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  • 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…

  • Wake up song for today – 87

    I once wanted a band as energetic as this and my plan was to call them “Sega Mexican Porros”. I don’t think I would’ve gotten away with it. Missing Atari Teenage Riot. They were ace. —Sam

  • Wake up song for today -86

    Just as Sam likes to avoid comparisons, so do I – but there is something here that brings me back to the hazy, riot grrrl fishnet-stockings of the 90’s. Slow Down Tallahassee sounds a bit like Bikini Kill and a bit like 60’s twee but with an elastic bassline topped with fuzzy distortion and outspoken synths. Another Sheffield…

  • Fear and Loathing in Room 7

    Part 1: The Ex It was just another Friday. The trilby was in place, the coffee was exacerbating my arrhythmia and the vodka bottle seemed to evaporate per ACT OF THE GODS. Everything’s good in Hill City (aka Sheffield). The sun shines through my window, in another one of those FREAK events of God, who…

  • Wake up song for today -85

    Steve Lamacq’s favourite band of last year and fellow students of Sheffield, The Crookes, wake us up today with a new song and video called ‘Bloodshot Days’. These lads are set to go far.  Enjoy a cool video and a bit’obanjo this fair mornin’! – PM

  • Interview: Is I cinema

    Sometimes in life, you’ve got a choice. The problem is always that choice. Our decisions are marked by that choice. What you want to do versus what you have to do. My problem was: Do I go to a gig I’ve been waiting for or ditch it for a band I barely know nor heard…

  • Vinegar Tom @ Sutco (more of a rant than a review)

    (Reviewer’s note: Apologies for the rant nature of the review. It’s been a bad month.) The Premise: An old town in nowhere and nowhen is rocked to the core when accusations of witchcraft are made. It looks like Salem, but it could be right now. The Review: An allegory to feminism? Sure thing. Caryl Churchill…

  • Wake up song for today – 84

    My parents have their 44th wedding anniversary today. This is their song. Congrats Mom and Dad!