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  • Unfortunate letters about incidents – 8

    Welcome to our new weekly column with Russ “chords of gold” Palmer. This week, he writes with grave concern to Twiglets…

  • Interview – Un Mexicano Enojado

    Un Mexicano Enojado is a band from Mexico, and frankly, they are quite angry. Their music (c’mon, click on the stream!) is a mix of rock and electronic, tribal rhythms. This is Un Mexicano Enojado (An Angry Mexican) speaking to me, a Mexican exiled in the UK. These are their words to the us.

  • Tripping the lucid light fantastic

    The Lucid Dream – In your Eyes (EP) The Skinny: Less lo-fi. Still noisy. The review proper: The lads got a reverb and a vibrato pedal and are not afraid to use it. Swear to God, all that acid done in the 60s found its way into the water supply and after a few years…

  • An interview with Sheffield’s greatest monkey

    Interview – Jonny Sock (no, he ain’t from the Arctic…) Our previous online editor, Orestes, was killed by the minions of the Angel of the North (true story, I have the video to prove it!), but waaaaaaay before that unfortunate incident (see what I did there? tee hee), he/she/it managed to get an interview with…

  • Unfortunate letters about incidents – 7

    Welcome to our new weekly column with Russ “chords of gold” Palmer. This week, he writes with grave concern to Top Shop… (and here’s a song to listen to while reading this incident…)

  • Radio friendly Americana

    Dust on the Breakers – American Reclamation The skinny: Music as a landscape. The review proper: Imagine an Autumn sunset. The skies are turning mauve and purple. There’s a few shades of red and orange by the departing Sun. And you’re on your way home to your loved ones (in my case, a laptop).

  • Lost notes – 3

    Previously, on Lost Notes… Lost notes – 3 As the bus (sorry, coach) stops in one of those greasy food joints along the M1, I think about my green notebook. It has one of those elastic bands and it’s filled to the brim in notes and ideas for books and short stories that I will…

  • Review: 65 days of Static – Heavy Sky (EP)

    65daysofstatic – Heavy Sky (EP) The skinny: That little tail behind the comet that was We were exploding anyway. The review proper: Why chop down ‘Tiger girl’?

  • That’ll be the last time we invite you!

    It was a cold, bitter October afternoon (leading to a hypothermia-laden night) and the text message in my shitphone (i.e. any smartphone that doesn’t bear the Mark of The FruitBeast) read: “get yo’self to Budgie and the Toad”. And I sez to meself: Ok.

  • Cancer is the answer

    Cancer is the answer We all know that cancer is the answer. What you may not know is that cancer used to be a horrid disease. That was until Dr Fukkanuts, a German biochemist with a broken mind and an unfortunate name, found otherwise.