Taking the name of an old Toto song, opener ‘Hold the Line’ pairs a slow paced intro with some heavier […]
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Sometimes life is slow and boring and other times it’s fast and tiring. When it’s slow and boring you wish […]
As any student knows, you don’t go out in a big city on a Friday or Saturday night as these […]
The riff that begins first track, ‘Chair Legs’, is a bendy, calming thing that seems to transform into a hypnotic […]
If the Dandy Warhols didn’t exist, I’d be shouting from the rooftops about The Tamborines. However, The Dandy Warhols do […]
In the streets of Soho everyone is welcome, and keeping up appearances is the iconic Madame JoJo’s, with tonight’s eclectic […]
I guess I’d describe this sort of thing as Instrumental Science metal – it sounds like System Of A Down, […]
Heartwear Process are, and I quote, ‘a beautiful and destructive five-piece hailing from Reading’. That’s probably the first time the […]
‘The Way’ opens things with a blues rock sound that has certainly done its fair share of listening to Clapton, […]
‘Hey nonny nonny’ and so begins the EP from The Pocket Gods and if that doesn’t set you up for […]
The lack of promotion by the record company for Babybird’s first album in five years, ‘Between My Ears There’s Nothing […]
I must confess that before even listening to this CD ‘Big Cliff’ had made its way from our music page […]
Law within the music industry dictates that a CD held within a sleeve with a grainy black and white photograph […]
There must be something in the water down in Ayr. Now that’s a line from a Glaswegian that invariably ends […]
An eighties style intro to ‘World Gone Daft’ will force you into either the love or hate category. An opening […]
The melody together with the sound of the guitar, put through some kind of cheap cranky effect, make the opening […]
Slowline pride themselves on the economy of their band and the fact that they are a tight three-piece and, whilst […]
Do you ever come from your work and think to yourself, ‘I really enjoyed the commercial radio today but I […]
Here comes the madness. At only two tracks long their demo squeezes every ounce of life out of both. A […]
It’s telling that the first impression many people got of US troubadour John Vanderslice was through his recent tour with […]
Ok before we go any further lets run the usual EMO checklist. Long anguished album tile? Check. Long anguished song […]
Nosferatu D2 isn’t really a band, they’re more of a duo and, suffice to say, bands that don’t have a […]
A curio here. The latest in a flurry of releases from Worst Case Scenario records sees Carter Brown and theOracleboy […]
Before I start this review I just want to have a little rant. This university (which I attend) has a […]