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FUSION!£1.20ISSUE 1

NEW TOUR!

REBEL DUBHip Hop MistrasTake OverAcademy

FRIENDLY FIRES

25th Feb 10

GALACTICA

VINYL FETISH“WE ARE THE HOLY GRAIL OF EVERYTHING!”

PARAMORENew Album?

Hayley Willamsspeaks to Fusion!

WorldwideInvasion!

PLUS MGMT | GIGGS | MIA | THE DRUMS | ELLIE GOULDING

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FUSION!BANDINDEX SNAPSHOT

Galactica 52Adult 29Damon Albarn 10Brett Anderson 31Ash 54Joss Stone 23Friendly Fires 40Oasis 49Gallows 34Blink 182 5Jamie T 78MGMT 45Tanlines 65Miles Kane 57Razorlight 39The Streets 88Hadouken! 22Ash 38Timbaland 63Hole 32Gruff Rhys 56 Muse 45Eels 47Miles Kane 21Ash 68Magik 44Glasvegas 2The Coral 4Liars 10Deerhoff 20Gossip 34

CONTENTSNEWS

6 The White Stripes8 Kaiser Chiefs13 Ronald Robinson vs Miles14 Letters

GIG GUIDE52 Maximo Park Florence & the Machine Hadouken!

REVIEWS25 LCD Soundsystem27 The Stooges29 Kubichek!31 The Sounds

NEW MUSIC16 I Was A Cub Scout19 This is dubstep Galactica36 Muse

THIS WEEK

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

#1

NEWMUSIC

NEED TO KNOW

Names: James & Chris

Genre: Dubstep Pop

Website: myspace.com/VF

Download: Mass Destruction

EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT...

HEAR THESE BANDSBEFORE YOUR MATESWords & Photos by

Eme Agard

These ladies describe themselves as indie hop masters, which we at Fusion! 100% believe. Their music is full of heavy synths and a hard bassline which will go through your soul like being on a cruise with a load of rowdy teenag-ers.Like what you are seeing? Well go on and listen to them now on the Fusion! Mixtape and on their Myspace now!

Download: Money Dummyhttp://myspace.com/hmuk

HOT MESS

If you like rowdy heavy metal then these are the guys to listen to. Hailing from Calfornia, they break the mould of the cliche bands that hail from the sunny state and bring a dark, mystery cloud that you will enjoy.

Download: Freaky Roofshttp:/myspace.com/purerock

PURE ROCKET

Imagine you’re Vinyl Fetish: you’ve come from the depths of East London and suddenly been thrust into the spot-

light and have broken America and have made a new music genre at the same time. It can be rather exhausting but Vinyl Fetish have done it all. Fusion! meets up with them in Downtown Calfornia to talk about girls, music, sex and Hitler...

Fusion!:Hey Vinyl, how’s it going?

VF: Hey peeps, its not going too bad actually. Pretty damn sexy

y’know...

F!: Right, down to business. You have a new album coming this week, tell us what it is about.

VF: Well basically, it is an album just full of good tunes. Tunes to rock out to, tunes to cry to and tunes to jam to. We have heard an album that has tunes that could be used for a birth, wedding, breakups, sexy times and funerals and that’s what we wanted to do. We hope we’ve done that anyway.

F!: Cool, how’s it feel to be the cool kids on the block?

VF: We are? Wow, well it feels pretty cool then. We are officially

the shit. (laughs)

FETISHINTERVIEW WITH THE GREATEST DJ’S ON EARTH!

VINYL

If you like bhangra infused hip pop. This is the band for you. Residing from the sunny Cornwall, these music obsessed girls took it among themselves to take the music world by the balls and what they came up with was the coolest music heard since jam on sliced bread! Listen to their new song on MySpace now!

Download: Ali Babski

http://myspace.com/bbabe

F!:Cool! Well thanks for speaking to us and congrats on the Brits Nomination.

VF: Thanks mate!

BALI BABES

F!: Haha, we recently heard that you guys had a mob of girls run-ning after you last night in Bir-mingham.

VF: Yeah, those Brum girls are crazy man. We had to dive down three back alleys and jump into some random backyard to meet up with our mate like, 2 hours later. It’s some funny shit.

15 FUSION! 16 FUSION!

F!: Do you guys have girlfriends? It’s an obligatory question that we ask to make girls cry.

VF: I’m free and single but James he’s like all over this girl. Loser.

“We are officially the s**t!”

F!: Are you thinking about crack-ing the old Americano?

VF: Yeah, we’re always, um...(Chris falls off seat and all burst into laughter) Mate you are such a tool sometimes (laughs).

F!: Aw, don’t you believe in love, Chris?

VF: I’m all about the women and that, he’s all lovey dovey.I find it weird, I think my mum dropped me on me head.

As I was saying, we are gonna tour with Hadouken! and Vampire Weekend this Summer and we are doing loads of festivals too. Can’t wait.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

#2

NEWMUSIC

NEED TO KNOW

Names: James & Chris

Genre: Dubstep Pop

Website: myspace.com/VF

Download: Mass Destruction

EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT...

HEAR THESE BANDSBEFORE YOUR MATESWords & Photos by

Eme Agard

These ladies describe themselves as indie hop masters, which we at Fusion! 100% believe. Their music is full of heavy synths and a hard bassline which will go through your soul like being on a cruise with a load of rowdy teenag-ers.Like what you are seeing? Well go on and listen to them now on the Fusion! Mixtape and on their Myspace now!

Download: Money Dummyhttp://myspace.com/hmuk

HOT MESS

If you like rowdy heavy metal then these are the guys to listen to. Hailing from Calfornia, they break the mould of the cliche bands that hail from the sunny state and bring a dark, mystery cloud that you will enjoy.

Download: Freaky Roofshttp:/myspace.com/purerock

PURE ROCKET

Imagine you’re Vinyl Fetish: you’ve come from the depths of East London and suddenly been thrust into the spot-

light and have broken America and have made a new music genre at the same time. It can be rather exhausting but Vinyl Fetish have done it all. Fusion! meets up with them in Downtown Calfornia to talk about girls, music, sex and Hitler...

Fusion!:Hey Vinyl, how’s it going?

VF: Hey peeps, its not going too bad actually. Pretty damn sexy

y’know...

F!: Right, down to business. You have a new album coming this week, tell us what it is about.

VF: Well basically, it is an album just full of good tunes. Tunes to rock out to, tunes to cry to and tunes to jam to. We have heard an album that has tunes that could be used for a birth, wedding, breakups, sexy times and funerals and that’s what we wanted to do. We hope we’ve done that anyway.

F!: Cool, how’s it feel to be the cool kids on the block?

VF: We are? Wow, well it feels pretty cool then. We are officially

the shit. (laughs)

FETISHINTERVIEW WITH THE GREATEST DJ’S ON EARTH!

VINYL

If you like bhangra infused hip pop. This is the band for you. Residing from the sunny Cornwall, these music obsessed girls took it among themselves to take the music world by the balls and what they came up with was the coolest music heard since jam on sliced bread! Listen to their new song on MySpace now!

Download: Ali Babski

http://myspace.com/bbabe

F!:Cool! Well thanks for speaking to us and congrats on the Brits Nomination.

VF: Thanks mate!

BALI BABES

F!: Haha, we recently heard that you guys had a mob of girls run-ning after you last night in Bir-mingham.

VF: Yeah, those Brum girls are crazy man. We had to dive down three back alleys and jump into some random backyard to meet up with our mate like, 2 hours later. It’s some funny shit.

15 FUSION! 16 FUSION!

F!: Do you guys have girlfriends? It’s an obligatory question that we ask to make girls cry.

VF: I’m free and single but James he’s like all over this girl. Loser.

“We are officially the s**t!”

F!: Are you thinking about crack-ing the old Americano?

VF: Yeah, we’re always, um...(Chris falls off seat and all burst into laughter) Mate you are such a tool sometimes (laughs).

F!: Aw, don’t you believe in love, Chris?

VF: I’m all about the women and that, he’s all lovey dovey.I find it weird, I think my mum dropped me on me head.

As I was saying, we are gonna tour with Hadouken! and Vampire Weekend this Summer and we are doing loads of festivals too. Can’t wait.

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