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What do you get when you cross a (increasingly) legendary venue in Leeds with a band (also from Leeds) that have been much loved and much missed. Well, step forward one of the genuine ‘alternative’ bands from the last few years, four piece ¡Forward Russia! and celebrations for the centenary of the Brudenell Social Club. …

Love Buzzard are about to release their debut four track EP, so to warm up the crowd they have teamed up with Dalston illustrator Russell Taysom to bring you a video for the EPs opening track ”Give It Some Range’ With their adrenalin fuelled Garage/Psych and Taysoms nightmarish animated imagery its pretty full on: Raining eyeballs, spinning skulls, demon crows and …

Speeding head first out of the Black Country, God Damn are one of the bands burning the torch for the current UK rock scene.   Living up to their name, God Damn make a god damn lot of noise. Like the MC5 reinventing themselves in modern day Wolverhampton, spunky, frenetic guitar collides with thumping purposeful …

“Gravedweller, make sure you bury me next to the family who resemble me.” [Unashamedly re-hashed from the Backseat Mafia vaults for Hallowe’en]   Imagine you’re taking a stroll round a graveyard. It’s dark. It’s misty. But there’s no need to be scared, because Dick Dale is with you holding your hand. Before you, two figures …

The Velvet Underground have to be one of the most influential bands of all time. Without them it would have been hard for any kind of underground/alternative sub-culture to even exist, let alone flourish. Championed by the likes of David Bowie, cited by the Jesus and Mary Chain, their music more than stands the test …

We warned you about Human Hair a month ago. At the time we had the rumour of an album, the threat of some live dates and a tease of a track. But these were far more than rumours and threats; the album, ‘My Life As A Beast And Lowly Form’ is confirmed to be unleashed …

Now I sort of like Paul Morley, but if push came to shove, I think I like The Cure more. Seems like London four piece Desperate Journalist do as well, both my naming themselves after the band rounded on the said journo during a Peel Session for a less that favourable review, but also because …

Almost a year ago to the day I got my hands on a debut album that in my view was absolutely flawless. Packed full of post-punk finery and delivered with an intensity and depth that made it stand out head and shoulders above the rest. I wasn’t alone in my view, in fact in our …

You can get bogged down with trying label stuff. But it can also go the other way. Post-punk, new wave, whatever you want to call it, has been a term applied to an ever increasing number of bands, effectively broadening the genre to a point that it becomes almost meaningless (just check out the list …

There’s some words that don’t seem to look right, but actually work brilliantly. A bit like Peter Kay and his Garlic? Bread?, so putting the words Gypsy and Punk together (never mind making music that fits into that description) look…odd, but work brilliantly. The worlds foremost Gypsy Punk band is New York’s Gogol Bordello. Fresh …