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From Monday 25 September 2006

Heavens – Patent Pending

Considering who exactly makes up ‘Heavens‘, their formation and subsequent release of debut album ‘Patent Pending‘ has gone all but unnoticed. Featuring F-Minus‘ Joe Steinbrick and none other than the Alkaline Trio‘s Matt Skiba on vocals, you’d expect this album to

New live reviews

We’ve been on the live review trail again – check out Dave’s thoughts on recent Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly gigs by clicking on the relevant link…

Four new KE tracks

Head on over to www.myspace.com/newkillswitchengage and listen to four new Killswitch Engage tracks!

Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family – Manchester University

Thursday September 21st Manchester, Academy 2 PTRecs favourites The Maple State open proceedings to a largely empty spacious room. 7 songs span little over 20 minutes, and by the time they’ve left the stage, I’m feeling a little let down by their performance.

Sunday 24 September 2006

Isn’t this a bit, well, cheeky?

Submitted: “For those who just can’t get enough of Surrey quintet Meet Me In St. Louis, you’ll be pleased to hear that the boys are hard at work writing a new collection of songs for their debut album, due out next year on Big Scary Monsters Records. With

SikTh – Death of a Dead Day

Sikth are one of those bands that you either just ‘get’, or you don’t. For the last six years, they’ve been defying convention with their unique brand of noisecore, which has earned them a dedicated army of fans. Despite this, they are still relative unknowns, mainly due

Avast! dates

Avast!, the Dundee-based half of Stapleton, head out on the road next month, calling at: 13th – Aberdeen Tunnels 14th – Glasgow O’Henry’s 15th – Dundee Balcony Bar 17th – Derby Victoria Inn 18th – Leeds Brudenell Social Club 19th – Huddersfield Bar120 20th – Brighton Engine Room

Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly – Manchester Night and Day

IIIrd + Lucy And The Catepillar Friday September 22nd Manchester, Night & Day Cafe The Night & Day Cafe’s brilliant, to be fair, despite being rather overpriced. Sure, the stage is weirdly placed, and the pillar down front isn’t well placed, but it’s got a really nice ambience to it.

Keep your hands off my girl, punx

You can hear a new Good Charlotte song called “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl” at www.myspace.com/goodcharlotte

Golden Brown

Brown Brigade (ex-Sum41) has signed with Aquarius Records.