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From Monday 21 February 2005

Toy Soldiers

Bravestar Records’ One Toy Soldier have dates this month at: Feb 25 Northampton – The Soundhaus Feb 26 Leeds – Carpe Diem Mar 16 Sheffield – The Grape Mar 18 London – ULU Mar 25 Leicester – The Shed The band are looking for more shows, if you want to put them on

Decibels

Submitted: “3dBs Down have put the full version of Kidnap and Ransom (or kidnapped) up for listening on myspace.com/3dbsdown “

They gave me a soap-box, now look.

I wrote a column about peer-to-peer file sharing and the effect it can have on the scene. Read it here

Zero alone

Submitted: “Zero Point Six and Better Left Alone hit the road end of March/Early April. If there are any promoters out there who can fill out March 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st or April 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th then email betterleftalone@hotmail.com “

Wayriders CD now in stores

Submitted by Andy of The Wayriders: “Our album that you reviewed last year is finally getting released today! Mon 21st Feb! It’s still completely DIY we just managed to get a distribution through Pinnacle. It’s all we ever wanted really, to keep control of our music and

The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower – Love in the Fascist Brothel

There’s something unnerving about writing a review of a record that appears, at face value at least, to be soaked to the core in Nazi symbols, both artistically and lyrically. ‘Love In The Fascist Brothel’ is, musically, an excellent and inventive record that fuses elements of hardcore and

Quit Your Day Job – S/T

This is a really, really odd record and is another that falls in the ‘should we/shouldn’t we?’ school of Punktastic reviewing. Quit Your Day Job are a bunch of mad Swedes who mix guitars, bass and drums with some kind of techno pop madness, featuring all manner

Pedia-pop!

Submitted: “Yeovil electro pop duo Encyclopedia have a brand new website located at www.encyclopediamusic.com, a brand new demo on their myspace page located at www.myspace.com/encyclopedia, and a track on This Is Indie Rock: Volume 3 from Deep Elm Records

Charidee

There’s a chairty fundraiser on eBay at the minute selling off signed stuff in aid of the Tsunami Appeal. Click here to get your hands on the goods!

Committed

Submitted: “A new Motion City Soundtrack song has been posted at www.purevolume.com/motioncitysoundtrack It’s off their next release “Commit this to Memory” out in June and was produced by Mark Hoppus.”