Death From Above in a Venue Near You
Canadian duo Death From Above are touring the UK this May.»
Articles
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The Violets - Mirror Mirror
Punk rock shattered then glued back together, music on the verge of chaos, a jagged, dangerous sound. We like this.»
Racine (Wendy James) - Racine Number One
It's the return of Wendy James, seen here making a seamless transition from late 80s glam-punk pop-reference outfit Transvision Vamp to the idiosyncratic complex minimalism of Racine.»
The Vichy Government - Whores In Taxis
Two men, a keyboard, a drum machine, songs about Serbian Warlords and the fleeting nature of fame. It's pop music, but not as we know it...»
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - B-sides and Rarities
It's twenty years' worth of b-sides, cover versions, studio outtakes and various other odds and ends. It's by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Do you like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? Yes? Then you're quite likely to like this. No? Then... well, you work out the logical conclusion.»
This April: Things to do in Cambridge When You're Dead (Bored)
April Fools Day safely over and the risk of being caught out by fake listings thus somewhat diminished, the time seemed right to put together a few selected(and subjective) Cambridge highlights for the month...»
Miss Black America - new single, new album, same punishing touring schedule...
Bury St Edmunds' punk rockers Miss Black America are touring to support their second album, 'Terminal'.»
The Chalets, Tern, The Subways at Academy @ ARU Students Union, Cambridge, Sat 02 Apr
Pantomime cows, Michael Flatley, fizzing pop fun, poses, leopardprint dresses and The Nature Of The Scene: a pretty typical gig.»
Martin Grech books Unholy tour
OK, so it's not quite as exciting as it sounds. It's just a tour in support of an album called Unholy.»
Kari Kleiv - When Can I See You
Professional polish + soft acoustic intimacy adds up to something which doesn't quite engage this reviewer.»
Various, Fuck Off Machete, Ipso Facto, Cat Nap - Public Service Broadcast No.6
Smalltown American record makes good! The sixth Public Service Broadcast is here to make your eardrums very happy.»
Peaches, Pink Grease - Peaches
A slab of technicolour rock'n'roll filth from Pink Grease, your favourite musical sleaze-merchants. Nice.»
Luke Haines learns to love The State Funeral of Winston Churchill
Treaders of English Tarmac: Rejoice! A new Luke Haines album is imminent.»
The Vichy Government, The Violets, The Resistance at The Portland Arms, Rochester, Thu 10 Mar
REPEA*T hosts an Angular Records night of angular music. Much fun is had by all.»
Put on your Mohair and dance the Pink Grease
Mohair jumpers? Ironed trousers? Men in make-up? Sleazy rap and electronica attacks? Heaven help us - it's the Pink Grease Live Show!»
The Fall at Cambridge Junction, Tue 08 Mar
Well it's The Fall, isn't it? Unique, shambolic, absurd, kinda ridiculous and yet absolutely right.»
Zeroscape tour: Rock'n'Roll credentials 1, common sense 0
Canadian band Zeroscape quit day jobs, sell their stuff, and hit the UK with geographically challenging tour.»
March in Cambridge will mainly be featuring snow, rain… and lots of gigs
March in Cambridge will mainly be featuring snow, rain… and lots of gigs. Hurrah!»
The Kitchen - Foreign Objects
The new band of Manda Rin (yep, her outta Bis) produce a really rather wonderful debut album of cold, crunching electro darkness.»
Data Panik: BiS by any other name...
The three recently-estranged members of Bis have bowed to the inevitable and are back together in the form of a new band, Data Panik.»
Cortez - Nowhere
Cortez present to you impact-laden rock'n'roll laced with melancholy, anger and violins.»
Chicks On Speed, The No Heads - Press the Spacebar
It's Chicks on Speed. And The No Heads. Together they are a formidable, noise making, biscuit breaking, feminist politicking musical opponent.»
The Beat Up - Black Rays Defence
The Beat Up, who were once The Beatings, release a debut album of trebley, trashy, tight-yet-chaotic punk rock which is almost, but not quite, great.»
Scarlet Soho - Divisions of Decency
A disaffectied social commentary of tight guitars, soaring synths and coldly emotional vocals.»
The Vichy Government, The Fairies Band - Fairies Band/Vichy Government split single
This third split single in the Filthy Little Angels series matches the exuberant, harmonising flamboyance of The Fairies Band against the Vichy Government's jeering aural assault. It may not be an obvious combination, but it works for me.»
The Dawn Parade - The Underground
A beautiful, aching pop homage to truth, beauty and hope which wants to save your soul. Or at least to touch it.»
Cody - ep01
Chiming effects, epic sounds and nice ideas... but put together, they fail to work to the extent that they grate upon the ears.»
The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
Warped guitars, handclaps, rolling thunder, jeering backing vocals and smooth sixties slides: The Long Blondes' new single is sweetness with an edge»
Escaping the festive season in Cambridge...
Where can you go to escape the horrors of the festive season? If you live in Cambridge, here are a few ideas...»
Princess Drive - A Welcome Alternative to Filth and Violence
A noise assault combining a manifesto, anger, intelligence, distortion, conviction, instinctive honesty and, on top of all that, TUNES!»