Flipron - Gravity Calling - Album Review

Dylan Thompson

Flipron our favourite indie band at the moment have released in quick succession there third instalment nicely titled Gravity Calling.

This band have been busy during the summer homing their talent for perfecting their musician skills to top it for this year with this release of humour, amusement, while still maintaining a high-quality ethic to their music.

In this third album you’ll soon be clicking your fingers to such tunes as Dreams of Wealth and Power, A Scoundrel's Apology Almost, Zombie Blues, enjoy! 

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Flipron - Biscuits for Cerberus Album Review

Frank Moulinex 

What I like about this album Biscuits for Cerberus by Flipron is the way they look at life and write about it. My eyes roll down the list of fourteen tracks to find songs called, The Flatpack Bride of Possibilities, Mingers in Paradise and The Man Who Was Eaten By A Pie, I mean they are interesting and entertaining.

This album is more funky, rock, pop together with their festival carnival sounds, which blends well and is a more polished confident performance.

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Empire of Gold - Raw - EP Review

Empire of Gold debut Raw EP is just what it says on the can.

This is the project of Michael Jack Dole who has made a very stripped down EP, and all of the songs feature loud parts with electric guitar and then switches to acoustic guitar very prominent in the alternative rock scene of the '90's, which seems to be making a coming-back recently.

As for the tracks you get themes of restlessness in What Are You Waiting For?, not having much friends left in Burning Bridges, and the self centring You (Shouted The Worst You Could do), though in Hot, Damn is quite a gothic rock track, and finally the acoustic song Help Me.

Raw EP is available @ Bandcamp

The Courtesans - The Power of Love - Single Release

The Courtesans have released a new single, The Power of Love.

This is an epic cover version from the original by 80's pop supergroup Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and we're sure the band would love this heavy guitar ladened anthem of a version.

The way the song is sung has a very fashionable vulnerability to the way Sinead La Bella sings The Power of Love.

The Power of Love is available @ iTunes

DRLNG - Icarus - EP Release

DRLNG have released their debut EP Icarus.

The group have melted together from different bands in Boston, New York - America.

The songs touch the shoegazing genre, which to the rest of us feature nice and subtle guitar playing, soft drums and features keyboards and bass to feel the dreamy music.

The songs - Icarus, My Gypsy, Playground Punk & Seattle are sung in a way that touches you to the point you feel some tingling feeling just underneath your skin. Enough of the physical attributes, the emotional impact just hits the spot beautifully.

Icarus EP is available @ Silber Records

Exclusive Interview - The Attic Ends

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Are you a bumblebee, or do you see yourselves as stargazers?

Half of us are are stargazers, and half of us are bumblebees, which keeps us balanced. You put a task in front of a bumblebee, they go from flower to flower getting it done. They can’t help it! That’s how they are programmed. But none of us are that short sighted. Stargazers live and breathe to make their dreams come true. When we are not flower hopping we are always looking-up.

Has the struggle to maintain and grow as individual and collective creative souls within the music scene any easier as time goes on?

It has definitely gotten easier. Once you are completely dedicated, which we all are, you can find your voice. As a group, we feel like we are just now finding our sound. We feed each others’ creative souls and foster each others growth by challenging each other and holding each other to task. We expect a lot from ourselves and having that support is what any creative soul needs to even be able to breathe in this crazy industry full of incredibly talented people and also so many charlatans. We need to trust each other to make sure we stay in the former category. 

What project are you currently working on?

We are about to shoot our next video for the title track of our first cd Home, which was released on iTunes in December ‘10. We have been rehearsing, gigging, and supporting Home. We are really excited about writing songs for our next record. All kinds of ideas are flowing and sneaking themselves into the rehearsal studio. We are blessed to be in a position where we have discovered our sound and new riffs, beats, and melodies are just flowing naturally. For all of us, that’s our favourite part of playing in a band and we are having a lot of fun with that right now.

How has this project been that you’re you are working on? Adventurous, heart-wrenching, soul-searching, glorifying, triumphant, nauseating, confirming, validating, terrifying, exciting... It runs the gamut of human emotions, there are sometimes tears and a lot of high-fives!

Is your world opening-up to more exciting things?

Hells Yeah!

Are you leaving your nest, to fly around the world with your band and music?

Yes. That’s all we ever wanted to do. We love New York. We love Brooklyn. But we want to go to places like London, where so much great music that we all love has come from! We hear so many great things about the scene in Europe and we are definitely up for the adventure.

What’s the biggest thing you’ve done as individuals and as a band?

We wrote and released a cd onto iTunes in less than a year. That cd has been accepted by Pandora, and we are very proud of that. We are about to shoot our third video as well. We feel our biggest accomplishment has been that we have done so much ourselves, as an indie band.

Anything else you would like to say to our readership?

Music is one of the most important things in human life. Music is emotion, and we hope our music can touch some people out there. We look at it as a privilege to be able to contribute music to people’s lives, and we take it very seriously. We hope we can inspire people and help them get through experience they are going through. We have always turned to music, listening and eventually creating it as an outlet for emotion in times of pain and joy. Sharing it is what connects us all. That may sound a little cheesy but nothing is truer!  

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