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From Sunday 14 May 2006

Two bands in one day? Sheesh…

Both the Suicide Machines and Hot Water Music have split up.

Saturday 13 May 2006

Dave heads for the brown

Sum 41 guitarist Dave Baksh has confirmed he has quit the band. In a statement he revealed: “I couldn’t continue on creatively in Sum 41 without being a thorn in the side of the band. As people grow, they change, All I can ask is

Friday 12 May 2006

I like maple syrup, if that counts

The Maple State mini-album, ‘At Least Until We’ve Settled In’, is now back in stock and you can order your copy from the Punktastic shop, http://punktastic.mymerch.co.uk/

Mia Riddle – James Black split

I came to this CD having listened to neither Mia Riddle nor James Black previously, so you’ll get a very ‘face value’ dollop of opinion here. Arriving in its hippy-ish too-cool-for-school sleeve (well, the Mia side, at least), I thought that Mia Riddle was going

Less Than Festivals

Less Than Jake do extra dates around their planned festival appearances: Leeds Festival- 25th August Cardiff University- 26th August Reading Festival- 27th August Hall for Cornwall- 28th August

Ex-Wayriders form new band

Submitted: “New electronica band, Out From Animals, featuring ex-members of The Wayriders are now up and running and starting to tour. Music is available to listen to on our myspace page www.myspace.com/outfromanimals “

Burns Out Bright – Save Yourself A Lifetime

I have a lot of CDs to review and little time, so I shall keep this one fairly brief. To be honest, I don’t need to go on and on about this record because the music does the talking – it’s brilliant. For me ‘Save Yourself A

Desa dates

Desa (ex-Link 80) tour the UK in October and November: OCT 19th SOUTHAMPTON JOINERS w Sonic Boom Six, Crazyarm, Thinkpol 23rd LIVERPOOL ROADKILL w Sonic Boom Six, Crazyarm, Thinkpol 25th DERBY VICTORIA INN w Sonic Boom Six, Crazyarm, Thinkpol 26th MANCHESTER SATANS HOLLOW w

PRV show FFAF live

PunkRockVids.com has posted the second Funeral For A Friend live video from San Francisco- “The End Of Nothing”.

The Steal – S/T

Every so often I rather embarrasingly hype a record so much I practically get down on bended knee and propose to it. I haven’t done it all that much recently, but if there was ever a time to over-excitedly gush about how great a record is, it would