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We spoke to Careless Sons this week. The band from Manchester, Cambridge and London have recently released their new single 'Wasted Avenue' and were willing to chat to us about it. 

1) Who are Careless Sons?

Ric, Rob, Ben and Dickon - hailing from Manchester, Cambridge and London - formed across university and music college in 2013 to search for the ever illusive out.

2) You've recently released your new single 'Wasted Avenue', tell us a little about that?

Wasted Avenue is a blue print for self sabotage. Procrastination personified. A cheating, finger pointing, tantrum throwing excuse of a valentine to yesterday, getting off on its own whimpering affectations to nostalgia with a twisted thirst for introspective schadenfreude.

3) Favourite gig of which you've played?

The Wasted Avenue single launch at The Islington last month was immense. Packed, sweaty, euphoric, reciprocated and vindicating.

4) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

Writing better songs, playing bigger shows and, despite what the protagonist in Wasted Avenue may think about it, hopefully living in relative comfort.

5) What can we expect from Careless Sons in the near future?

We have our first UK tour coming up in October supporting the heart squeezingly talented Lux Lisbon in celebration of the forthcoming release of our first E.P. More details to follow very soon so watch this space!

Huge thanks to Careless Sons for the interview. 

Listen to Careless Sons new single 'Wasted Avenue' via Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CarelessSons and Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/carelesssons

Follow Carless Sons on Twitter: @CarelessSons / https://twitter.com/CarelessSons

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Visit Carless Sons official webpage: http://www.CarelessSons.com

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Due to extremely high demand, The Libertines have announced a 3rd night at Alexandra Palace on Friday 26th September. 

This morning, tickets for which was initially The Libertines first night at Ally Pally on Saturday 27th September, sold out within a couple hours. With Alexandra Palace later confirming their second night was close to selling out, both parties came to an agreement and decided to add an extra night, this now being their first night at Alexandra Palace on Friday 26th September. It appears many are eager to see Carl, Pete, John and Gary, thererore, can we be expecting a tour anytime soon? 

Purchase tickets for The Libertines at Alexandra Palace this September via the link: http://www.axs.com/uk/series/831/the-libertines-presale-tickets?cid=ukpresale&skin=aegliveuk%A0

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Brighton duo Royal Blood released their latest single, 'Figure It Out', last week and it won't come as a surprise to many that it's another powerful and riff fuelled track from Mike and Ben. 

'Figure It Out' is the latest single to be taken from Royal Blood's forthcoming self titled debut album, of which is number one in our top five Albums To Look Forward To This Year, and along with previous releases such as 'Out Of The Black', 'Come On Over' and 'Little Monster', provides solid evidence that 'Royal Blood' will be one heck of an album from the Brighton rockers. It doesn't take much figuring out about 'Figure It Out', a recognisble and catchy chorus and tune, and an ending of which makes you subconciously whip out your air bass guitar and drum kit. 'Figure It Out' has joined the forever growing list of crackers from Royal Blood

RIFFED's Rating: 9/10

Watch Royal Blood perform 'Figure It Out' via Youtube, from their first tour in October of last year at the Fruit in Hull, recorded by RIFFED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAhcz0Ix7cU

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Listen to 'Figure It Out' via Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/royalblooduk/figure-it-out-single

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Recently we introduced you to Grimsby band The Brookes, and featured them in our Top 5 Artists To Watch For 2014. Well, we caught up with lead guitarist Jamie Craw again this week as The Brookes have just announced their biggest gig to date, supporting The Swiines in Scunthorpe this November. Jamie was on hand to tell us a little about their forthcoming gig and what's next for The Brookes. 

1 How's things be going for The Brookes since our last interview?

Nice to speak to you again. It's been quite quiet to be honest. We played a gig at The Barcy down Cleethorpes which I thought was a pretty good gig to be fair. But yeah just booking gigs for the future, taking it easy at the minute.

2 You've just announced your biggest gig to date, supporting The Swiines in Scunthorpe this November, how did this come about?

Yeah we're buzzing about that. I saw The Swiines back in February supporting Jake Bugg, and I've been a massive fan since. It's just crazy how you can go from seeing a band who would soon become one of your favourites, to actually being on the bill with them supporting them. Yeah it will be good to meet them and play with them, really looking forward to it. I was just chatting away to this promoter trying to worm my way into getting a slot at a festival they had going on, and he said the bill was full. I asked what other slots he's got spare and just like that he offered us a slot supporting The Swiines, simple as that.

3 You've also announced gigs in Nottingham and Sheffield for this year, are you looking forward to these?

I'm really looking forward to this Nottingham gig. The lads we're supporting have told us it's completely sold out. It's in like the basement of a pub or something, small capacity, but it's going to be one of those proper sweaty face to face with the crowd gigs I imagine.

4 You revealed that you'll begin work on the follow up to 'Taking Over' very soon, what can we expect?

Like I've said to everybody else, expect bigger, better, faster, and louder. We're buzzing to get this one released, when you listen to Taking Over, then listen to L.S, you'll just be like 'shit'. The difference is unreal really. The lyrics are more advanced and there's more going on as a whole, 2 guitars etc.

5 What's next for The Brookes?

Complete domination of the music industry.

Big thanks to Jamie for the interview. 

You can purchase tickets for The Brookes gigs in Nottingham, Sheffield and the date with The Swiines in Scunthorpe this November via contacting the band: 

Twitter : @TheBrookesUK / https://twitter.com/TheBrookesUK

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TheBrookesUK

Email: [email protected]

Webpage: http://thebrookes.wix.com/thebrookesuk / http://thebrookesuk.tumblr.com/

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Listen to The Brookes 'Taking Over' EP on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH09eVWKlZOZG13J0YdoveQ and Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thebrookesmusic

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The Libertines reformed yesterday evening to play a riotus set for British Summer Time at Hyde Park. 

Ending with Carl and Pete hugging eachother to oblivion until both fell to the floor of the Hyde Park stage, The Libertines played out a triumphant 24 song-long set. Pre-performance Pete paid tribute to "Those who gave their lives for liberty", by saying to the rampant crowd "We remember and honour those who gave their lives for liberty. We thought it was nerve-wracking coming out here tonight but leaving Kings Cross station with a rifle across your back in 1914 must have been really hard." Following this, Carl, Pete, John and Gary played:

1 Vertigo

2 Boys In The Band

3 The Delaney

4 Campaign Of Hate

5 Time For Heroes

6 Horrorshow

7 Begging

8 The Ha Ha Wall

9 Music When The Lights Go Out

10 What Katie Did

11 The Boy Looked At Johnny

12 Can't Stand Me Now

13 Last Post On The Bugle

14 Love On The Dole

15 Arbeit Macht Frei

16 Death On The Stairs

17 Radio America

18 Don't Look Back Into The Sun

19 Tell The King

20 Up The Bracket

21 What A Waster

22 France

23 Albion

24 I Get Along

Despite continous intteruptions from the crowd, such as crushing of spectators and the climbing of sound towers, which caused the band to halt their set on a few occasions after security took to the stage forcing the set to temporarily stop, Pete pleaded to the crowd "We can't carry on if you don't calm down a bit." Calm down the crowd didn't, carry on The Libertines did and emphatically to that matter. Highlights being, 'Boys In The Band', 'Time For Heroes', 'Can't Stand Me Now', 'Up The Bracket', 'What A Waster' and 'I Get Along' which sent the crowd into a frenzy. After an eventful evening in Hyde Park, it's fair to say, The Libertines are back. 

And they're staying. The Libertines have announced two nights at Alexandra Palace for September of this year. 

Purchase tickets via this link: http://www.axs.com/uk/series/831/the-libertines-presale-tickets?cid=ukpresale&skin=aegliveuk%A0

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The Libertines have announced two nights at London's Ally Pally for September of this year. Previously Carl, Pete, John and Gary had revealed that at 8:30pm an announcement would appear on the screens around Hyde Park, this sparked huge speculation, could it be a new album? Could it be a tour? Well, it turned out only to be two nights at London's iconic Ally Pally.

Though the announcement may not have been what we desired, let us remind you the dates for The Libertines forthcoming Ally Pally gigs are for the 27th and 28th of September this year. Providing solid evidence that The Libertines could be hanging around for a little while. 

If you're are planning on purchasing tickets for The Libertines' Ally Pally gigs, the presale begins at 11pm tonight via the link: http://www.axs.com/uk/series/831/the-libertines-presale-tickets?cid=ukpresale&skin=aegliveuk ;

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We chatted to Garden this week. The 'super-group' have recently released their debut track 'Blind Vipers' and were on hand to tell us a little about it. This is how it went down:

1 Who are Garden?

Garden are a rock super-group made from members of Heavy Waves, Bad Moon and (the gone but never forgotten) Wide Eyed. I'd had this idea for ages and finally found a line up that I thought could give it the colour it needed. So we got together some jams and now we're recording.

2 You've recently released your debut track 'Blind Viper', tell us a little about that?

It came from a riff idea Paddy wrote when we had bombarded him with this Flats song. We just imagined a kind of bleakly heavy repetitive bit of doom that just lazily drips in to more spacious tangents. I'd call it a sleazy piece. It's weird that it's our first release because as much as we enjoyed writing it and enjoy playing it, its oddly absent of certain things that reflect our future song ideas.

3 Who are Garden's biggest inspirations?

Firstly, Black Sabbath. I always imagined this band as a much simpler thing, like I basically wanted to write some hardcore punk that was driven by psychedelia and doom. Vocally I'd say I take influence from bands like Purple Mercy, Pissed Jeans and maybe some more Jim Morrison type shit. But what makes this band so interesting to play in is that the others come from totally different angles, Aaron likes loads of math rock and gets hard from anything with a dodgy time signature. Luke has an admiration for like grunge and surf music (see his band Heavy Waves). Thom and I have played music together for years, he listens exclusively to Bill Withers. Paddy just loves class hip hop like The Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest. So as you can tell when your dealing with a mad collage of what people dig its a lot less about who influences us but what. Writing is becoming challenging in the most interesting way yet for me personally. Over all though we all just love God Damn, I think they were my proof that something so obscene might just work.

4 Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

Dead.

5 What's next for Garden?

We have a show on the 19th with a band called Milk Teeth in Birmingham that we're excited about and have a couple of other shows to announce soon. Its our first show since our debut at the actress and bishop so it will be cool to play again. Other than that we are finishing off a set off three songs that were putting out in September.

Huge thanks to Garden for the interview. 

Listen to Garden's debut track 'Blind Vipers' via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9uk8aTK6J8&feature=youtu.be

Follow Garden on Twitter: @gardenzeband

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Visit Garden's webpage on Tumblr: gardenband.tumblr.com

RIFFED x

It's almost been a week since the curtain came down on Glastonbury 2014 and we're beginning to talk of next years festival already. But, who will headline Glastonbury 2015?

Well, the likes of Oasis, Iron Maiden, Ed Sheeran, Jake Bugg, Fleetwood Mac and Biffy Clyro have all been mentioned. But Oasis surely won't reform, will they? Well talk of it was strong on the weekend, as when we brought you the news both Gallagher brothers were down Worthy Farm, we all began to speculate. But when we asked Paul Arthurs (A.K.A Bonehead) in our interview with the founding member of the band, "Is there any chance of Oasis reforming? Ever?" he replied "You're asking the wrong person. I don't know." Therefore, we can only hope for the time being. As well as Oasis, the odds are stacked upon; Iron Maiden, Ed Sheeran, Jake Bugg, Fleetwood Mac and Biffy Clyro, but who really will headline next years festival. But, we shall have to wait and see.

Here's a rough guess at some of next years line-up that we made recently: 

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