Brakes features the combined talents of British Sea Power’s Eamon, Tenderfoot’s Mark Beatty along with Tom and Alex from Electric Soft Parade. This indie super-group have created a guitar heavy number that clearly echoes Joy Division and late eighties indie rock.
The main single (The other tracks are short bookends) contains a tension from the first […]

Beans has taken hip-hop and twisted it to include a more eclectic electronic sound. The result is a backing that will be more familiar to Warp aficionados while being far less challenging than many of their other artists. The raps are slick, original and all the more refreshing for their avoidance of arrogant posturing, bank […]

Johnny Ramone, lead guitarist will New York punk legends The Ramones, has died aged 55 after a 5-year battle with prostate cancer. Joey, whose real name was John Cummings, died in his sleep at his Los Angeles home yesterday afternoon.
At Johnny’s bedside when he passed away were his wife, Linda, Ramones creative director Arturo Vega […]

After a seemingly very quiet few years the Levellers returned in 2002 with Green Blade Rising. Just before it’s release, I got on the blower to the band’s bassist, Jeremy Cunningham to ask him where the hell he’d been. In doing this I managed to put my foot in it at the first question but […]

Lars Horris operates within his own self-created sub-genre of hip-hop: hardcore alien hip-hop. He does this, he says, because he is an outsider in the hip-hop world; his background prevents him from being one of the bad boys. Still, everyone knows that, in reality, the Wu-Tang Clan are all nice boys from the suburbs. This […]

The four members of Mew, Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, Johan Wohlert, and Silas Graae met at school and bonded whilst making a film about the destruction of nature. For a band that sounds as they do, this seems like the perfect place to start. Through their music they seem to have control over everything and […]

New York punk outfit Mommy And Daddy, otherwise known as Vivian Sarratt and Edmond Hallas, were good enough to let Bob Gray shove a microphone in their faces for a while before they opened for the Wannadies at Reading’s Fez Club in November 2003. They had just got back to England from […]

February 2004 saw the release of All One Surface’s debut album, Such Is The Way To The Stars. The CD is a layered and diverse collection of songs and on listening to it we decided it was time to find out what makes this band tick; so off we headed with a handful of questions, […]

I’ve always felt that Napster is a red herring. In my humble opinion (he said, for the benefit of any lawyers listening), it’s just a bootlegging tool. In theory, yes, you think you might like a band and borrow someone’s CD electronically to give them a listen. Live in close proximity with a lot of […]

This mini-album is the first new Aereogramme material to surface since the band’s move from Chemikal Underground to Undergroove. This change seems not to have harmed them any as we find them on top form and oozing creativity; as well as the 5 original tracks, there features a cover of The Flaming Lips’ Lightning Strikes […]