[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/77995081″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The long-awaited anti-austerity blast-a-thon with the teeth, venom and one-of-a-kind music of Jello Biafra is finally upon us. The second full-length album from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine picks up where last year’s Shock-U-Py! EP left off.  Covered in gruesome detail is corruption (“The Brown Lipstick Parade”,“Werewolves of Wall Street” and “Road … Read more

For nearly 30 years, Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers has been one half of the legendary joint vocal strike force of The Men They Couldn’t Hang.  Audiences around the world from Cairo to Reykjavik, Brisbane to Vancouver and Berlin to London have submitted to his effervescent and heartfelt vocal style in stadium, theatre, hall and after hours lock in. Now, … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/users/32871853″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”175″ iframe=”true” /] Legendary British rock n’ roll band The Godfathers explode into action in 2013 with the much-anticipated release of a brand new album entitled, Jukebox Fury, their first full-length studio release since 1995 – and a 23 date March UK tour with punk icons, The Stranglers.  Jukebox Fury will be released on the band’s … Read more

[bandcamp track=1762591746 bgcol=FFFFFF linkcol=4285BB size=venti] There’s little doubt that Marnie Stern lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie, shredding is not enough.  After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with putting out another album filled with her richly layered sound, singular frenetic finger tapping and almost philosophical … Read more

“World Music sounds incredible – a pitch-perfect mix of Black Sabbath, Can, Fela Kuti, Funkadelic and the northern-lights psych of countrymen such as Pärson Sound or Träd Gräs och Stenar.  The Guardian ***** “…surging, mercurial lead guitar battles big-mama blues wailing over bent boogie rhythms, before melting into a spooked, satanic acoustic-guitar fade.”  Sunday Times “Ensconced deep in … Read more

Unconventional is probably the most succinct way of putting it. Obsessive, eccentric, indulgent: they’re all equally fair. If Parenthetical Girls have learned anything over the course of their bewilderingly unorthodox discography, it’s that they are-for richer or for poorer-a necessarily singular pop group.  It’s a peculiarity that they’ve learned to embrace-a single-minded conviction that pours itself over … Read more

Oslo is widely regarded as the ugliest capital in the world.  It’s no wonder then that the city is breeding some of the most distasteful music that is around. The proudest example of this standard Oslo-filth is Fysisk Format’s newest signing: The Good The Bad and The Zugly. The Good The Bad and The Zugly has produced four 7″ … Read more

The Quietus have premiered the new video by Joe Volk.  The track ‘Call to Sun’ is from the Boris/Joe Volk split album out this week on Invada. The video was directed by Bristol filmmaker, Gary Thomas and shot in the city’s Easton and Stokes Croft areas, and stars Volk’s own niece and nephew.  The concept was to protray the juxtaposition of the … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/60295005″ iframe=”true” /]  Yuletide means many things to many people.  Sartorial’s Christmas album, All Ready For The 25th?  reflects this perfectly, from traditional readings of carols by saw-player David Coulter to chart classics covered by Department S (‘I Believe in Father Christmas’) and Serious Drinking, a brilliant take on Human League’s December chart-topper ‘Don’t … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/60775214″ iframe=”true” /] In the heady blue haze of 2007 a meeting of minds took place.  Portishead curatedATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas that year and amongst the artists they selected were the irrepressible Japanese band Boris, and Bristol singer-songwriter Joe Volk. From seeing each other play that weekend, a friendship formed that lay the foundations for this Boris/Joe Volk release.  A year after … Read more