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From Monday 31 October 2005

Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade [re-issue]

Maybe it’s a complete coincidence, but the cynic in me says that this recent bout of re-issues and the impending celebration of Christmas have been joined in a joyous unison combined to ensure the maximum $$. After all, I’m not aware that this CD – the band’s first

January is the greatest month for touring, ever

Bedouin Soundclash tour the UK in January. dates so far confirmed are: Jan 15 – Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth Jan 21 – Manchester University Jan 22 – Carling Academy 2 Birmingham Jan 23 – Liverpool Barfly Liverpool Jan 24 – Mean Fiddler London

Sunday 30 October 2005

October File – Monuments

Whilst standing here, drowning in a sea of faux-pretentiousness, I was wondering what my day would end up like if I suddenly had a wave of fucking rock slapped across my face. It’s always nice to have a band come along and make you remember that music is –

What a rubbish name. But who am I to judge?

Submitted: “haemostatic picnic races have some new tracks from the upcoming mini album ‘this is the contest’ at www.myspace.com/haemostaticpicnicraces”

Failsafe – What We Are Today

Ever since Failsafe/Duckhunt sent me some rough demos about two years ago, I’ve loved this band. They’re one of only a few that I’d have loved to have worked with on Punktastic Recordings that we were ‘beaten’ to – so it was a personal

Saves The Day – Can’t Slow Down

I’ve just received a batch of re-issues to review, and it got me thinking about older CDs that I hadn’t reviewed first time round, for whatever reason. So I had a look through my CD collection and spotted that ‘Can’t Slow Down’ had criminally been avoided.

Satanic Surfers – Taste The Poison

With two fine independent record labels behind them (Sweden’s Burning Heart and our very own Household Name – HHN doing the honours by releasing TTP over here) and a strong following from their earlier releases, their new album deserves to put them in a very strong position. Jammed with

DTR 10th anniversary CD – released by Geffen?

According to absolutepunk.net, Drive Thru are releasing a CD to commemorate their 10th anniversary. I think this is actually being released by Geffen because it only features songs they released…Tracklisting is: 1. New Found Glory – Hit Or Miss 2. New Found Glory – My

I love the way AP.net refer to us as PT.com

Taken from ap.net: “October Fall’s new album will be called Keep Dreaming Upside Down and will be released in February via Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance.”

Saturday 29 October 2005

I’ve got arrogance down to a science

Appease have put some new live acoustic tracks up on the internet. There is one at www.purevolume.com/appease and one at www.myspace.com/appease so check them out.