Other Side Of The Sun, The - Sun Ra

Advantages: Successful, professional, knows its market
Disadvantages: Brash, trivial, scurrilous, simplistic, self-congratulatory

...: National Readership Survey), some 49% above the next highest national daily (in this case, the Daily Mirror). Nearly one in five adults in the UK reads The Sun. Although its socio-economic profile tends towards the less affluent end of the market, it still has more readers in the ABC1 group (approx. professional, managerial and white-collar) than any other daily except the Daily Mail. It is particularly popular among young people (22.5% of all 15-44 year olds read The Sun, almost exactly double the percentage reading the runner-up Daily Mirror), and among men (21.8% of all versus 13.6% for the Daily Mirror). Additionally, however, it is still the best-read national daily among women as well as men. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ~ Salient Features ~ Those numbers are formidable. Even though there has been a slight... Read review

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Advantages: Different and really visual
Disadvantages: Hard to appreciate

...being used in TV programmes for sound tracks. Now that I recognise their sound I pick them up quite frequently showing that their popularity is growing among new audiences. The band consists of Luke and Nick who were friends before the official band formation but were musically signed individually before they became friends which is how they met and connected with each other through their similar sounds. The pair came up with and produced their album ?Walking on a dream? in October of 2008 and their initial success was popularised by fans downloading some off their tracks on MySpace. Music Style The best way to describe Empire of the Sun?s music is Fantasy electro pop, it is not everyone?s taste but if you are a fan of bands like MGMT then you will have no problem appreciating the kooky sounds that this duo produce. They have... Read review

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Advantages: The title track is a big hitter, great to see them still in action
Disadvantages: Very patchy quality, just not classic Placebo

...Placebo are a defiantly odd band, and always have been, sitting somewhere between flamboyant glam and angry punk posturing. Surfing in on the tail end of Britpop, they've defied the music press by remaining a going concern for six albums and about fifteen years. Probably, if we're being completely honest, because they've never raised their heads far enough above the parapet of popular culture to burn out like Oasis does every couple of years. Boasting more drummers than Spinal Tap, and the distinctive nasal mid-Atlantic vocals of Brian 'sex pixie' Molko, the band is, in the best tradition of UK middleweight rock groups, huge in Europe, and famous for generating publicity through spats with other bands. One of the most notorious being their run-in with Limp Biskit during a South American tour. But anyway. Battle For the Sun. Sixth... Read review

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