Here's an interview conducted by fearless Ripple Scribe, Boogeyman, that originally ran on his own blog, Long Live Rock N Roll . Pop over there for more insights from the Boogs. Being called Rock's "Come Back Bands of the Year" by Metal Odyssey , and having a string of great reviews from the likes of The Metal Minute, Rocktopia , and The Soda Shop just to name a few, I've been given the great pleasure to interview Iron Claw 's guitarist and one of the band's original [...]
It's been hailed as one of the best albums of 2011. Not by one or two, but by several of the biggest hard rock websites in the world. The Soda Shop. The Obelisk. The Ripple Effect. Heavy Planet. Chybucca Sounds. Sonic Abuse and more. Captain Zen Beyond has called them "the best classic rock band around" and the album "brilliant without any weak points." Classic Rock Magazine saw their brand of hard-driving rock to be fitting enough for one of their cover-mounted compilation CD's. In 2011, Grifter took the hard-rock scene by storm with their new self-titled album of gritty, [...]
With this year's Grammy Awards coming up in less than a month I am unsure if indie rock and electronic music fans should be excited or disappointed in the recent popularity gains in the past few years. Just last year Arcade Fire won Album of the Year for The Suburbs . This was one of the first signs that other forms of music were gaining a mass popularity. Now this year, you have Skrillex breaking through with the music genre and in your face sound of dubstep. The electronic artist is up for [...]
When we asked our contributors to tell us their albums of the year, we also offered them the opportunity to retrospectively review any of their Top 10 list that we hadn't reviewed already. Jon Kerr took us up on that offer. Foo Fighters Wasting Light RCA Records 11 April 2011 [...]
All the "Best of" lists have been submitted and consensus among the ninebullets staff has been reached. The winner of the not so coveted "Ninebullets Best Album Of 20113 is: and my man Charles Hale is willing to fight anyone who disagrees.
NO.2 BON IVER - BON IVER BUY | LOOK | METACRITIC Such was the precision and individuality of Bon Iver's debut record, For Emma, Forever Ago , in the lead up to the release of its follow-up there were one or two niggling questions about just how he would, or even could, follow it. From the moment you hear Calgary , the track put up for download ahead of it's release, you know you needn't have worried. Both on this in particular track and [...]
It was a dark and stormy night. Inside an ominous castle situated atop the highest suitable perch in the Black Mountains of California a mad scientist was hard at work. Frantic hammering along with high speed saws could be plainly heard above the angry growls of thunder. Occasionally blinding light would burst forth from every window of the castle. A careful observer would have been able to listen in to snippets of the scientist's crazy ramblings. "…take away my diplomas and honors, eh? I'll show them!" "…call me crazy. Me!?!? After [...]
NO.4 THE HORRORS - SKYING BUY | LOOK | METACRITIC Who'd have thought that The Horrors, writers of one of the most confused debut albums in recent years, would blossom into the Mercury-award nominated, indie king-pins they are today. After 20092s game-changing Primary Colours (their second effort), Skying reinforced the idea of a band that has finally hit their stride and like Primary Colours did, Skying has rightfully been bothering the Best of Year lists of nearly everyone. It's a [...]
When we asked our contributors to tell us their albums of the year, we also offered them the opportunity to retrospectively review any of their Top 10 list that we hadn't reviewed already. Ruth Booth took us up on that offer. The Devin Townsend Project Ghost Hevy Devy Records 20 June 2011 [...]
We reckon we're pretty good at finding new bands. Over the past few years we've championed Turbowolf , Bastions , Wolves Like Us and loads more before the rest cottoned on. That's why you probably want to know what new bands we liked the most in 2011. Maybe some of them will go on to become your favourite band of 2012. Maybe you already love them and this just reinforces the fact that you're awesome. (If so, come and join us .) Just give the bands a listen. They're worth it. [...]
No.5 THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS DOWNLOAD | LOOK | METACRITIC One of the more intriguing introductions of this year came courtesy of The Weeknd. Shrouded in secrecy and delivered by a then faceless young man, House of Balloons was put up for free download from their website back in March. With a leg-up from Drake in the meantime the mask has slightly dropped since then - we now know that The Weeknd is the work of 21-year-old Abel Tesfaye - however, the music is [...]
NO. 6 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIX BUY | LOOK | METACRITIC Bombay Bicycle club don't like to wait around. A Different Kind Of Fix , album number three, came earlier this year just 25 months after releasing their attention-grabbing debut record. The marked difference between 2009′s I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose – all chaos and indie guitars – and 2010′s entirely acoustic Flaws meant that few could claim to be really sure what Bombay [...]
We go to festivals. We go to festivals and sometimes we see bands, other times we just sit in the ruddy media centre talking to bands on camera and posting videos and photos on the internet. It sounds more glamorous than it is. Luckily you always end up with a load of stuff that we've done from as many of the festivals we can physically go to. We go to a lot of them though. This means that we like some more than others. Let's talk about that... -- Raziq Rauf [...]
NO.7 THE VACCINES - WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES? BUY | LOOK | METACRITIC Back in January we pointed you in the direction of a band that had, at that stage, just one single to their name and it stood at 85 seconds long. There was enough in it, however, to make us believe that we had before our eyes something of a rarity. With the year ahead set to be dominated by dubstep's take-no-prisoners infiltration of the mainstream here was a guitar band in the [...]
NO.8 FOSTER THE PEOPLE - TORCHES BUY | LOOK | METACRITIC For better or worse there weren't many cross-over indie anthems in 2011. You know, the Mr. Brightside , Sex On Fire , radio-playlist-hogging and festival-singalong super song. Foster The People's Pumped Up Kicks was one of them. That's not to say Torches , the album that housed it, was a one song show. The biggest strength of this debut album is that it's biggest hit isn't even one of the [...]
2011 Faves TRACK OF THE YEAR: Flock of Dimes - Prison Bride [ download ] ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Panda Bear - Tomboy [ stream / buy ]
When we asked our contributors to tell us their albums of the year, we also offered them the opportunity to retrospectively review any of their Top 10 list that we hadn't reviewed already, we didn't expect Ruth Booth to send us a Kate Bush review. Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow Fish People 21 November 2011 by [...]
By now you've had the chance to read all of our contributors' choices when it came to selecting the Thrash Hits Top 20 Albums of 2011. We daresay you've not heard all of them though - after all, our contributors named over 90 records when polled them to find out their favourite releases of the [...]
For those of you unfamiliar with the name Amit Sharma, he's the swish young longhair you'll have seen interviewing bands over on our YouTube channel. Amit is so superfly, that Corey Taylor once mistook him for an actual rockstar. True story. He really, really wanted his own page to tell you about his favourite albums [...]
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