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  • 30 days, 30 bands – #22 The Death Rays of Ardilla

    True story: I was at Bungalows and Bears, on a Saturday night. A lady in a yellow shirt comes to me and asks me about the previous bands that were playing at that Rough Shag night. She then asked about Death Rays of Ardilla.  “Who are that band with the weird name? How are they live?” “Uh…they are…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #21 Cobra-Fist

    Hear this tale of yore, grasshoppers, and younglings Of ninjas, fighters, and spiritual distortion guides Who jumped into scene one day, as the manatee spoke Three warriors, like peppers, they came up fierce Three songs, a trifecta, through hearts they pierce Cobra vs Man, Cobra vs Heart, Cobra vs Shaaaaark. Pint-sized ninjas who fought a…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #20 Drenge

    I once wrote an article for Vice, talking about the similarities between Mexico City and Sheffield. It was a white label affair, so my name wasn’t there, it was mostly an ad for Jimador Tequila, dashed with anecdotes about sediment sampling in the Don, jokes about burritos (not my idea), and photos of Club60 and…

  • Invitación: Friendstival 2016

    Damita, caballero, espantajo Lovecraftiano del séptimo velo, androide sintético que ha visto rayos C,  es un honor para Sloucher.org recomendarles el Friendstival 2016, organizado y amarrado por una bola de rufianes fufurufos con buen gusto musical. Por sólo $250 pesotes (más cargos Boletia), podrán ver un chulimontón de bandas (okay, veintiún) en los dos escenarios del Foro…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #19 65daysofstatic

    “A very angry wolf…”- Joe Shrewsbury, describing 65daysofstatic‘s sound. In late June 2007, an expensive copy of Rock Sound made it to my grubby paws in the quiet city of Bentonville, Arkansas. It had a free CD and one of the bands there was 65daysofstatic. I thoroughly enjoyed what I heard and I wondered if I…

  • Review: Tom Baxendale – In The City a Short Time Ago

    If you have your ear to the ground to Sheffield’s music scene, you know Tom Baxendale from The Payroll Union, a band he’s been gigging with since 2012. If you paid attention to the darker times of 2013, you might’ve seen him serenading the night away at The Great Gatsby, in the company of David J. Roch and Low Duo, in his previous band, The…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #18 Nat Johnson

    Officially, I heard from Nat Johnson when she was way over Monkey Swallows The Universe. Unofficially, I’ve heard of her just before that Last of The Summer festival I didn’t go to anyways. I remember an editor at Forge Media being a little obsessed with the ‘Sheffield Shanty’ track. I said that ‘Bloodline’ was better. And that’s why I…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #17 Mabel Love

    This will be a short one. Not because there isn’t anything interesting to say about Mabel Love‘s short time in this world. No, the reason is because out of respect to Ricey‘s untimely death, I’m omitting a lot of speculation and hearsay. Because I find it hard to get a clear answer in a lot of…

  • Review: Black Cat White Cat – Nine Wild Lovers

    The long road for an album release can sometimes be treacherous. Self-defeating thoughts, the real world, health issues, economic declines, you name it, all factors dragging a release by its heels. It can feel eternal, and two bands I’ve talked about this week fit this path. One was Psychic Twin. The other is Black Cat…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #16 Bromheads

    Tramlines 2009. The first one. The one where the local music bug bit me. Probably because I stepped on it with all my splendorous overweightness (!). I’d just seen La Folie at the Frog & Parrot and dragged myself uphill, back to Endcliffe Village. Statistics about fungus and micas had to be done. I was still thinking about the…