• Forest Fire – Staring at the X

  • Invite: Sheffield Oxjam 2011

    We cordially invite you to a weekend of good music (and even better vibes) in the form of Oxjam Sheffield 2011. The festival will take place in several venues across town. Individual entry to each venue is 4 quid but you can buy a venue-jumping ticket for 7 quids. It all goes for a good…

  • Wake up to… Smokers Die Younger

    Don’t you hate it? You’re just chilling about after doing your shopping when your dinner comes back to life (via The Resurrection Glove) and runs from you. We were warned about this. Smokers Die Younger are a band from Sheffield that had many a tag attached to them, but having seen them twice, it’s a…

  • Four elemental attack

    The Hope Explosion, Wet Nuns, All Mankind  and The Violet May @ Leadmill, Sheffield.

  • Looking back at… Thrice – The Alchemist Index (Vol. 1 – 4)

    It’s always mind-blowing when a band you sort of tagged and bagged into a particular shelf in your genre cupboard (TM) becomes self-aware and evolves. Thrice is one of those cases: pigeonholed in the post-hardcore/screamo box, they pulled the rug for a lot of people in 2007 and 2008 with their quadruple EP (sold in two instalments…

  • EP Island – Sweet’ish

                                               

  • Wake up to Dead Sons

    It has been a hectic year for the people of Dead Sons. A couple of free songs (‘Berlin’, ‘Junk room’). a vinyl single (‘I am the Lord’) and several big name gigs, including performing opening duties for Arctic Monkeys at their homecoming gig at Don Valley Stadium. How to cap it off? Well, releasing a…

  • A very good deed indeed

    Various Artists – War on Want Album in a day They did it. They finally did it. They made a monkey out of me. No, wait, wrong reference. G2 Studios recorded and mixed an album in less than 24 hours, all for charity.

  • Esben and the Witch – Hexagons EP

  • Invite – The Parallelograms and Just Handshakes (We’re British)

    We’d like to invite you to a night of C86 and jangly, lovely Indie pop with The Parallelograms and Just Handshakes (We’re British) at The Red house (168 Solly Street, Sheffield). This event is organised by Pop-o-Matic, who we have terrorised reviewed before. We-ve also done a few pieces about Just Handshakes (We’re British) like an…