June 30, 2008 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Mark Rowden :: 0 Comments
Musical sobriety is a killer of young bands in this country, that desire to be taken more seriously after a big breakthrough record. So in a climate where every teenage group is paranoid about the need to push boundaries All...
June 28, 2008 in Features, Interviews by Kane Fulton :: 0 Comments
Returning to our series of Live at Leeds features, we present you with our latest.. an interview with Leeds four piece Middleman. The band sell themselves as a band who write "vibrant, catchy tunes with booming basslines, bleepy melodies...
June 25, 2008 in Features by Cat Millar :: 0 Comments
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with the utmost pleasure that I introduce to you Silverlode; the dandiest skiffle-prog-pop foursome you could ever wish to meet. .
June 23, 2008 in Album Reviews, Reviews by Joel Beighton :: 0 Comments
Rising to fame from his side-project with Arctic Monkey's front man, Alex Turner in The Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane's own band, The Rascals have released their first album. The Wirral trio have adopted a DIY sound to their...
June 23, 2008 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Luke Slater :: 0 Comments
There's nothing like a bit of almost interminable, distorted, down right desolate dirge for those drawn-out, dark winter nights. Such a shame that it's summer then...However, what, at first, appears to be firmly in the somewhat loosely-defined post-rock genre slowly...
June 23, 2008 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Helen Newbery :: 1 Comment »
Although Glissando's Elly May Irving and Richard Knox have previously put out a couple of rare CDRs, including the collection brought together in 'Loves Are Like Empires', this is their first album proper. Opening instrumental track 'We Are Depleting' forms...
June 20, 2008 in Reviews, Tracks by Philip Bollen :: 7 Comments »
Is there a Busted record lurking in your CD collection? This is an amnesty, there\'s no shame here. Maybe you just liked the Thunderbirds single? What about some New Found Glory? Ah, I thought as much. Try as...
June 18, 2008 in Features by Kane Fulton :: 0 Comments
The ethereal sounds of Glissando come courtesy of Richard Knox and Elly May Irving, whose new album 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards The Burning Sea' is released on Gizeh Records, also run by Knox, on 23rd June....
June 17, 2008 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Mark Reynolds :: 0 Comments
Wolf Parade is a band that should theoretically not exist. Principle songwriters Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug are usually busy with their own bands, Handsome Furs for Boeckner and Sunset Rubdown, as well as Swan Lake for Krug. .
June 16, 2008 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Robert Ensor :: 0 Comments
The debut 'mini-album' - over 50 minutes long, but only six tracks - from Her Name is Calla is the Leicester/Leeds based band's second release on Gizeh Records following their well-received debut single 'A Moment of Clarity' towards the end...
