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Meet: We interview Pete Astor on The Loft reissue and more
Pete Astor is very good company. I think. I never met him. Never really even heard him speak to be perfectly honest. But I had bought, as a teenager, bought a 7” single by The Weather Prophets (or which Astor led), Almost Prayed from a long forgotten record shop in Loughborough. Located near McDonalds, where …
See: Billy Talent Release New Single and Lyric Video for “I Beg To Differ”
Following the release of Reckless In Paradise in January, Billy Talent have unveiled another new track, I Beg To Differ (This Will Get Better). The song is the second to be taken from the Canadian punk legends’ as-yet-untitled new record, which very little is known about as yet, although if the two that so far have been streamed are anything …
EP: Body Farm Release Split with Slut Bomb – So This Is Progress
Noise punk is a variation of hardcore that is what it is for a reason, the message is of such, that screaming it out is a release as much as a getting the word out. Hence all releases tend to come with lyric sheets. Central Ohio based punk-leaning, political power violence quartet Body Farm have …
Track: Happyness – Ouch (Yup)
Taken from their third album ‘Floatr’ which is due for release on 1st May, ‘Ouch (Yup)’ is the latest single from South London band ‘Happyness’. Returning after three years, they have said it was written on their lives and surrounding circumstances ofthe band break up aswell as other life changing situations of reality and love. …
Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
You know, I didn’t expect to become an Iron Maiden fan. At first, a compilation of their best work was all I needed. Hell, it didn’t even leave that good an impression, so for a few years I would return to Edward the Great sporadically, occasionally scratching my head as to why the band were held in such …
TRACK: THE GREAT DICTATORS – RIOT ON A DIET
Danish indie rockers – The Great Dictators return with the announcement of a full length album since ‘Woman’ in 2016. New album entitled ‘One Eye Opener’ is released April 17th via Celebration Records. It’s a more electronic affair as their new single ‘Riot On A Diet” introduces. The band have dropped the likes of Kraftwerk, …
Track: Dip Road Dogs – Lazy
Country Victoria has produced the geographically dispersed but very much together Dip Road Dogs with their new single ‘Lazy’. ‘Lazy’ has a slow burning tone with sweeping strings and crisp jangly guitars that immediately recalls The National or Tindersticks with an inherent Australian laconic delivery. A reflective, self-deprecating sense of humour in the lyrics augments …
Album Review: Pilotcan – No More Shan Goodbyes
Edinburgh’s Pilotcan has just released their fifth album ‘No More Shan Goodbyes’ and it is an absolute delight. Bringing together elements of nineties low-fi simplicity with a touch of eighties pop grunge, the common thread is a bunch of haunting, wistful intelligent songs. Of the album, front man Keiron Mellotte notes that he was writing …
Not Forgotten: Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1
In the eighties Madness were massive; kids loved ’em, your gran loved ’em. They scored hit after hit. While The Specials were personifying the grim zeitgeist of Thatcherite Britain in a parked car, Madness were dressing as garden gnomes and swinging from high wires. They were the nutty boys who became the lost boys, and …
TRACK: Village of the Sun (featuring Binker and Moses) – Ted
Village Of The Sun is a new collaboration between UK jazz virtuosos Binker Golding and Moses Boyd and electronic music legend Simon Ratcliffe of Basement Jaxx fame. Their second single – Ted – is out on Gearbox Records. You can get the track here. The track is a true combination of the sensibilities of its …