You're browsing the archives « Previous PageNext Page » From Thursday 27 July 2006 Higher and Higher The Higher have signed with Epitaph Records. Big Sale Monsters Big Scary Monsters have a big CD, vinyl, badge and shirt sale on with a number of crazy offers, so go and check t out at www.bsmrocks.com The Bronx dates The Bronx tour in October/November. Oxford Zodiac – 14/10/2006 Cardiff Barfly – 15/10/2006 Leeds Cockpit – 17/10/2006 Manchester Roadhouse – 18/10/2006 Liverpool Barfly – 19/10/2006 Nottingham Rock City – 20/10/2006 Corporation, Sheffield – 22/10/2006 Birmingham Barfly – 23/10/2006 Carling Academy Islington – 01/11/2006 Wednesday 26 July 2006 Failure By Design – Every Night Is Poker Night Failure By Design don’t sound like a band (possibly) named after a Brand New song. With a brass section and plenty of past-paced riffs, they’re almost skate-punk with horns rather than skacore. In their last review on PT, Ben stated he felt they Flogging twice Submitted: “Flogging Molly are playing twice at both the Reading and Leeds Festivals. They will play on both the main stage (Between Aiden and Wolfmother) and the Lock up stage (between Millencolin and Alexisonfire)” Hostage Life – Sing for the Enemy Seven songs, 18 minutes…this is more like it. Hostage Life come from the same Canadian background as Closet Monster and Protest the hero and they play a caustic-humoured melodic hardcore in the mould of a Dillinger Four or Forever Changed – Chapters The last time I reviewed Forever Changed, I said they sounded a hell of a lot like Further Seems Forever. ‘Chapters’, their brand new album, hasn’t changed my opinion. ‘Refusal’ is so FSF-lite that you’d be hard pushed to distinguish the Elena City – Romance Is…Pt1 Sing like you mean it. That’s the best advice I could give any singer really; reach down into your lungs and bellow it out. Someone really needs to tell Elena City vocalist Martin this, as his vocals tend to waft out harmlessly over a Misnomer album release Just a reminder that you can pre-order the new The Misnomer album ‘Jealousy Is’ for £4 at http://punktastic.bigcartel.com You can sample tracks over at www.myspace.com/themisnomer Pie in the sky Piebald has posted a new demo titled “Getting Mugged and Liking It” at www.myspace.com/piebald