LIVE: OATHBREAKER – 27/01/2017

– STAR AND GARTER, MANCHESTER – Belgian post-metal expansionists Oathbreaker have been twisting the wrist of blackened, avant-garde metal since 2011’s Maelstrom, but have found themselves breaking the bones of the genre with what could be considered the band’s haunting, line-blurring masterpiece, 2016’s Rheia: a glacially vulnerable, boundary dissolving record that is as violently naked […]
London indie-punk trio Happy Accidents have revealed a brand new single and music video for ‘Running’ ahead of the release of their debut album You Might Be Right, which will be available via Alcopop! Records on 1st July. Rich from the band says “Running is our token existential crisis song. It stemmed from my brief […]

HAPPY ACCIDENTS RELEASE VIDEO NEW SINGLE ‘RUNNING’

KIKAGAKU MOYO SHARE NEW TRACK ‘GREEN SUGAR’

Kikagaku Moyo have shared another new track from their forthcoming album ‘House In The Tall Grass’, set for release on May 13th via Guruguru Brain. Drummer Go Kurosawa elaborates on the track, entitled ‘Green Sugar’, saying it “was inspired by a morning walk.” He continues: “It’s in three parts, expressing first a blizzard, then a gentle stroll […]
Following their split 7” with Moon Duo late last year, Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo have announced details of their forthcoming new album ‘House In The Tall Grass’ for release on May 13th via Guruguru Brain. The album’s atmospheric & elemental first single “Kogarashi” (the Autumn wind) is streaming online now & the band have announced a […]

KIKAGAKU MOYO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘HOUSE IN THE TALL GRASS’

LIVE: BEACH SLANG – 21/01/2016

 – THE STAR & GARTER, MANCHESTER –  My new favourite band, sorry Fat White Family, you’re gonna have to share a room! Looking like Angus Young was an only child, frontman James Alex, not to be confused with Brit pop cheese maker of similar name, rallies the ranks with: “Hey we’re Beach Slang from Philadelphia […]
– THE STAR & GARTER, MANCHESTER – Frank Carter’s career has been quite the roller coaster. Frank first came to a lot of people’s attention just over a decade ago as front man of Gallows. Gallows were the most ferocious hardcore bands of the time with Frank being one of the most tenacious and exciting […]

LIVE: FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES – 26/10/2015

LIVE: FALLS / THE HYENA KILL – 16/08/2014

– THE STAR & GARTER, MANCHESTER – I’m still unsure about gigs at The Star & Garter. To me, that venue is The Smiths Disco. First Friday of the month, a gang of folk young and old gather upstairs in the (let’s be honest) grotty venue to sing and dance along to classic Smiths/Morrissey tunes. It’s not […]