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Psychedelica Volume 2 Compilation CD (Northern Star Records)

Second Volume of psyched out tunes from Northern Star records, with a worldwide scope for far out vibes from the intense to the blissful

The post Baggie, pre Britpop world. Entrenched in a seemingly endless period of dark, uninspiring Tory rule. More

Potency ..Well how does 30 tracks of Ian Mcnabb at his finest grab you Great British Pop with out ever being Britpop..MORE

Jukebox Vandals..Kitchers Lane

What a fine CD this is, it's crammed full of the most up beat Tunes.A nifty romp fueled with the most infectious Guitar twangs -Read

Ashbury Lanes is an old bowling alley turned into a rocking venue in Ashbury Park , New Jersey Jonny runs us through this compilation. More

I was racking my creative brain for litraly minutes, trying to think of an acurate way to describe thee outlaws, an introduction a review that would stand testemant to thier ability and passion.It was an almost impossible MORE

Union Jacks adorn the stage the band burst fourth with a quick "1-2-3-4" The Carnabys

Wriggling their way around the States seems to have paid the dividends for New York's The Shake, supporting the likes of 'Mooney Suzuki'

It seems ages since we first found 'The Colt 45's, indeed the band sent us the fourthcoming CD 'Rocket Fuel' MORE

Furious-fast romping garage pop, it's 100 miles an hour stuff with great Guitars, we take a look at The Real Kicks

Harwich, ESSEX UM, not alott you can say about the small port town is there ? never really rocked the world..Wait..Read More

The Loves 1-2-3 Fortuna Pop Records.. the keyboard playing ED,is amazing he MAKES that tune,great blends of 60's here..More

Censored's Club SOS - Junction 7 Nottingham 29 September 2007

Pete Townshend's talking about the 60s. About playing in Sheffield. About Mods.The Who Live

Cav-OK are one of those bands and they simply ooze class. Cav-OK

What do they sound like? Like any of the great British bands would have if they'd been around now Rob talks to Kick Superb

"Some Best Friend" what makes this man stand out, it could be the amazing piano work on 'Magnetic Fields' read more

Their website says that they “have worked to develop a sound that draws on classic influences to produce gentle melodic tunes to out and out soulful adrenalin fuelled rock and roll”.Lois

Meet The Souvenirs. Four lads from Derbyshire, with a confident swagger and a set of power pop vignettes about daily living. The Souvenirs

Amy Whinehouse More...

Kate Nash The 12 songs are diverse, very catchy in a young blood vien, if all the Foundation jumpers can take the time to listen to her work she'll become a border name of the year 2007..

'It's the year of the Rat' so sings Rick Witter one time Shed 7 vocalist, on the bands debut long player.So what has the frontman with the knack of making the most wicked sing-alongs-been up to.. Read More

The Squires of The Subterrain are a DIY bubblegum powerpop psychedelic sunshine surf project

sleazy Guitars you'd get a clever sound..Ah that's what The Draytones have done with their debut Long Player

The Lost 45s UK have a blended melody with a raw edge

The Pipers

The Mooney Suzuki "99%" opens the new Mooney Suzuki Album..Read More

Incredible Rock,genius Pop, yeah that about sums up the sound of Sam Burnett, a master of Pop Songs..Sam Burnett,

The Socia l

Fortuna Pop Records have been busy, and a package of Cd's fell through the door at Sohostrut Towers ...

Wouldn't it be good if you could get that and your very own Rocking band to play the coffee bar..think on

CAPSULA HAVE YOUR MEDICINE ALRIGHT

Leeds finest rabble rousing and damn right magnificent, punk band The Terminals

Charming-youthful-fierce Union Street Runners

If its 60's sounding Guitar pop your after, well you have found it.Sharp Rickenbackers here on the band's demo highlight has to be the vocals on 'Stalker 'reminding me so much of Elastica.Thee Episodes

That Voice sweet soulful full of female Britpop Goodness.The Shake

Early 90s hopefuls Five Thirty

The Martial Arts

New Age Ska,yes The Skally Wags are that and more,these boys ain't Charming

Neil Winspeare is plugging in his guitar, The Standards

Rowed Out records have put together a compilation featuring “18 blasts of prime ‘60s Mod Beat'

To anyone who knows Leicester, “Fairytale Of New Walk” is an inspired title - and a neat little tune.Meet The Dandilions

How ready are you for a female fronted band that is not like anything you have heard before

Retro Indie Rockers, yeah The Moonjets are that alright , the tune's walks along in a kinda of Mid 60's

Colchester band Neat People are a mix of very different sounds

Was this the most important Album of 1979, well yeah, if not it was right up there with the Secret Affair's Glory Boys Time warp review

The Statiks

yeah Colchester Calling

Do you know I like bands like 'Quadriot' standing on the platform of Indie-Rocks station.Not afraid to deliver the goods

THE AUXILIARIES, NOTTINGHAM JUNCTION 7, 27 JANUARY 2007

Tunes and Guitars that sound that good should be gracing every living room TV and Radio in the land.

The latest in the series of compilations from Biff Bang Pow continues the pursuit of quality. “Shimmy” follows the success of “Shake” and “Shout” with a focused selection of some of the best new modernist and beat music on the current scene.

The Lost 45s UK - The Next Projected Sounds Of The Lost 45s Double 7” Vinyl Pack (iPURPLE! SOUND!)

Bridgefire

Yeah time to give the local (ish) boys a little more Coverage.We reviewed the band in brief back in Nov in Fresh cuts ..

Radar.Mixing The Specials and The Clash with the soundof 2006 dance beats and you get Radar

What do I like about The Colt 45s ,is it that almost Kids type ke-yboard sound that opens the bands demo on 'Crack Can Kill You'

JAG

A band who can write songs so it says on their web-site- Stunning

Super catchy indie The Penelopes ..

Grasp Live

Fast Rock n Roll-super pop guitars that rip and a bass line that thumps at you, yeah Freebooting Profiteers

Lost Prophets Well what do we have here from Wales

Little Man Tate ,I hate your band well on the strengh of this I don't think you'll find many that hate Little Man Tate..

Milburn..They're mates of the Arctic Monkeys and you can't deny there's something of a resemblance there.

Punchy style Vocals,Ripping bass / Bongos and Keyboards that would set alight even the dullest of Dance-floors. Seventy Three

The Horror's.

"Death at the Chapel", became a sold out much sort after CD single very fast I can see why..Class..

A hell raising explosion of rampant energy is the order of the day with The Stabilisers

Southstreet..Michael Brunskill is very skillful with his vocal work.

Cool French vinyl only label ‘Larsen Records'

Graham Coxon and The On-Off's London's 1OO Club.

'Nick Heyward

Tangled is full of very English-ness-Britpop guitars and lyrics that it reminded me often of the Kinks .....

The Boys Of Casual. Throw in influences like..The Hives and The Libertines and you should get a band that is a little rough and

The Calm..Mark Harry- now here's is a singer that has Something,the whole band are well rehearsed and put together but Harry's voice is the cutting edge

The Boycotts Looking for raw energy, total enthusiasm and efforletless sporting of The Look?

Censored/The Starrlings - Rendez-Vous, Matlock

Sanchogrey.Crashing Rickenbackers and gruff vocals and more La La La's than 'The

Liverpool International Pop Surely the greatest 'non-mod' MOD event ever!....

The On Offs Feature

They've been talked about by those in the know for a while now and its not hard to see why

Mersey Beat,British Freak Beak and Rock n Roll, Meet The Draytones ..

Menswear...What became of Britpops brightest stars...

Super cool Belfast combo The Keepers have produced a raucous album

Young Soul Rebels They're based in that cultural melting pot of Brighton.

“Grasp..Summertime” is a soulful song from the heart.

The Keepers - ROCK & ROLL FROM THE LAGAN DELTA...

Displacements The East Midlands Beat Revolution is going from strength to strength.

The Shake.Faye comes across really strong in fact making the songs very special.

Young Soul Rebels They're based in that cultural melting pot of Brighton.

Pimlico Return sort of ?

FUZZFACE..Yowl, where have these boys been hiding, or has Sohostrut been caught napping..

The Future is bright..The Future is Futureheads !!

To simply write Ian Mcnabb and his band as a naff 80's soft rock outfit would be insane and criminal..

Sons and Lovers..The most amazing show I've ever seen...dancing, falling, climbing & swinging,Yeah.

Graham Cox.You and I.. This master piece of Mod-Inspired Pop.

The Long Blondes

Mantaray,an old Britpop Fave

“Its good to be back”.

Ordinary Boys Live.

Ordinary Boy's

The Kooks - Nottingham Marcus Garvey Ballroom .

BOY KILL BOY

Head Automatica

The Young Knives "Who are these people they are to stupid to be you're real parents"

The Bishops , the most fresh sounding exciting band in the UK at the moment !!

Pete Dale and The Beta Males come up with goods with this album of political and topical songs filled with intelligence..

Vernie and Bertrum. Take a little bit of ska, add some neat slash guitar, and then a quota of attitude.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers need little introduction ,although to see them reviewed here on Sohostrut may ..

KULA SHAKER LIVE

Viva High rollers..Ouch those Guitars hurt

Northern Star Records.

The Streets second album is pure magic.

AmanaceR, yeah at last with the new EP this band come of age..

Jimmy Reckon,How I love these tunes.

The cutters Kasabain were bound to have someone chasing their crown at some time..

‘Women & Trouble' is very loud and very proud Rhythm & Blues.

The Brian Jacket Letdown are peddlers of melodic farmyard rock ..

Jimmy Reckon,How I love these tunes

Fay Hallam

The Lost 45s - “What Time Do You Call This?”.A modern classic

The Rifles are a super hot combo that are gonna be one of the sensations of 2006

Franz Ferdinand there is much more to them than catchy Guitar riff's

Dirty Pretty Things to release debut single

Dead Dead Dead...This is indeed one of my highlights ..

Foo Fighters.. This is pop that really matters.It is the bands 10th year.

Kula Shaker have revealed their first tour since reforming

Went to see The Crooks on Saturday. Came back with a cd.

Drink Me quirky post-Britpop trio

The pedantics -Garage Rock n Roll

Boy Kill Boy.3rd Single..Yeah Sounding good

The Editors, album is reviewed else were on the site, but the single 'All Sparks Will Fly' deserves a review feature ..

Milky Wimpshake is a band put together by Pete Dale, songwriter from the north west of England with a fierce independent spirit.

Mooney Suzuki

Ciccone (pronounced ‘chick-oh-knee') are the original kings of DIY-... Tip for 2006 in the 2005 NME Yearbook.......

The Arctic Monkeys - “Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not”You strut as you walk down the early morning street, bathed in its mid-January drabness...

The Fay Hallam Trinity with We Live to Shine, a neat slab of cool Organ based pop, maybe this time without the holding back of any anti Mod stance.Maybe ? ....

Spiraling .. The sound that these guys make is magic

Ian Page and The Affair..Mojo

"We will have the North East of America in our heads for a very long time" The Tommies take a look at their recent USA tour.

Wizzard In Vinyl Records :- Sohostrut e-zine have been lucky enough to receive a full package of gems from Wizzard In Vinyl, the Japanese power pop label..

The Kooks a hot bed of new britpop ??? maybe !

‘Ask' by Italian combo Philomankind is an album of great pop psyche moments, that somehow fuses late 60s upbeat psychedelia with the ambitious vocals of 70s pop act Abba.....

If you want a slice of adrenalin fuelled modernist attack, in true revivalist style, look no further than The Itch.

Editors..

The Clamour . The best black British band that's neither black, nor British!

The Jessica Fletchers Organ Driven Garage Pop from Norway .

Jackson Warehouse

The Paddintons you can't replace the Libertines an you ?

Weller/Ordinary Boys :-Nottingham Arena.

Ordinary Boys Live .

The Harrisons...(60'S Style pop with a bang up to date indie sound..From the UK)

Dead 60's (ska/ 2 tone from Liverpool UK)

Artic Monkeys

Biff Bang Pow Records ( Not Really a Band but A Indie Label packed with some Top Bands..)