Liverpool Sound City 2012
Latest Interviews
 A Place to Bury Strangers
Mon, 30/04/2012
Blasting out of Brooklyn, A Place To Bury Strangers have been near deafening fans with their super-noisy gothy rock since 2003. Latest release 'Onwards To The Wall' E.P. is a stepping...
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 Conan
Sun, 29/04/2012 Jon Davis of rising Liverpool doom leviathans Conan took time out from vaporising crania with riffs to answer a few questions for us.
BR: For readers who are new to the band, what would be the...
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 Maps & Atlases
Thu, 19/04/2012 Tall Ships sail schizo-frenetically between genres without maps or atlases, jack-knifing in the middle of songs between Two Door disco archipelago and the port of Beirut. Live, they have an...
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 Red Fang
Tue, 17/04/2012 And it's Monday night in Manchester for Red Fang again. A schedule-stretching five bands took the stage at Moho Live. Of the supporting cast, the phenomenal Black Tusk were especially striking; a...
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 Breton
Mon, 16/04/2012 If I was going to invent the most commercially-viable genre of music I could think of at this moment, it would be Breton’s sonic blend of indie and dub. Every interview with Breton I read is...
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 Author & Punisher
Fri, 13/04/2012 Drawing inspiration from a career in mechanical engineering, Author & Punisher (or Tristan Shone to his family) constructs custom built instruments seemingly rooted in the field of...
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 Katzenjammer
Tue, 10/04/2012 Pete Hughes sat down to tea with Katzenjammer before their gig at Scala.
Recently Katzenjammer posted on facebook: “How did you discover Katzenjammer?” and serendipity seemed to...
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 Ghostpoet
Fri, 23/03/2012 The moon pierces the night, something goes bump, a nerve jangling fright, heart goes thump thump, shit, it’s a kid in a sheet. That’s an adhoc poem about a ghost. As you can tell, I...
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 Henry Rollins
Tue, 13/03/2012 Along with his revered musical output with the iconic Black Flag and Rollins Band, Henry Rollins is a successful media broadcaster, actor, author, publisher and social activist. However, readers may...
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 Earth
Fri, 17/02/2012 Brett Savage speaks to Earth’s mainman, Dylan Carlson, about his new album, his influences and his encounters with the ‘fair-folk’.
So, to start with, I read the new Angels...
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 Cloudkicker
Mon, 23/01/2012 Ben Sharp is Cloudkicker. The name is held in almost mystical reverence by a devoted core of alternative music fans all over the globe. This is not just down to his unique ability to create jaw...
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 A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Sun, 15/01/2012 I walk into the venue on a Sunday evening to find Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie still sound checking with their trio of strings players and surprisingly, still teaching them how to get...
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 Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3)
Sun, 13/11/2011 Secret Chiefs 3 were founded by the rather unexpectedly hippy-ish Trey Spruance, most commercially known for his work with Faith No More (King For A Day 1995) and Mr Bungle, with...
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 World's End Girlfriend
Fri, 05/08/2011
I'm in Tokyo for a month and I'm running late for the one thing I had a set date for. Great...
I'm running around Shibuya (the place with the bloody great big zebra crossing thing)...
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 Juffage
Tue, 26/07/2011
We have all been to some crap seaside town somewhere on a rundown old amusement park and seen some version of a one man band, if my memory serves me correctly it was probably frontierland in...
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 A Conversation with Jim Sclavunos
Sat, 18/06/2011
As the death knells of our personal lives fade into background noise, it’s hard to avoid a gnawing sense of contempt towards one’s fellow man. Unfiltered access to everyone...
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