• Wake up song for today -93

    Paul Simon – ‘Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard’: Everyone loves this tune, have a cheerful mornin’! – Misky

  • Wake up song for today -92

    Here is one of my favourite songs by Dan Andriano, from a band whose back-catalogue is seriously underrated; From Here to Infirmary is a stellar album and it changed the way I listen to music. Enjoy the upbeat vibes and satirical lyrics of the one, the only, Alkaline Trio… – Misky

  • One Man Stands Alone

    Review: Rufus Wainwright @ Sheffield City Hall, 17.04.10 It’s hard to imagine the emotions that a person must go through when someone they are very close to passes away. If an artist were to create a piece of art about that difficult period in their life, would you feel intrusive looking at the art? Would…

  • Wake up song for today -91

    Some Sheffield lovelies now – Cats:For:Peru with single Asleep in Monaco from their debut album Attack of the Pitching Machine. The video is from a documentary based in Sheffield. Stay tuned for a Sloucher interview with the band, coming soon! – Misky Check them out on MySpace

  • Interview : Kin

    Although the day was very sunny, a chilly gust roamed the streets of that cradle of music and fashion, Manchester. A whole essay could be written about the many types of genres melting together in this city and the focus today is on an artist that takes from several genres and blends them together into…

  • Wake up song for today -90

    Blue Roses – ‘Moments Before Sleep’: The wonderful Laura Groves now, more commonly known by the stage name Blue Roses, with a sleep-themed song from her debut self-titled album to lull you awake from mystical, abstract dreams. Ms Groves has an incredible voice and is a relatively new and absolutely exciting addition to the Great British music scene. – PM Check…

  • Review: The Dawn Chorus – The Carnival leaves town

    The Dawn Chorus – “The Carnival Leaves Town” A review, by Homo Rodans What exactly is folk music? I don’t know, but there are bands that you just need to listen to one time and something inside you says without hesitation: “that sounds like ‘folk’ music”

  • Review: Dirty Jeans – Our war EP

    The skinny: Hints of classic rock, some keyboard tricks and a pretty nifty rhythm section. “Rock music for a bar fight”. The review proper: No easy way to say it, but ‘Shoot the sky’ is one of those songs that can mark a band, one of those songs that really stand up in a catalogue.…

  • Wake up song for today -89

    Some vintage Evan Dando porn (or as close as you might get to any!) from the early nineties to wake you up with not just a pretty face but some pretty noise too – PM p.s. Here is an extra, just because it’s a classic and the video has Johnny Depp in it:

  • Review: 65 days of static – We were exploding anyway

    The skinny: Glitchy rockers/electronica renewing their energies and reloading some old tricks. The review proper: Whoa. What’s all this then? After some great music, the Sheffield based 65 days of static change their bag of tricks a bit on their new album, We were exploding anyway. Whilst still keeping their trademark moody music, they  add…