Music-Drop Magazine

5. Trouble Will Find Me - The National  - May 20th 4.  Silence Yourself - The Savages - May 5th 3.  Clarietta - Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs - May 27th 2. Once I Was A Eagle - Laura Marling - May 27th 1. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk - May 20th

100.  Tago Mago - Can Psychedelic/Prog-Rock Released: 1971 99.  Low - David Bowie Art Rock Released: 1977 98.  The Clash - The Clash Punk Released: 1977 97.  Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen Heartland Rock Released: 1984 96.  Automatic For The People - R.E.M Alterative Rock Released: 1992 95.  Wildflowers - Tom Petty Folk Rock/Blues Rock Released: 1994 94.  Slowhand - Eric Clapton Blues Rock Released: 1977 93.  In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson Progressive Rock Released: 1969 92.  Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake Folk Released: 1969 91.  Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young Folk Rock Released: 1970 90. American Beauty - Grateful Dead Psychedelic Rock Released: 1970

The Strypes - Hometown Girl The Blues boys returned this month and after a bit of larking about, talking to a few legends and performing alongside Paul Weller. Decided that we mere mortals had been good enough to be graced with this single; ( if you have an consistency with this blog you will know of my adoration of the strypes) Although this single fails to live up to Blue collar Jane it proves they're not just a one trick pony and neither are they a covers band. Temples - Colours To Life Who doesn't want to live like a hippy once in their life? Free Love, Psych, Drugs, Unity. There was everythin everybody would want but unfortunately if you're reading this you either didn't live in that wonderful age or you're a very Tech-Savy 60 year old in which case *High Five*. Temples in this single replicate the sounds of the mid 60s 'Tomorrow Never Knows' Beatles while maintaining a look that Marc Bolan would love. Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs - ...

The Strokes are without a doubt one of my favourite 2000s bands, their 2001 album 'Is this It?' is  my favourite album of the past 20 years. I anticipate that most people kno who they are (A Indie- Garage Rock Band) so i won't bore you with details of their brilliance. All you need to know is that they are genius. The Strokes are a american rock band formed in New York in 1999, with their membership including; Julian Casablancas (Singer), Nick Valensi (Lead Guitarist), Albert Hammond Jr (Guitarist) , Fabrizio Moretti (Drums),  Nikolai Fraiture (Bass). Alongside Detroit Based geniuses The White Stripes they helped usher in a new era of Garage Rock, While their debut album 'Is This It?' was declared the 199th best album ever by rolling stone magazine while i consider it the 65th best album ever. They Have Since Created 4 other albums with their latest 'comedown machine' being the best album of 2013 in my humble opinion VIVA LA STROKES

5. The Terror - Flaming Lips - 1st April 4.  Mosquito - Yeah Yeah Yeahs -  16th April 3.  Overgrown - James Blake - 8th April  2. Itunes Sessions (Yes I know it isn't a studio album) - Gary Clark Jr - 25th April 1. Bankrupt! - Phoenix - 23rd April 

5. Bad Blood - Bastille - 4th March 4. In Love - Peace - 25th March 3. Chronicles Of Marnia - Marnie Stern - 19th March 2.  The Next Day - David Bowie - 12th March 1. Comedown Machine - The Strokes - 26th March 

5. Amok - Atoms For Peace - 25th February 4. 180 - Palma Violets - 25th February  3. Holy Fire - Foals - 11th February 2. Cabinet Of Curiosities - Jacco Gardner - 11th February 1. The Messenger - Johnny Marr - 25th February

5. Arc - Everything Everything - 14th January  4.  Wolf's Law - The Joy Formidable - 21st January  3. True North - Bad Religion - 22nd January  2.  Opposites - Biffy Clyro - 28th January  1. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic -Foxygen- 22nd January 

1. Upstarts - Johnny Marr 2.  Entertainment - Phoenix 3. Get Lucky - Daft Punk 4. The Stars(Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie 5. San Francisco - Foxygen 6. Immortals - Marnie Stern 7.  Blue Collar Jane - The Strypes 8. 80s Comedown Machine - The Strokes 9. Please Don't Say You Love Me - Gabrielle Aplin 10.  Pompeii - Bastille

I buy NME every week religiously, i sit there, read it, then i proceed to laugh at some of their opinions. I don't openly dismiss their thoughts but.... i've got to say..... NME's top 10 Britpop songs... was terrible this is their top 10. 1. Common People- Pulp 2. Girls & Boys - Blur 3. Cigarettes & alcohol - Oasis 4. Connection - Elastica 5. Yes - Mcalmont & Butler 6. End of a century - Blur 7. Supersonic  - Oasis 8. Reverend Black Grape - Black Grape 9. Animal Nitrate - Suede 10. Sorted for E's & Wizz Now i won't bore you with why it's bad although i could mention a lack of Kula shaker *cough* *cough*. so heres my top 10 1.  Common People - Pulp (Me and NME are in agreement there) 2. Live Forever - Oasis 3. Girls & Boys - Blur (Me and NME Both agree to its brilliance) 4. Bittersweet Sympathy - The Verve 5.  Hush - Kula Shaker (Although it was a cover) 6. Connection - Elastica (OK me and NME also acknowledge t...

Sky Ferreira is very possibly the next pop princess... in a good way, no not like Selena Gomez, not  like Kylie either... or Madonna... ok she's a first, but she's actually pretty good, i mean in the same way that i love Florrie's music, i love Sky's. Her genre is unique, her music style is unique and lets face it she has the face that would make people buy her music if the sounds were that of muffled farts. BUT they're not. As brilliant as this all sounds, i can guarantee you that if you are a solid blues fan , a standard indie fan or someone who sticks strongly to classic rock reader you won't like her, she plays a mix between synth-pop, alternative pop and dance pop, not the cup of tea for our everyday rocker. Her debut album is called "I'm Not Alright" which yes i agree i'm not a fan of, although i prefer abstract title names myself or ones that are puns. This one however.... leaves me with a aftertaste in my mouth which doesn't ...

I wasn't given the honour to be alive in 80s Manchester, as were many of you i'm sure. However two people who also failed to experience it, are trying to recreate the sounds, no they aren't the Gallagher brothers, they're not even from Manchester, or Britain. It's Australia's Jagwar Ma whom are trying to recreate the 'Madchester' sound. Following in the resurrection of retro by the likes of Jacco Gardner , The Strypes , Temples , Peace and Charlie Voyeur and the voyeurs . Jagwar Ma are unique in every sense of the world, they're trying to usher in a second wave of Indie dance, when lets face it the independent market doesn't need it, but perhaps this is what has made them so in demand, the fact that they aren't catering for anyone and are just struggling onwards with passion, 'throwing their hair into the wind' being the expression i'd use.  Think Stone Roses.  Think Happy Mondays. Now stop thinking and dance. ...

Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs are what is known as a retro rock band, with garage rock tendencies, and this causes usual mass confusion about why they're signed up by the 'Heavenly' Label, best known for giving us such psychedelic artists as TOY or Temples , and although this affiliation does them favours (including them in one of the most promising recording scenes) it also doesn't always help them, because people are a lot more likely to ignore them due to their label mates. Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs are also responsible for bringing retro sounds back into the field, and are bringing proper guitar music back alongside NME favourites Palma Violets, while The Strypes bring back blues-rock and Jacco Gardner brings back 60s psychedelica. This resurgence of music is creating a steady stream of music which appears promising and i personally am looking forward to what may come. Their Album "Clarietta" is out at the end of this month, and it looks promi...

Out of every ongoing band which is currently creating the sounds for our ears best known as Psychedelic music, Peace are one of the few acts which openly admits its Psychedelic influences and sounds. With the ongoing creation of so many new, fantastic psych bands (see Tame Impala, Temples , Jacco Gardener , Etc), why should you listen Peace. Well although its impossible to sway your opinion with other peoples opinion it is a well known and established fact that Peace are one of those bands that have nothing dislikable about them, the band members appear happy albeit somewhat crazy and loveable.  Perhaps one of the greatest things about this band is there album name, which i loved, "In Love",  now the album title is not a cheesy Rom-Com about a boy in love, it's actually a play on the old much loved hippy slogan "peace and love", now squint your eyes and imagine a donkey. Now forget the donkey as its not that important. 'Peace n' Love' is ho...

To those of us who are aware of modern blues artists, Gary Clark Jr presents the freshest sounds since Stevie Ray Vaughan, and although he has slowly been building up a substantial fan base over the past three years, he has over the past year, truely became a brilliant artist in his own right. As a guitarist there are none who can equal him, in his age range. He has been showered by compliments by a heap of guitarists. His debut album "Blak And Blu" was amazing, phenomenal, you won't get another one like it for the rest of the year. The best thing about him? Well that's probably the fact that although you can directly sense his influence in his music, you can still obviously tell it is made in this day and age. Now roughly three quarters of the artists i write about have a 50/50 chance of making it big time, but Gary doesn't have that, he IS going to make it, this isn't optimism, this is realism at its finest.

A Dutch child bravely forces open the chest to unveil a kind of treasure never expected by him nor anyone, this child has just discovered what we in the mortal world describe as.... Psychedelic Music. Now that somewhat long introduction truly serves no purpose except to tell the reader that this post is about a young dutch boy who creates psychedelic music, i thought i was a ok intro actually... Jacco Gardener was the boys name and people frequently refer to him as the next Syd Barrett which as a massive Syd fan i disagree with but this does not mean that i don't love his music. He is however comparable to the musical unknown Curt Boettcher, one of psychedelica's greatest servicemen. The honest sad truth is that Jacco won't make it into the mainstream attention unless he sells out, he may be brilliant but no one yearns for brilliance anymore they yearn for a young attractive person with no mind of their own, unfortunately Jacco fits none of this billing. You're ...

A few rules a notes for this post, firstly this i'm forcing myself to only include one album of each artist hence why there is only one Beatles album and One Bob Dylan album. Also this is personal opinion so don't start raising the townsfolk in arms just because you disagree.  10. Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones  The Beatles' great rivals finally succeeded in releasing a album to match the Beatles in 1969 thus cementing them into Rock's history.  9. Music From Big Pink - The Band The world's greatest backing band's first solo effort truly destroyed the minds of the musicians of 1968 and left many of them questioning the meaning of their music.  8. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd Syd Barrett's masterpiece was glorious and was the best Floyd effort until Dark Side. However i consider this their 2nd best album overall with only Wish You Were Here topping it.  7. Tommy - The Who  The first true Rock Opera. No on ...

Psychedelica, the lost artform is being reborn inside the mists of the underground. With foreign artists leading the scene at the moment, we brits must feel depressed at our lack of success as of now with Aussie's Tame Impala, Scandanvian's Goat, America's Foxygen, and Holland's Jacco Gardener . So we people of the British isles must be somewhat lost... right? wrong! We have a whole host of young musicians who are clinging to the mists of the past, with Peace and Temples being the most prominent two. Temples are a band from the midlands of England, a rather unexpected area for Psychedelic to be reborn. But despite these somewhat plain origins, Temples are making splashs inside the music industry, with many elder statesmen of music announcing their love for their sounds. Now i'm not going to start saying they are anywhere as good as the old psych gods of Jefferson's Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Syd Barrett or The Grateful Dead, however i am willing to...