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The diskant team report back from their fun day out at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham. Headlined by Sunn 0))), Mogwai, Om and Qui with sunshine, cake and films it really was the perfect festival experience. Read more >>
Simon Minter finds out more about The Walk Off from Oxford and their messier, noisier and more downright bizarre take on New Rave. Read more >>
Strongly reminiscent of The Screaming Trees, this four track EP lacks real punch, mainly down to muddy production.
A shame really, as Lebatol have come up with some interesting, well crafted songs and demonstrate that they are not afraid to mix a pretty straight up rock sound with some unusual and refreshing percussive touches.
Singer Shane […]
This is a fun collection of three really good songs (Binary Boy, Pills to Paris and my favorite, Angry Raisins) by the Glasgow based band, who appear to have developed a distinctive sound without pulling away totally from Glastronica (my swiftly made up name for the many Glasgow bands who blend electronics with other instruments […]
The Black Tulips would have us believe that they are the latest in a long-line of intelligent English art-pop bands that includes The Beatles, The Kinks, Roxy Music, The Smiths and Suede. However, if you’re expecting a bland, limp-wristed fop-pop jangle then you’ve got another think coming. In actual fact, The Tulips play […]
(If you can’t read this, go here)Just as well really.
I often have my doubts about ’side projects’, but when they sound like this CD - a side project from two members of Volumen, combining the best in 1980s drum machine technology, hair metal widdling and lame white boy rapping - who am I to complain? This is further evidence that Missoula, Montana is stuck […]
By the sounds of this someone has finally invented robots that can play guitars! What’s more these are some fucked up robots that have installed both Rock version 2.0 and Pop version 7.5.5 from pirated software creating all manner of internal errors. They race through XXX Robot out of control on fizzy idiocy, their […]
This has got some of the most scarifying artwork I’ve seen in a long time. Think Pop Will Eat Itself gone Acid House. Because of this I was expecting some kind of kerrazy electro pop but instead we get join the dots indie over the three tracks. The cheapo drum machine beats, Hooky bass and […]
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-06/23.shtmlI don’t know what to think about this or whether I even care. Bear in mind Black Flag are on a Wannadoo ad, Nike already used Search & Destroy by the Stooges, Lyle Preslar from MT is an A&R guy and Brian Baker is about the best example of a career punker known and it’s […]
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I don’t know what to think about this or whether I even care. Bear in mind Black Flag are on a Wannadoo ad, Nike already used Search & Destroy by the Stooges, Lyle Preslar from MT is an A&R guy and Brian Baker is about the best example of a career punker known and it’s […]
God’s way of damning charging people a hundred and whatever quid for a peace and love experience. Rain on!
