Aug 30 2005 Top Producer Hits Out At Deftones Frontman

Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and the producer of his band’s new album Bob Ezrin have gone head to head after comments Moreno made in Canadian music magazine Chart.
In the interview, which was supposed to be about the singer’s side project Team Sleep, but when things eventually moved around to the subject of his main band […]

Aug 29 2005 Pop Will Eat Itself Record New Material

Veteran electro-rockers Pop Will Eat Itself haven’t been resting on their laurels since their massively successful reformation shows in January. Drummer Fuzz Townshend has now revealed that the band are working on new material for future release.
Speaking on the band’s official website pweination.co.uk Townshend said, “We don’t know which label yet as we haven’t approached […]

Aug 22 2005 Broken Spindles - Inside/Absent

This album is an interesting listening experience falling somewhere between Digital Ash In A Digital Urn by Saddle Creek label lords Bright Eyes and the eclectic intellectuality of Woven (but without the pretentious insanity).
The songs on offer on Inside/Absent are quirky, sparse and claustrophobic. You will find nothing epic in scale here. But it is […]

Aug 22 2005 The Aeroplanes - Don’t Stop Me

Liverpool four-piece The Aeroplanes have everything on the list to become and indie sensation in the modern music world: a high placing on the iTunes chart (they chalked up more downloads than any other unsigned band in December last year); a list of celebrity fans (including Jeff Bridges, who has included them on the soundtrack […]

Aug 19 2005 Cadillac Held At Gunpoint

If ever there was a baptism of fire for any band, it would have to be Cadillac on Wednesday evening. Playing their first ever paid gig in the UK, the Norwegian rockers and crew, all smiles after a storming gig at the Brixton Windmill in London, left the venue armed with their evenings earnings of […]

Aug 16 2005 Fiona Apple To Release Third Album

Fiona Apple will release her long-awaited third album via Epic Records this autumn, though internet leaks will mean that many fans are already familiar with most of the songs on it.
Eleven tracks from the album, entitled Extraordinary Machine, were leaked on the internet amid claims that Epic had shelved the record because it was not […]

Aug 15 2005 Albert Kuvezin & Yat Kha - Re-covers

The story behind this album is a long one, so here is the truncated version: A load of crap things happened to Yat Kha vocalist Albert Kuvezin and then he topped it all off by crashing his car. While he was recovering from his injuries he spent time going through his […]

Aug 15 2005 Babyshambles - Fuck Forever

I am not the greatest Babyshambles fan, and I have to say that Fuck Forever hasn’t converted me to the cause. It is a perfectly alright track. But that really is it, it’s ‘alright’. Lyrically it is stuck in the sixth form and musically is hasn’t anything to get your teeth into and nothing to […]

Aug 14 2005 Alabama 3 - How Can I Protect You?

A collaboration with Irish rock band Aslan, How Can I Protect You? is the second single taken from Alabama 3’s fourth album, Outlaw. It’s a strange meeting, with a verse that features the distinct mix of dance and country that Alabama 3 are famous for and a chorus that […]