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Flava of the Week w/c 26 Jun 06
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artiste
1 1 STROKES You Only Live Once new single 10 Jul
2 - SNOW PATROL Chasing Cars new single 24 July
3 2 JIM NOIR Eanie Meenie new single 3 Jul
4 - C/O/R/D Winter new single 26 June
5 - NEW YORK DOLLS Gimme Love new single 31 July
6 3 ROBOTS IN DISGUISE DJ's Got A Gun Get Rid album 3 Jul
7 - FROM FIRST TO LAST The Latest Plague new single 10 July
8 5 WOLFMOTHER Woman new single 10 Jul
9 10 GUILLEMOTS Made Up Love Song # 43 new single 26 June
10 - MILBURN Cheshire Cat Smile new single 24 July
10 4 CHARLATANS NYC new single 3 Jul
10 6 RAZORLIGHT In The Morning new single 3 Jul

new cd's
our weekly a to z of new cd's is listed below

this week
Boy Kill Boy
Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
Head Automatica
Hope Of The States
James Dean Bradfield
The Knife
The View
The Yell
Zerox Machine

19 Jun
Anti-Flag
Clearlake
Good Shoes
Humanzi
Madonna
New York Dolls
Performance
Secret Machines
Super Jupiter

12 Jun
Archie Bronson Outfit
Common Redstarts
Digital Penetration
From First To Last
Guillemots
Huski
Keane
The Longcut
Milburn
Mumm-Ra
She Wants Revenge
Snow Patrol
Wolfmother

5 Jun
Belle & Sebastian
Charlatans
Dirty Pretty Things
Editors
Fatboy Slim
The Feeling
Freelance Hellraiser
Mousse T / Dandy Warhols
Jim Noir
Robots In Disguise
Strokes

29 May
Cass Fox
Feeder
Goo Goo Dolls
Stone Sour

22 May
Fratellis
Lorraine
Noisettes
Rocco Deluca
Takakao Minekawa

15 May
All-American Rejects
Boy Kill Boy
Buck 65
Dirty Pretty Things
Editors
Jackson Analogue
John Fogherty
Lorraine vs OMD
Orson
Razorlight
Rocco Deluca & The Burden
Wolfmother
The Young Knives

8 May
Automatic
Battle
C/O/R/D
Fall Out Trust
Funeral For A Friend
Grates
Muse
Sandi Thom
36 Crazyfists
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Zutons

1 May
CommonRedstarts Fatboy Slim
Paramore
TNO

24 April
Forgive Durden
Hope Of The States
Orson
Panic At The Disco
Primal Scream
Sandi Thom
She Wants Revenge

17 April
Boy Kill Boy
Boyfriends
The Feeling
Jack Johnson
Keane
Ordinary Boys vs Lady Sovereign
We Are Trees

10 April
The Longcut
Pure Reason Revolution
Robots In Disguise
Something In Construction Sampler
The Academy Is
Veto Silver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
James Dean Bradfield -
The Great Western
new album 24 Jul - single 10 Jul
The Manics main man returns with a first solo album picking up the story very much where the last song he wrote for The Manics left off. 'Ocean Spray' was a heartbreaking song about the death of his mother and 'The Great Western' (at one time Cardiff's equivalent to London's Hope & Anchor) features eleven new equally meaningful songs. Opener the punchy 'That's No Way To Tell A Lie' will be the first single out on 10th July, then I'd probably go for 'Bad Boys & Painkillers' - but there's plenty of intriguing titles here .... 'On Saturday Morning We Will Rule The World', 'Run Romeo Run', 'The Wrong Beginning' and 'Which Way To Kyffin' XXXX www.jamesdeanbradfieldofficial.com (Posted 27 Jun)
Franz Ferdinand -
Eleanor Put Your Boots On new single 17 Jul
A totally new version of this song, recorded in Benton Harbour, Michigan whilst they were on US Tour duty. This is surprisingly different, accoustic based, pleasant melody, unusual lyric, the usual catchy chorus - all four tracks here are quality ... good stuff and chartbound! XXXX www.franzferdinand.co.uk (Posted 28 Jun)
The Flaming Lips -
The W.A.N.D. new single 10 Jul
The Flaming Lips follow-up to 'The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song' is 'The W.A.N.D.'. The Spongebobsquarepants theme singers have come up with another winner here, a kind of laid back observationist protest song - Top Twenty easily, check out the tasty Goldfrapp remix, laid back and dreamy - beam me up Scotty! XXXX www.flaminglips.com (Posted 28 Jun)
??? (they won't tell us) -
Zerox Machine new tbc
If I were a Zerox Machine I'd be fully expectant that one day someone would come along and plant their arse cheeks on my window to the world. This is a 'cracking' track geddit, a storming 140bpm ... this outfit have a regular electro clubnight in London, three DJ's, one femme ? Simon from Gorillaz plays guitar, Youth has produced, they've collaborated with The Libertines? Whoever it is could be heading Top Ten, bad news for photocopiers everywhere. XXXXx (Posted 28 Jun)
Boy Kill Boy -
Civil Sin new single 24 Jul
We liked this when it first came round a year ago, since then Boy kill Boy have made a sustained attack on the Top Ten and as this now follows the brilliant 'Suzie' it should go the same way. Perhaps not as commercial as Susie, it's got the pacey trademark Boy Kill Boy sound and should do equally well. XXXX www.boykillboy.com (Posted 28 Jun)
Hope Of The States -
Left new album out now
For me there is a unique quality to this band. 'Blind Meridian' is my favourite song of the year, it agonizes over the state the world seems to be in and uses irony to ridicule a system that pokes fun and worse at honesty. I can't think of anyone else who has come up with such a work of art. Just the one song makes this album brilliant .. but there's twelve more masterpieces here. XXXX www.hopeofthestates.com (Posted 28 Jun)
Head Automatica -
Graduation Day new single 3 Jul
In the last year EMO has taken off big time, Head Automatica 'Beating Heart Baby' must be due for re-release after this storming single 'Graduation Day' hits the charts. A couple of floorfilling songs for sure, and this band are following Fall Out Boy and Panic At The Disco into 2006's EMO Hall Of Fame. XXXX www.headautomatica.com (Posted 28 Jun)
The Knife -
We Share Our Mother's Health new single 3 Jul
We Share Our Mother's Health ??? This is the weirdest track of the year so far, a very strange machine noise like intro with no beat, leads into a jarring rhythm track. Swedish (nothing in common with Abba) and I'm glad England didn't play Germany. The Knife are an appealing band, there's some fine material here and I wouldn't be surprised to see this tune in the Top 40. XXXX www.theknife.net (Posted 28 Jun)
The View -
Wasted Little DJs
new single 7 August
Hmmm, stroke chin ... now what could they mean by that? let me see that vid again .. it's me, well it could be me. The View are four Dundonians from Dundee .. and this three minute power pop epic comes from their debut album which was recorded in two weeks with the help of Owen Morris (of Verve & Oasis fame) on producer duty in rural Yorkshire last month. Fresh from supporting Primal Scream, The View play Cardiff Barfly on 15 August. XXXX www.theviewareonfire.co.uk (Posted 28 Jun)
The Yell -
My Baby's Into Witchcraft
new single 10 Jul
Another fine CD from Marquis Cha Cha. The Yell formed in the summer of '04' when Idle Hans and James Peacock sought four good looking lads and lasses to make music, Tom Weatherall (dancing and noise), Robert Brown (painting and fights), Rachel Langley (grade 17 at the club style organ) and Ian Baxter (drums). The Yell will make some waves rather like their label mates Bromheads Jacket. XXXX www.myspace.com/theyell (Posted 29 Jun)