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Kasabian this week released their fitfth album '48:13' and in our review we gave it a 9/10, and it's no surprise as to why, with huge tracks such as 'Ee-zeh', 'Bumblebee', 'Bow' and many more, but the highlight being, for this week alone, 'Stevie'.

Stevie is one heck of a tune from Kasabian. One that really defines the whole album. There's an upbeat tune that is constant throughout, matched by that rawness Kasabian have. Stevie is really a hybrid of their old mat...

Kasabian this week released their fifth album '48:13' and it is already being dubbed album of the year.

'48:13' has proppelled Kasabian back into the spotlight and with the Pyramid at Glastonbury awaiting, could this be Kasabian's best year yet? Earlier this week we reviewed the new album and we'll post the link at the end of this post incase you haven't yet checked it out, we awarded '48:13' a 9/10 on the first listen, but after a few more plays we'd probably n...

There are many albums set to be released this year that we at RIFFED cannot wait for. From this huge number of forthcoming albums, we collated a list of the top 5.

5 Childhood - Lacuna

Indie rockers Childhood plan to release their debut album 'Lacuna' on the 12th of August this year. Previous releases such as Solemen Skies and Falls Away provide solid evidence that Lacuna will be a storming debut album from the London lads.

4 Jaws - Be ...

RIFFED received their copy of Kasabian's new album '48:13' early. So, due to this, we thought we'd review it for you.

Track listing :

1 (Shiva)

2 Bumblebee

3 Stevie

4 (Mortis)

5 Doomsday

6 Treat

7 Glass

8 Explodes

9 (Levitation)

10 Clouds

11 Ee-zeh

Arcade Fire brought their worldwide Reflektor tour to London this week. They played two nights at the legendary Earl's Court, Friday the 6th of June and Saturday the 7th ahead of their headline slot at Glastonbury later this month aswell as playing British Summer Time at Hyde Park in July. Unfortunately RIFFED weren't able to make Earl's Court for the gig, but Xfm was on hand to broadcast it live from London, meaning we could review it for you.

The setlist :

RIFFED have collated a list of the top 5 young/new artists for 2014. We're expecting big things from the following, and don't be surprised if they do reach the top of the industry by the end of this year. 

5. The Brookes

We recently did an 'Introducing...' interview with The Brookes and now they have made it into our Top 5 Artists To Watch For 2014 list. A Libertines/Oasis/Miles Kane-esque band, a real Britpop/rock ...

Indie rockers Catfish and The Bottlemen have recently encountered a huge surge of popularity since their release of new tunes such as 'Rango' and 'Kathleen', as well as smashing their recent headline tour and not letting down on the big stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Glasgow. A busy summer of festivals is ahead for The Bottlemen and it's no wonder as to why with releases such as 'Fallout', which this week is our single of the week.

Just like their previous rel...

Last week our editor had his article on Kasabian's appearence on Later... With Jools Holland published in NME (but ssh, they could soon become a rival). And here is the article:

Kasabian's appearance on Later with Jools Holland a couple of weeks ago resulted in many split opinions. 'Eez-eh' opened the show, different to Kasabian's usual style but catchy also, although Serge just seemed to bounce about throughout. 'Bumblebee' closed with an engineered racket, once again very catchy in my...

Brighton rockers Royal Blood have recently had a huge surge of popularity and media coverage. They recently performed on the NME Awards tour with, Interpol, Temples and Circa Waves. But last weekend, the duo supported Arctic Monkeys at Finsbury Park with Tame Impala and Miles Kane. This got us excited as we saw them on their first tour back in October of last year, 20 odd people were their and we got in for free, as well as snatching one of Ben Thatcher's (Drummer) sticks. 

This week Brum boys Jaws announced their debut album 'Be Slowly' is set to be released on September 15th this year. Jaws announced this exciting news on their twitter page and were greated with jubilant replies from many fans. We at RIFFED are extremely excited for the release of 'Be Slowly' as EP's such as 'Milkshake' are anything to go by, it's bound to be a classic. Expect a few old classics to be on the album such as 'Gold' and also new single release 'Think Too Much, Feel Too Little', bu...