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Huge Music News: Slipknot - '.5: The Gray Chapter' releasing 17th October!

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Having been a huge Slipknot fan for a good 10 years, you can only imagine my excitement when I woke up to news that masked metal heads will be releasing their 5th studio album ‘.5: The Gray Chapter’ on the 17th of October!

Surely as iconic as any band in the annals of rock, Slipknot has starred on the cover of innumerable national and international publications, from Rolling Stone, SPIN, and Alternative Press to Guitar World, Revolver, and Billboard. What’s more, Slipknot has received myriad honors, awards, and nominations, including a Grammy Award for “Best Metal Performance” as well as six further Grammy nods, multiple Kerrang! Awards, Revolver Golden Gods Awards, NME Awards, and Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, and nods for both MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Europe Music Awards. This is clearly a band that has mastered their art.

.5: The Gray Chapter is also available in a wide range of distinctive versions, including standard and special edition CDs (2 bonus tracks and expanded packaging) as well as limited edition, colored vinyl double LP set.

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The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift Guide

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With Father's Day just round the corner (it's on the 7th of September in case you'd forgotten), we've put together this ultimate father's day gift guide to help you find that perfect gift for the worlds #1 dad!

1. Top 5 Albums for Dad this Fathers Day
Browse our range of top CDs and albums to find the perfect gift for your dad, the musician. Pick out something nostalgic to remind him or his youth, or help him feel young again with some of our new releases.

2. 10 Great Gadget Gifts for Dad
If your Dad is a bit of a tech geek and loves gadgets, then swing by our gadget gift guide to browse the latest gizmos Dad will love you for.

3. Top 10 Movie & TV Shows Dad Will Love this Father's Day
We all know that Dad's love a good movie. Check out our top 10 movies and TV shows that Dad's are craving this Father's Day. Including classics like Back to the Future and Planet of the Apes, to new releases like Raid 2, House of Cards and of course, Game of Thrones.

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Top 5 Albums for Dad this Fathers Day!

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With Fathers day just around the corner we thought we'd let you know our top 5 albums for Dad on his special day!

1. Shihad – FVEY – For Dads that like to grumble about the government and have a no nonsense attitude, this is the perfect album to get him headbanging.

FVEY sounds unlike anything Shihad have done before, which is not bad for a band who have been around for 25 years. It's a beautifully raging and rumbling album but danceable and laced with grooves, perfectly highlighted in the first single ‘Think you’re so Free’.

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Guardians Of The Galaxy Soundtrack Back in Stock NOW!

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We've just received another shipment of the HUGELY popular Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol 1!

If you've been lucky enough to see the blockbuster smash hit film, you know that music plays a huge role.

Explaining how the songs come to play in the story, director James Gunn says, “One of the main story points in the movie is that Quill has this compilation tape that he got from his mother before she died that she made for him. It was of songs that she loved, all songs from the 1970s, and that’s the only thing he has left of his mother and that’s the only thing he has left of his home on Earth. He uses that as a connection to his past and to the sadness that he feels of having left all that and lost all that.”

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Michael Jackson - 'A Place With No Name' Official Music Video!

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This morning we're treated to a fantastic video for ‘A Place With No Name’ from the late great pop icon Michael Jackson. Taken from his latest album Xscape, the video features archived footage of MJ doing what he did best. The song is clearly inspired by the classic ‘America’ song ‘A Horse With no Name’, but see's Michael putting his signature spin on it!

Check out the Samuel Bayer directed clip below!

If you like what you hear, be sure to order a copy of Xscape today!

What the Critics are Saying About The Golden Echo!

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Kimbra will release The Golden Echo, tomorrow and critics are already praising the Kiwi singer’s sophomore effort with today’s New Zealand Herald giving the album a glowing 5-star review.

Describing it as “cold, dynamic, boundary-pushing, incredibly well produced and yet not as outlandishly bonkers as you might have expected” the herald review comes on the heels of a 4-star Rolling Stone review and several other reviews from international pres­s.

The ultimate modern pop record, The Golden Echo is ambitious, sophisticated, and complex.

Pre-order The Golden Echo before 4:30pm today for release day delivery tomorrow!

New Flying Lotus Album, 'You're Dead!' out 3rd October!

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The incredible return of Flying Lotus on Warp. You're Dead! sees producer Steven Ellison taking us on a transcendental voyage into the afterlife. A wholly immersive, psychedelic journey, it's a virtuoso performance from one of the decade's most talented and inventive artists.

The album features contributions from Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Captain Murphy, Snoop Dogg, Angel Deradoorian, Thundercat and Niki Randa. Original artwork by Japanese comic book artist Shintaro Kago.

‘You’re Dead!’ is a shamanic pilgrimage into the psychedelic unknown of the infinite afterlife. A sonic, visual and metaphysical fusion of technological innovation and technical virtuosity that amounts to a transcendent, mind-expanding plasm that could only exist between our world and another.

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Make your Speakers Bluetooth Capable!

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Hey, remember that time a couple of years ago you were showing off your sweet stereo setup to your mates? It had everything: all the latest features AND an awesome sound. And yet a couple of years down the track technology seems to have left it behind…

Nowadays everyone has music on their phones or streamed online that they want to share at a party, and you're the one stuck messing with cables trying to plug the things in!

Rather than throwing the whole system out, why not upgrade it with something like the Logitech Bluetooth Audio Adapter? Your stereo system gets all the wireless simplicity of Bluetooth, and you don't have to fork out thousands for a whole new system.

Now you can spend less time at your parties messing round with cables and more time hanging out with your mates or busting a move on the dance floor!

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Ariana Grande - Break Free (Ft. Zedd) official music video!

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Vocal powerhouse Ariana Grande delivers a new video for her single ‘Break Free’ featuring Zedd.

The clip features Ariana on a goofy space adventure showing inspiration from classic Star Trek all the way through to Barbarella. This song will appear on her sophomore album My Everything, set to release on August 22nd!

Check out the Chris Marrs Piliero directed video below.

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