• Dr Rhyme and Mr Reason

    Cobra-fist + Gallops @ The Harley How do you cap off a great weekend? Easy, with two bands that enjoy messing with your ears.

  • Sunshiney pop

    Just Handshakes (We’re British) – New Adventures in pop Stream – ‘Downward spiral’

  • The future is so fuzzy I gotta wear shades

    Avenue Q @ Sheffield Lyceum It’s funny how the Muppets are still relevant to generations that never saw them on television prime time, but that know who they are whether due to repeats, several films of varying quality and the odd tribute (Weezer‘s magnificent video) or flippant parody (Family Guy springs to mind, putting Kermit…

  • The Leadmill Five

    The Monicans @ Leadmill, with support from Dan Williamson, obLONG, Blue Lip Feel and The Hosts. Starting up the night to everyone’s delight was Dan Williamson, always a pleasure to see live with his ditties. His set was short but sweet, with the solemnity that was the perfect hors d’oeuvre for the night. By the…

  • Graceless ending to a lovely evening

    Live Review: Cats:For:Peru EP launch + Japanese Sleepers @ The Bowery, 25.03.11 After managing to rope in an old friend to come out with me, I get to The Bowery in high spirits. I’ve been meaning to catch a Cats:For:Peru show for way too long now, so what better way to kick things off than…

  • Synths and slider rulers

    Metamusic – World to come

  • Paving Stones : Metamusic

    Metamusic Veering between a very cool breed of math rock and some dreamy electronic bits thrown in for your listening pleasure, Metamusic is a band from England that is waiting to lift off. If that’s not possible, maybe take the scenic route and soar then? Their lovely label, Superstar Destroyer Records, was kind enough to…

  • Preview – 2 sloucher gigs for y’all

    Hi! Well, long time coming and finally it’s happening! The first two Sloucher.org gigs, one celebrating the fact that we enjoy music a lot and the second one, well, consider it the non-birthday one. First, we cordially invite you to come to The Washington pub on Wednesday April 13th and enjoy the talents of Goodbye…

  • Wake up to Mazes

    Mazes are a cool, fun band (cheap plug – review) that we are enjoying quite a lot here and this new video for the song ‘Most days’ makes us think of Ren & Stimpy (but with less rotten molars jokes). Cool ditty and hopefully something to make your Friday a little better? ‘Most days’ is…

  • Agony Aunt Sock – 5

    Jonny’ll fix it … or he’ll fix you is Sloucher’s own “Agony Aunt” section. These are true cases, but the identities of those involved were changed to protect them. Feel free to send your troubles our way. This week, we keep talking about reproductive problems and vintage 70s sci-fi…