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  • Wake up song for today – 49

    Mr. Chris Vrenna and his massively underrated pseudonym, Tweaker. Gotta love the guy. He made the soundtrack for American McGee’s Alice, so in honour of Alice in Wonderland (the Burton remix) getting some love from cinemas, we give some love for Chris Vrenna. Big up, brother! – Q

  • Singles reviews – 4

    (Editor’s note: This column is so late that’s becoming a joke! – Q) Ahoooy there, mateys! It’s Sam with tidings of good music. The battle of bands releasing a song per month (that’d be Bromheads vs. Corgan Simpson!) is heating up. Who will win? Well, the audience, of course!!! Bromheads – Snow Cheeky voice? Check.…

  • Wake up song for today – 48

    It’s Friday, it’s getting sunnier and those cheekily dressed girls are distracting Orestes from his/her/its web duties! In fact, I’m thinking of a day long gone, in San Francisco. Here’s a song that describes that day and a conversation in a record store with an auburn haired girl with a trillion dollar smile. Here’s to…

  • Review – Gorillaz “Plastic Beach”

    Five years. A five year draught and what we get? A plastic beach! Gorillaz are back in style and the extended break between albums seem to be getting the job done. From the “Waaa-hey, I nicked this from Vivaldi” introduction with an orchestra called, well, ‘Orchestral info’, you know you are getting in for a…

  • Wake up song for today – 47

    Our two best writers, the lovely Ms. Moore (get well soon, girl!!!) and Mr. Valdes (we’ll miss Morgana too, man!), are feeling a bit bad. We hope they both recover, so here’s some big love from Big Star.

  • Review – Xiu Xiu @ The Harley

    There are times in your life when you go and peer over the proverbial abyss. Sometimes the abyss looks back; sometimes it just plays some music. The Harley had the pleasure of holding an extravagant gig organised by the owner of the best hats in Sheffield (that be Liam from Children for Breakfast, then– Quinto).…

  • Wake up song for today – 46

    The theme song for our very own comic. It’s Billy Corgan and Spirits in the Sky with this mammoth jam that includes the underrated Dave Navarro, the amazing Mark Tulin and all around nice guy Kerry Brown (aka Studiodog) And if you think we love the Smashing Pumpkins too much as of late, howzabout THIS…

  • Looking back at … Smashing Pumpkins – Machina

    MACHINA/The machines of God “tired of fighting the good fight against the Britneys of the world” — Billy Corgan joking about why SP broke in 2000. The year was 2000, the world didn’t end, shattering the dreams of many a nerdy prophet of doom and the date was 29 of February. Amongst the hellish landscape…

  • Wake up song for today – 45

    Happy Birthday, Machina/The Machines of God. For all the bittersweet memories (Puebla, Orlando, Monterrey, that day in August) that you carry around and any new memories that might come from your overcompressed sounds, I salute you. -sam

  • Review: The Unfortunate Incident @ The Washington

    18/02/2010 On a freezing cold February night, a select few of the wiser souls in Sheffield made the decision to huddle into the cosy Washington pub. The reason was not for bevvys (with the exception of perhaps one particularly inebriated 40-something, who almost got chucked out for his forceful drunken banter!); not for the friendly…