News
by Tom Carlin
Ash are due to release a live video entitled 'Tokyo Blitz' on December 3rd. It features footage from when Ash played the Akasaka Blitz in Tokyo on their world tour.
Songs featured on the video include:
'Burn Baby Burn'
'Kung Fu'
'A Life Less Ordinary'
'Girl From »
Review
by Tom Carlin
The Hives are Vigilante Carlstroem, Dr Matt Destruction, Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist and Chris Dangerous. Oh come on, with names like that of course they’re going to be brilliant.
Acting as a sort of introductory record for new fans, ’Your New Favourite Band is a compilation of the bands earlie»
Review
by Tom Carlin
So, how do you follow up an experimental masterpiece? More of the same? Expand on the formula? Make a record that will totally alienate your fanbase? Or do you whip out an acoustic guitar and make an album of blues, folk and country songs?
Beck Hansen chose the latter. Though, technically, this i»
Review
by Tom Carlin
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are the band of your dreams. They are young, loud, raw and angry. AND they sound brilliant with it. They will inevitably be lumped in with The Strokes and The White Stripes, but this debut EP shows that they could go on to be even better than those two bands.
'W»
Review
by Tom Carlin
You’re more likely to love Starsailor than like them, and you’re more likely to despise them than simply have a mild distaste. I think if you are for the latter, it’s probably down to the dullness of their music. Because on the surface, Starsailor are incredibly dull. There is not one remotely exciting thing about t»
Review
by Tom Carlin
Things have never been better for PJ Harvey. She’s just won the Mercury Music
Prize and is now on the shortlist for the American equivalent, The, er, Shortlist, both
for her Stories From The City, Stories from The Sea album. She will be appearing on
Later...With Jools Holland this Friday (Oct 12th), hopefu»
Review
by Tom Carlin
For the majority of Sum 41's current album, All Killer No Filler, you are bored shitless. You've heard it all before. Of course you have, there are only so many anti-authority, I can't get a girl three chord dittys possible. But there are, however, a few songs which are genuinely exciting and make you want to jump u»
News
by Tom Carlin
Elastica have announced that they are splitting up.
After their second album, The Menace came out last year to disappointing sales. Justine Frischmann issued this statement: "Yes, we have split up. It's actually not official yet. We've got a Peel Sessions album coming out and we've got a f»
News
by Tom Carlin
Weezer have cancelled their upcoming UK tour, for the second time this year. The band were due to play dates in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.
Though no specific reason has given for the decision, it is believed to be indirectly connected to the recent terrorist attacks on America.
The B»
Review
by Tom Carlin
Ash are milking Free All Angels in the same way they did 1977 (A fifth single is planned). But who could blame them? If you've got an album where every track could be a single you may as well go for it (That doesn't apply to you Kelly 'Step on my old size nines' Jones).
The fourth release off that album is Candy.»
Review
by Tom Carlin
After the death of grunge in 1994, American Rock went through its wilderness years. Seemingly now without an identity, numerous bands came along and had mainstream exposure and their stab at the big time.
One of these bands was The Presidents Of The United States Of America. The nation's youth, now after somet»