The Duke Spirit, for all their press attention and live prowess, have never really released a single that fully grabbed the listener. 'Til now ...

Sounding like The Beach Boys if they were to form during the Brit-pop era, The Needles come across as a band confident in the musical direction they’re following ...

Mogwai - Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996-2003) Review by Mike Diver This is ageless music, and utterly, one hundred per cent essential. Lost marbles can always be found; Mogwai’s trick is to ...

Dunkel and Trauma had made some demo-recordings of Thrust and Aztec Challenge around 1994 in a studio. Later we met around 1996 at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen ...

Look like a band, they look like they will steal your girlfriend and thank the lord-don’t look as stupid or retarded as Towers of London. They met by complete chance back in 2003 and locked themselves ...

To call this 'project' - because that's basically all these five individuals are - The Feeling is a contradiction in itself, as there is no feeling that can be associated with this album other than ...

My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love Review by Raziq Rauf Obsessed with the underworld and legendary status via death, My Chemical Romance arrive with their ...

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Neenor are melodic. They're also from Brighton (although to be fair they have moved from Yorkshire). But what path of melodica/post-acoustica do the band actually take? They are part of a local scene ...

Fiver - Eventually something cool will happen Review by Matthew Willson "Quirky" is the word that came to mind on first hearing this album - right from the first song, "Horse pill vector", odd song ...

Fuck sake lads, you’re from Merthyr Tydfil, not the Mid West. You are not Lostprophets, either; we’ve one of those already. So your point is ...

A DIY spirit, an unwillingness to compromise: aspects of The Rascals which have sold them to Deltasonic (that and a series of shows supporting some super-popular Sheffield band or other). But not to ...