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Mike's Mad4these w/c 13 Oct 08
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artist
1 - THE KILLERS Human new single 17 November
2 9 LYKKI LI Little Bit new single 27 October
3 8 TEAM WATERPOLO So Called Summer new single 27 Oct
4 1 SASH Raindrops Kindervater Remix / La Primavera Static Shokx Remix from 'The Best Of Sash' album 20 October
5 3 WAVE MACHINES The Greatest Escape We Ever Made new single 27 October
 6 12 CHARLI XCX Art Bitch / Emmeline new single 17 November
7 2 THE KING BLUES Save The World, Get The Girl title track of new album 20 October
8 - NATTY Bedroom Eyes (King Fatty Remix) new single 29 September
9 4 BURNINGPILOT Accelerate new single 27 October
10 7 PRIMAL SCREAM vs CALVIN HARRIS Uptown new single 27 October
11 - STEREOPHONICS You're My Star new single 27 October
12 6 VV BROWN Crying Blood new single 3 Nov MySpace
12 - CAGE THE ELEPHANT I Wanna Be Your Dog B-side to the 'In One Ear' single
12 - LADYHAWKE Manipulating Woman from the 'Ladyhawke' album
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this week's post ...

Gloria Cycles
No Zeroes new single
Gloria Cycles are improving all the time, here's another punchy new two track cd with the lead track, the 2 minutes 40 seconds 164bpm 'No Zeroes' followed by the short 1' 40" 'Wonderbus'. Short and sweet and a big maybe

Josephine Oniyama
Closer new single 17 November
xWho? Yes Josephine opened the Liverpool Proms in 2000 with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and since has guested with Byrds legend Roger McGuinn and Josh Ritter, recording her first demos with Elbow's Guy Garvey. 'Closer' is an unusually frenetic debut which kinda stands out firstly for it's solid 118bpm bassline intro and then winding up to 250bpm's for the main verse & chorus. 'Rollicking rockabilly' as the pr says is an apt description and Jo signed to Island should pick up some valuable new fans with this release

Kid British
Elizabeth new single
Yep she's on the cover again, just like on The Pistols 'God Save The Queen' but without vthe nasal safety pin. This appears to be a love song 'Lizbeth' as Kid Brit serenades her at a pop punky 164bpm it's a nice idea. However, it probably needs another silver or golden jubilee to catch on

Lucien Caine
EP1 The Only Man That Matters new EP 27 October
Well this is a bit of a classic cd, the debut from Manchester's Lucien Caine. Four superb tracks here leading with the 110bpm 'The Only man That Matters', then the 90bpm 'Advice From Strangers', our initial fave the 110bpm 'Black Widow' and the slow commanding 78bpm 'Those Days Are Gone'. This is the first of three four track EP's showcasing an album's worth of material. Very, very good

Opera House
'Change In Nature' new single/EP 10 November
Four superb tracks here on Operahouse debut EP. The 100bpm title track kicks in first, then the gripping 93bpm 'Criminals' and the 95bpm 'Plastic Cage' and the outstanding 96bpm finale, 'Red hats For The Masses'. For every thousand of these cd's sold this environmentally conscious band will dedicate a quarter of an acre of woodland with the woodland trust, each with about 25 mature trees

Red Light Company
Scheme Eugene James Ruill Remix new single
Red Light Company return to Mad4it at Cardiff Barfly on Friday 7 November 2008. 'Scheme Eugene' is their latest single and now it comes in an excellent throbbing 135bpm James Ruill remix, well worthy!

Thomas Tantrum
Rage Against The Tantrum new single
Well well, this is the dog's bollothingy .. these chaps and chapesses have been around a little while and this is their best yet. full of youthful exuberance at a joyous 124bpm, catchy and uplifting and a stupendous title 'Rage Against The Tantrum' - very nice and if there be any justice this should follow Noah & the Whale into the top ten

The Verve
Rather Be new single 17 November
It's classic Verve with Ashcroft strolling once again through video land, no mention of the Mrs though. 'Rather Be' should be top twenty without too much trouble, a worthy follow-up to 'Love Is Noise' which made the top five and spend nine weeks in the forty. Good chune

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

new cd's
our weekly a to z of new cd review's is listed below

this week
Gloria Cycles
Josephine Oniyama 17/11
Kid British
Lucien Caine 27/10
Opera House 10/11
Red Light Company
Thomas Tantrum
The Verve

6 Oct
Barefoot Confessor Sampler
Cage The Elephant 6/10
Calvin Party 3/11
Danko Jones 24/11
Esser 10/11
Finger Eleven 9/11
Killers 17/11 LP 24/11
King Blues LP 20/10
Natty 29/9
Stereophonics LP 10/11
Wild Beasts 13/10
Will Tang 27/10

29 Sep
 Charli XCX 17/11
InnerPartySystem LP 29/9
Keane 20/10
Ladytron 29/9
Lykke Li 27/10
Towers Of London LP

22 Sep
Burningpilot 27/10
Dana Nana Naykroyd 6/10
Detroit Socail Club
David Guetta & Chris Willis 27/10
Fall Out Boy 20/10
Flobots LP 29/10
Honey Ryder 6/10
Jeremy Warmsley
The Kills 3/11
Ladyhawke LP 22/9
MIA 'Kala' LP
Robots In Disguise
Sash Best Of 20/10
Team Waterpolo 27/10
VV Brown Remixes 3/11
Young Rival

15 Sep
Ben Folds 29/9
Cut Off Your Hands 13/10
Ida Maria 3/11
Metallica
Neil Halstead
Primal Scream v Calvin Harris
Rifles
This City 22/9
Wave Machines 27/10

8 Sep
Black Daniel
Forever The Sickest Kids 13/10
Golden Silvers
Katy Perry LP 15/9 King Blues 13/10
The Metros LP 15/9
New Education
Red Light Company
The Raid 27/10
The Rivers 6/10
Scars On Broadway 6/10
Sleepcurve 13/10
The Last Shadow Puppets
To The Bones 22/9
Towers Of London 22/9
The View 27/10
You Me At Six 29/9

1 Sep
Cage The Elephant 6/10
The Coral Singles
The Cure 13/9
Elbow 29/9
Flobots LP 15/9
InnerPartySystem LP 29/9
Kaiser Chiefs
Lykke Li
Metallica
Snow Patrol 13/10
VV Brown

25 Aug
The All New Adventures Of Us 29/9
Foals 29/9
Human 22/9

18 Aug
Billy Talent 15/9
Black Tide 25/8
Courteeners
CSS Remixes
Flobots DJ Shadow Remix
Goldblade LP 8/9
Grinderman
Iglu & Hartly
Johnny Flynn 1/9
Maybes?
1913
Noah & The Whale LP
The Streets
Ting Tings

11 Aug
The Automatic LP
Eric Prydz 25/8
The Feeling 15/9
Infadels
John Legend 4/10
Kings Of Leon 15/9
Ladyhawke 15/9
Neil Halstead 8/9
Primal Scream LP
Sergeant 1/9
Underground Railroad
Weezer 29/9
Xpress 2 & David Byrne Remixes

4 Aug
 All New Adventures Of Us 4/8
The Automatic 18/8
Cold War Kids 15/9
CSS 8/9
The Delays 11/8
Flobots 15/9
Keane 4/8
Mogwai 8/9
Mystery Jets 18/8
Neimo
Red Light Company 11/8
Subways LP 16/6
Subways Single 25/8
White Lies 22/9

Pink's nursery rhyme is at the top for a second week, Oasis are falling faster than Boyzone and The Kaisers & Snow Patrol must be reasonably happy

Top 40 Sun 12 Oct 08

This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title

1 1 3 PINK So What

2 2 5 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

3 4 3 SUGABABES Girls

4 6 11 RIHANNA Disturbia

5 new KAISER CHIEFS Never Miss A Beat

6 11 7 NE-YO Miss Independent

7 7 11 KATY PERRY I Kissed A Girl

8 8 6 PUSSYCAT DOLLS When I Grow Up

9 10 6 GYM CLASS HEROES & THE DREAM Cookie Jar

10 9 5 IGLU & HARTLEY In This City

11 13 4 JENNIFER HUDSON Spotlight

12 20 2 PLATNUM Love Shy

13 5 2 BOYZONE I Love You Anyway

14 18 3 KANYE WEST Love Lockdown

15 new SNOW PATROL Take Back This City

16 3 2 OASIS The Shock Of The Lightning

17 14 5 BASSHUNTER Angel In The Night

18 15 12 THE SCRIPT The Man Who Can't Be Moved

19 16 9 MADCON Beggin'

20 12 3 JAMES MORRISON You Make It Real

 

21 21 5 MIA Paper Planes

22 37 2 N DUBZ Ouch

23 25 18 JORDIN SPARKS & CHRIS BROWN No Air

24 19 6 FLOBOTS Handlebars

25 17 4 WILL YOUNG Changes

26 26 2 ALICIA KEYS & JACK WHITE Another Way To Die

27 23 14 KID ROCK All Summer Long

28 30 7 MILEY CYRUS See You Again

29 32 17 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida

30 new JORDAN SPARKS Tattoo

31 28 15 DIZZEE RASCAL & CALVIN HARRIS Dance Wiv Me

32 24 7 ERIC PRYDZ Pjanoo

33 re-entry 27 SAM SPARRO Black & Gold

34 36 8 KEANE Spiralling

35 39 2 MGMT Kids

36 new COURTEENERS That Kiss

37 33 23 NE-YO Closer

38 29 3 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody

39 22 3 FAITH HILL There You'll Be

40 31 8 BIFFY CLYRO Mountains

the evidence

Pistols Fire
TV Fury At Rock Filth, so read The Daily Mirror on Saturday 1 December 1976. Well it was a long time ago, but it is possible to glean a few of things from this landmark cultural event. The late Bill Grundy's interviewing technique is simply awful - being drunk is no excuse. The Pistols seem entirely harmless until Grundy goads a reaction out of them. I have a lot of sympathy for Grandads but if Bill was as poor with every guest he should have been fired long before Le Pistola

Emmin's Top 34
Piers Morgan recently floored David Dimbleby's Question Time panel with his boasts of how much money he'd made thanks to Gordon Brown's housing boom time. Over the weekend the TV Personality, former News Of The World Editor and way back when Radio One Mr Showbiz Nasty has been at it again on his interview show 'The Dark Side Of Fame'. Artist Tracy Emmin faced the inquisition "So how many people have you slept with", Emmin "34 - for full sex, that's not very many is it?" Morgan "It's enough to be Leader of The Liberal Democrats"
More than enough to be Ghandi. The legendary Indian leader made a point of sleeping with as many naked women as were available each night without having sex with any. The purpose of this exercise? To test his will power and celibacy

Words & Action
As Gordon The Great continues the line that he's not responsible for the deregulated banking fiasco that has brought Capitalism to the brink, 'it's nothing to do with me but I'm the man to sort it out'. Here's another worrying thought. Wherever you maybe in UK PLC it's an interesting exercise to consider whether your council is continuing to spend your money like there is no tomorrow on useless non essentials. Road narrowing schemes that make it more difficult for emergency services, rubbish collection that sees an increase in vermine, education like learn through play, a health policy of centralising hospitals, a police force not paid properly, an army not armed properly, an MoD frequently losing top secret information. Wherever Nero is he must be fiddling-ing again right now

Why does
Tiger Woods wear two pairs of trousers? In case he gets a hole in one!

America's Hot 100

This Week ... Last Week ... Artist ... Title

1 - T.I. & RIHANNA Live Your Life

2 1 T.I. Whatever You Like

3 2 PINK So What

4 4 RHIANNA Disturbia

5 - KEVIN RUDOLPH & LIL WAYNE Let It Rock

6 6 KATY PERRY Hot N Cold

7 - CHRISTINA AGUILERA Keeps Gettin' Better

8 7 T-PAIN & LIL WAYNE Can't Believe It

9 6 MIA Paper Planes

10 - NICKELBACK Gotta Be Somebody