• An abstract cataclysm

    Implodes – Black Earth

  • Wake up to… The Shipping News (slightly remixed)

    I love The Shipping News. They’ve done one of the most visceral, punchier albums I’ve heard recently, the brutal One less heartless to fear ( review). Besides having a bassist with a magic knack for doing killer basslines (proof – Bad Eve), they also are from the fabled Louisville, Kentucky, a town so laidback it…

  • Synth is Golden

    Review: Pulseprogramming –Charade is Gold Chicago’s Pulseprogramming, the brainchild of vocalist/producer Marc Hellner, are a multimedia studio-based collective that have been releasing material for over a decade. New album ‘Charade is Gold’ is a beautiful slice of subtle synth-pop which delicately mixes dreamy shoegaze with analogue loops, undulating bass, deep monotone male vocals and uplifting,…

  • Interview – obLONG

    “What’s this for? What publication?” “Sloucher, we told you Steve!” “Uh? I don’t know what’s going on (laughs)” —Steve Genn & Hugh Ruiz, obLONG.

  • Paving Stones – The Hope Explosion

    The Hope Explosion

  • Review: Opus Acoustics (opening night)

    Opus Acoustics, a weekly night held at The Riverside pub every Thursday (from 7:30 PM until that damned bell rings at 11) thrives to be a night for acoustics acts and poetry (and a spot of open mic).

  • Free shiz – Nowhere Again’s EP

    You like free music and wish that the guilt complex went away for a while?

  • Gig previews!

    Busy week this one!

  • Sheffield and California, sitting under a tree

    Mazes Spectrals and Best Coast @ Queens Social Club, Sheffield It was a very sunny Thursday, a strange occurrence in Sheffield’s “blink and you miss” spring, one that has felt more like a bad mood swing. So, in order to cure those weather-got-me-down-blues, what best than 3 very uplifting bands to rock out in that…

  • Garrett would be proud

    The King and The Thief – Castles Stream – ‘Glow in the dark’