Driven by skulking bass lines and black-hearted indie grooves, Scouse four-piece Public Underground rumble from a shadowy creep into a rampant Krautrock roar on their debut EP, Little White Lies. Citing Kings of Leon, Joy Division and Black Sabbath as…
Full of mod swagger and Britpop bravado, Northampton chaps The Repeat Offenders may have read the lad-rock guide book down to the last chapter on ‘How to wear your anorak like Ian Brown’, but their triumph is that the deliver…
Reverberating from the dusty drinking dens and backroom bars on the outskirts of Manchester, the swampy sounds of Stockport five-piece The Nix have caught our ears with their debut track, ‘Luna’. Scorched, woozy and led by a punch-drunk, poetic croon,…
Rating: With all the grace and gristle of a petrol station pasty, Hackney rawk trolls Bad Guys deliver a big, fat slab of sweaty, cave-man metal that leaves you jumping up and down on your bed, pounding your bare chest…
Rating: Always thought of as the little puppy dog eagerly trying to impress cool, big brother Win and his fancy French girlfriend, Will Butler is the cheery ball of energy seen hoying drums in the air and clattering about in…
Well, whaddaya know, the first glimpse of sunshine in months and Oklahoma indie upstarts, Broncho, arrive right on cue to soundtrack that shirts-off, giddy-headed race down to the park to blister your lily-white paunch. Coming to attention in the US when…
Rating: “Err, sort of if Neil Young joined Kraftwerk, or something… I suppose.” That was the rather embarrassed, shoe shuffling description Ripley Johnson offered of the Moon Duo sound in an early interview. His partner Sanae Yamada smiled awkwardly, tried…
Rating: As half of the pioneering industrial noise anarchists Throbbing Gristle, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter created some of the most jaw dropping, ear bleeding, experimental synth chaos of the 1970s, and were once branded “wreckers of civilisation” by…
Cross dressing, modelling for Yves Saint Laurent and a noise that sounds like a grimey, gothic form of demented psychobilly punk – welcome to the weird and wonderful world of The Garden. The 19-year-old identical twins have been kicking up a…
Rating: Every interview. Every review. Every programme note. Every three line product description in every record store. Every time a radio DJ plays one of his songs… there’s THAT phrase gnawing away – “Son of legendary country rebel Steve Earle”….