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From Wednesday 25 January 2006

Note to self. Stop reviewing bad bands.

Note to bands, labels, pr people – if you send us a CD for review, don’t send us abuisve emails asking us to take down a review, slagging us off for not knowing what we are talking about or telling us how everybody else thinks you’re ace. We

Alk3 London instore

Submitted: “Alkaline Trio will be holding a live exclusive acoustic session and signing copies of their new single ³Burn² at the Oxford Street Virgin Megastore on Wednesday 22 February at 6pm. This is the band¹s ONLY performance in London on their entire tour

Studio Monday

Second Monday have posted a video of them in the studio up at http://www.secondmonday.net/studio.php

This sounds much the same

Submitted: “Nitro Records announced today the signing of the Chicago-based band, Much The Same. Sonically, Much The Same bring a Midwest flavor to the West Coast tradition of melodic, punk rock along the lines of bands like Bad Religion and No

Dead

Death By Stereo tour in May: 15.05.2006 UK, London, Underworld 16.05.2006 UK, Bournemouth, Operahouse 18.05.2006 UK, Manchester, Music Box 20.05.2006 UK, Sheffield, The Corporation

No use for an arm

No Use For A Name and The Lawrence `Arms tour together in April.

Tuesday 24 January 2006

Hit This

You can watch Hit The Light’s video for “Until We Get Caught” here.

Lars is not punk rock

MC Lars has posted ‘Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock’ at www.myspace.com/mclars

Bombshell Rocks – The Conclusion

While Bombshell Rocks‘ last album, ‘From Here And On’, was an attempt to amalgamate crunchy street punk with the poppiest of melodies, ‘The Conclusion’ shows them eschewing the cheesy key changes in favour of some flat-out, balls to the wall punk rock. And it’s immediately obvious that

Annalise – Here’s To Hope

It’s strange, but even amongst the waves of haircut bands and indentikit soundalike clones there seems to be a strong undercurrent of bands that, while not particularly revolutionary, have come up with some startlingly good music. Even though Annalise have been around for ages, they’ve never broken