• Wake up song for today – 74

    It’s rumoured that there’s a bit of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in all of us. Maybe. Do you feel like the wild one?

  • Alone and outnumbered in the ring

    The Loud – EP Taken from The Loud’s Facebook. The skinny: Noise rock from Liverpool. Emphasis on rock, saturated with the noise. The review (proper): Since these Liverpudlian lads (hey, just like me, laaaik – Ed. Quinto) sound like the resonance of getting  a concussion after boxing, let’s exploit the twee boxing analogies I’ve been…

  • Wake up song for today – 73

    The band we’re reviewing today (The Loud) sounds to me a little bit like a mixture of these two bands. I don’t really encourage band comparisons, but I’m dried up for wake up songs. Sorry. It’s the Bristol air. Big Love. Quinto

  • Unprofessional behaviour gets you to Bristol for free

    Note: The following excuse of  a review covers the  Children for Breakfast show at the Harley where the following bands played: Killing Fields of Ontario, No Kids, Mount Eerie. This is a verbatim transcription of a text conversation between the reviewer and his co-editor. Both will be fired shortly if they don’t change their behaviour.…

  • Wake up song for today – 72

    Enjoy your sunday with this lovely lovely and LOVELY song by the one, the only, the Quirking of all Tweengs, Sufjan Stevens. —Sam

  • Wake up song for today – 71

    “I buried my first victim when I was 19”. Mark Kozelek. Gotta love him. Here’s a love letter to nostalgia, Judas Priest and the people who aren’t with us anymore. If you got depressed, why not check our weekly comic? Just click here.

  • Of nicotine stains and shouting fits

    Smokers Die Younger – X wants the meat The skinny: Uncompromising music that although sounding aggressive, is curiously ear-friendly. The review (proper): As once previously stated in this very zine (warning: incoming shameless plug), Smokers Die Younger are pretty hard to describe (and i’m not even pretending to even know how to categorise them). So…

  • Wake up song for today – 70

    It’s rumoured that our lovely Frog LOVES John Denver. And yodelling. Me? I like a good tune and Jacques Cousteau was a good geezer. So, there. Getting friggin’ goosebumps. Big Love Quinto

  • What the (bearded) cat brought in…

    Cats:for:Peru – Attack of the Pitching Machine   The skinny: Indie sea of rock with a dark riptide creeping about (will explain later). The review (proper): Hailing from Sheffield and formed from the ashes of other bands, the combined experience of all members show in the broad range of feelings and musical genres mish mashed…

  • Wake up song for today – 69

    Only Shaun Ryder could bring in some newspeak to the wonderful and strange world of Happy Mondays lyrics. Enjoy. PS: double double good!!!