Does anyone else find the line in Chain Reaction by Diana Ross where she sings
“I start to tremble when your hand goes lower”
really fucking creepy????

As their name suggests, The Playwrights are a literate band. Which doesn’t mean they read NME regularly - by the sound of this EP they haven’t read the NME for a good 15-20 years. Instead they’ve been busy conjuring up songs that demand you pay attention: brittle, spikey guitars, twisting structures, and a-hundred-words-a-minute lyrics abdout […]

Why did it take until yesterday for me to discover that Ol’ Dirty Bastard had died?

There are certain song titles you cannot argue with, and ‘Punk Rock Vampires: Destroy!’ is one of them. Yep, Zombina and the Skeletones are one of those bands - y’know, the ones that dress up like SKELLINGTONS and sing about bloodsuckers and Plan 9 From Outer Space and Hammer Horror and A-bomb testing and and […]

A friend just copied me the last Liars album “They Were Wrong So We Drowned”, of which “Broken Witch” is the first song. I’m only reviewing this one song as to be honest I haven’t the energy/time/courage to listen to the rest of it. I know “difficult” electronic noise type music like Wolf Eyes and […]

I maintain that this is one of the best albums ever made. I’ve gone on about it before on diskant but now we have this reviews column I can get to do it again. Here is a blow by blow account (no pun intended)…
Not to put too fine a point on things, this album was […]

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Dave Stockwell’s new column - an obsessive exploration of the work of Davenport.
Interview with SuperFi Records - they’ve released stuff by Trencher, Melt-Banana, Biblical Proof of UFOs and lots more.
Interview with Hookers Green No. 1 - ‘…the quirkiness of Gorkys and The Flaming […]

On Saturday I had my first experience of being a best man at a wedding. It was my Dad’s wedding which made it a little weird. Not blowing my trumpet but I have played to literally millions of adoring fans around the world as the rock star I am but I’ve never known nerves like […]

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Maybe that last post was too weighty for anyone to dare post anything afterwards. Which is fair enough, because that week in December should be amazing. So the only fair thing to do would be to point out the gorgeous posters that some beautiful man is producing for these shows, miniscule versions of which are […]