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From Thursday 18 January 2007

Luke Leighfield – Garde Ta Foy, Garde Ta Foy

Ok, time to hold my hands up. In the past I’ve tried to offer Luke constructive criticism that while a talented musician, his vocals let the side down. ‘Garde Ta Foy’ basically makes me look like an idiot – this is excellent and Luke’s best work by

Astpai – corruption concealed (under deceptive slogans)

Austria’s Astpai are bloody good. Think of paint it black meets kid dynamite meets none more black, mixing some raw aggression with plenty of singalong hooks and you’re part of the way there. This 12-tracker, released on Rise or Rust Records,

Woop woop, this is the sound of the next big thing

The Sounds are back for a headlining tour in march: 19th March Pressure Point Brighton 20th March Bar Academy Birmingham 21st March Venue tbc London 22nd March AC 3 Manchester 23rd March King Tuts Glasgow 24th March Zodiac Oxford

The Dead Class – Boo

There’s something a bit Hives-y about The Dead Class – they are a band that seems to have a foot in the punk door and another in the rock ‘n’ roll door, a band that fuses two different genres, as others have done before them, and come

MySpace to offer spyware

MySpace is about to bow to pressure from a group of 33 US attorneys and offer parents a chance to monitor what their children are doing on the site. Full details here.

The Maple State support +44

The Maple State are confirmed as support on the +44 tour: 3 Feb London Brixton Academy 4 Feb Rock City Nottingham 5 Feb Glasgow Academy 7 Feb Newcastle Academy 8 Feb Manchester Academy 9 Feb Southampton Guildhall

Wednesday 17 January 2007

Rainydayfuckparade – Meridian

Rainydayfuckparade are essentially a UK metal super group, featuring former members of Unborn, Army of Flying Robots and North by Northwest. And in their fledgling career the quartet have racked up some very impressive supports, taking in stage-sharing with AFI and The Red Chord to name but

Second Monday get injected

Second Monday have just made ‘Mono Injection’ available to download from their myspace (myspace.com/secondmonday). The band has been booked to tour Germany in March and with more shows being booked throughout 2007.

Monikers – Eat Your Young

Until last track ‘Not The New’ came round, I was about to give up on Monikers, who feature ex-members of Discount and count Jawbreaker and Crimpshine among influences. The first four tracks of this record are predictable and badly recorded, but when the

Hooray For Me – 3-track demo

There seems to be a few bands coming out of the woodwork with well produced melodic rock records now – the Misnomer, Carcrashburn and Day Of Rising are three that have impressed me in the last six months and now Hooray For Me