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Make Do And Mend – ‘Don’t Be Long’

It’s been a little while since Make Do And Mend have been on the radar, and it’s always seemed that although they have maintained a die-hard fan base, they never quite escaped the shadows of some of the peers of “The Wave”. Across their career they have put

Tuesday 03 March 2015

Alcoa – ‘Parlour Tricks’

In the two years since Derek Archambault released Alcoa’s debut album ‘Bone & Marrow’ in 2013 a few things have happened in his life, some good, and some bad. On the good side of things he got married to his sweetheart Alyssa – who also plays in Alcoa

Thursday 26 February 2015

Colleen Green – ‘I Want To Grow Up’

‘I Want To Grow Up’ is very much a solo release by Colleen Green, and one that keeps the LA based songwriter centre stage, but it also marks a shift in production values away from the DIY approach of earlier releases as Green is joined for the first

Fat Mike & Friends – ‘Home Street Home’ OST

What if the award-winning, hilariously lewd musical ‘Avenue Q’ had been written by NOFX? Probably not a question that’s ever been asked by anyone, but one that’s nonetheless been answered by the forthcoming production ‘Home Street Home’. The result of a collaboration between NOFX’s Fat Mike, Jeff Marx (a lyricist and composer

Wednesday 25 February 2015

Torche – ‘Restarter’

Forging an original sound in this day and age is probably the toughest obstacle that musicians face. Some are quiet happy to re-hash tried and tested methods to fit in with whatever is current, where as others keep doing what they are doing instead of pushing new territory.

Oceans Ate Alaska – ‘Lost Isles’

Metalcore five-piece Oceans Ate Alaska have done incredibly well in the last few months. Late 2014 saw them sign a record deal with the prestigious Fearless Records, whilst landing tours alongside metalcore heavy weights, such as The Color Morale and The Word Alive – and they’re not quite

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Big Fin – ‘Ebb & Flow’

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a rock musician in possession of a great singing voice, must be in want of an acoustic solo career. Whether it’s the toll of touring, the psychic drain of creativity-by-committee or good old fashioned ‘maturity’, the acoustic rebirth is a phenomenon which seems to have

Monday 23 February 2015

Anakin – ‘Celestial Frequency Shifter’

Since forming in 2010, Anakin have always taken a wholeheartedly inventive approach to the creation of their music and ‘Celestial Frequency Shifter’ is the most fully realised example of their vision to date. It would be easy to dismiss Anakin as simply another post-rock band given their influences

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Adventures – ‘Supersonic Home’

It would be impossible to talk about Adventures without mentioning the fact that three out of five members of the band are shared with Pittsburgh hardcore kings Code Orange. The only other similarity between the two that needs mentioning is that whatever the members of these bands put

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Billy Talent – ‘Hits’

You’ve got to feel for whoever at Warners was tasked with choosing a name for this, a collection of tracks from the four albums thus far produced by glossy Canadian punks Billy Talent. ‘The Best Of Billy Talent’, for example, would have been disingenuous as that album was released in