Couple of years back, there was a spazzcore outfit called Blakfish who played down here in P-town a few times. They had a mad and angular batshit energy that was very impressive, even when their music was at its most cluttered and cacophonous – which was, well, most of the time, albeit in a good [...]

Do iLiKETRAiNS still do that all-CAPS-but-the-i thing with their name? I don’t think they do, but I’m gonna keep doing it anyway, because I like the way it looks <hipster>(and besides, that’s how they did it back when their first album was out and no one had heard of them)</hipster>. Typographical conundra aside, iLiKETRAiNS are [...]

So, yeah, no update for a month. Been busy, primarily writing things that people will pay me for… plus I had to skip the Mono show due to lack of friend-with-a-car (because the train timetable between Brighton and P-town is made of FAIL). And, in the name of being honest, I’ve lost my enthusiasm for [...]

Ambitious and wide-ranging prog metal from Jolly on The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 1); it won’t change your whole life, but it’ll change 46 minutes of it.

What have garage r’n'r and techno got in common? Besides Detroit, not a great deal, but that’s reason enough for The Dirtbombs to cover nine techno classics.

Thomas Giles‘s ambition just exceeds his reach on his new solo album of electronica-tinged progressive, Pulse… but it’s well worth a listen nonetheless.

Dead Sea Apes capture the echoing loneliness of Greater Manchester in the early hours; there’s poignant post-rock bleakness aplenty to be found in “Soy Dios”.

Lost Generation, eh? When I was your age it was all fields around here, and post-hardcore meant simple jagged angry stuff, just like Broadcast Sea are playing here. Now get off my damn lawn.

Remember when Jane’s Addiction weren’t a stadium-rock parody of the band they started out as? Middle Class Rut strip that down to the basics, and it rules.

It’s been a five-year wait for The Octopus, the third album from Mancunian space-rockers Amplifier. Is it worth it? Depends what exactly you waited for, really.