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Blood, Sweat And Jarmans: The Cribs Were The Greatest Live Band Of My Youth

With their sixth album now out, it's time to reflect on why the Wakefield punk-minstrels have played some of the best gigs of my formative years...

Robert Loustau

Swervedriver's Best Record Since The 90s Proves They've Still Got The Magic

Signed to Creation and originally lumped in with the M.B.V/Mary Chain shoegaze scene , their first new album this century proves that they were always on their own path...

Nick Perry

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The Arguments For And Against The Libertines' Second Album

Loyalty to the band that Pete and Carl built is as fervent as ever, as are opinions on their controversial follow-up to Up The Bracket...

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Why The Districts' Album (Sadly) Doesn't Live Up The Promise Of Their E.P

I've spent a year immersed in their incendiary debut E.P, therefore my hopes for A Flourish And A Spoil are suitably lofty. Unfortunately they've not quite been realised...

David Handley

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The Stone Roses Second Coming: 20 Years On

Two decades since its release, does the Stone Roses much maligned LP sound like a dismal mess of guitar and overdubs, or a decent collection of songs damned by time?

David Lewis

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Three Acts Everyone Hates But Are Actually Alright

They've sold millions of records but cop endless shite on social media. Here's a handful of guys that really aren't that bad...

David Hillier

Sabotage Writers' Albums Of The Year

Bringing up the rear of the Xmas round-ups, here's the choices of our righteous scribes on their top records of 2014...

David Hillier

A Sacred Wunderkind: Why Hatful Of Hollow Is The Smiths' Greatest Album

The Queen Is Dead might be the populist choice, but for me this ragbag collection of singles and B-sides is a perfect distillation of the band...

Nathan Ouriach

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Pixies' Doolittle: 25 Five Years On, And Still Their Masterpiece

It's a quarter of a century since its release, and that time has done nothing to dampen the album's raw, eclectic power...

Nick Perry

Are The Jacques Reviving Indie's Golden Age?

They might not have been in double figures when Is This It dropped, but four boys from Bristol are harking back to glory days that started in '01...

3 Comments David Hillier

Absolute Captain Are Fucking Rock

Scousers rule the world.

4 Comments Thomas Parslew

The Predicted Shortlist For The 2015 Mercury Music Prize

Yeah we know tonight will be Kate or FKA, but what about the future? These are the acts I reckon'll be up in lights...

David Hillier

A Tribute To Stone Roses' Fools Gold

Four lads from a Manchester council estate shouldn't really have had the ability to create the coolest funk groove ...

13 Comments Craig Campbell

Weezer's Top 10 Guitar Solos

In the week that Cuomo and crew release their ninth album, here's a rundown of their best shreds. One for the puri...

Richard Wood

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I Just Don't Get... Arcade FIre

Last week you couldn't move for sensitive knobheads fawning over the Montreal band's debut, 'Funeral'. Their enduring popularity continues to ba...

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Don't Suffer The Bullshit: Here's Sleaford Mods

If Happy Mondays and John Cooper Clarke released a track on NY punk-funk label 99 Records, it'd sound something like Sleaford Mods, the most no-n...

14 Carl Stanley

The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers, 20 Years On

I’ve been too honest with myself, I should have lied like everybody else...

David Lewis

Young Kids Need Good Indie Music Back (And So Does Everyone Else)

What the fuck happened?

3 Patrick Mills

Inspiral Carpets' Martin Walsh On Moyes, John Cooper Clarke and 'Cool As F**k' Tees

With the Inspiral Carpets releasing a new single Spitfire in August and a new album in September, Sabotage Times thought it a good time to catch with the legendary Manchester band and their bassist and all round top bloke Martyn Walsh.

1 Comment Layth Yousif

5 Of The Most Drug-Fuelled Albums In Rock N Roll History

They'll go down in music folklore, and in many cases nearly finished off their creators. These are albums of danger...

4 Comments Craig Campbell

Remembering C86: The Original Indie Mixtape

25 years ago, NME had the bright idea of knocking out tapes via mail order and it would go on to change indie music...

2 Comments Nick Perry

Von Pip's Top 7 Indie Songs Of The Last Month

Whether it's a Del Ray-esque slice of pop noir or the return of Esben And The Witch, here's the top June picks from...

Andy Von Pip

The Antlers' Pete Silberman Interviewed: "I'm No Saint, For Sure"

Ahead of the release of their new record, the Brooklyn singer discusses Familiars, the vengeance in Hospice and tem...

David Hillier

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From The Strokes To Ludacris: 6 Songs That Remind Me Of Being 17

Hazy days of sixth form cook up a very special sort of memory. Here's the tunes that take me back to when everything and nothing mattered...

David Hillier

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Von Pip's Top 7 Indie Tunes Of The Last Month

Whether it's a perfect bittersweet love song or psychadelic shoegaze, here's the top recent songs you need in your ears...

3 Andy Von Pip

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Von Pip's Top Seven Indie Songs Of April

Wolf Alice drop another blinder while newcomer Sophie Jamieson hints at a vintage, Marling-esque potential in the monthly round-up from our man i...

Andy Von Pip

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Von Pip's Seven Top Indie Songs Of March

Whether it's the coolest band to come from Brighton or a garage-duo from Wigan talking about shitting in your eye, here are our resident indie-bl...

5 Andy Von Pip

Sabotage Playlist: 12 New Tracks You Need To Hear This Week

Liverpool's best band, Daft Punk meets G-Funk, and synth-pop that's actually good, here's the Sabotage team's favou...

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The Best Elbow Album Tracks

It's been thirteen years since they released Asleep In The Back, and Guy Garvey and friends are now one of the most...

6 Comments Richard Wood

Sabotage Playlist: 9 Of The Best Tracks This Week

From the sound of Prince's spawn, a Chance The Rapper remix or a belter from Tru Thoughts, here's where's what we'v...

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The Howling Bells Guide To Surviving In The Music Industry

Despite releasing critically feted albums and touring with some of the world's biggest bands, the band have had a d...

Howling Bells

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Von Pip's Top Seven Indie Tracks Released In February

From Kendal psyche-gazers Woman's Hour to UK pop noir specialists The Casket Girls, here's the songs you need from the last month you need in your ears...

2 Andy Von Pip

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New Band Of The Week #6- The Hummingbirds

With a sound rooted in the grandest of traditions, this Merseybeat band are filling stages from the Cavern Club to Oslo...

Jonathan Moore

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The Orwells' Guide To The Best Acts From Chicago

Wondering where to start with the best bands and rappers to check out from the WIndy City? Let its current rawest sons be your guide...

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Forget Haim, Warpaint Have Made A Modern Classic Rock Album

Shades of the Ronettes with ghosts of West Coast pop, Warpaint's second album is how great rock n roll should be do...

6 Comments Craig Campbell

From Parklife To Everyday Robots: Why Damon Albarn Is A Stone Cold Legend

With his new solo project announced and festival headline sets coming up, the time has never been better to conside...

2 Comments David Handley

Naked (On Drugs): So Good Your Mothers Will Love Them

With a frontman who's got a voice like the bastard lovechild of Grace Jones and David Bowie, the Milton Keynes band...

Austin Collings

Von Pip's 7 Best Indie Tracks Released In November

With a Swedish five piece, Brazilian electro-funk singer and the new band of the guitarist from Snow Patrol, it's a...

Andy Von Pip

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