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User
Reviews 62
Approval 98%
Soundoffs 51
News Articles 15
Band Edits + Tags 40
Album Edits 176
Album Ratings 1863
Objectivity 66%
Last Active 02-18-20 4:44 am
Joined 01-12-04
Review Comments 4,016
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 | Sowing Listening to that album already feels like forever ago which says a lot. On the other hand, it was pretty gorgeous, so I should probably go back and give the melodies a few more chances to stick.
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 | Transient Alex, add me on FB or IG or something and let's get a beer. Frankly can't believe we haven't met yet.
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| Sowing If you dig the Holter vibes from that Lisel masterpiece then also check the latest from Sarah Louise
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| Sowing Finally someone who agrees about the new DP
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 | wtferrothorn got that Chairlift review posted up if you wanna give it a read
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| wtferrothorn Got you covered with a review for the new chairlift album. Working on it atm
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| Sowing Sounds splendid with the samples. Will give it a full listen today, thanks for the rec man!
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 | fromtheinside should i waste my time with the new RTJ? is it BNM?
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| Sowing Listening now and this is right up my alley. 2013 was a lost year for me musically, so that explains how it so easily slipped through the cracks. Thanks!
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 | aok any 2014 releases you think i'd enjoy?
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| fromtheinside ah yes svffer. added them to the database cause they rocked so hard. on the other hand tha that shackls album OMG ALEX DO YOU GET ME!!!
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| fromtheinside hey bae. u will dig - http://www.slugmag.com/articles/7415/Cult-Leader-ndash-Nothing-For-Us-Here.html - they srsly rule
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 | Deviant. That Beetroots soundoff actually made me cackle. I didn't think I was capable of making such a sound
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 | Kiran name one seminal album from each and we'll see what happens
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 | danielcardoso Hey Alex, I was watching your Velvet Underground review and I wanna ask you: what's an emeritus? Rock on.
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 | klap that new bibio.....so good
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 | JumpTheF**kUp are you in sydney or melbourne alex? i always forget
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| klap less creeping, more reviewing
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 | Douglas Silveri. Gonna write a review for the new Lisa? Pwetty pwease?
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 | Gyromania Got a pretty good kick out of your John Mayor soundoff lol. Anyway, what have you been up to lately? I don't see you posting very often.
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 | iranscam also that royal headache LP is tight, tell your coworker he's doin the right thing
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| iranscam Hey, thanks, sorry I always forget to check the review site so I've just gotten around to responding hahah. Yeah I tried to make it a point to get into every different kind of music I could get my hands on when I was younger and it's really payed off. Somebody might think it's weird to listen to a lot of black metal, country, and rap or whatever, but every genre really does have something to offer for everybody as long as you're willing to find and appreciate what makes it valuable.
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 | Irving Boss, tolong review lagi. Terima kasih!
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| Gyromania Merry Christmas, Alex! How have you been? =]
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| Irving Dude, you write so well, it breaks my heart that you aren't on here more.
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| Gyromania Hey cool, you and I have the same rating for Soul Punk. High five.
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 | qwe3 wasnt bad, mate got pulled aside before we got in because he decided to head in the opposite direction when the cops passed. he was actually swallowing a pill while they were "interrogating" him. DFA were sick, flux would have been good except it was so ****ing packed plus there were munted people doing that whole smash into anyone you can thing. diplo nero and magnetic man were so good. and kimbra. magnetic man surprised me cuz theyre usually so boring. guess it translates way better live.
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| qwe3 how was your parklife mannnn
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| Irving Dude it's seriously not bad. You're definitely making yourself understood - I'm actually quite impressed because you've probably got very little formal education in Malay (or none at all) if you were only here when you were little. Well done sir. Do you come to Malaysia often to visit family? Also, the full significance of your "**** yea Malaysia" comment is finally revealed.
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 | AtavanHalen Disgustingly low rating for Making Mirrors.
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| Irving Saya tidak tahu awak boleh cakap Melayu. I salute you sir.
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| Deviant. Forget my last comment then lol
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| Deviant. To listen. It's not his best track though, I'd pick Claret' March for that
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 | Electric City havent listened to the new weeknd but that you for describing my feelings with the old weeknd
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| fromtheinside just when i thought i was lost i find you. as tall as lions that title track to their latest, seriously, what r
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 | DaveyBoy Hey there fellow Aussie. Reckon I will like the Wild Beasts LP?
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 | Willie Noise by Numbers is streaming. Check dibs thread for link.
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| Electric City does he have any other kind, kirgy?jk please review again
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| Kiran way to have a bad opinion!
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 | DiceMan new marissa nadler is streaming on npr
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 | conradtao where have you been :( you're still rating!
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| Deviant. Why have I not seen you in forever? Hiatuses are for other people
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| Electric City hahaha what douchebags. the bangs-heavy asian girl bass player, the matching fender jaguars, the drummers afro scream NOTICE US! and i do cuz their music rocks
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| Kiran still can't get enough of the jezabels, i've whored them out loads too, i owe you big time for that find
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| DaveyBoy I could tell you were drunk from the Hottest 100 thread. U r a funny drunk. I will be honest, Cloud Control has grown on me. Its not as immediate as what some people make out. As for Oz Day, the Mrs dragged me shopping. How traditional.
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| DaveyBoy Alex, I was a little surprised u never got around to rating Cloud Controls Bliss Release and Im certain you would have heard it. Whattaya think. I think it is over rated, but the first half is pretty good I suppose.
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| klap cut copy isn't as good as i initially thought, really cheesy. probs have my review up by next week. what do you think of it (disclaimer: i still enjoy it just/obviously not as much as ghost colors)
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| DaveyBoy So Cut Copy is really good huh. 4.5 good?
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| klap more like sharon stone circa alpha dog amirite
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| Kiran man yuck is so good
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| DaveyBoy Not a great deal different tbh. Probably a few more important decisions to be made re finances, work, kids, etc though.
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 | Knott- Thanks man. I've just fired up Google Reader, and it seems to be doing the trick so far.. thanks for the blog recs, too. I was in dire need of them.
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| Knott- Amazing, thank you! I guess it's about time I delved into the foreign language of RSS anyway :D
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| DaveyBoy Apologies of sorts for not hooking up while I was in Sydney. It was hardly 2 days though and a Tuesday and Wednesday. Was still in a spin from the honeymoon too. Had a few contiki friends chaperone us around and had a ball. Sydney is much more tourist friendly than Melbourne.
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| Knott- can i ask you a question alex? i'm going to anyway. where do you normally start in terms of resources for finding out about new releases, or lists of them, etc? i get this way every year around christmas and obv it's because releases dry up but still, it irks me.
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 | Dave de Sylvia Alex, do you think you'd like to review the Mighty Stef's album?
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| Deviant. Yeah I've already started work on one myself. Obviously this doesn't matter to you because you're staff but I doubt highly he'll still wait until feb to put this out, I imagine he'll bump up the release date
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| Deviant. Knew it wouldn't take you long to find new James Blake
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| Kiran jeez just saw a couple pics of the band and the big one has the muggiest beard ever
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| Kiran just got meet me at the muster station and love it and flew to the album page with absolute gusto only to find no review and 6 ratings :( work your magic!
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| Deviant. http://soundcloud.com/search?q[fulltext]=phaeleh losing you And i'll see how good your poker face is
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| Deviant. You need to get Fallen Light by a guy called Phaeleh
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| Gyromania Lol, I think this is most you and I have disagreed in a while now :P
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| Gyromania Alex, I see your Trophy Scars rating slowly rising ;)
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 | plane Jumping out of the Laugh, Lose thread, but: Yah, said it before, should have been an HBO mini-series.
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| Knott- Hahaha fair enough. I think in the context of Morning and Afternoon it really doesn't feel contrived at all but I guess we all approach records from a different perspective. I think it's a ridiculously honest and natural album - couldn't give a **** about the chord progressions to be frank - and Seasons is just stunning. Perfectly constructed, too.
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| Knott- how can you not like (e)veningggggggggggggggggg
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| Gyromania Ugh, Alex how could you not like new Trophy Scars
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| Kiran buy?! you mean...with money? i didn't realize people did that
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| Kiran the drummer kills in 'hurt me' so that's not surprising! looking forward to a full length, i've been playing the assorted songs i managed to find non-stop
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| Kiran love that band you posted about a while ago, the jezabels. her voice, omg
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| Deviant. Yeah, I'm really digging it. Since one of the guys has departed there's a lot more emphasis on subtlety, than CD's usual face slapping percussion and catchy hooks. There's a definite maturity on this one. Here, probs my fav track so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwT2pxdFyw4
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 | 204409 my b bro, i made it a 4.5 but i dont think i was logged in
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 | Aids Epic soundoff for The Age of Adz. Soundoff of the Year even.
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 | Liberi Fatali Cheers, I have done so. Though it doesn't look great!
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| qwe3 haha same, esp. now with essays due. yeah i'm at wesley. family's still overseas
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| qwe3 haha i didnt expect anyone at sputnik to be at my uni. if you use fisher a lot we've prob been in the same room at some point. dont mean to sound like a stalker its just strange
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| qwe3 oh sweet what course you finishing up? also do you know any people at wesley college
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| qwe3 hey you go to sydney uni right
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| fromtheinside reviver - potential wasteland; something else you may like
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| fromtheinside hardcore has become gay, yes, but are you subscribed to my blog? we can get you back on track haha.
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| Knott- On a first listen not as good or certainly not as immediate, but still enjoyable.. little bit more candy/less barbed wire. Slightly.
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| Knott- alex you heard The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner yet?
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| Electric City i am having a hard time doing this justice, if you want HTDW then have at it
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| Electric City i havent listened, just read the soundoff, and was immediately more interested in what you had to say than i was in actually listening to another sufjan album
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| Electric City do a follow up review of sufjan after the first one is posted
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 | AKIRA28 you did the best sound off on How to Dress Well's album hahaha
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 | NeutralThunder12 hey bro, saw your comment on my list. mewithoutYou are indeed incredible.
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 | Bulldog Thanks for your help, but one last thing. What's the 'bit of zest' my writing could use? More flamboyant vocabulary? More humor? More poetic devices? All of the above?
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 | chambered89 lol what is that voicesvoices album like? you 5'ed it
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| chambered89 please change your avatar im going to have very bad dreams
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 | Meatplow yeah you would be a complete and utter bastard and I may just have to catch a plane to come kill you
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| Meatplow where is that avatar from? look familiar but I can't place it
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| AtavanHalen Dude, soooo sorry I didn't see you at PVT. That was a rough night. Thankfully, the bands were amazing. Let's try one more time - Parades at the Gaelic, October 23. $15.
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 | rasputin i miss your words, where are the silveri reviews
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 | nicolauz Is high objectivity a good/bad thing ?
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| Gyromania I accidentally clicked your profile link next to something on the main page and it froze my computer and took a while to load, so I thought I might as well say "hey how's it going?"..Hey! How's it going?
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 | tombits nah i haven't actually. i think i'll have to scour the cyberweb until i find some of her older material. is it mostly acoustic singer-songwriter stuff? because as much as i love the diversity of the instrumentation on hadestown i'd love to strip it back to just her and a guitar.
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| tombits haha, good to hear man. she's slowely but surely becoming one of my favourite female artists. the ethereal quality to her voice and the way she breaths out of the last words in a line... really unique and striking.
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| AtavanHalen So keen, it's gonna go orff. I'll see if I can't get a double pass for it.
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| AtavanHalen August 21st at the Manning. Seekae and Ghoul as support. Yes? Yes? Yes?
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 | Yotimi Thanks for the Danger Mouse/Sparklehourse rec. You ever heard The Delgados - Hate? It's got your name written all over it.
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 | Zoo Wouldn't mind at all, what's the time frame?
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| AtavanHalen How about Pivot? PVT? Do ya like PVT, babe?
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 | Banion Yeah that would most definitely be okay. Thank you for asking, i appreciate that.
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| tombits alex, i want to see a staff review for hadestown already!
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| AtavanHalen http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2010/07/17/fbis-sydney-sounds-like-the-final-fling I need a man-date for this, come with?
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| chambered89 crap i'm not your neighbor anymore haha. glad to hear you liked it man
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| chambered89 i'm ur neighbor :] ur the best reviewer on this site
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| AtavanHalen Ohhhh shiiiiit. Gonna dagger so hard to this.
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| tombits Looking forward to reading it man, it's a pretty great album.
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 | AlexTM510 its a pretty neat place. basically most of my family is there actually so im primarily there to visit them. But yea i should get to do some touristy things. It's a pretty neat place. I also got the leak....crappy...but do-able. and yea after one listen rules face.
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| AlexTM510 oh right....being from the states im heading out tommorow to the no internet paradise of southern India for 3 weeks. And what better album would serve as a soundtrack for my India paradise trip. Hopefully a higher quality leak can come around hah. But i'll probably get the lower quality one for kicks.
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| AlexTM510 new MIA leak? or did u just get an advance copy
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| DaveyBoy Never listened to them Alex, but will do in a few weeks time. I am still working through your old recos. Cassette Kids gone and am absolutely loving Parades right now. I may review since you and Mike have passed. It is a high 4 right now, might grow.
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 | Ckubet you did great snippets for the top 100!I should dig your reviews
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| rasputin I'm still around dude - I post on R
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| Aids Thanks for the feedback on my David Gilmour review. It's nice to have some staff feedback occasionally.
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| Electric City yessss. also, forgot you were australian so I thought "work at 1245 am? wtf?"
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| AtavanHalen BSS have announced a sideshow at the Metro. Go to www.metrotheatre.com.au and check it outtttt. The Bamboos are sick, such tight musos. I'm thinking of going to Melbourne to see Florence and the Machine, should be good.
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| AtavanHalen Oooh, possibleh. I'm also seeing them in Wollongong on the 2nd of July. Shibby.What gigs have you got coming up?
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| DaveyBoy I was reading about Parades just yesterday. Caught my eye due to Boulet. Thx for the link. I will get to it eventually. Still have not listened to Cassette Kids, although have downloaded it and still plan to maybe review it.
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| DaveyBoy Great reco Alex and I like the singles so far. Tbh, I have been trying to find it to download and maybe review, but have had no luck. If you can help out, maybe post in Olympus.
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| Kiran :(. anyways, where have you been dude? sputnik was an emptier place without you
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| Kiran lol i guess neither of us is doing delorean then!
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 | telebyrd good call on the SOAD re, second
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 | laterenima hey dudei read your review on muse's resistance, and i agree with it completely.great stuff.
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| Deviant. Noisia's album leaked yesterday. I know you lean towards the liquid side of d'n'b more than anything but there's some tasty breaks on this album you need to check out man
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| qwe3 can ****ing sympathise. just ruined my fav boxers
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| qwe3 you HAVE to review 99 man. dont think anyone else could do it justice
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| Kiran any staff doing owen pallett, alex?
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 | I liked your comment on the review of some album by Muse, where you wrote that "when my revolution happens you will be shot for being a reactionary." This is the kind of rhetoric that we need today. I mean that sincerely.
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| klap hey man, thanks! yeah i've been hosting it myself since jun 08, but haven't really messed around with the design (which a friend of mine did) until about a month ago. started putting all that amazon crap on there and mp3s/bigger artwork. still looking to pimp it out more and probably it on a more regular basis after the new year, but we'll see
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 | ninjuice Would you mind looking over mine? I've got at least 80% of it done but I'm not sure it covers the whole thing well enough.
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| ninjuice Are you or any other staff planning on reviewing Battle Studies? I kinda hoped I might get featured but idk.
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| Douglas No worries dude, fair enough. Damn life being hectic hey.
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| Douglas Any chance of getting a staff review of Paul Dempsey's solo stuff? HINT HINT.
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 | Progmaster85 no you don;t know me but it's weird... every time I find one person who doesn't like Opeth or stuff like that it turns out that they like Thrice, Or Mew or something.
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| Progmaster85 I love it... the few people who hate good music like Opeth on this site always like Thrice. Fail
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 | joshuatree already on it, if you like it it's a done deal
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| Knott- tanks a lot dude; i'll get it playing when i get round to it. little bit pre-occupied right now, there's a festival on dijon campus and i'm trying to get to grips with some of these acts. also, DMST are playing.!
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| Electric City hey if you're bored and want to review Do Make Say Think I'm not going to get to it for a little while
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 | dylantheairplane Okay I'll do that. I just came to you because I've never really had a problem before and didn't know where to go too
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| dylantheairplane I sent this to you cause I saw you were on staff. Some trolls made a mess of one of my reviews, can you fix that or is that someone else I should talk to?://www.sputnikmusic.com/review_32885
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| rasputin yeah you were spot on with the pig heart transplant. love it.
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| rasputin aw thanks man, i'm touched. i'll give it a listen asap, it sounds really good.
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| rasputin i feel special. im hoping you actually sent the album and it's not some dirty spam.
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| DaveyBoy Righteo. I thought of using the pseudonym David Boyd, but why bother. Believe it or not, I have yet to listen to new Muse (loved your review though). I've literally immersed myself in The Big Pink album in order to write my review... Which should be up later today. I might be out of my depth taking it on, but what the heck.
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| DaveyBoy Dare I ask what happened to your surname Alex? You didn't have a stalker did u?
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 | StreetlightRock Heh, I dunno, Mike's got it dibsed which I why I wrote the sound off, but I still might pump one out because its pretty much the best thing ever. Also, I'm on holiday overseas atm so I won't be able to get anything out for at least a week. But yea, it's frikkin amazing.
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| Yotimi Yes please do. It's Godly and users need to know it.
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