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From Tuesday 09 November 2004

Vagrant comp

Submitted: “If you head to www.vagrant.uk.com you can find a competition were you can win the entire Vagrant Records back catalogue! Thats a jesus lot of cds, that believe me, looks pretty impressive piled up in your cd shelf. Also, Mike from Senses Fail will be participating

The Go Progress – Sing Something Positive

The Go Progress are bloody good. They’re good in an Idlewild meets The Cure meets The Smiths kinda way, which is cute, quaint and everything in between. The songsmithery on hand in this set of songs is nothing short of genius really; carefully

Monday 08 November 2004

Kneehigh – The Dignity of Labour

Previous to this EP I didn’t really think too much about the Kneehigh material I’d heard before. To me they were a band doing absolutely nothing new, and moreover, they were a band that were doing that generic sound pretty badly. Having said that, whenever

Social Distortion – Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Wow. The chance to review the new Social Distortion record? Yes fucking please. Having been away since the release of 1996’s ‘White Light, White Heat, White Trash’ one of the founder members Dennis Danell sadly passed away and rather expectantly this record is a more heartfelt and

Ofer – Short Story Long

Upon reading the press release from the Israeli born Ofer, I was more than a little perturbed by the phrase ‘ex-skateboarder’ that kept appearing. Imagining some sort of 3rd rate pop-skate-punk my hopes weren’t exactly sky rocketing. But like most things in this wonderful world, looks certainly

Evilsons – Petas City Rockers

Those who are familiar with my musical preferences know that ska either hits a particular spot with me, or either makes me want to stab at things. The Finnish Evilsons however are neither here nor there. They simply reside in that middle of the road territory which

Chariots of Fire

Chariots touring from tomorrow: 09.11 – CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach (w/ Dignity Dies First and more) 12.11 – PLYMOUTH Phoenix (w/ Beecher) 14.11 – LONDON The Barfly (w/ The Guillaume Seam) 20.11 – LEEDS Packhorse (w/ Beecher, D-Rail and Eiger)

3dbs hit the road – thanks to PT!

On The Road Records has signed 3dbs Down. The band will release an album on the label next year. The best bit about this is that the guys at OTR Records heard about 3dbs when they purchased the Punktastic ‘Un-Scene’ CD! They heard the

HHN Reboost

Big-ass Household Name newsletter – by a simple click of ‘Discuss’ it is available for your perusal.

The Maple State get PV account

The Maple State has a new PureVolume account up at www.purevolume.com/the_maple_state where you can download “the city is under martial law until we have anhiliated them!”, and also stream a demo version of “mightiest monster!…” The band release their debut EP on Punktastic Recordings in