Taking Back Sunday - New Again
June 4, 2009 by Mark Rowden · Leave a Comment
There’s something unshakeably irritating about Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara. Read more
Shirley Lee – Dissolving Time
May 21, 2009 by Richard Wink · 1 Comment
I heard Ian Broudie on Steve Lamacq’s 6 Music radio show a couple of weeks ago, turns out the guy is making a come back. ‘Dissolving Time’ is the long awaited return of the former Lightning Seeds Front man. Wait. Hang on. This isn’t Ian Broudie? Read more
Hundred Reasons - I’ll Never Know
April 6, 2009 by Mark Rowden · Leave a Comment
Another immediately digestible, straightforward rocker from the perpetual underdogs. Read more
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
March 20, 2009 by Mark Rowden · 4 Comments
I love you but I’ve chosen darkness Read more
Dieter Schoon - Lablaza
March 13, 2009 by Richard Wink · Leave a Comment
Before I listened to this album for the first time I spun ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres. I guess I’m looking for an album to act as a quality yardstick, if your work compares favourably to Tres Hombres then you’re blazing. Read more
Two Tongues - Two Tongues
March 13, 2009 by Mark Rowden · Leave a Comment
‘You should never meet your heroes; you’ll only be disappointed‘ - Father Dougal McGuire, Father Ted Read more
Fightstar - Mercury Summer + New Found Glory - Listen to Your Friends
February 25, 2009 by Mark Rowden · 2 Comments
Ageing gracefully yet? Read more
This Town Needs Guns @ Camden Barfly, London, 18th February 2009
February 19, 2009 by Mark Rowden · Leave a Comment
Spare a thought for This Town Needs Guns; 6 months ago things were looking mighty promising for them: debut album Animals was finished and ready to be unleashed after some very positive words in this online media business regarding their EP with Cats and Cats and Cats. The Kinsella-influenced new-Brit sound was rubbing off on parties all over the place with its peculiar time signatures and earnest lyrics.
Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR!
February 17, 2009 by Joseph Rowan · 3 Comments
A live album is always an ambitious gambit for a band; stripped of the atmosphere of a gig, what can be offered that can’t be found on a studio record? Even the best of live albums (I’m thinking Stop Making Sense, for one) can never compete with the experience of seeing the band live, no matter how many fancy tricks they threw in. Read more
Ane Brun – Changing of The Seasons
February 3, 2009 by Richard Wink · Leave a Comment
Ane Brun has been knocking about for a while; in fact, so has Changing of The Seasons, her third studio album which was originally released March of last year. The Norwegian-born singer songwriter who currently resides in Sweden will no doubt hope this release finally begins to make some waves.
