‘A tribute to sonic astronauts everywhere’; the way Hadrian Mordecai tells it, the destruction of his synthesizers by fire caused […]
Swirling guitars eerily move up your front path temping you to peer through your letterbox only to find an angry […]
The album opens up with some static and church bells (always a nice touch in my book) before a juicy […]
Seeing Three Day Benda live (as I did at their recent album launch party at the Wedgewood Rooms) is always […]
Signed to Glasgow’s emerging Hijacked label, Adam Beattie’s debut album ‘Abu Bozy’ is a downnbeat mix of folk and blues […]
Tim Huzar and Ollie Daffarn, creative brains behind Philanthropy, can be proud of themselves as at times it sounds like […]
‘From Hibernation’ isn’t so titled just for fun. This is Germinal’s first release since an EP in 2001 and yet […]
‘Brutal Justice started as a joke, and then they got good…’ reads the mini-biography and in terms of ability this […]
Before listening to ‘Conversations Between Us’ it is important to consider who the album is aimed at. If a fifteen […]
As a member of Deep Purple Ian Gillan found himself plucked from seventies obscurity and thrown around the world in […]
One dreary night in St Mary’s, Southampton, a little known music journalist bared witness to a little known local band […]
It’s not entirely clear from the biographies how it happened, but Mia Riddle and James Black, two singer/songwriters for opposite […]
Nutronstars are nuts; and they are fantastic for it. The CD cover looks like it was made in arts-ed class […]
Schizo Fun Addict are a band on the edge. In fact, they spend half of their time on either side […]
It’s always a pleasure when a little package from Get Amped lands on our doormat. From the arrival of their […]
Everybody loves a scene. Bands get to hang out and cross ideas with like-minded folk, the kids get to wear […]
If my employer is lucky, I turn up about four days a week. If they’re really lucky, I even do […]
I’ll be honest here, I like this album. In fact, I like it quite a lot but not because of […]
Sunstation are a part Spanish, part American band that brings together musicians that already have individual accolades including solo-albums, working […]
What a truly unexpected pleasure Patterns of Behaviour is, purely because it confounds my prejudices. You see, I struggle with […]
Before putting the Karalta album into my CD player I took a quick look at the sleeve and the artwork […]
It’s 1997! Liam and Patsy are on the cover of Vanity Fair, Hayze are lighting Cuban cigars with £50 notes […]
With a name based upon the patron saint of lost causes and a local hospital where young battlers often found […]
I don’t want to start this review by telling you that Pickled Dick sound like Greenday, because if you don’t […]