Vanity Project #11

The latest issue of Vanity Project is out now, featuring the following and much more besides:

Features: Edinburgh Festival round-up

Interviews: Red Letter Day

Album reviews: The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Sufjan Stevens, Gibby Haynes & His Problem, The Radio Dept, Wolf Eyes, Holly Golightly, Nina Nastasia, Tokyo Dragons, Polysics, The Open, Cake, Cranes

Single reviews: The Hives, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Hidden Cameras, Mylo, The Others, The Departure, Aberfeldy, Maritime, The Boxer Rebellion, The Detroit Cobras

Live reviews: The Magic Band, The Fall, Belle & Sebastian, Jeffrey Lewis, Truck Festival, Dawn Of The Replicants, The Blueskins

Perhaps I ought to place extra emphasis on the "much more besides" - like many fanzine writers, Skif and his merry band continue to carry the torch lit by John Peel, passionately championing the obscure and the unknown alongside the relatively established. Which, if any, of the unheard-of bands enthused over here will make it? Halflight? Merchandise? Superelectric? Or Ripped In Half, a death metal band whose Excremental Illness LP features such ditties as 'Bury Me In Shit' and 'Poke My Pus-Filled Wound'? Who knows. What matters, though, is that there are people out there fighting the corner of the the underdog.

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