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18 months ago, DiS' Matt Hocking interviewed The Distillers who were in Britain to support their 'Sing Sing Death House' LP. Pre-major league success, Brody talks of her love for Hole albums, Tim Armstrong and "sh*tty punk rules". We're not going recycle information as a 'classic interview', but we think it's insightful nonetheless...»
Brighton’s Bonobo is the kind of guy who can really set the mood. With this single he weaves the kind of slick, supple and downright classy beats that will have all you Hoxtonites sliding back into your chair, stirring your dark swirling cocktail and giving lusty gazes to the barman / barbabe.»
To co-incide with Kid Koala's 'Short Attention Span' Theatre tour and, erm, Christmas itself the ultra hip Ninja Tune label has teamed up with Rane, Sennheiser & D.A.S to put together one heck of a Christmas competition.»
This was a night showcasing promise, showcasing embryonic versions of future trailblazing outfits poised to take the world by storm. But while the promise is there, there's evidently a lot more work to be done.»
The lights dim. The eyes on the backdrop glow an evil red. There’s a deafening roar of “Lemmy!”, and the legend that is Lemmy strolls casually onstage and flicks a verbal finger up at the sponsors of the venue they are about to play. “Fuck Carling man. We’re Motorhead. We play rock ‘n’ roooolllll.”»
Evidently fired up on all things heavy and full throttle This Day Forward play on the melodies being hurtled at you, their sashayed dynamics swaying on a breeze of high-decibel sonic pounding that’ll have you fighting over whether to fully rock out or stand in marvel at the way vocalist Mike Shaw doesn’t necessarily rely on your typical scream-soaked anger for a powerful performance.»
Hailing from Winnipeg, Canada this quintet manage to stir an enticing blend of calm, soothing rock, mixing the warm countrified instrumentation of fellow Winnipeg natives The Weakerthans with the sweet melodies of Beezewax. Inside this cool cocktail lies an effervacious outlook on the world, absorbed introspection and radiating with a poetic charm.»
If you thought The Streets were, erm, from the streets, telling you like it is “at street level” (more like student level) or that Dizzee Rascal provided a much grittier interpretation then you may be mildly prepared for Acarine.»
Balancing aggression with heartfelt sincerity this is a record for the most mixed of emotions, the kind where you wanna punch someone so hard but at the same time love them so much you’d probably end up hugging them instead»
I seem to remember AKO being showered with praise about a year/ two years ago, with some pretty hefty support slots to boot. Only it kinda went quiet for a while and we all forgot about them. Until Now that is.»
“Stanley, see this? This is this. This aint sump’in else. This, is this,“ so says the curious character opening up Sick Of It All’s fourth full length for Fat Mike’s Fat Wreck label. What ‘this’ is, incidentally is Sick Of It All at their furious, steamrolling hardcore best.»
Loud, noisy, messy. Three words that immediately spring to mind when confronted with The Devils' choleric din. But then, with members of UK noisecore gurus Stalingrad, Hard To Swallow, Doom and the one and only Extreme Noise Terror in the ranks you ain't gonna find no Christmas No.1 contenders on here!»
I somehow get the feeling that if M.I.T.A. had emerged three or four years ago they would be a nu-metal band. No offence guys, but that Korn riff in ‘Silent Film’ doesn’t really help your case much...»
Although professing a love for post-hardcore, Londoners Sun Tzu seem keen not to follow any particular hardcore blueprint for their sound, instead unfurling something that traverses somewhere between the brazened grooves of Hundred Reasons and the post-rock instrumentation of Tool...»
With a sound that criss-crosses far too many genres and styles to be safely pigeon-holed, Avenged Sevenfold have also been ploughing through some truly disparate forms of extreme, heavy and melodic music over the last few years. It's set them apart from the pack, yet at the same time made them accessible to an audience that reaches much further than the hardcore scene or the Warped Tour crowd...»
I don’t think Zerell are doing the recording studios where they recorded this any favours by printing their name in the sleeve of this demo because the producer obviously sees no point in tuning the guitars before recording begins. Either that or something went seriously wrong when it came to burning off copies of this, because I find myself struggling to listen beyond track 2 as it rolls on by at a punishing pace, all the time sliding constantly in and out of tune like a damaged record.»
Kid Koala seems to be a hip name for DJs to namedrop right now, but while this might explain the title of his third album, it doesn’t quite substantiate just what it is about this young Canadian that’s worth getting worked up about.»
SINGLE OF THE WEEK As a band who’ve played their hearts out on numerous high-profile tours - despite all being barely in their 20s - they’re a band that have been standing tentatively on the precipice of success all year... only now, now they have one of the finest examples of gloriously invigorating modern rock music the UK has ever produced under their belts. And boy, are they in for one hell of a ride.»
Dirty Sanchez. Yes, those lovable skater mentalists from Wales (plus one from London) intent on putting themselves through the most precarious, puerile, dumb-witted, but ultimately funniest stunts known to man, and all in the name of fun. So what are they doing on DiS?»
Formerly the leading light on California’s Fearless Records (previously home to At The Drive-In) Glasseater have made the transition to the towering Victory Records and recorded an album that should see them make a similar transition to the upper echelons of the =emo= punk stratosphere; that’s if their fourth album is anything to go by.»
Maybe the Underworld was a bit ambitious for this bill. Although Paint The Town Red were last seen in this room supporting ferocious skull-crushers Converge roughly this time last year, the mind only boggles at the thought of these Germans pulling the same amount of people this time around. Choice of venues aside though, this was an absolutely storming line-up.»
Matchbook Romance sound exactly like you think they’d sound. Albeit a lot heavier. And live, they can really kick it.»
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I usually feel sorry for pop punk bands on the road. Having to endure, night after night and often for months on end, an endless conveyor belt of crap teenage Less Than Jake imitators and support bands who really do think they’re being original copying the already plagiarised moves of New Found Glory. It must be a depr»
What do you get when you cross a prog-fusion bassist, an extreme noise-core vocalist, a Jeff Buckley covers singer, a 47 year old acclaimed jazz-blues drummer and put them in the hands of guitarist, composer and all round musical eccentric Davide Tiso? The answer is a complete aural mindfeck called Ephel D»
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect as I made my way round to the press accreditation point outside Reading festival to meet up with the vocalist of Sweden’s finest purveyors of towering, epic noise-core Cult of Luna. I’d been wrapping my ears around their recently re-released debut album on the train on the way »
Bands as consistently brilliant as Pennywise are few and far between, especially in the fickle world of pop-punk where bands like The Ataris and MxPx have sadly opted to mellow out amid the pressures and temptations that the evil ‘major label’ brings. So as these Hermosa Beach natives gear up to re»
We are living in an exciting period for music. While there’s much evidence for the contrary, boundaries are being broken; genres are progressing and young kids are beginning to think outside the box, accessing previously uninhibited well’s of creativity with uninhibited fervour. You can blame it on»
When a band comes onstage and says “hi we’re from Boston, Mass” there’s really only a limited canvas of styles that you expect to be bombarded with. Most invariably have the word ‘hardcore’ littering the description at some point or other, and if that band happen to be on a bill consisting of acts considered a p»
Just how do I tackle this one? I’ve been dreading this review since its first play, and in fact since I received a preview sampler of this, Sikth’s debut album; so chaotic, so sprawling and yet so full of such startling variation that to deconstruct and analyse each facet of their mesmerising disposition seems a»
