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Feature: Public Body Frontman Seb Gilmore Shares His Influences For New Album ‘Big Mess’

Brighton’s frenetic art-rockers Public Body have released their much anticipated debut album ‘Big Mess’, via FatCat Records, accompanied by an official video for brand new single ‘Driven By Data’. Detailing their debut full-length, frontman Seb Gilmore explained: “This album…

Feature: Television Supervision Give Us A Track By Track Of Their Recent EP

With every release our goal as songwriters stays consistent- we want to invigorate listeners while showcasing our diversity. We push ourselves to find new sounds while keeping our roots intact…

Feature: 10 years on – Dananananaykroyd on memories, the wall of cuddles, and Demi Lovato

The summer of 2011 was Dananananaykroyd’s last. The Scottish ‘fight-pop’ band had formed in 2006, armed with two drummers, two vocalists, and an entire arsenal of post-hardcore pop songs. Their…

Feature: Supreme Joy give us an exclusive track by track run down of their new album, Joy

If you’re a fan of Cool Ghouls, one of the bands mainstays, Ryan Wong, has today released an album ‘Joy’ of his own, under the moniker Supreme Joy. Based partly…

Feature: Shrines give us a track by track lowdown on their new EP, Ghost Notes

Making a compelling case as London’s heaviest post-punk outfit, Shrines are gearing up for the release of their new EP ‘Ghost Notes’ this coming Friday, March 26th via Apocalyptic Witchcraft…

Her Voice : A playlist for International Women’s Day 2021

Although it has it’s beginnings way back in 1911, International Women’s Day has an increasingly important role to play in our society. Every March 8th, the day is an important…

Feature: The 50 best albums of 2020

Well, it’s been a bit of a year, hasn’t it? Global pandemics, George Floyd, environmental issues, terrorism, dissatisfaction with those in charge, not least in the ongoing (it seems) fallout…

Soundtrack of our lives: The Fall – Album Definitive Quagmire. In memory of Mark E Smith

I don’t really know why I’m a fan of Mark E Smith and The Fall. Is it the uanabashed Northernness? Is it the mastery of prose? or maybe the fact…

Playlist: John Peel Show 10.12.1976 The Punk Special

It has been viewed, especially in retrospect, as something of a watershed moment – an incoming of punk rock, a realisation that John Peel really did and could move with…

Classic Album: Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols

While no one would ever dare question Sex Pistols’ cultural impact, such was Malcolm Mclaren’s obsession with publicity stunts, that by the time Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex…

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