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From Wednesday 14 November 2012

Lipona – ‘Networks’

“Lipona is a skate punk quartet who specialise in a fast tempo blend of melodic hardcore, ambient, and post-hardcore music”. Recently signed to Disconnect Disconnect Records, the latest offering ‘Networks’ from this Florida four piece is a great release. It is full of fast licks, sing-along choruses and packed to the

Sunday 11 November 2012

Major League – ‘Hard Feelings’

“I never said that I was a nice guy!” So opens Nick Trask on ‘Nightmares’ – the fourth track from the new LP by New Jersey based pop-punk quintet Major League. The spirit of these lyrics reverberate throughout the record and help give ‘Hard Feelings’ its accessible nature – one would assume

Thursday 08 November 2012

Deftones – ‘Koi No Yokan’

Where many of their generation have faded, changed beyond recognition or simply become terrible, Deftones have stood strong. Experts at their craft, they became one of the most respected alternative rock bands of the last few decades by avoiding clichés and largely keeping up a consistent quality. ‘Koi No Yokan’

Tuesday 06 November 2012

Green Day – ‘¡Dos!’

For the second time this year – dear Green Day fans – we’re sat here with a cup of tea and a new Green Day album. After a passable but largely uneventful first effort, the band’s middle part of their ‘¡Uno!’, ‘¡Dos!’, ‘¡Tré!’ trilogy arrives with twice the amount

Fighting With Wire – ‘Colonel Blood’

Everyone knows what happened to the big acts of the BritRock explosion of the early 2000s – Biffy Clyro now fill arenas, Reuben died and everyone misses them, and Hell Is For Heroes and Hundred Reasons are joining forces this autumn for a victory lap of the UK –

Thursday 01 November 2012

The Retrospective Soundtrack Players – ‘The Catcher in the Rye’

The Retrospective Soundtrack Players are less of a band and more of an art project. Taking their favourite books and films, the sextet interprets the plots into a twee amalgamation of folk and pop. To make the project even more implausible, for the band’s second full-length record they have

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Rolo Tomassi – ‘Astraea’

Regardless of whether you love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t deny that Rolo Tomassi are one of the most hard working bands in the UK. Eva Spence’s haunting vocal has been one of the most intriguing and mezmerising of the recent UK mathcore surge, and with ‘Astraea’, the

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Basement – ‘colourmeinkindness’

As with other bands in the scene that get a rough ride in our forums (Sharks being the primary example here), when you actually pick the music apart it’s hard to tell exactly why they’re singled out. Basement’s ‘colourmeinkindness’ is their supposed final record (see you in two years,

Tuesday 23 October 2012

Blood Command – ‘Funeral Beach’

It’s not that often you get to talk about punk rock bands from Norway (let alone those of the lady fronted variety), so it’s with pleasure that we’re to be able to say that the new record from Blood Command is as noisey as it is fun. From the bold

Tuesday 16 October 2012

P.O.S. – ‘We Don’t Even Live Here’

By our own admission, PT isn’t a hip hop website (clue is in the name, “yo”), so we’ll save everyone the trouble of slagging us off for displaying inferior knowledge of the wider genre. We’re reviewing P.O.S.’ ‘We Don’t Even Live Here’ simply because he’s an artist making hip