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Newcastle four-piece the Psychedelic Breakfast have just released “…In Uncle Sam’s Basement Emporium”, their debut LP. Recorded entirely live, the boys (and girl) take you on an interesting fifty minute ride through their little world, which involves drugs, Buddahs, and some more drugs. DiS caught »
The Darkness, who will mostly be scaring young Robbie Williams fans this weekend, have announced some extra dates in December after their October tour has all but sold out. The gigs include two mammoth dates at Brixton Academy and Manchester Apollo, places where they supported Def Leppard<»
With the help of a cunning pun and the resurgence of the local music scene, Merseyside-based label and promotions company Black Sheep, in conjunction with support and training Music Industry body, MusicBias, have organised the first ever Liverpoo»
Everyone's favourite indie-folk duo Turin Brakes have 'done a Doves' and entered the Top Ten with a single available for one week only and priced at 99p. 'Pain Killer', from their forthcoming second album 'Ether Song' out March 3rd, entered the charts at 5. Other entries »
Beck has announced details of two solo acoustic gigs in April based around last year's 'Sea Change' album. He plays the London Royal Albert Hall on the 26th, tickets costing a hefty £27.50. On the 27th he comes to the »
There are good relatives, bad relatives amd The Relatives. The first give you groovy gifts and advice, the second crap tales of what it was like when they were a boy/girl. The third, however, give you, in their own words "Just a straightforward Killer rock band with cool tunes, No bollocks, no makeup, »
Fresh from releasing their debut album 'Now or Never', The Relatives have announced details of a December tour.
Here are the dates:
December
4th - Aberdeen Lava Club
5th - Motherwell Starka Club
8th - Glasgow Strawberry Fields
9th - Yo»
As previously noted on this here website, The Psychedelic Breakfast have a rubbish name. This two song EP’s title, ‘Always Tripping, Always Stoned’, is just as bad. Professional Hippies? Most probably, but thankfully they have some rather ace tunage to go with it. The two songs here ‘Always Trip»
Mazuma Fly are Jamie Jenkin (vocals), Rick Morris (guitars), Mark Briggs (bass), Dan Vickers (drums). They combine loud guitars with loud politics. They're into The Clash and the Manics, then. With yourselves and Miss Black America emerging recently, do you think there is a new need for p»
This you know: the NME likes them quite a lot; they often enjoy a 'funny cigarette'; they're 'psychedelic scousers'; there's six of them and they're no older than 21 and in interviews, they often show off their 'wacky' personas. All this is true, but don't let it effect your judgement.
If Blink 182 were a poor imitation of Green Day, then Bowling For Soup are the former's equivalent. And yes, it sounds as awful as that tag suggests. The bouncy-bouncy guitars, the whining vocals, the 'hilarious' lyrics.... They're all here in abundance, and The video pushes it even further»
John Robb, Gold Blade frontman and media mogul, has recently finished a comprehensive history of punk for cable channel PlayUK. Entitled ‘The Punk Years’, it delves deeper than your average Pistols-Clash-Ramones-wham bam thank you mam approach to the subject, covering other issues such as fa»
The Coral and The Music have announced details of their second round of joint headlining dates.
The dates where you can catch the sea shanties and freaky dancing are :-
June
1st - Sheffield Leadmill
4th - Portsmouth Pyramid / Wedgewood Rooms
5th - London ULU
6th - »
Now as much as I love the Moldy Peaches, I don't really see the point of this single. Neither these songs are featured on their self-titled debut album, and I can't really see how this is going to help the Moldys. It’s not likely to gain them new fans and is hardly their best work to date. 'County Fair»
Rage Against The Machine have lost their vocalist....AGAIN. Chris Cornell, formely of Soundgarden has alledgedly walked out on the band although nothing has been announced officialy. He joined the band last year after Zack De La Rocha quit to go solo. Cornell and the band had be»
Comebacks this year from The Chemical Brothers and Oasis have both been greeted with the question of relevancy. Are these two bands that made some of the most important music of the 90s any use in today's age of retro American guitar bands and sarf larndarn garage? This is a situation that affords Gomez<»
Gold Blade have announced details of a one off London date. They play the Highbury Garage on Friday May 24th. So there.»
Though it's unlikely 'Silent To The Dark II' is Tom White's cooing tribute to his elder brother Alex, this is still a cockle warming treat none the less. It would be churlish to deny The Electric Soft Parade this single. A slight re-working of their debut single, it is now removed of the s»
Pinhole have announced details of their Febuary tour. The band have also just recorded their debut Peel session, featuring the tracks "City Living", "Is This The End?", "Addicted To You", and a version of The Clash's "I'm So Bored With The U.S.A."»
Pinhole have acquired a big following in their hometown of Liverpool. Their debut EP ‘Breaking Hearts And Windows’ was the tenth best selling single in the local HMV in Christmas week, and there have apparently already been scene of one member being mobbed in a local record store. They’ve played th»
Ash have confirmed that they will play a one off date at the London Astoria. The gig, with support from Hundred Reasons, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives and Jetplane Landing, will take place on the 5th of February. 'There's A Star, the last single off Ash's recent album 'Free All»
In the bottom corner of the cover for ‘The Oldest Path EP’ there is a rather dull and grey scene of the seaside, but above it all is a flurry of colourful and exotic images. This, you sense, is a perfect representation of The Coral. Despite superficially looking like nothing special, they produce the most»
Seeing Tim Wheeler sing 'We are the new sensation' seven years after their first release is quite bizarre. But Ash are a band reborn. On 1998’s ‘Nu-Clear Sounds’ Ash grew old with a vengeance. And while it wasn’t a bad album, there was no track on it that grabbed your imagination as much as, say, ‘G»
Top new Liverpool band Pinhole have announced details of a tour for January.
January 2002
Tue 8 London Dublin Castle (Club Fandango)
Wed 9 Hull Adelphi
Thu 10 Peterborough Park
Fri 11 Coventry Colosseum
Sat 12 Harlow Square
Mon 14 Exeter Cavern (t.b.»
Radio 1 have announced details of a new punk show for the new year. 'The Lock Up' will focus on non-commercial punk, skate rock, thrash and underground bands like Pennywise and The Hives. The show is presented by Mike Davis, an LA born DJ. It will be on mondays at 2AM »
The Hives have confirmed details of a tour and a single for February. 'Hate To Say I Told You So' comes out on the 11th of February through Poptones. The song was originally released late in 2000 off the 'Veni Vidi Vicious' album, but features again on the 'Your New Favour»
Pinhole are Matt McManamon (vocals/guitar), Ben Gordon (guitar/vocals), Charlie Turner (bass/vocals) and Bryan Johnson (drums) and they are all 19. And in the words of their official biog they are “Combining their love of primetime Clash, Beatles, Who, Smiths and Pixies»
There's a feature on VH1 that is repeated every ten minutes (Well, it seems like that.), called Then And Now. As you may have guessed, it shows you a past video from the chosen artist, and their latest release. Its recent victim is that little blighter Michael Jackson. The song from 'Then' was 'Don'»
The Super Furry Animals have announced details of their new single. 'It's Not The End Of The World' is released on January 14th and is backed up by new tracks 'Gypsy Space Muffin' and from the DVD version of the album, 'The Roman Road'. This is the third single to be t»
Haven have announced details of a new single and their debut album. The album, out on the 4th of Febuary, is entitled 'Between The Senses', and is preceded by the single 'Say Something', which comes out on the 21st of January. »
