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November Moment – November Moment

We’ve been literally swamped in recent weeks with bands wanting their demos reviewed, which on the one hand is excellent, but on the other has created a backlog of discs literally a mile long. Sadly, for all the demos we do receive, very few

Strung Out – Exile in Oblivion

STRUNG OUT shouldn’t really need an introduction unless you’ve been living in a musical vacuum devoid of any taste for the last few years. Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues is simply one of the best poppy-skate punk records you’ll ever hear and one of the fastest

Safety Deposit Box

New York pop punk trio 5 Cent Deposit return to the UK this month for a 2 week tour with RTC. The guys will be airing some new material which is to soon be recorded for their next, as yet untitled album. Click ‘discuss this

Wheeze in, wheeze out

Weezer have been busy with album number five – click ‘discuss this item’ for a big old update.

Wednesday 10 November 2004

Stare

Staring Back has ditched plans to come across to Europe in April next year. Rumour has it the band are in negotiation with Takeover Records, the label run by Yellowcard guitarist Ben Harper.

Ex-Weezer bassist in UK invite-only gig

Former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp is doing an invite-only London gig at the Redux tomorrow night. You can try and get a ticket by emailing info@splitrecords.co.uk

Credit goes to Ciaran…

Band of the day, no, month…no, probably one of the best discoveries of the year goes to Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer. They are a US female fronted pop-synth band, who feature guest spots from Kenny of The Starting Line and Anthony ex-

Where’s my brain?

Submitted: “Left Side Brain release their debut album “Equal and Opposite” next monday (nov 15th) and are touring throughout the month with an album launch party/gig on Friday 12th at the Croft in Bristol. Tour dates / mp3 clips / news / etc are up at www.leftsidebrain.com”

Help the state

If anyone can help The Maple State (Punktastic Recordings) with dates down south on December 10 and 11, preferably one in London, can they please email me at paul@punktastic.com They will play for petrol and you’d be doing us a massive favour. www.purevolume.com/the_maple_state to sample two songs

Calamity Recs comp here!

Submitted: “The Calamity Records Compilation, ‘When Lightning strikes’ feauturing a World Exclusive track by OVER IT from their upcoming album ‘Silverstrand’ and tons of other great US bands including: Halifax, Anadivine, Waking Ashland and Sherwood has finally arrived. It