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From Friday 10 September 2004

Schpleen – …Dau Ballet

Schpleen are another band from my local area (the ‘Schpleen office’ appears to be located half a mile away from where I’m typing this review) but I don’t think I’ve seen them live and only heard of them through word of mouth. Now whilst I don’t go

Thursday 09 September 2004

Jimmy Eats our questions

Punktastic will be interviewing Jimmy Eat World when the band come over to the UK for a couple of dates next month. If you have a question to ask the band, click ‘discuss this item’ to leave it.

Shuriken – Evacuate / Disintegrate

I’ve got a real soft spot for Shuriken – not only are they from round my way, but on the occasions I’ve met them they’ve been really good guys who put on a good live show. On the basis of their last EP, ‘Surrender Is Not

Midtown dates in full

Midtown, Hidden In Plain View and Paris, Texas tour together in October and the full list of dates is: 24 Manchester, Academy 3 25 London, Garage 26 Leeds, Cockpit 27 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms 28 Birmingham, Irish Centre 29 Glasgow, Cathouse 30 Nottingham, Rock

Drowning the world in requiem – Contaminated Paroxysm to the Self Addressed Recipient

I’m feeling in a good mood today and this CD has been sat on my “TO REVIEW” pile for way too long. One look at the biog and the words, “I could only explain us as erratic, progressive hardcore math metal,” makes me wonder how much of this CD

Radicus – Live EP

Live CD’s are often little indication of any bands talents. On a regular basis some of the world’s best bands fall victim to poor live release tracks, simply due to venue facilities, poor mixing or one simple mistake that can stain a song for life. So,

Back to the future

Submitted: “Time Travel Opportunists is a brand new label ran by some folks in Derby. Our first release, which is a 7″ with a CD by The Little Explorer is out now. It is all hand packaged, bound in fabric and screenprinted by ourselves and available for

Squeak

Submitted by Sid: “Modest Mouse play the London Astoria on Thursday 18th November.”

B is for b-side

The Lawrence Arms, who are currently ‘on a break’, are putting together a b-sides album which will see the light of day on Asian Man Records sometime next year.

She sells sanctuary

Drive Thru Records’ new distro deal is with Sanctuary. The deal means that Sanctuary cannot take any DTR bands off them. DTR turned down offers from other major labels after ending their 5-year contract with MCA/Geffen.