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Mongrel

By • Feb 24th, 2009 • Category: long players

< ![endif]--> The brainchild of Reverend and the Makers’ Jon McClure, rapper Lowkey and Babyshambles guitarist Drew McConnell, Mongrel have formed in the face of political malcontent, and make a point of spewing it forth on every record.



Thyrd Eye

By • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: short players

Bristol based three-piece Thyrd Eye shake rattle and rock their way through new single ‘Say Something’, but there is something geuninely likeable about them, and there is an element of Muse bubbling under the surface of this record, with more than a dash Queens of the Stone Age’s riff for ‘No-one knows’ unabashedly announcing itself [...]



Uber Dramm

By • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: long players

The latest release from Nub Records is from artist Uber Dramm, an psychedelic, experimental two-piece from St. Albans, and this is daunting, overbearing stuff.



Bye Bye Johnny

By • Dec 9th, 2008 • Category: short players

This Manchester group remind of the Courteeners, with that typical drawl that accompanies guitar music from the region. The chord changes and riffs are fast and fluent, but the vocal from Danny Seasman is more Madchester era than of the current climate.



The Brute Chorus

By • Dec 9th, 2008 • Category: short players

Remember in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when the little girl eats the ’3 course meal chewing gum’? ‘She Was Always Cool’ resembles that bit of Wrigleys; it offers different up a variety of styles of music in a bite-sized little tune.