Dave reviews excellent debut from Artrocker.com's second favourite Brisbane 3 piece.
Download the latest album by The Zookeepers right now! It's free, and it's awesome.
Abigail Outhwaite finds that the hotly anticipated Metronomy LP is both a electro revelation - and a bit of a bummer. Read on to find out how their party nearly gets started...
Dave reviews the latest Kings of Leon album. Then falls asleep and has nightmares of being stuck in a world where such a tedious insomnia cure of a record gets to number one in charts all over the globe, with legions of rabid fans and critics eager to defend slights upon it, without actually realising that they don't enjoy listening to it. No, really.
Sheffield's art punks Rolo Tomassi make the jump from cult EP to hotly tipped LP, and Daniel Ross gives us the low down...
They may be on the tip of the national tongue, but can Glasvegas make their epic sound stretch across a whole record? Danny Revolver finds out as he reviews their muchos anticipated debut...
Rory Carroll gets to grips with his inner hillbilly as he reviews the latest album from waltzing bumpkin types The Weight. But hang on - how many band members are there again?!
Yes yes, we know it came out yesterday. But hey! We've been busy with the XXL Jeans or whatever they're called. So now without further ado, Rory Carroll reviews the LP every lightsaber waving raver has been saving for...
Amy Rich gets an early look at the "lilting, beat-ridden" debut LP from Friendly Fires - which she recommends as a perfectly frenetic soundtrack to the summer...
You know those kids at the back of the bus who play their phones really loudly and phlegm at old grannies? Well, those kids have made an indie record. And as Ric Rawlins reports, it's not wholly despicable!
S.C.U.M'S INDEPENDENT RECORD SHOP OF CHOICE IS:
MINUS ZERO, LONDON
Ruaridh Connellan: There are two counters on either side of the shop and both assistants are called Bill. There is a superb quality selection of records infont and behind...
With its relics from bygone eras, low ceilings, archaic equipment and elderly, chain-smoking bar staff, you could be forgiven for thinking The Montague Arms was a backwards village pub in one the deepest, darkest corners of the Westcountry. This is...
Rich Gumbie tells tales of Rubber 0 Cement, featuring avant metal, robot costumes & 7 foot bass javelins.
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The Bumps come highly recommended in the latest Alfonzo Demo Kitchen column. They're rated 'LCD laced sugar cubes' by the moustachioed culinary one.
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Sources close to the band have leaked this fantastic, exclusive new demo track from The Thermals.
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I love this tune. Like Jason Lowenstein fronting The Thermals covering Sweet Jane, with Steve Albini at the controls. In their blurb, they state "we play with passion, and that's...
Killer blast of pop punk from Auckland's The Sneaks. Stephen Malkmus has left Pavement, recruited Mike Watt on bass, written some songs with Rivers Cuomo and formed The Sneaks.
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THE COVERGIRLS
Best new band in Glasgow, by a mile!
...Francis Bacon
Any more snooker cliches?
...Q65 “Revival”
Second track sounds like a more snarly mid-60s Who. Excellent.
...Q65 “Revival”
First one sounds like Sean Ryder having a flashback but second track is a killer.
...Only By The Night
once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copehagen?
...Francis Bacon
The more I watch it, the more I like it.
...Only By The Night
Sex on Fire is good once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copenhagen
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