• 6001 Hulls vs Dad Rocks! – Ac!d Dorks

  • Gig : Dad Rocks! and Tall Ships @ The Bowery, Sheffield

    A few hours before this gig, I was interviewing Dad Rocks! and two things struck me: the wide-eyed perspective the band has about fatherhood (a central team on their great album, Mount Modern) and the extremely easy going personality they had. The interview went quite swimmingly (any band that likes Owen and Red House Painters…

  • Freeze the Atlantic – Speakeasy

  • Dreamscape – La-di-da Recordings

    Today I read the news: “Kranky to issue retrospective of long forgotten shoegazers …“ Kranky have indeed reissued Bristol’s Dreamscape’s long forgotten, out of print recordings. What can you say other than sometimes time travel could be a good thing…

  • Audioscope – Music for a good home 2

  • Interview – Joe Volume

    Back in September, we reviewed the album Lonesome water, lonely sea by Joe Volume, who we’ve been following for a while (both on twitter and music terms). The last few months seemed to have been a rollercoaster in the life of this musician and we wanted to drop him a couple of questions by email. Without any further…

  • Singles Reviewed : Screaming Maldini, Yokozuna, Pinback, Silver Arm, Picardy III, Taffy

    Greetings, readers! Sorry if the intro is curt, but we are in an emotional groove and we can’t get out. Singles (or stuff we decided it was singles):

  • The Lost Gem : Mad Season – Above

    1994. A typical coffee shop in Seattle, Washington has four friends in the table looking like the world has crushed them. In way, it has. One of them is the lead guitarist of a highly successful band that’s in a the midst of a lawsuit with Ticketmaster. Another one is a blues bassist who met…

  • Tales of the Pill Generation : Enjoy the silence

    (Editor’s note: this is part of an upcoming book called The Fall and Decline of the Pill Generation) It was a very hard time for me. Not in school, though, it was kinda OK back then, I wasn’t the whipping boy for the rest of the classroom in 1990. That was Rubén’s job, it seems.

  • Short Story : Since he left

    I am sitting between your legs, leaning back against your chest. I thread my fingers through yours over my stomach and you gently kiss my neck before resting your head on my shoulder. I smile.