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News: Download ‘Blood’ For Free

My favourite song of 2009, and the song which inspires this blog’s title, Blood by The Middle East, can now be downloaded for free via the band’s official website. Obviously I am madly in love with this song, so if you don’t already own it then I highly suggest grabbing the free download and having […]

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The 20 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2010

Edit: See above “2010 Album Reviews” for reviews of many of these albums. I believe that 2009 was a great year for music. We saw what many people consider to be two of the greatest albums of the decade, ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ and ‘Veckatimest’, and even if I don’t completely agree, that is still pretty […]

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The Best Albums Of 2009 [Part 4 Of 3]

Here is part four of my three part series on the best albums of 2009. Seeing as I have covered the my top 30, I thought I would quickly run over a few of the records that were very close to making the cut and are still whole-heartedly recommended, and a few that were ineligible […]

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Homebake 2009 Review

Homebake, the annual all Aussie (and Kiwi) music festival, was held in The Domain in Sydney last Saturday. And by nearly all measurements, it was a resounding success. I travelled up to Sydney from Melbourne for basically the sole reason of attending Homebake. I had heard glowing praise for previous Homebake festivals, and the lineup […]

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Album Review: Leader Cheetah ‘The Sunspot Letters’

I first was introduced to these guys when I saw The Middle East (whose song ‘Blood’ inspired the title of this blog) play live a few months ago. After the encore, The Middle East said that they had been touring for a while with these longtime mates of theirs, who were also in a band, […]

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