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 [...]

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.

We Are Uchu No Ko is something of an every-angle swansong from oddball Japanese psych-punk-dance-noise duo Afrirampo, and a great way to start exploring them.

Swans are (not) dead; if you’re a fan of Michael Gira’s crew of noise-rock nihilists, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky will be manna from hell.

Drummerless Hull oddballs Kieronononon return with There’s This Dragon, a full album of “brutaltechnopunk”. Not bad if you can cope with silly names and voices.

Don’t let the hipster imagery put you off too much: Tweak Bird have got all the glorious dumb noise-riffola but not much of the irony on their debut album.

You can’t stop the rock’n'roll, and you certainly can’t stop Israeli garage loons Monotonix from touring and penning loud, brief and charmingly noisy records.

Exit International bring super-short songs and simulated psychosis to the noisy-angry-trio formula. Sex w/ Strangers has never been quite this dirty… or fun.

Heroically disturbing face-taped post-hardcore freaks Kong headline an interesting selection of noisy stuff on the middle date of the three-day Wolves Festival.

Guitarless Leatherhead trio Second Head take two basses and a drumkit and do something kinda Sonic Youth-y with ‘em on their debut Head First EP. Interesting.