• Preview : Nat Johnson and the Figureheads

    Nat Johnson and the Figureheads will be releasing a new 3 song EP called What the heart pours in on March 7th (Damaged Good Records).

  • Haymageddon!

    Pete David & The Payroll Union’s Hoedown @Broomhall Community Centre. with support from The Biddy Fiddlers, Low Duo and Dan Haywood’s New Hawks. It was a cold, damp Saturday. The snow that flurried in the morning was now a wet mess in the streets and the cold British winter was on its last throes.

  • Wake up to… Maybeshewill

    Check out these fellas new video for ‘Critical distance’, their brand new single dropping in March 7th (on Function Records). Links Website. Myspace. Last.fm. Facebook. Twitter.  

  • Kuji Shop

    In that odd* part of Sheffield called Ecclesall Road, lies a small shop called Kuji. The first thing you’ll notice is the window front, sporting clothing, old school cameras and the odd piece of strange jewellry. Maybe a bit of stationery in bright colours with funky patterns will also be decorating the window.

  • Radio, play my favorite song…

    The Radio Dept @ Lunario del Auditorio Nacional, Mexico It was pretty good news when I found that a band like The Radio Dept. was on tour, but then a rush to the head just hit me when they announced they’d be giving a show in Mexico City. Yeah! I wanted my ticket at that…

  • A sixth form quality ode to Hey Sholay’s cursed tape

    (with apologies to everyone) Let me tell you a little story in horrible sixth form heraldic poetry the story of a horrid pink tape and all the lives it ruined.

  • Nicholas Courtney

    Nicholas Courtney (1929 – 2011 ) “Just once, I’d like to face an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets!” We’ll take a moment from our usual music rants to remember this good fellow, who acted with all the Doctors from the past in one of the shows we enjoy (mostly) at the site, Doctor…

  • Utah women who rock

      Our beloved writer Mikaela brings us the news and some recommendations from her lovely state, Utah.

  • Spooled in a pink coffin

    Hey Sholay – Self-titled furry pink tape The Skinny: A country skipping tape. The review proper: Seriously, it was in Mexico, USA and United Kingdom. But that’s another story…

  • Looking back at: Keith Girdler & His Blueboy

    A few months ago a friend of mine told me, “you’ve got to listen to this band, you’ll really like them, I know”, he gave me a copy of Blueboy’s Unisex. He was right: it completely blew and shattered my mind, jaw drop included.