‘A tribute to sonic astronauts everywhere’; the way Hadrian Mordecai tells it, the destruction of his synthesizers by fire caused […]
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Swirling guitars eerily move up your front path temping you to peer through your letterbox only to find an angry […]
With a strong sound of their own, a rapidly increasing fan base, critical acclaim from all angles and their debut […]
If you were to attempt to compile a list of bands from Norway, you’d probably have A-Ha on it. In […]
The album opens up with some static and church bells (always a nice touch in my book) before a juicy […]
Seeing Three Day Benda live (as I did at their recent album launch party at the Wedgewood Rooms) is always […]
Signed to Glasgow’s emerging Hijacked label, Adam Beattie’s debut album ‘Abu Bozy’ is a downnbeat mix of folk and blues […]
Tim Huzar and Ollie Daffarn, creative brains behind Philanthropy, can be proud of themselves as at times it sounds like […]
Citizen Erased were brave enough to post us a live recording of two of the songs that will feature on […]
The Six Songs EP package supplied by Aurora is a neatly hand-made affair with a brown paper bag that reminds […]
Trends and styles are recycled in rock all the time, mainly because of their high redundancy and the fact that […]
It may be a little while since Francesca Berlin last sent us a record, but to be fair she’s been […]
Supporting Crash My Model Car in the stately Bastille Tavern, Endor made a pretty good attempt at stealing the night […]
Edd Spirling is a bloke sitting on the pavement in London eating some unidentified but meaty looking substance off a […]
British Rock is the order of the day, courtesy of The Treat. A treat eh? Well I’ll be the judge […]
The Patchworks night at MacNasty’s II in Twickenham used to be a bit of an institution known for giving unsigned […]
It’s emo time, and this one’s sonically seductive. A pleasing stew of grumbling bass, guitar arpeggios and quietly ominous drumming […]
Sixty Mile Smile have been around for a little while now and if you’ve heard of them, you may well […]
Volume formed in 2004 and state that they’ve spent plenty of time honing their sound. Some decent support slots for […]
My Passion are the new band that have been made out of the old band, Shard. One of the first […]
South Wales metal band, The Autonomy Within, are a band looking for a record deal and if ‘Praise the Broken’ […]
Slowline use their biography to big themselves up a bit in preparation for you being introduced to their music, but […]
‘Caretaker’ is the briefest of sparkly tunes, with a sound that’s half way between a xylophone and a metallophone or […]
Kicking off the second Petty Vendetta night at the same time as the World Cup battle between Portugal and Holland […]