Friday Feeling: Cover-core with Cancer Bats
If Cancer Bats could do this good a job with 'Sabotage', what else might they be itching to rework in their own furious style? Singer Liam Cormier sets out his top, er, eight...»
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The King Blues - Punk & Poetry
Sure, there are some bum notes, but it's music with passion. It makes you want to DO something, and that is what a real protest album is really about. »
Scanners - Submarine
More of the same, albeit slicker.»
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let it Sway
This is a band completely at peace with who they are and where they're at musically – which is a rare thing.»
Violent Soho - Violent Soho
This is ultimately a pretty promising debut – especially if you hanker for the grungy days of the Nineties. »
Thomas Truax - Sonic Dreamer
Thomas Truax is a unique performer, and already justly appreciated as a treasure live. Sonic Dreamer may just have the wit, invention and accessibility to be the album that garners him that same recognition as a recording artist. »
Flight Of The Conchords at Wembley Arena, London, Tue 25 May
Wembley is without a doubt an intimidating place, and it takes a lot for a band to hold it in the palm of their hand. Bigger acts than Flight of the Conchords have come here and done worse - even so, the New Zealand twosome don't make this the triumph it should be, despite their best efforts.»
Wounds - Dead Dead Fucking Dead
While blisteringly-paced industrial-tinged hardcore forms the basis for the seven tracks on Dead Dead Fucking Dead, Wounds liberally steal from the heavier end of the spectrum, notably math-metal and grindcore. »
Method Actors - This is Still It
Perhaps the Method Actors should have been as big as their contemporaries or followers: perhaps not. Perhaps they're better this way, as a hidden gem to be stumbled across or searched out.»
The rest is noise: Throats' guide to metal
Ah. Metal. So much hair, sweat and tattoos. Now DiS loves a bit of fury-filled metalcore noisemongering from time to time, so we do. Problem is, see, that it's a bloody nightmare sorting the wheat from the chaff. One minute you could be listening to a master of the genre, and before you know it you're trying to find artistic merit in the music made by a bunch of illiterate teenagers from Hyuck, Dakota or a Scandinavian man pretending to be a troll.»
Throats - Throats
Holy Roar is really starting to pick up a reputation for signing aggressive bands with a twist. Probably the most well-known examp»
Trash Talk - Shame
It's somewhat ironic that a band whose name means belittling your opponent should be receiving quite so much fulsome praise. Ind»
Tailors - Come Dig Me Up
The real problem with Come Dig Me Up is that there doesn’t seem to be any kind of emotional depth to it. »
Maths - Descent
What Maths have produced with their debut is nothing less than a new high watermark for UK screamo hardcore.»
Swn 2009: The DiS Review
I lived in Cardiff for five years and I love the place. Swn, to me, encapsulates the best of what it has to offer: an independent spirit, a sense of immense self-belief, and a determination to get things done.»
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
This is no groundbreaking piece of art; it's not innovative, it's unashamedly backwards looking, and it rips off the greats to high heaven. It's also bloody awful for a significant amount of its running time. However, when it does work, it's a great thing. »
Tubelord - Our First American Friends
It’s like a homemade smoothie with too much banana and not enough pineapple. »
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
As Seen Through Windows is both a progression and an evolution from the band's previous work, and it would be criminal to overlook them this time.»
Soft Hearted Scientists - Scarecrow Smile
It's a little bit of sanctuary in a relentless world, and that is undoubtedly a good thing. »
Piney Gir - The Yearling
As you’d expect, The Yearling is quirky, lo-fi and imbued with a DIY aesthetic which gives the album a particular charm. »
Go go go gadget band: DiS meets Lovvers
For a tiny little fuzz-punk band from the Midlands, Lovvers have come a long way this year. Since releasing their debut EP, Think, on Wichita last September, they’ve spent a sizeable amount of time in the US, playing shows at South by Southwest, touring their arses off, and recording their first full-length, OCD Go Go Go Girls. DiS caught up with heavily-jetlagged frontman Shaun Hencher less than 24 hours after they touched down back in the UK to review the year so far – and find out what’s next… »
Leeds 2009: The DiS review Pt. 2
Radiohead? Radiohead? Screw that. Reading and Leeds are rock festivals, damn it, and I’ll have mine with Jaegermeister and a distortion pedal, thank you very much. Sure, there’s no ‘metal day’ as such this year, but there’s still plenty going on, thanks to a liberal smattering of heavy bands across the three largest stages, and the two-day Lock Up tent. So then: black t-shirt and board shorts at the ready, I take to the moshpit.»
Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club
What happens to a musician after they've made a perfect first album? »
Sonisphere 2009 - The DiS Review
Or Sonisphere in Five Minutes»
Swn 2008: the DiS review
Swn sums up the essential spirit of Cardiff: a combination of tradition, innovation and a uniquely Welsh outlook»
To The Bones - Duke Type A
One second you might be tapping along to something that sounds a bit like the Pixies filtered through No Age-style distortion, and in the next you’re suddenly listening to something which is eerily reminiscent of the Sisters of Mercy hanging out with Black Flag. It’s an exhilarating ride.»
X-Posure All Dayer at London Camden Barfly, Sat 21 Jan
It’s a beautiful January afternoon in North London: the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and teenage tourists are buying magic mushrooms. It’s a beautiful scene. So, what better way to spend it than spending nine beer-soaked, smoky hours in the »