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  • Stream : Thee Mightees – Brutal

    Turn the right jennel in Sheffield and you can find a good band doing anything. Anything. On the top of my mind, that’s how I ran into Nai Harvest and Best Friends. And after several corners were walked, kicked and tripped upon, I now see Thee Mightees, taking a dip into the [allegedly] clean River…

  • Review: Moving Panoramas – One

    When is music a healing tool? I for one cannot say that I know the process as a musician, but as a music junkie, I think that once you find the one song that brings catharsis for a particular bad memory, you’ve found the chosen one. Wait, one, one, ONE! http://rd.io/x/QWHyHCIDOWg/ Fuck yeah, Moving Panoramas’ debut album…

  • Stream: Surf Rock is Dead – Never be the same

    Surf Rock is Dead‘s brand new album just came out last Friday and we’re late to the party, because, shit, son, when have you seen a Mexican that arrives on time? I’m a Mexican’t, Johnny Depp knew me well. ANYWAYS, Surf Rock is Dead deal a post-punky rock with thick atmospheres. Or, as Bubbles from The…

  • Review: Reverend & The Makers – Mirrors

      Disclaimer: I arrived quite late to the Reverend & The Makers party. I think it was summer of 2009, Forge Press had me covering a gig at the O2 Academy in Sheffield. I only knew the one song with Tim from Bromheads (‘Bandits’) and had no idea what it was going to be. I enjoyed ‘Silence is Talking’, probably much…

  • Stream: Stove – Wet Food

    Ovlov is late. Actually, you could say they are the late band Ovlov. It was a fun ride, but now the cat’s out, milk’s been cancelled and the only forward address they left was the name Stove.  Stove is the Tom Baker of Ovlov’s Jon Pertwee. Still a dashing form of rancorous slacker rock, Stove has Steve Harlett becoming a…

  • Stream: Correatown – True North

    We’ve been fans of the dream pop misadventures (the best kind of adventures!) of Correatown, from the halcyon days of Pleiades  to the sobering Sleep and other drugs, it’s been a great trip. And said trip is still going strong. After a spot of refuelling, Correatown is back with a brand new video, ‘True North’, a little taster…

  • Review: White Reaper – White Reaper Does it Again

      Ever since I first heard White Reaper, I associated them with the height of night time. As you can gather from White Reaper Does it Again‘s oddly memetic album cover, either they read my review or I somehow tapped into their consciousness. But hubris and telepathic abilities aside, what you really get from White Reaper Does…

  • Stream: Silver Shields – I wonder if you’re thinking of me now

    Holyyyyyy…it’s not even Autumn and the gorgeous sounds of shoegaze are already springing by. Silver Shields (“available for funerals only”) light an ecumenical incense. Its aromas bring chilling arrangements and expansive smoky melodies that are both melancholic and full of longing. ANYWAYS, here’s Silver Shields’ lovely new track: So, yeah, if y’all can bring Silver Shields to Mexico, lemme know. ‘I…

  • Stream: Birthmark – Find Yourself

    Somewhere near a dark Scottish loch, a man looks at the sky and wonders :”Why am I not part of Clan Kinsella?” The family name that has given us musical treats like Owen, American Football, Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc also includes Nate Kinsella, who has his own very cool project called Birthmark.  The last Birthmark album, Antibodies (our review), was a blast of joyful…

  • Looking back at: Shiner – Starless

      Editor’s note: We are big on Space Rock in this Shithole of a Website (TM). It’s probably the combination of shoegaze emotions and posthardcore sensibilities that make this genre such a joy to listen to. Hum, Failure, Castor, The Life and Times, Shiner, Withershins, Centaur, Vast Robot Armies, Withershins, Gazelle, National Skyline…you name ’em, we…