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  Win! Toolroom goodies celebrating the launch of Toolroom Knight's Brazil 22nd Nov 2012 3:45pm

  As prestigious House music brand Toolroom Knights gear up to release latest compilation 'Toolroom Knights Brasil Mixed By Mark Knight & Wehbba', we have an exciting TK goodie bag to give away!

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  Album review: L-Vis 1990, Neon Dreams 3rd Aug 2011 2:30pm

  Night Slugs co-founder L-Vis 1990 releases his debut full length album 'Neon Dreams' in September. Tony Bennett has a listen...

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  Single review: Joana and the Wolf, Hide Me/ Vagabond Song 17th Apr 2011 8:03pm

  Josef Minta loves the latest track from London based four piece Joana and The Wolf.

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  Single review: Dana Jade, 'Galang/Little Sister' 5th Apr 2011 9:44pm

  Alan Ashton-Smith finds that Dana Jade's cover of M.I.A's 'Galang' lacks the punch of the original, but enjoys double A side 'Little Sister'.

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  Album Review: Tom Moriarty, 'Fire In The Dolls House' 5th Apr 2011 9:27pm

  Alan Ashton-Smith listens to city-banker-turned-singer-songwriter Tom Moriarty's collection of heartfelt folk-pop tracks.

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  Single review: Jamie Woon, 'Lady Luck' 5th Apr 2011 8:47pm

  Alan Ashton-Smith reviews the second single from Jamie Woon's Mirrorwriting album.

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  Album review: Sirens, ‘#3: Opium Apathy’ 21st Mar 2011 3:04pm

  Chris White listens to the latest release from Newcastle girl band Sirens and finds a catchy pop record with promise.

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  Album review: Glasvegas, Euphoric ///Heartbreak \\\ 10th Mar 2011 6:33pm

  Glasvegas' long awaited follow up to their self titled release in 2008 marks a reassuring development for the Glaswegian band.

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  Single Review: Britney Spears, 'Till The World Ends' 4th Mar 2011 12:43am

  Chris White puts his hands in the air for 'Till the World Ends'; the second single from Britney's seventh studio album Femme Fatale.

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  Album Review: Gay For Johnny Depp 'What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You' 15th Feb 2011 2:48pm

  Kelly Murray listens to GFJD's erotically challenged, musical debauchery project, the kind that only New York City could breed and then boast of to the rest of the world.

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  Single Review: Lady Gaga, Born This Way 11th Feb 2011 10:45am

  Could the most anticipated song in recent pop history, also be the most underwhelming? Chris White finds out. It's here, Lady Gaga's Born This Way...

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  Single Review: Britney Spears, Hold it Against Me 10th Jan 2011 12:00am

  Britney Spears. Dubstep. It just should't work. But as Chris White finds out, it may be just what Ms Spears needed to regain her pop crown.

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  Single Review: Cage Against the Machine, 4'33 9th Dec 2010 12:00am

  We review the anti XFactor single 4'33", a splendid cover of avant garde composer John Cage's work in which he recorded 4 minutes and 33 seconds of an orchestra not playing.

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  Single Review: Kylie, Better Than Today 6th Dec 2010 12:00am

  As the charts and radio waves become swamped with the inevitable surge of dreary emotional Christmas ballads, along comes a sprightly Miss Minogue with the third single from her Aphrodite album – ‘Better Than Today’.

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  Single Review: Badly Drawn Boy, Too Many Miracles 1st Oct 2010 12:00am

  The first single release from Badly Drawn Boy's forthcoming LP trilogy sees the Mancunian Damon Gough seriously back on form.