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From Wednesday 08 April 2009

More Manchester Orchestra news

Manchester Orchestra are apparently planning to tour the UK in July and that they hope to do an Abbey Road session too.

Turbonegro man sells his hair

Thomas from Turbonegro is selling his hair. Seriously.

Sonic Boom Six – City of Thieves

Where oh where to start? Okay, let’s go back to July 2006. There’s a track that closes out Sonic Boom Six‘s debut album, ‘The Ruff Guide to Genre Terrorism’, called ‘Until the Sunlight Comes’. It’s a monolithic seven minutes of stadium-rock guitar riffs, mellow yet

Scene it, done it…would do it all again

So you thought the Punktastic Un-Scene series was dead, right? Wrong…

MxPx – On The Over 2

I used to love MxPx. Scratch that, I used to adore MxPx. When ‘Life In General’ and then ‘Slowly Going The Way…’ came out they were arguably my favourite band. True, those records haven’t aged all that well and the band have undoubtedly recognised that

AFI to tour in October?

PT understands AFI are plotting a UK headline tour in October…

Manchester Orchestra self-confirm Reading/Leeds

Submitted: Both Andy and Chris of Manchester Orchestra confirmed they’d be appearing on the Carling stage (which I guess means the Festival Republic now) at Reading/Leeds.

Dawn of the Dead

The Dawn Acoma have just uploaded a sample of their upcoming debut EP over at www.myspace.com/thedawnacoma

Eskimo kisses

Leeds band A Lot Like Eskimos has 2 new tracks up at www.myspace.com/alotlikeeskimos

Tuesday 07 April 2009

This is a Standoff – Be Disappointed

The late John Peel once said: “A band is only as good as its drummer.” In that case This Is a Standoff must be a very good band. The first thing you notice about ‘Be Disappointed’, the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Be Excited’, is the thunderously