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XYZ EXCLUSIVE: Win A Fender Guitar & Merc Clothing Vouchers
Supported once again by Fender and Merc clothing, XYZ has teamed up with Red Stripe to pull together a package of rock ‘n’ roll proportions for one lucky XYZ Magazine reader… We are giving away a slick new Fender® American Special™ guitar along with £50 to spend on some seriously stylish Merc clothing!
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XYZ Wristband Deals
Look out inside XYZ magazine for info on the new XYZ wristband, launching soon! Bringing amazing reader promotions and perks to all XYZ wristband holders, including a quid off each drink at some of the best venues, money off gigs, clothes, haircuts, VIP Q-jumps at your favourite gigs and so much more!!
The brand new special XYZ Wristband will be available from the XYZ website for just 2 squids, and from venues acros the region. Credit crunch? What credit crunch!!
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Latest News
Munich vs London
Munich, formally Maura Kincaid, have been making their mark on the Brighton rock scene over the past three years and ...
The Sword Are In The Studio
Having spent much of 2009 and 2008 supporting Metallica, Austin's The Sword are back in the studio recording their third ...
OIB presents… WHY?
WHY?, the handsome US trio, are playing at Brighton's Komedia later this month. WHY? was originally the alias for Jonathan ...
More Bands Announced - The Great Escape 2010
With Chase & Status, Marina And The Diamonds, Delphic and Japandroids already confirmed for The Great Escape, the new wave ...
Forties To The Noughties - A Once In A Lifetime Experience
Smirnoff is pleased to have announced details of an exciting nightlife event showcasing three of the most forward-thinking promoters in ...
Renegade Potters And Extreme Craft
Until early April Ink_d Gallery will be exhibiting a range of art from the weird and wonderful to the anarchic, ...
Music Previews
The Phenomenal Handclap Band The Phenomenal Handclap Band is a tight-knit aggregation of musicians and artists from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. At the center of it is Daniel Collás and Sean Marquand who, joined by their supremely talented friends Patrick Wood, Nicholas Movshon, Luke O’Malley, Laura Marin, Bing Ji Ling, Pier Pappalardo and Joan Tick.
The collective started when Collás [...]
Music Reviews Live
Kate Nash Komedia, 8 March 2010
Brighton’s Komedia was packed to the rafters as Kate Nash fans jammed into the venue to hear the singer’s new material. And new material was exactly what they got. Kate played only three of her old songs and dedicated the rest of the set to giving fans a peek at the tracks [...]
Music Interviews
Dead Swans Brighton band Dead Swans released debut album Sleepwalkers in 2009 on American hardcore label Bridge9. It was described as “blistering and nervously confrontational” by Alternative Press Magazine, and since Dead Swans have been hailed as one of the best bands to come out of the UK. Adrian Imms and Chris Shipman fired some questions to [...]
Music Reviews CD
Album: Lou Rhodes - One Good Thing Recorded over a fortnight and made up of live takes, Lou Rhodes’ soul is out for all to see on new album One Good Thing, released March 15.
After heartbreakingly beautiful second album, Beloved One, was nominated for a Mercury Prize back in 2006, Rhodes instills a hope for the future with an honest tone and [...]
Editors picks -new bands
Turbowolf Hometown: Bristol, UK
Musical Family Tree: Queens Of The Stoneage in a bar room brawl with Ghost Of A Thousand… with hammers!
Unique Selling Point: Purveyors of some of the best song titles ever! ‘Ancient Snake’, ‘Bite Me Like A Dog’ and ‘Let’s Die’ to name but a few.
Why Should We Care? They have also got some [...]
Editors picks -new releases
Single: Peggy Sue - “Watchman” Peggy Sue have grown up. From the light-hearted fun time girls of a few years ago, playing with toys in Brighton’s art venues, they have been shaking their rattles a little harder with the addition of a drummer and darker tales.
Single ‘Watchman’ seems to tell the story of going out to see someone you shouldn’t. [...]
XYZ events for the diary
Justin Grounds, 14 March 2010 Well-travelled multi-instrumentalist Justin Grounds stops by Brighton in support of his stunning new album The Dissolving due for release on the 12 April.
It is a record which spans that paradox, with warm, ancient violin melodies being driven along by glitchy electronic beats and echoes of drum’n’bass records; holy silences and landscapes of sound cut open [...]
