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Splattering across your audio-windscreen like the Jeff Goldblum fly-hybrid of The Upper Room and The Feeling, Star Chamber have an […]

How long have you been together? Paul: As a band, five or six months. But these guys, Rich, Mitch and […]

Golden Section are shockingly talented. Everything about them seems to be just right, from the invention of the rhythm section, […]

With the bio almost feeling like its printed on recycled paper and limiting itself to only three pages in length, […]

The success, or otherwise, of a prog-rock track is usually related to how over-the-top things get. The more the musicians […]

With a stomping sound reminiscent of Northern Uproar, The Secret Police put out a ‘Bootie Call’ with chunky guitars and […]

After hearing so much good press about InMe’s eagerly anticipated album, I couldn’t resist the chance to find out more […]

Retrofect are amongst the hottest properties on the South Coast right now. Their album, New York Kiss is a blissful […]

‘Supercharge’ starts things off sounding like Motley Crue in a very angry mood indeed and, despite The Authentics UK origins, […]

As I stare blankly out my window I wonder if our summer will ever become something more than a drizzly […]

Since they signed a new record deal with Fiction in December, Delays have been hard at work writing and recording […]

There is something of the unlikely in Newton Faulkner. In a world of chav pop-princesses, perky EMO party boys and […]

A new sober Happy Mondays would make for a boring one, you might think. But creepy album art and a […]

This is the first demo from The Bad Robots who hail from London and liken themselves to The Beatles and […]

Championing the cause of screamo and wearing their tears proudly on their fists, The Blackout are one of those Welsh […]

Black Scar Crossing blindfold you, dump you in the back of a Cortina and then drive around on some chalky […]

As a part of the big clear-out, we came across this enigmatic album from Cober, called Eulogy. Having already released […]

Don’t be put off by the title. I too was disappointed to find out that this was not a compilation […]

With an effortless, smooth vocal, this jazz meets showtime record contains an abundance of classy piano too. ‘Who Knows’ harks […]

Occasionally you carelessly whack a record into the CD player and it changes your day. I woke up miserable, went […]

Wheeling, West Virginia native Jason Kelly here presents four tracks of flat out melodic electric guitar goodness. Each track is […]

One of America’s finest song writing exports in many a time, the ever prolific Joseph Arthur releases not one, but […]

Since the release of this debut EP, on Lockjaw, Leicester five-piece Two Shot Blast have split up. This is a […]

Having toured extensively with such luminaries as Supergrass, the Buzzcocks and Iggy Pop, Anglo-American four piece The Nash have clearly […]