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From Monday 08 November 2010

Advise Your Goals

Not Advised will be main support to Set Your Goals at Leeds Cockpit on 11th December.

Futures have announced dates for their Spring headline tour: FEBRUARY 26th – St Paul’s, Cabridge 26th – O2 Academy 2, Bristol 28th – Rock City, Nottingham MARCH 01st – Masque, Liverpool 03rd – O2 Academy 3, Birmingham 04th – O2 Academy 3, Manchester 05th – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle 06th – O2 ABC

DGD return with original line-up

Dance Gavin Dance have announced they are recording a new album with their original line-up (yep, including Johnny Craig). The new record entitled ‘Downtown Battle Mountain Pt II’ is slated for a May 2011 release. If that’s not good enough, DGD will be playing two London shows at

Stand Down – Songs For Abandoned Buildings

The first full length album from STAND DOWN is a mish-mash of ideas. This Brighton based trio have tried to develop a big sound on this record – an expansive, almost epic feel. The drums pound, the guitars feedback and the bass thunders while they

Shang-A-Lang – Collection

New Mexico’s SHANG-A-LANG return with ‘Collection’ which is just as the title suggests. The punk rock outfit slam through 22 songs in a completely self-produced album and recreate the vibe of the 60s garage band. For anyone looking for a comparison that everyone will have

The Celestians – Specimens

THE CELESTIANS are a promising act; full of youth and and backed up by an almost epic stadium sound but something on this four track EP just doesn’t click. Specimens has all the right things for rock super-stardom; there’s an epic delayed guitar sound courtesy of

What Now – Take Control EP

Hailing from a little town in South Africa, WHAT NOW relocated to London, England with an accumulation of tracks worthy of dispatching internationally. Having put music on hold to maintain day jobs, the punk rock trio seem ready to pick up where they left off,

The Dissociates – Waiting For The Backlash

THE DISSOCIATES give off a pheromone of musical clarity as they combine influences of what sounds like the Canadian post-hardcore extremists Billy Talent and simplistic guitar strummers Franz Ferdinand. With lead vocals tearing the songs apart in a similar state to that of Talent’s Ben

Captain Accident – Pick Up The Microphone

With the clocks going back, everything getting darker and the bitterness of Winter setting in, the desire to dislike this album set in straight away. It’s easy to feel a bit apathetic when everything seems so drab, fortunately that’s not the case as CAPTAIN ACCIDENT is like

StoryBoard – Kill Your TV

It’s not clear what’s being sprinkled on the Lucky Charms in Dublin but a real emo-pop scene has sprouted over the last couple of years. STORYBOARD are another addition who sit alongside young bands such as Jody Has A Hitlist and Homestar Runner cranking out sugary