The Sound “We wanted to create music that was simple and pure, but still rocks the fuck out,” is how it was simply put in an interview with CrashinIn.com. The band’s biography claims that “with stripped down drum loops, fuzzed out melodic bass lines, and trade […]

The Line-up Gareth Owen (vocals/guitar), Stuart Turner (guitar), Lee Dodson (bass), Euan Rodger (drums).
The History The Copperpot Journals released their debut EP on Blind Bear Records in 2000, which went largely unnoticed. In the winter of 2001 the band recorded their second effort - the seven […]

The Line-up The core of The Special Goodness is vocalist and guitarist Pat Wilson (also of Weezer) and after several incarnations of the band he was joined by Atom Willard (ex-Rocket From The Crypt) on drums in 2000 and, despite a valiant search for a full […]

The Line-up Mariann (vocals/keyboards), Kjetil (guitar), JR (drums), Andy (keyboards) and Ziggy (bass)
The History Having formed in 2001, Surferosa spent a year perfecting their “synth-punk” sound in an old shipyard, before setting it loose on the Norwegian rock scene. Extensive touring and a series of EPs […]

The Line-up Tom Jenkinson. That is all.
The History Squarepusher began releasing music through the Spymania label back in 1995 (these tracks were later released by Warp Records as the Burningn’n Tree album). In 1996, he joined Richard James’s (Aphex Twin) Rephlex label and put out his […]

The Line-up Well, it’s Graham Coxon - he does it all. However, on The Kiss Of Morning, he was backed up by Louis Vause (Piano, Fender Rhodes and Hammond) and BJ Cole (Pedal Steel).
The History Graham began his rise to fame in a band called Blur, formed […]

The Line-up Skalpel are Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo, from Wroclaw, Poland. The pair are talented DJs, who have had four mixes aired on Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel radio show over the last two years but they have come via the music they create out of […]

Well it’s been far too many years since I was last in the holy house of the North; that’s the Haçienda for the uneducated. And when it too had succumbed to the housing development of Manchester, I thought I’d never have the opportunity to tread the most famous boards in clubland again.
I’d been a patron […]

The Sound The Faint have been placed in many genres, including electroclash, discopunk, rock, pop, dance and many others in between. None of this really means anything though. A more satisfying description is, “80s-influenced electronic music with the urgency of punk and the dynamics of rock.” […]

Who they?
After signing to Household Name Records, they released their debut album in 2003 and were nominated for Indigo Flow album of the year.
And they sound like?
Oh gawd, what a horrible question. Slightly eccentric and quite schizophrenic. The official word is apparently that they are a post punk, indie, ska-core, violin/folk […]