Big Scary News
Big Scary Monsters is to release a second label sampler in March featuring its current line up. A tour will coincide with the release.»
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Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
twentysixfeet - Moves Under Skin / You’re Too Cold 7"
...the voice coming through loud and not-so-clear can’t quite decide on its ideal delivery style, here coming on like Bono on a Joy Division cover. Unique? Oh, you bet. Promising? Natch...»
The Little Explorer - Sky / Moon 7”
There’s magic in this ‘ere wax - real, engrossing intricacies that absorb the listener, rendering them helpless until the needle reaches its point of termination, lifts and returns to its place of origin.»
Emetrex - Hammer In My Skull
To not own this, and clasp it close to your beat-skipping heart, is to fall out of love with music.»
RTX - Speed To Roam
Fashion-maggers, hop off here; with Jen back in business, punk is too filthy for the likes of you.»
10th Roadburn Festival - details announced
DiS goes continental, and proceeds to headbang itself into hospital...»
Pomp gets classical: Muse get covered
Those big-riffin' guitar manglers Muse have been paid tribute to by a bunch of string-instrument-wielding classical types.»
Lamacq goes five days a week on 6music
Steve Lamacq is to get a daily Monday to Friday show on 6Music.»
Quit Your Dayjob - Quit Your Dayjob
Really, who lets these people make records? They should be under lock and key, rocking backwards and forwards on their arses in a padded room painted black as night.»
The Good Life at London Highbury Garage, Tue 22 Feb
We step into the cold feeling remarkably euphoric – when has pain ever sounded this good?»
Bleed like you? In Brixton? Well, chances are...
Garbage are back...»
Redjetson, 65daysofstatic, Youthmovies at London ULU, Mon 21 Feb
YMSS steal this show, just as they did when they supported Hood in Oxford last week… just like they did at the ICA in January… just like they always have done.»
Set Fire To '05 Part II: HEY COLOSSUS
Part II of our (my?) series of f*ck-off brilliant band interviews focuses on London's sludge b*stards Hey Colossus. Just don't call them metal...»
Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?
Pop rumours to make you go ergh...»
BRMC... brmc... b...r...m...c... Is there an echo in here?
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have inked a UK deal with Echo.»
Now It's Overhead at London Borderline, Sun 20 Feb
Now It’s Overhead: a band of split personalities guaranteed to split opinion, then, even in the mind of the individual.»
Brigade - Safe Hands
These songs are the finished articles; all that’s needed is a hefty push into the hands of those mass-market consumers.»
Hey Colossus take 'II' on the road...
London-based Krautrock-goes-Sabbath-Bloody-Sabbath sluggers Hey Colossus hit the road next month for a string of ear-punishing gigs around the UK.»
Girls Against Boys at London Camden Underworld, Wed 16 Feb
Face it: things were better when you were a kid. Well, they were when I was a kid.»
Set Fire To '05 Part I: TODD
These interviews are intended to highlight the rock bands in Britain that you need to hear, now. Bands that are doing something vital, albeit just below the radar. So, without further ado, part one… TODD!»
Jesu - Jesu
This eponymous release is music to bury yourself to, music that sows the seeds of a thousand inescapable nightmares. You drown in it; it buries you alive and pours the soil over the last box you’ll ever own...»
Black Sabbath: Top Of The Rocks
Black Sabbath rock the hardest, apparently...»
Take Me Out... for some fizzy pop
Scotland's fuggin' great...»
High On Fire tour
High On Fire tour... get in!»
Hot Water Music, The Explosion at London Highbury Garage, Fri 11 Feb
I’ve grown accustomed to kiddie-punk crowds; shows where neatly coifed girls and boys stand hand-in-hand, bleeding their hearts dry to the sounds of the latest screamo sensations. But Hot Water Music aren’t the latest anything, despite the titular promise of their most recent long-play effort...»
'No End In Sight'? Consult new supergroup, This Is Menace...
This Is Menace, a supergroup featuring a wealth of alternative rock talent, have announced details of a debut album...»
Wu Tang record ODB tribute
The Wu Tang Clan has regrouped, after a fashion, for an ODB tribute affair...»
Polly Jean added to ATP April bill
PJ Harvey plays ATP...»
Green Day - Holiday
Face it: you’ve already heard this, and this review isn’t likely to change your already established opinion. Fair enough, so let’s talk about something else.»
The Nothing - Coma Poems
This is real, and it is sincere, despite its obvious sense of humour. Get into it before it gets its teeth into you.»