They say that guitar music is dead, and to an extent I guess they are right. On the one side you have those polite indie boys who I’m sure would turn down their volume knobs if the venue asked them to, then on the other side you have those...
St. Spirit came together the way all good bands should come together; in college, after a friend hears another play a song, and after falling in love with a particular album (in this case My Bloody Valentine‘s Loveless). Add this to what seems to be a DIY sentimentality, (this...
OH HAI 2012. This is my first singles review of what has so far been a year rich in musical pickings, and I’m hoping we’ll see some more of that here. I’ve been listening to new releases from Cloud Nothings, Chairlift and Porcelain Raft religiously since discovering that my...
It’s rare for music to be made so selflessly. Even if sales of a record are donated to charity it’s normally a percentage but here we have ‘Gone But Never Far‘ the debut single from acoustic singer songwriter Dan Gilliver, written as a tribute following the death of one...
Depsite an ever-growing fanbase, Young Guns have never been a band in the spotlight, often shadowed by more well-known bands of a similar genre and audience, some of whom have offered them supporting slots on tour, namely Lostprophets and more recently Enter Shikari. Yet the High Wycombe alternative rockers’...
I’m not a huge pop-punk fan. Let us be honest here, modern day pop-punk is more pop than punk, in fact, I would go as far as saying most bands that say they are pop-punk are probably more pop-emo but there we go. Four Year Strong aren’t a band...
Mortality and fate imbue and steer the exhaulted death-cult that is Iceland’s Dead Skeletons. A trio of artists and musicans that first pulled their esoteric talents together for an art installation in 2008 – a mournful whirling dervish soundscape was originally produced for a video-piece of east/central...
Summer isn’t yet in sight although Distant Neighbourhood could fool us into thinking it is. Alice and Kacey gift us with a sun-sticky break-up, one that involves pouting instead of panda eyes and snot soaked tissues – sad but still pretty. The song is as cool and bored as...
Angels and Airwaves are a super group of sorts. A member from Blink 182, a member from 30 Seconds to Mars, one from Boxcar Racer, and their newest drummer was previously of Lostprophets and Nine Inch Nails. Okay, forgive me, not quite a ‘super’ group but still, a group...
Welcome to the first singles round-up of the year! It’s been a bit delayed unfortunately as clumsy me went and dislocated a knee, but all is well now (plus, girls love limps). With 2011 relying largely on previous eras (in particular grunge) to define its year of music, we’ll...
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