When, after eight years of being called Pickled Dick, the band ditched their name in favour of Mike TV, a […]
Back in January 2004 a copy of the debut getAmped album, Phoney Society, dropped on the doormat and straight into […]
Chinastyle combine an awesome melody and a heavy groove for their debut, ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’. Stomping drums and massive […]
Mes Memoires had already been hard at work tapping up the crowd for their set, so they had a big […]
Kunk landed on stage at Hamptons in Southampton mid-way through a tour promoting their new single, ‘We Are Not Who […]
Rejecting a plethora of recording contracts in favour of striking out on their own label, Hill Valley Records, Plastic Toys […]
The wonderful crunch of ‘Love Made Visible’ sets the tone for a long-overdue return for Delays. It’s melodic, it’s got […]
Since they signed a new record deal with Fiction in December, Delays have been hard at work writing and recording […]
When you attend a live performance several hundred feet above the ground in a glass fronted tower, you can’t help […]
Churning up a buttery mix of rock, pop and jazz doesn’t result in the kind of cheese you might expect, […]
Where do you start with this record, or indeed this artist? TD Lind went a long way to make this […]
When Toupe sent us this record, they made quite a point of including all the lyrics. Far from being a […]
As if the heatwave hadn’t reduced everybody to a dried husk already, the packed out Unit 22 in Southampton supplied […]
When you see Ray LaMontagne on television, fully bearded and with a matching fuzziness from the retro-style photography, you can’t […]
‘9 ’till Live’ is essentially a single, backed up by four live tracks as a bit of a bonus feature. […]
Despite having turned up at the Original 106 studios to be interviewed about The Mag Awards, I couldn’t subdue my […]
With no shortlist, nominations, or judges’ decisions, The Mag Awards’ winners were a truly public selection. The Talking Heads in […]
The Mag Awards show in 2007 took place at The Talking Heads in Southampton. On this page you’ll find the […]
Starting with the positives, this is a record produced to the highest standards. The crystal clear guitars seep through the […]
Recorded just five weeks before the tragic death of John MacIsaac, the lead singer of Mach Schau, this single comes […]
Despite managing to supply the most clichéd biography ever, a reasonably thin mix and some of the most eighties-arcade synth […]
The Carletons are a band on the rise, with a dark and edgy sound that’s got echoes of early Hard-Fi, […]
A good number of people were probably waiting for The Veils to crack off their set at the end of […]
The Electric Cinema return with a stomp-beated eclectic-pop second single and find themselves amongst the current love for a splash […]