Stillman is the one-man-band alias of Chaz Craik - ex-lead guitarist in Cab - the Britpop band that never were. However, lest i mislead anyone, Stillman has little in common with the cheeky nostalgic bounce of Britpop. After spending two years on the dole eating Readybrek and baked beans (never in the same […]

Grandiose pop-noir from the hotly-tipped Wrath Records stable in Leeds…
‘Horrible Face’ is so bombastic it hurts… A swooning, crooning anti-tribute to an “ugly, ugly cow” by Leeds-based body-fascists/Wrath mainstays The Scaramanga Six. It’s easy to admire their epic aspirations, cheeky subversive streak and face-ache taunting agenda. It’s less easy to enjoy the record […]

First release by brand new Leeds label Run of The Mill, run by Sophie who used to co-run Jealous Records, and this lovely 7″ slab of lime green wax continues in Jealous’ previous series of getting two of the finer bands from the UK’s DIY rock scene to do covers from long-missed music legends. This […]

The best FUCKING PUNK ROCK BAND ON THE PLANET are touring.
HOT SNAKES! fool….
But surely you will have to suffer fools, double figure ticket prices and shitty venues to see them?
Unless they play a ssssh hush hush show on Bank Holiday Monday that is….
www.damnyou.co.uk
sweeeeeet!

There is a message thread on the Drowned In Sound site where people are posting their favourite guitar solos of all time.
I sat and I thought about it. I can think of a few off the top of my head: Clap Hands by Tom Waits (Marc Ribot on guitar), Stereo Sanctity by Sonic Youth, Hell […]

Bollocks. Out of the blue I just found out the new Lungfish album is about to drop, and upon perusing the website for the mighty fine Dischord label I found out that not only was vocalist Daniel Higgs exhibiting his artwork in London, but that he was over here on May 12th:
http://www.96gillespie.com/next_up/index.htm“96 Gillespie presents a […]

See, this is just as quirky on the surface as the Mistys Big Adventure record but the difference is PAA can actually write a song and their oddness is not a means to an end, they are an odd band but first and foremost they’re a band that works. They’ve always been a shambolic but […]

I agreed to take some CDs to review to clear the backlog a bit. It’s hard, you know. I mean, I always just review things that I love and then it’s easy to write about them because I am enthusiastic. And especially if it’s music I like too. Or a musical form I like. I […]

I am somewhat obsessed and naturally drawn to the idea of ordinary people making extraordinary music. I relate to it. Recently I have seen lots and lots of gigs where extraordinary people make very, very bad music. By ‘extraordinary people’ I mean people who have made an effort to be larger than life. People who […]

“The Fall are on Jools Holland’s show next week.Mark E Smith is the only artist in the historyof the show to have a clause in his contractinserted to state that Jools will not playboogie-woogie piano over any of his songs.”
Fucking yes!
Almost as good is this email that I imagine every single member of the diskant […]