• 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!!!

  • Angry blues and more from the UK (a mysterious package).

    THE HOPE EXPLOSION – DEMO This is one of the strangest but beautiful things that could ever happen to me. This morning I woke up, yes, as always, and found a package on my door, sender unknown. I first felt at unease when reading the big red inscription this carton box had glued on white…

  • Wake up song for today- 68

    I wanted something relaxing to post on Easter Sunday, day of all roast dinners and family gatherings and chocolate eggs, and I thought of one of my favourite jazz musicians…the one and only, angel-faced heavenly-voiced Mr Baker. Here he is in 1987, one year before his unfortunate demise, with a live version of his classic recording…

  • Album review: Arms – EP

    Just recently I was thinking about “The Dukes of the Stratosphear”, the psychedelic side project of Andy Partridge and Co. (a.k.a. XTC)  and I was thinking about them because I thought that I have not heard anything like that in the past 10 years. And then I got the most-recent-mp3-web-freely-distributed EP (conveniently titled “EP”) of…

  • Wake up song for today – 67

    From Liverpool with Love! I was pretty impressed by The Loud last Saturday at The Grapes and by perusing at their Myspace, I found they recorded this live session. It’s pretty much how raw they sound. Click ’em and check ’em! If you are in Liverpool this Saturday 3 of April, mosey down to Static…