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Hey man, this is a pretty wicked album. You know the guys from Drive Like Jehu? John Reis and Rick Froberg went on to form Rocket from the Crypt and »
...do you think the end of the world is coming..?Maybe. Maybe in 2 years we'll be "picking through the rubble and pulling out our hair". Maybe Noam Chomsky will sound like the Book of Revelations, preaching at us "I told you so" from podiums of broken airplanes. Maybe those stockpiling tinned food and »
Shat - Jeff Wood. A man who has achieved legendary status amongst a select few. He has been shot in the head amidst LA riots, is some sort of huge daunting mascot for USA cynic-rock label Buddyhead and has a sense of humour based around sex and disgust. His live shows invol»
Under the scrutiny of a clad-in-black crowd, a singer, Guitarist and DJ/Samples man take the stage. Recent signings to Canadian label E115 Media, The Shizit seem to straddle the divide between the inventive noise of Atari Teenage Riot and the more extreme end of industrial tinged metal bands such a»
Fittingly, as the latest band spawned by Buddyhead (the label partly run by and home to The Icarus Line), Your Enemies Friends look dark and sound nervous. Not in a shy, introverted way, but »
With B-movie ambience and simian chattering, The Apes create a strange noise. Instead of rhythm/lead guitars, the organ player helps create an incredibly thick sound. Heavy, as in a wall of sound, Kyuss heavy. Combined with this is a yelping frontman paying tribute to the Jesus Lizard, backed up by»
A mixture of fetish feminism, drugs, violent sex and C-list celebrity hatred, the concepts behind Girls Fucking Shit Up are pretty evident simply through looking at the titles of the songs. That would be such classics as You make me High (When you go down Low), I Luv Daddy ("He's so sexy he look»
This isn't some genre crossover guitar music relying on the novelty value of rappers, or DJs, or over produced electronica thrown in for some "eclectic" effect. This is original, heavy rock music. It's so full of energy and power that any sort of media friendly gimmick would just cheapen the whole effect, the effect of»
So you start off with the image of a snake eating a pussy before you've even heard the music, get a short drum intro out of the way and get hit in the face with the yelping and thrashing Icarus Line... just under three minutes of harsh music and spiteful lyrics influenced by everything thats carnal, violent»
"Goddamn lets hit it in the weak spot cos everybody knows that we've had enough"This album is a near perfect mix of style and substance, a mixture of mournful soul and angry proactive punk ethics that ends up sounding like a rock musical of No Logo»
Queen Adreena, the amazing etheral gothic riot grrl band fronted by fromer Daisy Chainsaw vocalist Katie Jane Garside, have now signed to Rough Trade Records in time for the release of their new album. Titled "Drink Me", the track listing is as follows:Kitty Collar Under a flo»
Due to the current musical climate, this gig was going to be a strange mix. The Hives, along with all the other bands on the bill today, come from a Swedish punk background, and are on the Burning heart record label. They've put out 2 albums and various ep's. And now there's a big thing for retro rock n roll wha»
Perception of Sparta will, for the present anyway, inevitably be linked with At the Drive-In. The history of At the Drive in, essentially 2 albums, 2 eps and countless gigs worth of being ignored, 1 album of immense (though deserved) hype, and an incredibly drawn out implosion, means that attention will b»
Coming on like a cross between Lost Prophets and Vex Red, the vocals in Pitchblend are what raise this British nu-metal band above a lot of the trash in the genre. Opening track "Pulse" works around a rhythmic riff and restrained crooning vocals building up to a more melodic chorus. Whilst pretty formulaic, the song si»
Circus Metal. Seemingly influenced by Mr Bungle, Marilyn Manson (circa Portrait of an American Family) and System of a Down, Dog Fashion Disco aren’t particularly easy to pin down. Opening track “Leper Friend” opens into a wall of slow, heavy guitars and b-movie/lounge act keyboards, before bursts of long, growli»
Before buying this CD, I had never heard any of this band's music, and if it wasnt for the Nietzsche reference in the title and the filing under "Post-hardcore", I probably never would have come across this band. It's doubtful they are going to be breaking into the mainstream anytime soon. Which is a pity, as th»
