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Track: Steel Trees – Attack of the Stoner Zombie Killer Kids (plus Tour news)

Picture the scene, the Mafia family boxing day celebrations and the brethren gathered from the four corners of the earth (well, Sheffield and London). Various offspring running riot, off their…

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Meet: Elephant interview

I took my children to Chester Zoo once, and we spent the day looking at the animals. Some we didn’t spend long with – Camels, Zebra’s, even Seals. But Elephants,…

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Track: Dark Horses – Traps/Boxing Day

Benjamin Disraeli was an author, letter-writer, thinker and probably most importantly, Prime Minister. Twice. Back in a time when these sort of jobs only went to the very richest and…

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Preview: Detestival (curated by The Wet Nuns)

For me it wasThe Elephants. It was somewhere in Denmark, and they were Danish. They were (outrageously) below the bill than the band I was in, and so I wandered…

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EP: The Planes – On Demand

If I made a list of things I knew about the coastal town of Portsmouth, it would be pretty short. That fat bloke with loads of tattoos who rings…

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Feature: Acid House, 25 (or so) years on, plus playlist

It’s difficult to imagine now. Not since Punk exploded a decade before had there been such an outcry, such a controversy in popular music. Like Punk, it was vilified in…

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Past lives: John Lennon assassinated – December 8th, 1980

Its December 8th today, and exactly 32 years ago to the day Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon in the back four times, on the steps of his apartment building,…

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Feature: Label Focus – Blackest Rainbow

It’s funny that one of the best labels distributing Folk, experimental, drone, Japanese alternative, avant garde and general ‘noise’ stuff is Blackest Rainbow records, here in Sheffield. not only that but they…

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Not Forgotten: Ruthless Rap Assassins – And it wasn’t a dream (+ uk hip-hop doc.)

Formed by future Black Grape MC Kermit (then known as MC Kermit la Freak) in the late 1980’s with brothers Dangerous Hinds and Dangerous C, Manchester’s Ruthless Rap Assassins made…

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Track: Steel Trees – Attack of the Stoner Zombie Killer Kids (plus Tour news)

Meet: Elephant interview

Track: Dark Horses – Traps/Boxing Day

Preview: Detestival (curated by The Wet Nuns)

EP: The Planes – On Demand

Feature: Acid House, 25 (or so) years on, plus playlist

Past lives: John Lennon assassinated – December 8th, 1980

Feature: Label Focus – Blackest Rainbow

Not Forgotten: Ruthless Rap Assassins – And it wasn’t a dream (+ uk hip-hop doc.)