DiScover: The Motorettes
Having just finished a mammoth tour with the equally ace (and Geordie) Kubichek! The Motorettes are gearing up for the release of their first long player, simply titled The Motorettes, in the middle of August...»
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The Similou - All This Love
'All This Love' will be synonymous with those lasting memories of being hot and sticky in the office or classroom, queuing up for the late bar on a Friday night or sat in a traffic jam on the M4 at six in the evening, windows down...»
Hot Club de Paris - Sometimesitsbetter nottostickbitsofeachother ineachother foreachother
If there was an award for Best Song Title at any latent gong ceremony, then this would win hands down...»
Metro Riots, Switches at Nottingham Bodega Social Club, Fri 21 Jul
Switches could just be the new saviours of the UK's increasingly bloated underground scene...»
BlackBud - From The Sky
Two years ago, Blackbud and The Subways won the Glastonbury Festival unsigned band competition. While the soft-rocking boy-girl-boy trio have gone from strength to strength in terms of commercial achievement, Blackbud haven’t quite caught the public’s imagination with quite the same vigour as they did Michael Eavis...»
The Sleepy Jackson - God Lead Your Soul
To some, The Sleepy Jackson are the most glaringly obvious next step in whimsical, mythical storytelling, a la Coyne and Donohue... »
Model Morning - Your Worst Enemy
Whilst it would be easy - not to mention lazy - to label them as 'sonic experimentalists', perhaps white noise fused traditionalists would be a better epitaph if Your Worst Enemy is anything to go by...»
Kubichek!, The Motorettes - Relax It's The 80s / Opening Shot
In this summer of World Cups and Oscar-pursuing international sportsmen, let me introduce you to a game of two halves that doesn’t involve red cards, Swedish mercenaries or the dreaded penalty shoot-out...»
BRiTiSHRAiLPOWER
The most unscenester-like band to emerge from the Leeds, errr, scene, iLiKETRAiNS, have been confirmed as special guests on British Sea Power's forthcoming tour of little venues...»
Dead Kids - The Dead Wife Pills
The most bizarre thing about 'The Dead Wife Pills' is that, for the opening half dozen bars, it actually sounds like the intro to Placebo's 'Every You Every Me'...»
Join The Love Workshop: LED! to release download single and hit the road
Bloc Party's favourite Loughborough artrockers Love Ends Disaster! will be releasing a free download single via their website...»
twentysixfeet - Two Hours Of Passionless Tango
Imagine yourself being stuck in a lift between the eighth and ninth floor of a massive industrial complex somewhere in the heart of Milton Keynes...»
Kubichek!, The Motorettes at Sheffield Leadmill, Sat 08 Jul
At the start of the year, whilst their potential was obvious to see, there was still an element of nervousness about The Motorettes that needed to be shaken off if they were to fulfil that belief...»
The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
The Pipettes may look like extras from Happy Days in their matching polka-dot dresses and plastic jewellery, but make no mistake: this record owes as much to their love of lo-fi punk rock as it does the classic three-minute pop song...»
The Guild - Till I'm Dust
And now a lesson for any aspiring songwriters on the art of creating a ballad without ever having to resort to nauseating over-sentimentality or disparaging tedium...»
Milburn - Cheshire Cat Smile
It's hard not to feel sorry for Milburn: if the legend is correct, they actually inspired that other lot from High Green...»
The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High
There's only so much you can do with a traditional guitar, drums and vocals combo, and most of that has been done already...»
Protokoll - Moving Forward
The title 'Moving Forward' could be an antithesis in itself, bearing in mind that the chorus lifts its middle eight almost directly from 'In Between Days' and yet, the Boston four piece manage pull it off with the succinct cheek of a Tasmanian devil.»
The KBC - Not Anymore
Shall we take a trip down memory lane...»
(Review of nothing)
There's a strange feeling that these guys might just be genuine. Let's hope so or yours truly might be sending them the complete works of George Benson this Christmas...»
The Gossip - Listen Up!
Beth Ditto sounds like every cool singer that's ever jumped out of a Bratmobile since Belinda Carlisle's lips were sealed...»
Jamie T - Sheila
And so it goes. Another day in the life of one James Treays...»
(Review of nothing)
West Country mavericks 2 Hrs Ten aren’t your average experimental ensemble, if you know what I mean...»
iLiKETRAiNS - Progress Reform
When iLiKETRAiNS first appeared as part of the Dance To The Radio-inspired Leeds revolution, most casual observers didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at their moniker and seemingly forced gimmick of regaling themselves from head to toe in British Rail insignia...»
Fortune Drive - My Girlfriend's An Arsonist
The title tells me this should be great...»
Scissors For Lefty - Ghetto Ways
With their roots based in California, one third of their name containing the word "SCISSORS" and a line-up consisting of two sets of brothers, Scissors For Lefty really can't get it wrong. Or can they?»
The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere
The Automatic only seem to have the one tune – big, bouncy and boisterous...»
ReDiScover: Inspiral Carpets
Back in the day when the phrase “indie” meant flared jeans, Joe Bloggs tops and shady men with Mancunian accents asking whether you were “Sorted?” or not, there was a holy triumvirate of pre-Premier League artists from the aforementioned city of dirty water. If The Stone Roses were the ambivalent figureheads of the “baggy” scene, then the Happy Mondays were its awkward mates sat at the back of the class flicking rubber bands at the teacher and anyone else who tried to confiscate their ill-gotten wares. Last but not least were the Inspiral Carpets, five lads of varying ages and backgrounds from the suburb of Oldham.»
A Public Relations Exercise for our Frank...
Leicester's post-hardcore experimentalists Public Relations Exercise - think 65 Days beating up Glassjaw and stealing all their gear for good measure - embark on their first full nationwide tour from next weekend along with London noiseniks Score One For Safety. On five of the dates they'll be joined by ex-Million Dead mainman Frank Turner...»
Comets, Alamos and more - Nottingham DiS gets hot and heavy for July
With last weekend-but-one's Help She Can't Swim header a mere glitch - but happy one all the same - in the memory, DiS wants to make this summer one of your most memorable, yes indeedy...»