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After seeing Stephanie’s iTune’s shuffle mix, i just knew i had to make one of my own. So here it is!

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Despite the tangled web of murder, church burnings and its association with torture and Satanism, the earth in which the original incarnation of black metal is buried remains largely unturned by the mainstream music media.
The origins of black metal unfortunately do not involve a tale about a giant evil egg ascended from the depths of [...]

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Hello readers! It’s that time once again to take 1 uncut Youtuber, 1 tweaked MySpace profile and 1 growing Facebook group before squashing them all into a 405 branded blender, grinding all of that social networking goodness up into three digestible pulpy reviews for a serving of web review smoothies. Enjoy!
As always If you know [...]

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Artist: Benji Hughes
Album: A Love Extreme
Label: New West Records
Link: www.myspace.com/benjihughes
Have you ever listened to someone with the constant “who the hell does this person sound like” expression on your face. Well I have and in the case of Benji Hughes I had that expression on my face for a whole double album’s worth of time! [...]

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Artist: Blackmarket
Album: The Elephant In The Room
Label: Rough Trade
Link: www.myspace.com/blackmarketaz
Sometimes people can get too wrapped up in what music should be, or in worse cases, the nature of the music itself. Fun can be ok you know? Not everything is meant to be taken 100% seriously. Not to put this band down at all but [...]

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Saturday evening, iTunes on shuffle, and this is what I get…

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Nina Kinert is one of those unusual people, you don´t expect to be unusual.
When I entered the venue, I was already running late and in such a hurry to get to the front I forgot to take notice of the fact that the room was close to being completely empty. Only 20 minutes prior to [...]

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Good news sports fans! Blur are set to reform and rehearse in 2009.

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The 405 would like to wish contributor Rhian Daly a very happy 19th birthday today!!! We didn’t have a picture of Rhian at hand, so here’s what we think she looks like!

Feel free to leave your birthday wishes for Rhian below!
- The 405 Team

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This weeks Reload is taken from August 4th 2008. We here at The405 like to think we’ve helped to bring the “mixtape” back, in a new form, for the digital age. This weeks Reload features the first ever mix tape that had all of its tracks individually hand picked by every single member of The405 [...]

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