Living With Eating Disorders -‘White Like Snow’ EP.

London’s treasured Darkwave quartet, Living With Eating Disorders’ official debut release titled ‘White Like Snow’ is finally upon us all including re-recorded works of two familiar favourites and remixes - here’s the verdict ( Read more... )

The Birthday Massacre - 'Violet' EP Review

Violet is a colour born from two, the tepidity of red and the melancholia of blue ( Read more... )

MIGNON GOES 'GO-GO'

With two horns raised high and a third that lies eternally writhing beneath her black leather hot pants, there’s nothing she wont bite and nothing she can’t chew and so little birds and well endowed men beware, Satan isn’t even safe from the bitch from Berlin ( Read more... )

Skeleteen - ‘Sorry For Everything’

Sounding along the lines of Sonic Youth or a darker sibling of The Breeders, Skeleteen are an abrasive assault of melodic gloom. A two-piece noise outfit that deliver a no-holds-barred sonic blast of rock and roll stripped to its punk-beaten bones. Heavy driven drumbeats and menacing guitars underpin sinisterly ( Read more... )

C33X - Live at Notting Hill Arts Club

It’s time once again for the discontented monsters of the dance floor to dig out their dance shoes and come pray for a revolution in noise. The bomb-spitting, devil kissing, dangerous outlaws C33X are back in town and this time they have taken in a couple of willing hostages, Matt and Tim from Strokes ( Read more... )

Scarling. - Sweet Heart Dealer

This month sees the release of highly anticipated ‘Sweet Heart Dealer’ by trip-pop, noise-rock outfit Scarling. A honey jar of a record filled with seven tracks and seven ditty sins juxtaposed with the more composite sound of surging textures, distorted guitars and vocals that teeter from the serene to the ( Read more... )

Die So Fluid - Live @ Camden Monarch (08/02/04)

I stand in front of three points onstage from which a wall of sound is constructed and emitted, built from the driving raw blaze of punk, a sound distilled to severe percussive poundings and beautifully brash vocals that peel back a layer of your skin with each note. If the punk bearings are the core ( Read more... )

MIGNON - Live @ The Metro

Murder At The Metro ( Read more... )

Texas Terri Bomb

A legend alone for performing whilst wearing nothing but electrical tape across her nips, Texas Terri has been described as embodying the spirit of Iggy Pop (or to put it simply “Iggy with tits”) along with the power and primitiveness of Patti Smith & Wendy O Williams to her performances both onstage and on record. Personally I ( Read more... )

Johnny Hollow

I know ‘ethereality’ is a word I use often but the word has not yet found such sincere akin until now. Here is a record that is quite the antithesis of what the latter part of their name might suggest. Rich and emotive, and bewitchingly original, Johnny Hollow blend intriguing and intellectual soundscapes that will chill you to the ( Read more... )