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  • Single: Honor – Never Off

    A rising swell of electronica elements intertwines with a carefully tinkered pop hook in Honor‘s brand new single, ‘Never Off’. The video, directed by Marco Prestini in that concrete pandemonium we love to call Los Angeles, captures the urgent wistfulness of Honor‘s vocals; a single, lonely plant stem breaking through the tarmac of a sometimes…

  • Announcement: ArcTanGent’s final line-up

    Whoa, what? ArcTanGent! It’s a festival that’s been meteorically rising, but instead of shattering like a cookie once it reaches the atmosphere, it’s been gathering strength and growing stronger. Tell me more. A final addition to the line up has been announced (hence this post, my imaginary friend.) New bands added are Cult of Luna,…

  • Review: The Ravenna Colt – Terminal Current

    I’ve always equated country (and to some degree, Americana) as a never-ending search for a peace of mind that might never appear. The sweet and dark wail of pedal steels conjure the images of dreaming to reach that goal. So why look for a peace of mind that will never happen? Because the landscapes are…

  • Review: Bonetti – Dos Mescal Para Vamanos

    Experimental rock always gets the short end of the stick. Sometimes defenestrated for being “impenetrable”, sometimes burned at the stake for being “pretentious” and most of the time ignored, left alone in a corner with Pluto. In the words of a certain American writer: “it never got too weird for me.” Especially when the final…

  • Short Story: Restock in Oaxaca.

    Editor’s note: this story is linked to Bonetti’s EP, Dos Mescal para vamanos, out now on The Audacious Art Experiment. Order here. I came in to the west, riding buses from state to town as far east as Tulum, Quintana Roo. The depot was filled with local hermanos, flamboyant sombreros and a blazing sun so…

  • Short Story: In these latitudes…

    It’s the ankle. It’s always the ankle. It can be the left or the right, but one of them HAS to twist in the worst moment, when I’m in a big hurry and can’t lose any more time. Because, as Biffy Clyro once said, time’s what we don’t have. I hate walking this big stretch…

  • Stream: Motes – Keep it in the dark

    Motes are from Urbana, Illinois. Motes play dream pop (#notshoegaze). Motes might like your shoes, but prefer making dreamy music. Keep it in the dark is their brand new album, out on May 23rd and you can stream two tracks, ‘Great Lake’ and ‘Freeway’ right now on Bandcamp. Keep it in the dark was recorded…

  • Stream : The Payroll Union – Paris of America

    Sheffield’s official providers of Gothic Americana, The Payroll Union, are back from the woods they camped out with a new track, ‘The mission field’, now streaming on Bandcamp: ‘The Mission Field’ is part of Paris of America, their new album, out on June 29, 2015, which is a day after the best day in the…

  • Over thinking Demolition Man

    Over thinking Demolition Man, or ‘The worrying/accurate future of Demolition Man, after analysing the film until reaching a ridiculous conclusion’, Demolition Man, starring Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes, is a science fiction/action movie released in 1993. It tells the story of police sergeant John Spartan (Stallone) cryogenically frozen as a punishment, after he…

  • Video round up: The Hot Soles, Sur Back, Bonetti, The Smösh, Matt & Kim

    Howdy ho! We’ve found a few good videos who could handle the truth and here they are for your perusal and hopefully visual pleasure. Razzle dazzle! The Hot Soles, one of the best live bands I’ve seen, have drip fed their way and now the brand new single, ‘Glorious Blunder’, have them re-enacting End of…