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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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Efterklang 4AD Session
Following last year's 4AD Session with Tune-Yards, the next installment comes from recent 4AD singings, Efterklang and is online now. ...
OIB presents… WHY?
WHY?, the handsome US trio, are playing at Brighton's Komedia later this month. WHY? was originally the alias for Jonathan ...
Take Me To The… Bestival - Sunday Headliner Announced
The Prodigy have been confirmed to headliner the Sunday night at this year's Bestival! As one of the best live ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Idlewild Concorde 2, 9 March 2010
Who really knows what they were or what they are now? In the earlier days of their career, Idlewild were a dirty, heavy indie band who produced a sound that bordered on punk. In 2002 the Scottish quintet put out their fourth and arguably most popular album ‘The Remote Part’ which [...]
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 [...]
