• Review – Downtown Owl

    Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman Chuck Klosterman has an undeniable talent to make something trivial matter. Take his borderline obsession with KISS or how he can take the minutiae of pop culture (both well-known and obscure) and weave essay after essay about how everything is interconnected. He’s Dirk Gently for the Gen-X generation. With better…

  • The Mayans warned us…

    URSS bajo el arbol – Lin3as M3ntal3s

  • Singles: Miniature Dinosaur, Deerhoof (w/Jeff Tweedy), Twilight Sad, The Miserable Rich, Esben & the Witch

    | Greetings, readers drinking styling moose earwax (decaffeinated, natch!) and nicking ginger cookies biscuits from the recently divorced red-haired bird at the office (buy her a pint) while the boss is buying the 600 quid remaster of Achtung Baby (aka the second best U2 album, after Zooropa. Deal with it). Welcome to another edition of…

  • Your new antique

    A friend once described Huddersfield to me, “everything is beige. The people, the weather, even the bloody bricks”. That was his opinion, but for hometown heroes Your New Antique, Huddersfield is a dark place.

  • Club60 singles launch

    “It seems you need a fucking degree in computers to make music these days” – A wino in the men’s room.

  • Wake up to Big Wave Riders

    Man, it’s cold in here! Between the monsoon/drizzle/twister-strength wind cycle that’s been kicking England and a broken radiator, it feels like a bad day in Siberia. Still, there’s always the element of music to brighten the day. So here we have Big Wave Riders (from Finland) and their track, ‘Republic of the average’, recently remixed by…

  • Interview : Cobra-fist

    Picture this: a warm, sunny September afternoon and you are just walking on Ecclesall Road and all of a sudden you look at the trees and yell “Hey! Is that a ninja up there?!?!?!”. You thought you saw three ninjas (with the only difference being they got palette-swapped) but now they are not there…they are..…

  • The seventh song of a seventh son

    The Whiskey Priest – Lost Wages

  • Wake up to Black Casino & The Ghost

    Black Casino & The Ghost are a band from London. That’s the first thing to know. The second thing is that they do know how to make a catchy track and ‘Falling into pieces’, the first song out of their upcoming EP is catchy. With a freaky video (keep watching… feels like a ransom note)…

  • Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire

    Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire