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Live Review: The Prodigy @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester.

Party, drink, rave, sweat, rave, breathe, drink, sweat, drink, rave, rave, rave… That’s the definitive running order of what to do at Prodigy gig. Tonight was of no exception.

Arcade Fire (The Reflektors) Live Review

Blackpool, Nov 27th 2013

Arriving by the tram with a Mariachi band in tow, Arcade Fire took to the stage under the guise of ‘The Reflektors’; a pseudonym being used to promote their fourth studio album.

The fans certainly embraced the band’s request for fancy dress or formal wear; ranging from ball gowns and tuxedos, Venetian masks to tigers onesies. Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom was an ideal backdrop, the grandiose setting adding to the sense of occasion.

In the late '70s, people claimed that punk was dead. Some thirty years later in the 2000s, others said pop-punk was dying because bands were selling-out to the charts. The Wonder Years, however, are here to dispel such myths. Pop punk exists, and with these guys and their scene, it's rocking louder than ever.

The Neville Staple Band- live review

The Neville Staple Band @ Cockpit, Leeds 9/11/2013

What do you do when the dance partner of your dreams has had two knee replacements?

Because that's what has happened to Neville Staple, toaster and skanking extraordinare from the Specials, whose music once embodied the angst and economic desperation of a generation and who now, at just 58, can't bust out the moves like he used to.

Lulu James is not your average Geordie lass. Yes, she may tick a few boxes like 'distinctive accent' and 'likes a good drink on the toon' but do not be fooled, she has one hell of a voice.

Protest The Hero - VOLITION (Album Review)

Hands up who likes progressive metal from the maple-stained land of Canada?

If your hand isn't up, maybe PROTEST THE HERO can change that. They play a certain kind of blustery metal that sounds like a shed full of instruments got caught in a storm, with vocals that flit between confident, smooth, power-ballad crooning and cockier, gruffer outbursts.

Review: Haim - Days Are Gone

You can picture it now, retro enthused youths hanging around basketball courts with their flannel shirts tied firmly around their high-waisted, bleached denim shorts, feeling cool because the dramatic change in their look can only be attainable if they stand in different heighted positions, ghetto blaster placed firmly on one’s shoulder, blasting album Days are Gone from the speakers and into the airwaves.

5 Largest Album Flops this Side of the Millenium

While most artists fizzle out politely after falling ill of the feared ‘second album syndrome’, it must be said that Johnny Borell offers an intriguing anomaly after managing to sell only 594 copies of his first solo album, Borell 1.

Though it has been released by a major label (Mercury Records no less), and has been recorded by a man who has previously sold 4 million albums with another act, it could be deemed that as of yet, Borell 1 offers the biggest commercial failure of 2013.