This long-player is a total find. Back in 2008, San Fran’s Elephone released Canister a ferociously playful and quirky album […]
Cassyette has taken us in a couple of directions with previous singles. ‘Petrichor’ was a thick nu-metal variant with a […]
They had me with the moody intro, but Until I Wake’s ‘Inside My Head’ bursts into flickering brilliance with lots […]
A churchy organ fades in, then it’s crunchy guitar and Matt Pless’ vocal, which has a distinctive twang and plenty […]
In the recently updated Sherling Studio in Poole’s Lighthouse arts center, The Trials of Cato played a set full of […]
After playing games with strangers on an online video chat platform, things go terribly wrong for housemates Rachel and Chloe. […]
Rapid and analog-thin, ‘Alright’ has a nostalgic tone and tiny bubbles around the edges making it sound like a classic […]
Part of the quick reads programme from The Reading Agency, ‘The Cutting Season’ is already rubber-stamped as great storytelling and […]
The first musical offering since Greg passed last September, ‘Come Alive (Wired to the Moon)’ is another release of what […]
Just as I’m putting the ink pen back into its leather case to stow away after a day of writing, […]
Strap yourselves in for a revival-revival of the punk variety as the Dookie-era is resuscitated by Understandament in their new […]
Newly minted, Stand Atlantic’s ‘switchblade’ is an interesting mix of the familiar and the new. There’s the precision style and […]
A one-bar riffy intro and then it’s straight down to business in this rhythmic alt-metal single, ‘Horrorscope Heroine’, from Die […]
Rarely does a song grab me after two bars of bass guitar, but the bass harmonic is a wake-up call […]
Re-issued as part of the Terror Twilight anniversary-and-a-bit deluxe edition, ‘Spit on a Stranger’ is faithfully accompanied by the original […]
You don’t get to spend two decades making face-smacking alt-rock and metal without oodles of talent. That is all! Ego […]
With an intro that harks to the very roots of Never Mind The Bollocks, Understatement merge classic and modern punk […]
Created by Nuria Net and with Ceci Bastida (Tijuana No!) in the driving seat, ‘Punk in Translation’ delves deep into […]
With some pretty visceral lyrics and a rhythmic riffing dark sonic backdrop, ‘Bad Influence’ is a heavy-hitter from Hot Milk. […]
Otto Penzler has gathered together fourteen stories of impossible crimes, all part of the locked-room mystery cannon, despite some great […]
With an overdriven brace of bars to open, ‘Highlights’ soon leaps into life just like the artwork suggests. This is […]
There’s an eighth album in the offing for the Pixies if they can choose from the forty-plus songs they’ve written […]
With a driving stomp of a beat and stabby guitars, ‘Hair Out’ is an explosive track that is the most […]
Misinformation, both unintentional and intentional (usually called disinformation), is one of society’s greatest challenges. It is deployed at scale against […]