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Flava of the Week w/c 16 Oct 06
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artiste
1 - U2 & GREEN DAY The Saints Are Coming new single 30 Oct
2 4 SOHODOLLS No Regrets new single 30 October
3 1 COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE Homo Sapiens new single 23 Oct click here to see vid on YouTube
4 5 SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND Commercial Breakdown new single 23 October
5 - MACCABEES First Love new single 13 November
6 - LONG BLONDES Once & Never Again new single 23 October
7 10 FORTUNE DRIVE To The Rye from new single 23 October
8 8 PARAMORE Pressure new single 30 October @myspace
9 - THE GRATES Science Is Golden new single 30 October
10 - STARKY Is This How It Ends new single 6 November
10 - 101 Albert Hammond Jr new single 27 November
10 2 THE DEARS Whites Only Party new single 16 October
U2 & Green Day -
The Saints Are Coming
new single:download 30 October: CD 6 Nov
Bono may be the U2 member who talks on issues such as debt relief and AIDS funding, but for the past year the Edge has quietly undertaken a mission of his own: getting instruments back into the hands of musicians who lost everything in the wake of the Gulf hurricanes. As New Orleans' Superdome re-opened its doors to football, U2 & Green Day helped celebrate Big Easy's rebirth.

Their opening ceremony live show featured this cover of 'The Saints Are Coming', a minor hit in 1979 for one of Scotland's seminal bands The Skids (featuring amateur boxer & TV Presenter Richard Jobson & Stuart 'Big Country' Adamson). For some strange reason yet again this is an excellent slab of pop punk power, with an added ingredient ... spaghetti western type backing vocals. Two of the biggest bands in the world getting together could easily have turned into a grotesque disaster but Billie & Bono's vocals were made for each other and the production is from another world - How do U2 keep coming up with the goods - awe inspiring! XXXXx rhapsody.com/musicrising (Posted 22 Oct)

The Fratellis -
Got Ma Nuts From A Hippie new single 27 November
This is f..f..f fun and The Fratellis rock, blistering a high energy charge through any playlist. A superb story song, great lyrics, chorus - Top Ten without doubt. XXXXx thefratellis.com (Posted 23 Oct)

check our Fratellis live shots here

The Hustle -
Good Intentions EP
out on myspace now
"The Hustle is a retro funk rock band based in South Wales. The Hustle blend rock, disco and soul with


contemporary indie to create a unique yet accessible sound". This is a powerful Welsh heritage sound great riffing and funky bassing with a medium pace backbeat, something akin to the feel of Extreme's 'Get The Funk Out'. Three fine recordings on their myspace site. Good stuff. XXXx
the-hustle-online.com myspace.com/thehustlerock (Posted 24 Oct)

Fedde Le Grand -
Put Your Hands Up For Detroit new single 23 October
Dutch DJ Fedde Le Grand's used to travelling around the world and will be all the more so after this single takes the charts by storm. Clocking 128bpm in a variety of pounding mixes, 'Put Your Hands Up' is irresistable hands in the air dancefloor fayre and seems to have crossover appeal too. A powerful chune, Top Ten. XXXX feddelegrand.com (Posted 23 Oct)
Shiny Toy Guns -
Le Disko new single 20 Nov
I heard this on myspace about a month back and it's an immediate hit. LA's shock electro rockerettes Shiny Toy Guns impressed Peaches so much she asked them personally
to support her on her US tour. They've scored a million plays of 'Le Disko' already, number one across the USA. Vocalist Carah Faye's raw in your face take it or leave it message reflects a hard life of a partying up it's arse lifestyle ... a brilliant record! XXXXx shinytoyguns.com (Posted 23 Oct)
New York Dolls -
Dance Like A Monkey
new single 23 October
Lifted from The New York Dolls excellent comeback album, the storming 'Dance Like A Monkey' should if justice be done find itself in the Top Ten with the Dolls subjected once again to tabloid tittle tattle. Surely they must have Iggy Pop size manhood! XXXXx nydolls.org (Posted 23 Oct)
Dragonette -
I Get Around new single Jan 07
Here we go instant hard-on, phew ... Just signed to Mercury Records listen out for this Toronto / London based electro band led by husband and wife team Martina Sorbana & Dan Kurtz .. this is sweaty stuff. The promiscuous sex mad 'I Get Around' - "You don't tell on me, I won't tell on you, I get around ... here I come when I better go, I say yes when I oughtta say no, quietly slide away off the mattress, find my clothing on the bedpost, so I tiptoe out of this mess, as I slip back into last night's dress ..." 'Competition' - "Your girlfriend hates the competition, someone's got to tell her what's going on, she's got no idea what you've been doing in positions she never knew existed." Basement Jaxx fans will know Tina from her sensuals on 'Take Me Back To Your House' - shit, it's enormous! XXXXx myspace.com/dragonetteband
dragonette.ca/ (Posted 23 Oct)
Wolfmother -
The Joker & The Thief
new single 20 November
Nearly a million copies of Wolfmother's debut album sold in the past year. Four singles, Reading & Leeds mainstages, US TV shows and Johnny Knoxville. 'Joker' is the lead track for the new Jackass 2 movie and with it's Rush like Spirit Of Radio intro it's a gem for rockers everywhere ... great stuff, Top Ten. XXXX wolfmother.com (Posted 23 Oct)
The Others -
The Truth That Hurts
new single 30 October
This is a great return to the for by The Others, their strongest material yet. 'It's Just The Truth That Hurts' is a fine hard rockin' two minute opus as you'd expect but check The gang Of Four Remix with it's spectacular intro, a splurge of distorted sound sets the mood for a big hit ... if justice do be done. XXXX myspace.com/theotherstheband (Posted 23 Oct)
Heaven 17 -
Greatest Hits new album 16 Oct
This 19 track CD & DVD collection should be of considerable interest to electro fans, Heaven 17 were innovators of the genre in the early 80's. Having split from their other halves The Human League, H17 took a couple more years than The League to breakthrough. It's during this fallow period they demoed their debut hit 'Temptation'. Starkly different to the hit version, it sounds not unlike Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love'! XXXX heaven17.com (Posted 23 Oct)
Albert Hammond Jr -
101 new single 27 November
Albert Hammond Jr has announced a six date UK tour for November and a new single will be released to coincide with the dates. '101' is the first physically released single to be taken from the album 'Yours To Keep'. Unusually the first single 'Everyone Gets A Star' was released through iTunes in September. More medium mellow than The Strokes, less frenetic but well worthy. XXXx myspace.com/alberthammondjr (Posted 23 Oct)
Ali Love -
Camera On A Pole EP
new single 30 October
Londoner Ali Love seems to be in the main accoustic based but there is a real twist here. An ace bass mix of 'Camera On A Pole', a dancefloor delight. Then there's K-Hole which is accompanied by remixes by Mustapha 3000, SebastiaAn and Ben Trucker. Check his myspace below, and be prepared for sound fx and strange behaviours on the Ali Love website. XXXx alilove.co.uk myspace.com/mralilove (Posted 24 Oct)
Actress Hands -
Half An Hour new single 6 Nov
Inplace Brighton's Actress Hands release their second single 'Half An Hour' on hometown label Life Is Easy Records. With influences like The Vaselines and The Pastels and harmonies inspired by Teenage Fanclub & The Beach Boys they've set themselves a high target. However, this medium fast paced rocker needs a little something extra to set it aside from the beying pack - okay. XXXx actresshandsmusic.co.uk (Posted 23 Oct)
Six Nation State -
Fire
new single 30 October
Six Nation State have come up with a thumping two minute slab of post punk trauma. Fire is short sharp and definately not sweet, far two agressive for middle Britain but look out Tower Of London this hits hard and check some of the new material on their myspace. XXXx myspace.com/sixnationstatetheband (Posted 21 Oct)

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

this week
Actress Hands
Albert Hammond J
Ali Love
Dragonette
Favouritesons
Fedde Le Grand
Flaming Lips
Fratellis
Freelance Helraiser
Heaven 17
The Others
Robopop Vol 2
Shiny Toy Guns
Six Nation State
U2 & Green Day
Wolfmother
Xpress 2

9 Oct
Black Ghosts
Goo Goo Dolls
Grates
The Knife
Long Blondes
Maccabees
Rumble Strips

2 Oct
Beck
Bluetones
Boy Kill Boy
Dorp
Fatboy Slim
Fortune Drive
Heaven 17
The Hours
The Hustle
Klaxons
Lorraine
Slayer
Sohodolls
Starky

25 Sep
Battle
Freddie Mercury
Hidden Cameras
1990s
Ordinary Boys
Panic At The Disco
Sunshine Underground
Young Knives

18 Sep
Babyshambles
Cooper Temple Clause
CORD
The Dears
Infadels
Keane
Lorraine
Mars Volta
Matches
Mumm-Ra
My Alamo
My Chemical Romance
Paramore
Patrick Wolf
Vega 4
Xpress2

11 Sep
Basement Jaxx
Beck
Born Ruffians
Clinic
Justin Timberlake
Lemonheads
Milburn
Mr Hudson & The Library
The Academy Is
The View

4 Sept
Archie Bronson Outfit
Colours Are Brighter Comp
Cud
Guillemots
The Human Value
Imogen Heap & High Contrast
James Yorkston
Khoma
Long Blondes
Outkast
Razorlight
Trivium

28 Aug
Fubar
Mars Volta
Natalie Ross
Phillip Roebuck
Pulp
Ross Copperman

21 Aug
Akira The Don
Albert Hammond Jr
All American Rejects
Beyonce
Dirty Pretty Things
Jarvis Cocker
Longcut
Matches
Outkast
Slayer

14 Aug
CORD
(intheclear)
James Dean Bradfield
Gelatine Rocks
Just Jack
Maccabees
Neil Layton
New Young Pony Club
Rapture Remix
Switches
Wolfmother

7 Aug
Automatic
Arctic Monkeys
Cud
Cute Is What We Aim For
Jump The Underground
Rapture Album
Walkmen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

31 Jul
FromMars
Hedrons
Kharma 45
Walkmen
Young Knives vs Metronomy

24 Jul
The Affair
Bernard Fanning
Eighteen Visions
Fratellis
Hope Of The States
Jackson Analogue
Killers
Paramore
The Rapture
Razorlight
Winston Giles Orchestra
Zutons

17 Jul
Animal Liberation Orchestra
The Basement
Bullet For My Valentine
Coheed & Cambria
Crimea
Eagles Of Death Metal
The Feeling
Futureheads
Hatebreed
Keane
Matt Costa
Orson
Pearl Jam
She Wants Revenge Album
Stone Sour
Terror
Young Knives

10 Jul
Evermore & Dirty South
Gym Class Heroes/Papoose
Humanzi Album
28 Costumes
Vega4 Sampler

3 Jul
Charlatans Remix
Dears
Fake Bad News
Fort Minor
Gym Class Heroes
Ladyfuzz
Mystery Jets
New York Dolls LP
Panic At The Disco
Sybridion
Vega4

26 Jun
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