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  • A quiet affair

    Chi Limpiroj + Jay Leighton + Les Shelleys + Gregory and the Hawk @ Night and Day Café, Manchester Picture this: A cold Monday night in Manchester in a half filled Night and Day Café. 4 acts with no rhythm sections (at least, not conventional ones) and a looming harsh winter season. Such was the…

  • Hauschka – Foreign Landscapes

    Kepler said more than 400 years ago that Planets were actually quite entertained singing it up in the sky. Weird, but that’s one major piece of discovery for Astronomy: it was the laws of planetary motion. It is said also that every color, stone, sunset, the human body and even a telephone line is perfectly…

  • Unfortunate letters of incidents – 11

    Welcome to our weekly column with Russ “chords of gold” Palmer. This week, he writes with a transdimensonial worries to  Teletext…

  • Wake up song for today – 152

    I was walking home and noticed that a couple of snowflakes were dropping from the sky like Russian paratroopers. I ran home and locked the door, needing something to keep me warm and that wasn’t going to make me endure ANOTHER replay of Blur’s “The Universal”. Then I went online and found this on youtube.…

  • Pistola Kicks @ The Bowery

    Pistola Kicks @ The Bowery As the cold season exacerbates (there’s yer word of the day), gigs start to appear like the alternative to some human interaction. And stuff.

  • The winter of our folk discontent

    Quiet Loner – Spectrology The Skinny: Introspection for the winter. The Review Proper: Songs from a musty porch in Middle America, England. Quiet Loner, aka Matt Hill, is a very quiet musician. Haven’t met him personally, but from his music, you can guess quite a lot.

  • Firesuite – Amity (video)

    The lovely people from Firesuite sent us this video, we post it here for your viewing pleasure. Like the song?  Click here.

  • Xrayhorse 9 – Buffalo Bones, Wot Gorilla?, Death Rays and Dead Sons

    Buffalo Bones, Wot Gorilla?, Death Rays and Dead Sons @ The Harley Opening duties was by Buffalo Bones, from Leeds. Starting with some mild  blues rock which progressively got more and more interesting (and, yeah, heavier), they went for some grunge stuff. The very tribal ‘Strangest of feelings’ (all about that creepy intro and wicked…

  • Singles – The Smashing Pumpkins, The Violet May, Bromheads, Gaoler’s Daughter, The Cubical

    A veritable all mix this week, as we get an alt-legend strutting their stuff, a raucous band known for their intense live shows, a Liverpudlian gang who probably sleep in a beer freezer, a garage duo with a smashing garage sound and a group dabbling in a suave type of indie. Hopefully, these songs will…

  • Unfortunate letters of incidents – 10

    Welcome to our weekly column with Russ “chords of gold” Palmer. This week, he writes with a concerned spelling request to Smarties…