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Born in New Jersey Walter Trout, as any blues fan worth his weight in dimples will know, is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who’s career began on the Jersey coast scene of the late 60's and early 70's before going on to become a sideman for artists such as Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, and Percy Mayfield, the guitarist for Canned Heat and then the mother of all blues bands John Mayall's Bluesbreakers where he made a name for himself sparring with second guitarist Coco Montoya. He went on to form the Walter Trout Band – although the band has also traded under Walter Trout and the Free Radicals, and Walter Trout and the Radicals – finding a ready-made audience in much of Europe and our man David Blue collared him on his way to dinner after a recent show in the UK...
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Swings Your Pants

Pendulum Not since the Prodigy has a band been so beloved of both the metal press and the dance press but such is the case with Aussie outfit Pendulum (with appearances at both Creamfields and Download due this summer). Even some of the more rabidly anti-dance old farts in the office have been seen to nod distractedly when recent album In Silico has been on the TM-O boombox and if you missed out the first time round you can now catch up as they release their Live At Brixton Academy DVD/CD set, see what all the fuss is about below
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Pulp Fiction

Jarvis Cocker New album Further Complications sees Jarvis Cocker moving away from the deeply contemplative atmosphere of his lauded debut solo effort Jarvis, and donning his rock and roll kecks for some Steve Albini produced gnarly racket - and lyrically harking back to the days when sex, sex and a bit more sex occupied his mind - and we have the video for lead single Angela right here (although we reckon there will be mums and nans up and down the country desperate to trim Jarv's wayward fringe...)
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Bilboquet Plus

Kendama The latest bizarre Japanese craze to surface, based on the old cup and ball game, is called Kendama, only being Japanese it couldn’t be as simple as just lobbing a ball into a cup, noooo, they’ve gone and added a point to one end so you can spear it as well, why not watch a particularly self-satisfied chap doing all manner of things with it below? Why would we want to do that we hear you cry? ‘Cos it’s sound- tracked by the mightily underrated Scaramanga six (and their latest album is also reviewed this very month).
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