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sign up now! With the end of Download Festival last weekend we felt slightly DOWN about it being all over. So to LOAD your eyes (you see what I did there, yep, I know, amazing) and ears with more Download Festival goodness we were lucky enough to get full weekend coverage of over 50+ bands playing over the three days. As well as that there are some SICK photos taken from the festival. See all the links below to check out the action.
AltSounds 3 Day Full Coverage of Download Festival 2011
Donington Park - June 10-12th 2011
Choose music. Choose a festival. Choose a stage. Choose a band. Choose the fucking big mosh pit. Choose head banging, fist pumping, screaming along and busting a lung. Choose squeezing to the front or crowd surfing overhead. Choose a tent. Choose a location. Choose your friends. Choose a band t-shirt with matching accessories. Choose a pre-pitched tent on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose to party so hard you’ll wonder where the fuck you are on Monday morning. Choose missing all the music, sitting in the campsite, watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing clouds float by, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose to use the toilets or avoid them at all cost. Choose cold showers or allow nature to take its course. Choose going sober or passing out drunk. Choose a rock festival. Choose Download!
Here are the best reviews from AltSounds.com - anything rated above 80% by our scoring system blags the "Cream Of The Crop" title... 
Lower Than Atlantis – World Record A Wolf At Your Door/Sumerian Records
We are so hot right now. I’m not just talking about the lovely weather these shores have seen recently, but British rock music. There’s a shed load of incredibly talented, young bands pouring out of every orifice this fine country has. Whether it’s metal, punk, indie or alternative; as N-Dubz would (probably) say, we’re killing it bruv. Watford’s Lower Than Atlantis are one such bunch of fine morsels who have taken 2011 by the kahunas and injected a much needed dose of good ol’ British swagger with their stunning new album ‘World Record’.
After placing fourth on the BBC sound of 2011 list and releasing his debut album
Mirrowriting to critical acclaim Jamie Woon embarks on his first major tour. Strolling onto the stage after a brief but enjoyable set from support act Jono Mcleery whose debut album will be out later in the year on Ninja Tune, Woon bounds on to the stage with a shy wave and kicks off the set with "Blue Truth".
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Rival Sons - Pressure & Time Earache Records
Imagine this. You’re sipping
Maker’s Mark in some beaten-up, smoky bar. The kind of place an indie kid or self-conscious hipster would be scared to enter for fear they’re going to have their gizzard removed and hung up as a trophy on the wall. What kind of music do you want to hear? Nothing smooth. Nothing up its own capacious back side. And nothing that is self-pitying in its take on life.
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Simple Plan (Feat. Rivers Cuomo) - Can't Keep My Hands Off You Atlantic
Simple Plan do in fact have a simple plan: make lots of brilliant pop-punk anthems for the population of 13 year old girls across the globe. Although, I have to admit, I do fall in the category of a 13 year old girl when I listen to Simple Plan, even though I’m a 17 year old male. They are due to release their fourth studio album,
Get Your Heart On! this summer after 3 long, long years and here is the first single, “Can’t Keep My Hands Off You”, with the delightfully odd Rivers Cuomo of the almighty Weezer:
The Violet May - TV Oh! Inverted World
Ah, Sheffield. What do you think of when Sheffield comes to mind? I, myself, think of steel factories, a football team named after a day of the week and Arctic Monkeys. Oh and The Full Monty. However, this is all about to change - forever. Do you know why? Well, sit down on the carpet with your legs crossed like it’s primary school all over again, because I’m going to tell you a story …
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Ramos & Punch vs Project Protocol – HTID In The Sun Mix 2011 Self released/Free download Released just weeks before the mammoth Hardcore Til I Die all week event in Spain, this exclusive free download aims to get people in the mood with never-before-heard remixes of some of the classic tracks hitting this summer's huge event. And who better to mix it than the nineties legend that is DJ Ramos and his upcoming protege Project Protocol? Featuring rare remixes from the likes of Hixxy, Re-Con, DJ Mob and Supreme, there is no better free mix around anywhere.
Tyler, The Creator - Goblin XL Recordings
In this, the week that would have included the 40th birthday of Tupac Shakur, I’m not going to dip my toe into the debate on lyrics in rap any further than this first paragraph. Great though Tupac was, I’ve often wondered how many kids died through playing at thugs after hearing his music. If you generally take things literally, and struggle to interpret complex meaning, this is probably not the album for you, as much of the content is explicit indeed.
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The Prodigy - World’s On Fire (Live in Milton Keynes 2010) Take Me To The Hospital
Originally a four-piece electronica act from Braintree, Essex, The Prodigy’s early success straddled numerous genre niches, such as oldskool jungle, big beat, industrial, house and hardcore techno. Made up of composer and keyboardist supreme Liam Howlett, scary dancemen/vocalists Keith Flint and Maxim Reality, and dancer Leeroy Thornhill (a member of the band from 1990 to 2000), their debut album, 1993’s
Experience, included some of their best work.
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Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones Xtra Mile Recordings/Epitaph Records I can’t imagine that William Shakespeare would be an acousto-punk folk rock fan, really. Elizabethan England was not famous for its arty exports, yet Shakespeare pushed England to the forefront in cutting edge art with his literary prominence. However, music is not something we associate with ol’ Willy “Shake-yer-spear” Shakespeare. So when Frank Turner named his latest album from a line in one of Shakespeare’s plays, it might be a tad bizarre to one or two of the arguably under-educated. England Keep My Bones is a line from “The Life and Death of King John”, published in 1623. But now, it’s 2011 and we have a new Frank Turner album to revel in.
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Get Loaded In The Park 2011 Clapham Common London June 12th 2011
What would a British music festival be without some proper British rain/cold/fog/mud? Well last Sunday at Clapham Common we got plenty of London weather during the whole duration of the 7th edition of Get Loaded In The Park. Did that stop the punters from getting wasted on cider and painting their faces with the mandatory fluorescent make up? Hell no.
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