http://blog.rawkstar.net Our views on all things music Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:51:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, that's right, Elbow won the Mercury Prize 2008 with their fantastic album "The Seldom Seen kid". [caption id="attachment_53" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid"][/caption] Excellent! http://blog.rawkstar.net/2008/09/09/mercury-prize-winner-2008-elbow/ As 2007 draws to a close I thought it would be a nice idea to take a look back at some of my favourite albums from the past 12 months. Musically 2007 has been quite a good year with new albums from the likes of Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, The Shins ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/12/22/2007-daves-best-of/ I didn't think this was really worth a news post, so I'll put it here! iLiKETRAiNS will be playing a couple of songs live on Thursday's Gideon Coe show on 6Music. You'll be able to listen again online for a week after it airs, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/gideon_coe/. You can also listen ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/10/01/iliketrains-on-6music/ I haven't pre-ordered the download of the new Radiohead album yet - although I would be prepared to pay the bargain basement price of £5 for it I'm going to save up and buy the CD-download-2xvinyl-book-artwork £40 version. I am tempted to order the download version for 1p just to ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/10/01/whole-albums-for-001/ Now I know it's been around a little while in the 'music press' but now I've actually seen it in a shop, Hard-Fi's new 'non' artwork is even more retarded than it sounds. They appear to have decided that artwork = pictures, and have claimed to be not interested in that ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/09/12/hard-fi-dumbasses/ The Klaxons - WHY?! Better than the tripe that won it last year? Not much... They decided to wreck the podium when collecting their award, you think they'd know how a microphone works...i.e. don't put it right in your mouth!! I was hoping for Bat For Lashes, which is one of ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/09/04/mercury-prize-2007-and-the-winner-is/ Another good band have split up! Yourcodenameis:milo last night announced they're to split up after a 5 year and 4 album career. Read on for a statement from the band... The following message was posted on their forum:- YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO R.I.P To All.. After 5 years and 4 wicked cool records, we have decided to ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/08/22/yourcodenameismilo-split-up/ Another one of these very hyped internet songs is 'I lived on the Moon' by a relatively unknown French band called 'Kwoon', but don't let the French part put you off!. It's getting a lot of attention mainly due to the amazing animated video created to go along with it. ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/08/13/i-lived-on-the-moon/ I recently came across this video of the Arcade Fire playing the title track from the Neon bible album in an elevator. Very cool. Check out the rawkstar review of the album. http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/05/13/arcade-fire-neon-bible-in-an-elevator/ I really should avoid going on the internet on April the 1st. What's true and what's not? First up, a bunch of Muse fansites have teamed up and said they've all received a letter from warner music telling them to close and remove lyrics/tabs/the word muse from their domain names etc. ... http://blog.rawkstar.net/2007/04/01/i-hate-april-the-1st/