ON WWW.SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM THIS WEEK:
This week we interview Metal Legends the Deftones after a year they’d probably rather forget, we quiz Punk hot shots P*ssed Jeans, get confessional with Metal high flyers Arch Enemy, question post-rock genii Cougar and exchange questions for answers with US hot shots Carolina Liar, leftfielders Vowels & TEENAGERSINTOKYO. We review the much hyped Wet for the Xbox 360 and DVDs in the shape of The Simpsons: Season 12 & Robot Chicken: Season 2. Bring you front row reports from Electric Zoo Festival, New York City, live shows from Charlotte Hatherley, Tori Amos & The Lemonheads and the usual smorgasbord of album reviews including; Muse, Alice In Chains, Brand New, Ian Brown, Every Time I Die, All Time Low, A Storm Of Light, Q-Tip, Frank Turner, Idlewild, Funeral For A Friend, Kill It Kid, Micah P. Hinson, Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Shadows Fall, Pixie Lott, Os Mutantes, BuckCherry, The Screaming Lights, The Twilight Sad, Chris Bell, Spearmint, New Tales To Tell – A Tribute To Love And Rockets, Madness, Joe Pernice, Chimaira & Willard Grant Conspiracy. Enjoy!!!
ON WWW.SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM THIS WEEK:
INTERVIEWS Deftones/P*ssed Jeans/Arch Enemy/Cougar/Carolina Liar/Vowels/TEENAGERSINTOKYO.ALBUMS: Muse/Alice In Chains/Brand New/Ian Brown/Every Time I Die/All Time Low/A Storm Of Light/Q-Tip/Frank Turner/Idlewild/Funeral For A Friend/Kill It Kid/Micah P. Hinson/Shadows Fall/Pixie Lott/Os Mutantes/BuckCherry/The Screaming Lights/The Twilight Sad/Chris Bell.WIN Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (XBOX360)/Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor DVD/Fringe: Season 1 DVD.GAMES Wet.LIVE Electric Zoo Fest/Tori Amos/Charlotte Hatherley/The Lemonheads.DVD The Simpsons: Season 12/Robot Chicken: Season 2
INTERVIEWS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/features.php
Deftones - Struck by tragedy, Deftones are back, more determined than ever…
P*ssed Jeans – P*ssed Jeans vocalist Matt Korvette talks to Subba Cultcha about feel-bad sing-a-longs, angry music, working in insurance, and their awesome new album King of Jeans…
Arch Enemy - There are things I fail to understand like guys offering you their girlfriends for the evening!
Cougar – Cited musically as somewhere between Four Tet, Fugazi & Nick Drake, Subba delves into the mind of Cougar…
Carolina Liar - Major Label singings on a mission to take over the world, Subba quizzed them before world domination beckons…
Vowels - With Geoff Barrow, Julian Cope and DFA singing their praises, subba decided to quiz the ever so impressive Vowels…
TEENAGERSINTOKYO - Australian Purveyors of grunge, goth and disco answer our questions...
The Warehouse Project 2009 Preview - We preview the going's on at The Warehouse Project 2009
COMPETITIONS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/competitions.php
5 copies of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 for the XBOX360
4 copies of Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice on DVD
5 Copies of Fringe: Season One on DVD
1 pair of tickets to the London premiere of The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus on October 6th
3 signed copies of the album & 1 t-shirt
5 Copies of Robot Chicken Season 2 on DVD
5 Copies of Muse’s 'The Resistance' on CD
5 Copies of The Used's ‘Artwork’ on CD
3 Copies of Angels & Demons on DVD
3 Copies of Knight Rider - Season 1 on DVD
3 Copies of Is Anybody There on DVD
SEPTEMBER’S SINGLES & EPS REVIEW: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/singles.php?id=34
Your guide to the best and the rest of the Singles and EP’s out this month - hundreds of release judged, loved, and in some cases pounced upon and spanked to death! Featuring: BASEMENT JAXX / BIFFY CLYRO / THE BIG PINK / THE CRIBS / CYMBALS EAT GUITARS / DEADMAU5 / EVERY TIME I DIE / THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM / THE HEAVY / HOCKEY / JAY-Z / KASABIAN / LETHAL BIZZLE / LOVELIKEFIRE / MAPS / PEARL JAM / SPEECH DEBELLE & Much, Much More…
GAME REVIEWS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/games.php
Wet - Xbox 360 - A superb – and superbly violent – romp of a game ***GAME OF THE WEEK***
LIVE REVIEWS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/live.php
Electric Zoo Festival, New York City - ‘Zoo York’
Tori Amos @ Hammersmith Apollo - Extraordinary in every respect
Charlotte Hatherley @ King Tuts, Glasgow - Mixed emotions...
The Lemonheads @ the HMV Forum - Evan Dando returns to bewitch London...
DVD REVIEWS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/dvds.php
The Simpsons: Season 12 Boxset - Best. DVD. Boxset. Ever?
Robot Chicken: Season 2 –
ALBUM REVIEWS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/albums.php
Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black - Luminous and black, APC are back
Muse - The Resistance - With all the aural dexterity and grandeur of a latter day masterpiece, Muse return with their most creative offering yet.
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue - Grave gives way to blues...
Brand New - Daisy - Jesse Lacey finally loses it with this eerie return to the forefront of the scene
Ian Brown -
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic - Buffalo’s kings gon’ done it again
All Time Low - Nothing Personal - Baltimore pop-punk quartet break through to the mainstream in style
A Storm Of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses - A great leap forward for these gifted noisemongers
Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract - Worth the seven year wait for Q-Tip’s lost second album
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed - England’s finest Gentleman makes everyone smile again and again
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues - Once again Scotland’s finest delight with album seven.
Funeral For A Friend - Your History Is Mine - Welsh emo, post-hardcore rockers release their greatest hits – and remind us why we fell in love with them in the first place
Kill It Kid - Kill It Kid - With comparisons to the likes of Anthony Hegarty, Tom Waits and Frank Zappa, Kill It Kid take no prisoners with their unrepentant blend of blues and dark pop ***ALBUM OF THE WEEK***
Micah P. Hinson - All Dressed Up And Smelling Of Strangers - Micah P. Hinson returns, although this might not quite be what you’re expecting…
Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Love On An Oil Rig - Welsh rockers get it right at the second attempt
Shadows Fall - Retribution - Massachusetts metalcorers Shadows Fall release their "comeback" sixth album after being dropped by Roadrunner Records, but fall short against their competitors.
Vowels - The Pattern Prism - It’s all a bit leftfield really…
Stardeath and White Dwarfs - The Birth - Flaming Lips junior is bottle fed on helium and confetti
Alberta Cross - Broken Side Of Time - It’s a little bit Kings Of Leon, a touch indie and a whole lot of neither… but what point does this album serve?
Pixie Lott - Turn it Up - Is Pixie’s lot any good? Ha..ha…ha…
Os Mutantes - Haih or Amortecdor - New album from the reformed legendary Brazilian group
BuckCherry - 15/Black Butterfly - The noughties contenders to the classic rock throne bring you their 2006 and 2008 albums in one handy release
The Screaming Lights - Like Angels - 1980’s…here we come again, the North West’s latest post-punk pretenders jump on the bandwagon and offer something nice but not new…
The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead - Post-punk heads north of the border…and returns a melancholic shadow of its former self
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos - Big Star man gets the two disc reissue treatment, a fine way to remember a troubled soul
Spearmint - A Week Away - A reissue of a not-quite-classic…
David Gray - Draw the Line - Inspiring music for the uninspired.
Carolina Liar - Coming to Terms - An album to inspire vomit and screaming teeny-boppers in equal measure…
Wallis Bird - New Boots - Irish songstress pulls on her new boots and gives us some vocal gymnastics. Much ado about nothing
Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood - Twentieth Anniversay re-release, with all the usual extras.
Windmill - Epcot Starfields - US Geekrock deep from the heart of…Buckinghamshire?!
Glorytellers - Atone - A melodic, gentle and unusual indie rock record
V/A - New Tales To Tell – A Tribute To Love And Rockets - Fired with love, eighteen tales of a band deserving of the memory.
Red Knife Lottery - Soiled Soul and Rapture - Preacher’s daughter ruminates over sin and guilt in art-punkers excellent fast-paced debut long player
Dead Days Beyond Help - Access Denied! - Alex Ward’s latest outing is a spiky, brutal affair…
Madness - Total Madness - Oh no, not another one…
Joe Pernice - It Feels So Good When I Stop - Pernice Brothers Songsmith writes a novel that mentions a bunch of songs, he covers some of them here
:Papercutz - Lylac - Clinically cool ‘Lylac’ is the eventual debut album from Bruno Miguel’s: Papercutz
Hey Negrita - Burn the Whole Place Down - Down played acoustic Americana from the sour mash sodden favourites
Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much - The king of camp returns and this time he’s left the ballads behind!
Chimaira - The Infection - Cleveland metallers Chimaira are back with their newest release but is it as infectious as they'd hoped?
The Poison Arrows - First Class, And Forever - Atmospheric, moody alternative rock from a handful kids from Chicago…
Black Gold - Rush - Brooklyn duo Black Gold aim for the skies with a debut packed with smooth pop, but fall short of excellence
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Paper Covers Stone - 9 albums in and americana miserablists retrace their steps in this lo-fi collection
Christy - Shine & Rise - Mixing Dylan, Tom Petty and The Mandrakes is the irrepressible sound of London singer/ songwriter Christy.
Merauder - God Is I - Hardcore heroes return...
Nephu Huzzband - Elementary - A lesson in ambivalence
Spheric Universe Experience - Unreal - Modern progressive metal with a dramatic underbelly from French wizards
Chicken Feed - Out Of My Boxes - Superior glitch with a melodic edge from James Yorkston and Shortwave Set remixer
The Bambi Slam - I’m Alive - Good lord, this sounds dated
Homelife - Exotic Interlude - A bit of this, a pinch of that, acoustic guitars and pre-recorded loops come together to form something a little different
City Of A Hundred Spires - Graveyard Of Ships - French Canadian Instrumental Post Rock, Epic guitars and the big music redux
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