http://www.rockfeedback.com rockfeedback rss feed http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5873 “‘out of space’, ‘voodoo people’, ‘one love’ and a fair few others are just pure greatness, but to be honest, a lot of what is here is a bit ali g; dated, a bit funny, but if you are in the mood and can put up with it, why the hell not…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5872 “the lyrics are <I>so</I> simple that everyone and their mum will be able to sing along… there is also a whistley melody that your dad will latch on to in no time. yeh; family crisis. your parents are going to be into metronomy. bugger…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5871 “it’s blissfully heavy and lurches forward with some complex drumming which yearns for a fight; it’s basically starting on you…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5870 a special programme filmed at this month’s hackney-based fest solely for 14-19 yr olds, we document dizzee rascal, foals, maccabbees, care bears on fire, eugene mcguinness, wild beasts and more as they incite a bunch of kids to go ruddy mental - conclusive, televisual proof that each day after your nineteenth birthday is a fresh hell. http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5869 “despite being advised not to judge books by the cover it becomes easy to spot the better demos, if time is spent on presentation then they must feel the music is worth it. these tracks, as ever, demonstrate the cross-pollination between scenes, as though the person carrying the ‘genre box’ tripped at some point in 2000 and no one has yet picked up the pieces…” http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5868 “they’ve reached new levels of prog; the visceral energy of ‘batcat’ flies to higher realms of intimate thrash - if you wanted to know what it was like to ride a tornado, jump on the new mogwai material…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5867 “after 6 months which have seen us bring you the likes of foals, black kids, metronomy, four tet and wild beasts, club rockfeedback is taking a step up to a larger venue, namely the monarch in camden. still held on the second friday of every month, we’ll first be furnishing our new home with this fine assortment of revellers…” http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5866 eduardo curi’s latest missive from brazil sees him shift his focus to the city of recife, where he finds andre frank’s inimitable astronautas, a band with many an interesting opinion, not least this one on electronic music; “we take care so we don’t let the machine overwhelm us. <I>we</I> overwhelm <I>it</I>. music is still the basis of everything. the “spice” comes afterwards, and then the technology kicks in big time. digital spice.” http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5865 “gotye has seemingly gone to sleep one night under a blanket of starlight and somehow written a dreamscape utopian score on colourful, subconscious manuscript paper; he has managed to realise some kind of heavenly gorgeousness in his music. and I can’t fault it one little bit…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5864 “who knew electronica could be this romantic? this is like a chagall painting condensed into aural media. you will fall in love with it…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5863 “mgmt meets bowie meets guster meets white rose movement. without ever bumping in to the klaxons. that makes it sounds pretty awesome, actually…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5862 “seriously this track, upon listening, manifests existentialist thought so bleak… we were gonna go on but it’s all so pointless…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5861 matador-signed, t shirt eschewing hardcore punk rockers with a tendency to indulge in intensely epic eighteen minute songs provide a live spectacle only a cretin would think of missing. http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5860 to coincide with the release of his latest lp – the soundtrack to a chinese monkey opera, no less – we take a look back at the fascinating life and times of none other than blur / gorillaz / good the bad and the queen fella damon albarn. he’s our artist of the fortnight (‘cos we’re off on our hols) from august 18th – 31st. http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5859 “in the unedited version of the eponymous title track, there is a staggering eighteen minutes in which you can fill your belly with meat, guzzle beer and sing heartily. i imagine that’s what experimental hardcore is probably all about…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5858 “john’s creepy humming rolls around with jehn’s gallic accent, possibly in a haunted forest (though probably in a studio)…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5857 “rune grammafon have really proved a point with <I>little lucid moments</I>. not only do they release consistently good jazz, but when they adventure further a field they don’t do it just to look cool and open minded - they do it to push a really great album…”; release –‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5856 “it’s like it’s made for people that still think it’s cool to smoke marijuana and wear knitted hats, like needing depressants some how makes you more of a naturally laid back easy going person. you know the sort of people, they wear really expensive head phones, all the time…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5855 “when they are on form, the band seem to have a knack of touching on something really particular and very human…”; release – ‘08 http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5854 mgmt, laura marling, two gallants, jeffrey lewis and more appear as we salaciously wrap up our coverage of the texan hoe down.