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Falling in love

Submitted: “Angel Jones and the Fall In Loves have a new song up on thier MySpace page www.myspace.com/angeljonesandthefallinloves. It is called Rollercoaster Romance and is the title track from their upcoming EP.”

Fall Out Boy – From Under The Cork Tree

Talk about an anticipated release – Fallout Boy are arguably the biggest band on the ‘underground’ right now and after inking a deal with Island, their elevation to major league status is in the bag. Put simply, even if this album was a complete dud, FOB would still

Wake up

Waking Ashland have a new e-card to celebrate the launch of their new album. Check it out at www.toothandnail.com/wakingashland/ecard/

Sunday 08 May 2005

Summer nights

The biggest ever Punktastic tour yet will kick off in July – cleverly named, The Punktastic Summer Tour! Full details to be released soon, but it covers the biggest venues we’ve ever reached and includes some of our good friends…keep your eyes peeled…

I prefer tomato

Bowling For Soup hit the UK in June. DV8 support.

An Angle – We Can Breathe Under Alcohol

I bet every single album review mentions the words Conor Oberst or Bright Eyes. It’s unfair I know, but this is a genre literally exploding from everywhere, and in the main it’s down to Mr Oberst. It means that talents like

Rise Against – Camden Underworld

*Islington Academy, not Underworld* I arrived in the venue just as RED LIGHTS FLASH were powering through the beginning of their set and was very pleased to see that their particular brand of heavy street punk was firmly in flow. They didn’t get the best reaction from the

Hollow Ground – Cold Reality

I may have lost the press sheet for this release or perhaps it just didn’t come with one, but either way I had to do a little research on this lot. Although once I took a glimpse at the CDs artwork I was afraid I would be

Overthrow 69 – Bigger than Jesus

For a band so young, Overthrow 69 have a surprisingly raw and edgy sound that has more than a few approving nods to a gutter punk sound from the eighties. But what is so frustrating is that the edge which puts them in good shape for releasing

In The Dark – Spur Persona

InTheDark are a tricky little nut to crack. How do you review a band who literally doesn’t give a shit about what anyone thinks of them, but by doing this, their material sounds contrived and ever so slightly patronising? The quartet obviously have a message to spread, but to