've got a new album coming out we thought everyone would like to know the story behind what they're going to hear, so here it is our new 'Biog'....
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10037/ | 288 hits
Interview: To Kill A King
To Kill A King are back on home turf for a gig at The Brudenell and I managed to catch the band (Ralph Pelleymounter, Josh Platman, Jon Willoughby, Ian Dudfield and Ben Jackson) for a chat, before they take to the stage. I wanted to find out what they had been up to since I last saw, read on to find out about Guerrilla activities, Howling and Touring with Rihanna!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/17123/ | 430 hits
Band Profile: Rosemary
There several artists with this name: 1) Female rocker from Nashville. 2) Skatepunk band from Bandung, Indonesia 3) Band from Dartford, UK 4) Alternative rock band from Mumbai.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7104/ | 220 hits
Live Review: Editors
As show time approaches and the Editors backline is prepared by their crew there is a buzzing crowd twelve deep on the barrier.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12588/ | 921 hits
Band Profile: Lamb of God
Lamb of God is an American groove metal band, originally formed under the name Burn the Priest. The roots of Lamb of God were planted in the year 1990, when Mark Morton, Chris Adler and John Campbell were friends at Virginia Commonwealth University.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16124/ | 29 hits
Band Profile: Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein, a unique source of creative energy in America's music throughout his entire adult lifetime, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1918.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/16642/ | 26 hits
Band Profile: Hawkwind
Hawkwind is an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups. The band was formed by ex-busker and blues man Dave Brock in Ladbroke Grove, England, who intended to marry simple three-chord rock with experimental electronic music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5038/ | 546 hits
Band Profile: Green Day
Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion) for the majority of its existence.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5121/ | 382 hits
Band Profile: Alec Empire
Alec Empire is undoubtedly a veteran, having released his first record while still at school. At the age of fourteen he formed his English-speaking band, Die Kinder (The Children), supporting bands like Die Toten Hosen.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4476/ | 238 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - NME The Album 2009
The press release that accompanies this two disco compilation gives NME the moniker of "the pioneers of all things cool" before promising us an album that "has its finger on the pulse, so you don't have to!" It couldn't possibly be any clearer that this is an album for people who see a band on the front cover of NME, and then spend the next week enthusing about the greatness of said band, regardless of whether they like them or not.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11469/ | 1,262 hits
Band Profile: Katatonia
Katatonia formed in 1991 in Stockholm, Sweden and was brought together by long time friends, Anders Nyström (aka Blakkheim) and Jonas Renkse (aka Lord Seth).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11612/ | 141 hits
Band Profile: System Of A Down
System of a Down is an American alternative metal band, formed in 1994 from Los Angeles, California. All four members are of Armenian descent, and are widely known for their outspoken views expressed in many of their songs confronting the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Empire and the ongoing War on Terror by the US government.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6043/ | 213 hits
Interview: Jon Gomm
Matt Bentley catches up with Jon Gomm.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13502/ | 1,704 hits
Band Profile: Wilco
Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure from that group.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5472/ | 246 hits
Band Profile: Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an influential experimental rock band which formed in New York City, New York, United States in 1981.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15429/ | 140 hits

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