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From Friday 23 August 2024

Cassyette – ‘The World Fucking Sucks’

Cassyette has more sides than a fractal Rubik’s cube, and she’d probably appreciate the comparison. Two years on from ‘Sad Girl Mixtape’, and the ‘modern alternative icon’ is simultaneously cementing and diversifying her sound on her proper debut album. Of course, she’s crammed ‘The World Fucking Sucks’ with the

Friday 16 August 2024

Yours Truly– ‘TOXIC’

Everyone looks at their own image. It’s not just a case of mirrors, it’s endless videos and social media posts. Now more than ever people are aware of who they are. On their fantastic 2022 EP Australian pop-rock band Yours Truly dared to ask ‘Is This What

Saturday 10 August 2024

Destroy Boys – ‘Funeral Soundtrack #4’

Forming just under a decade ago, Cali natives Destroy Boys have been churning out music on a pretty regular basis. In fact, with the release of their fourth album, you could say they’re dropping new music with consistency. The real question is whether they’re able to push and progress

Four Year Strong – ‘analysis paralysis’

What happens if a much loved, widely adored pop punk band goes into a studio with no finished material, going into the recording process relatively blind with one of heavy music’s finest producers at the helm? If that band is Four Year Strong and the producer is Will Putney,

Wednesday 31 July 2024

Millie Manders and the Shutup – ’Wake Up, Shut Up, Work’

“Things I did when I was seventeen still haunt me in my dreams,” sings Millie Manders, cross-genre punk firebrand, in an opening line which perfectly sets up the vulnerability and upfront attitude of her sophomore album with the Shutup, ’Wake Up, Shut Up, Work’. One of the leading lights

Saturday 13 July 2024

Graphic Nature – ‘Who Are You When No One Is Watching?’

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, as the old adage goes. When Harvey Freeman, frontman for hardcore heroes Graphic Nature, was assaulted on a train in London last year, he was left with both physical injuries and more lasting damage to his mental health. What emerged from

Friday 12 July 2024

Northbound – ‘Juniper’

“I wanna play a big tune in a little room, I wanna fuck things up and kill the moon,” says Jonathon Fraser – AKA Northbound – on ‘Big Tune (Fuck Off Forever)’, and with a goal like that, you have to appreciate his ambition. He’s shared bills with Simple

Monday 01 July 2024

Mt. Onsra – ‘SACRED TIME’

Lockdown was a strange time. A double-edged sword. Distress and isolation on the one side, connection and creativity on the other. Unable to go about their lives, two friends found themselves reconnecting. They found a spark. They founded Mt. Onsra. Multi-instrumentalists Simon Allen and Russell Cleave

Wednesday 26 June 2024

Scene Queen – ‘Hot Singles In Your Area’

We’ve had ‘don’t judge by appearances’ drilled into us since birth, and no one proves that to be true more aptly than Scene Queen. Maybe you caught her set at Download, saw the blonde with pigtails gyrating to songs about oral sex and thought you’d accidentally shown up to

Saturday 22 June 2024

Other Half – ‘Dark Ageism’

Norwich’s Other Half are, like all of us, aging. Having spent the last decade making “little-to-no progression” (their words, not ours) in a punk band now gets raised eyebrows and the question of “what are you going to do with your life?” This same question is asked to the