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[Closed] Competition: Win tickets to see Black Spiders

Rawkstar.net has two tickets to give away to see Black Spiders for one of the dates below:- May 15, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff May 16, Live Lounge, Durham May 17, Little Civic, Wolverhampton May 18, O2 Academy 2 Newcastle, Newcastle May 19, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh To win, first follow us on twitter @RawkstarDotNet then tweet […]

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Mercury Prize winner 2008 – Elbow!

Yes, that’s right, Elbow won the Mercury Prize 2008 with their fantastic album “The Seldom Seen kid”. Excellent!

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2007, Dave’s Best Of

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 and Interpol we have […]

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iLiKETRAiNS on 6Music

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 again to last Friday’s (or […]

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Whole albums for £0.01?!

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 see what happens – if […]

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Hard-Fi = Dumbasses

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 stupid than it sounds. They appear to have decided that artwork = pictures, and have claimed to be not interested in that arty stuff, (or ‘We […]

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Mercury Prize 2007 – And the winner is…

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 my favourite albums of […]

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yourcodenameis:milo split up!

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…

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I lived on the moon

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. However, the song itself is […]

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Arcade Fire – Neon Bible – In an elevator!

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.