Liverpool Sound City 2012
#Function Records
Gig
I stumble through the doors of the Bull and Gate’s back room just in time to see A Genuine Freakshow kick into the seriously sick drumbeat of their single 'Hopscotch Machine Gun Madness'. It dissolves into a super saccharine love plea...
Band of the week
Italian prog-poppers Planet Brain are well worth investigating if glacial modern rock with an adventurous streak yanks your crank. Their latest EP starts in alluring fashion with a serpentine guitar melody over a spattering drum fill, and it's a...
Album Review
Shield Your Eyes / Volume 4
No super-loud compressed glacial production. No cooler-than-thou PR list of influences. No eclecticism for its own sake. No racks of redundant effects. There is nothing hi-tech about 'Volume 4' in terms of its constituent parts. The stuff...
Album Review
Cats and Cats and Cats / Motherwhale
The late, great Don Van Vliet said of his musical contemporaries, “They can catch a straight line, but they can't catch a circle. I don't work in straight lines.” In 'Motherwhale' Cats and Cats and Cats have produced a...
Album Review
Maybeshewill / I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was G...
So the latest from Leicester four-piece and Beard Rock favourites comes in the form of ‘I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone’. If you haven’t already read our interview with the band, I suggest you head over to http://...
Single Review
Maybeshewill / Critical Distance
You know at the end of those huge Hollywood epics where the hero has battled against all the odds to succeed in the most dire of circumstances? As he rescues the damsel in distress and heads off into the sunset in his fancy, more-than-...
