A gig that is getting me a little randy is the upcoming one for US mad rockers ’Battles’” target=”_blank”>www.shotbro.com/blog/?p=995″/>\’Battles\’. These cats are MEAN. Their music is so layered and so fucked over with Electronics and Guitar (along with some out of this world drumming) you wonder how it all comes together. How do you even [...]

Probably the loudest band to come out of the southern hemisphere for some time, Die! Die! Die! headline the NME club night tomorrow night at The Annex. I probably won’t make it (I finish work at 4 tomorrow and the 24 hour travel time mean I’ll be cutting it fine), but should you be reading [...]

The Black Key’s new album was bound to be a stonker, but I have mixed feelings about the enlisting of Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley/Danger Doom fame) to sit behind the desk for their upcoming fourth-album. I love the Black Keys for their unadulterated pushing of the Blues ‘end’ of the musical spectrum, while Danger Mouse [...]

of lack of… It’s well noted that Lauren Hill and the Fugees have struggled to get it together and get creative, but now it seems that any reunion is seriously unlikely. “Before I work with Lauryn Hill again, you will have a better chance of seeing Osama Bin Laden and [George W.] Bush in Starbucks [...]

I don’t know about you, but this time of the year seems particularily hectic. I’ve been dealing with a crappy cellphone, poor internet access and my boy going into childcare as well as the other day to day stuff. Maybe Radiohead haven’t been too busy (or not busy enough). Their follow up to ‘Hail to [...]

Free things rule. And so do The Black Keys. To celebrate the re-release of Magic Potion, you can download a free track from here.

Sub Pop have not had the same success in recent times that that did in the early nineties. Even during the heady days of the grunge movement they served as a springboard for bands to get noticed, hyped and eventually stolen by big label bands. While the money is not as good being the label [...]

‘Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks’ was a gem of an album, and apparently, the new one from The Brunettes is too. Pitchforkmedia give the first album made under the ‘Sub Pop’ banner (remember, they were the label responsible for some bands in the 90′s…Nirvana, and Soundgarden before they went to a major) a decent rating and [...]