Before Ed Sheeran, Owl City, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and countless other one-man-bands, of the laptop generation, there was Simple Kid. He mixed old and new technology to create his unique sound. He recorded onto an 8 track tape machine [...]

Warm Smiles Do Not Make You Welcome Here is the third single to be taken from Enter Shikari’s third studio album, A Flash Flood Of Colour, and will be released on the 3rd of July. Sticking with the ethos, if it ain’t broke [...]

I’m not sure whether you’ll have heard of them. If you have- we share a love, I’m sure. If you haven’t, shame on you. Ok, ok, so this may not be everyone’s type of music. It’s pretty chilled out to [...]

I didn’t like Gallows; so when Frank Carter announced he was leaving i wasn’t too fussed. In fact it didn’t move me at all. His new project with Jim Carroll (Hope Conspiracy) was rumoured to be a step in a different direction. I still didn’t [...]

A perfectly crafted pop-rock song from an equally perfectly crafted band.  The Sorry Kisses were started by Hayley Hutchinson (Vocals/Guitar) and Sam Forrest of Nine Black Alps (Vocals/Bass/Guitar). The band have had many line up changes/guest appearances since they began back in 2006. This [...]

I wish I could lay claim to discovering this band by wandering into the small BBC Introducing tent, to escape the mud, at last years Glastonbury - alas that is how my friend, who told me about them, discovered Two Wounded Birds.  Hailing from Margate, Kent, they list their [...]

Yuck – Chew  Release Date – Listen via yuckband.blogspot.co.uk Coinciding with their performance at this years Coachella festival, Yuck have released this little ditty into cyberspace.  The English/American/Japanese combo have been touring incessantly for the past year and it’s a [...]

A band you may or may not of heard of this “Garage Rock” 4 piece from Texas, USA, formed back in 2005.  They began picking up awards from the local press, The Dallas Observer, soon after – Best New Band in 2006 [...]

After catching The Wholls raucous and hectic live act a few times in my (and their) home town of Bedford I was looking forward to the release of their debut EP ‘Back to the B-Hive’. For a band who had [...]

Iowa is an album straight from my youth that at periodical occasions finds its way back on my stereo system. Why though will I listen to this album when all the other Nu-Metal of the early 2000′s that I thought [...]