Young Again

The Young Things
From: New York, United States

The death of rock and roll has been greatly exaggerated and here come the Young Things to breathe new life into the patient. They're a perfect combination of The Libertines, The Strokes, The Rolling Stones, the Beatles and the Monkees. There is simply no artifice, no playing for the gallery here. This is not focus group, common denominator rock it's simply genuine, honest music from the heart that sounds like they've mainlined the best record collection in the world. You can download their debut album for free from their website and that's not something you can say about the Beatles or the Stones, well at least not legally.

If the Young Things don't hit your love button then brother and sister you've got no soul.

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All My Friends Are Junkies by The Youngthings

Boy You're Lookin' Pale by The Youngthings

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The Young Things - Myspace : Website : Soundcloud : Last.FM

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The Young Things
All My Friends Are Junkies

Wylie Old Fox

Pete Wylie

From: Liverpool, United Kingdom

Pete Wylie was, is and always has been a god. His godlike status is confirmed with the rousing 'The Day Margaret Thatcher Dies' a cross between the Troggs, The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows and the Rolling Stones' classic 'Get Off My Cloud'. It really is as good as that sounds. It's his greatest moment since the simply brilliant Story Of The Blues and should just about seal the deal on a Wylie statue in Liverpool's Williamson Square.

The only way this is going to be beaten to number one on the Devil's tracks of the year is if Kenny Dalglish, Jamie Carragher and Ian McCulloch record You'll Never Walk Alone with the Kop.

Is it too much to hope that UK youth will turn their eyes from the increasing deranged antics of Lady GaGa and their ears from the soulless throb of production line R&B to take this classic in the making to it's rightful place in the top 10?

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Pete Wylie [ The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies! ] by Radio Wah!

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Pete Wylie - Myspace : Last.FM : Soundcloud

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Pete Wylie
The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies!

Hold Your Horses

Horse Guards Parade
From: Hull, United Kingdom

Horse Guards Parade formed about 2 years ago came together round about the summer of 2008 when James Waudby formerly of electro poppers Salako and friend Jason Heslewood got together and holed themselves up in the attic to record some tunes. Unlike Waudy's former band there is nothing electro or even pop about Horse Guards Parade. It's haunting, semi psychedelic anti folk with a particularly English twist.

This City Is On Fire recalls the elegaic beauty of The Blue Nile. The brilliantly titled Her Scabby Knees with it's haunting, ghostly echoes starts out with an ambition to become the 21st centuries 'Ghost Town' before turning into a lilting, downbeat psych folk ode to the owner of the local abattoir. 'Everybody's Going Back To Your House' and 'As The Plane Lifted It's Wheels' sound like the sort of tracks the Beatles would have knocked off in their spare time in the mid 60s. Yes trust me they're that good. All these tracks are available from the band's self titled EP released last year.

Horse Guards Parade will be the name to drop in 2011 so get ahead of the herd and check them out now.

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MP3 - Horse Guards Parade - Her Scabby Knees
MP3 - Horse Guards Parade - She Looked Like Henry Moore (Remix)
These tracks are linked direct from the Horse Guards Parade Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Horse Guards Parade - Myspace : Website : Blog : Last.FM


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Horse Guards Parade
As The Plane Lifted It's Wheels