INTERVIEW: THE TELESCOPES

They may have been part of the Creation Records scene in the early 90’s but The Telescopes are a band who have led the way in psychedelic swirling indie for over thirty years. Now very much the solo project of Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have a new album on the horizon, ‘Songs Of Love And […]
The supposed sound of paisley; hijacked more than any poorly guarded airliner, ubiquitous in how many optical migraine inducing outfits it indirectly spawned and with the quasi-surrealist art style associated being metaphorically copped so many times… it would probably cajole the late Salvador Dali into being a subscriber of Falangism if it were to offer […]
Titles of Quality Psychedelic

“Psychedelic” Titles That Happen To Be Of Quality

Regent

INTERVIEW: REGENT

Following the release of Southampton based 4-piece Regent’s latest single ‘Dirty Little Sinner’, Sophie Nebesniak briefly spoke to the band to find out a little bit about them. What is your music like? If someone were to listen to you, without knowing anything about you, what would they hear? Our music is like a blend […]
Suspect iterations of this style aside, it’s worth taking into consideration this genre isn’t entirely dominated by inarticulate screeching and ‘bleak’ (yet ultimately facile) nuances about Satan, speeds wheels or law breaking. The idea of turning expression into something hyper aggressive wasn’t always a shtick, as these titles should hopefully display; I think the anti-intellectual, […]
Titles of Quality - Metal

Non-Ferrous Types of Metal Titles… of Quality

Alto Key

WHO ARE YA? ALTO KEY

Over the past few weeks we’ve been working with ReverbNation to offer independent artists the opportunity to introduce themselves. With over a thousand applications and counting, we’re pleased to give Alto Key the floor today. Who are ya? Hey! I’m Alto Key. I’m a London-based artist who makes indie/alternative music which isn’t too heavy. Sort […]
From time to time, one of our contributors will recommend an artist/band they think deserves your attention. No record labels, PR companies, bands or band’s management will ever have made these recommendations. It is simply one music fan putting their taste on the line in the hope of sharing good music. The questions are intended […]
Heavy Salad

WHO ARE YA? HEAVY SALAD

Titles of Quality: Cold Wave

Titles of Quality from The Frostier Side of New Wave (or Cold Wave)

The ‘New Wave’ moniker covers an expanse of styles that would probably be best represented by a diagram depicting rainfall (representing: subgenres) over a large, undefined area of landmass (representing: aforementioned genre) within the planet we presume to own. To narrow down this amorphous projection involves one of these musical offshoots (see above) that unsurprisingly […]
Forever confusing the folk of the norm owing to the ill-defined nature of the title, forever the niche unwittingly associated with metallic visors and florescent flares, in turn associated with the Philip K. Dick/Ghost in the Shell/*placeholder futurist adjective* envisioning of what the passage of time may result in, as though theorising that cycling attire […]
Titles of Quality: Industrial

Titles of Quality That Loosely Fall Under the Industrial Label

Sleemo

WHO ARE YA? SLEEMO

From time to time, one of our contributors will recommend an artist/band they think deserves your attention. No record labels, PR companies, bands or band’s management will ever have made these recommendations. It is simply one music fan putting their taste on the line in the hope of sharing good music. The questions are intended […]
With the world in a state of chaos, we need bands like Flatworms more than ever. On their third album ‘Antarctica’ not only did they record it with Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, lending their punchy garage-psych rock melodies an even bigger visceral kick, but it was then also mixed with […]

INTERVIEW: FLATWORMS