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  • 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…

  • Wake up song for today – 44

    Suggested by our friendly writer Grace, here’s the Swanton Bombs.

  • Wake up song for today -43

    Everybody loves Cat Stevens and I particularly love this song because the lyrics are so honest. A gentle awakening on a Monday morning! – Misky p.s. Ignore the first 1:20 of this video, tuning issues…

  • Review – Whistle down the wind @ Sheffield Lycaeum

    Nowhere, south of the United States, sometime in the 50s. A town with very strict religious views and an iron glove police force(think NKVD/Gestapo but not as friendly). Three little kids whose mother has passed away and whose father slaves away at the farm, affronted by a stark economic future. And in the midst of…