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The New Thing
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Being a bulletin board centred around today's purveyors of garage, post-punk, and psychedelia, their influences and idols, and associated culture.
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ULTERIOR / SEX WAR SEX CARS SEX

Its not difficult to see where Ulterior are coming from nowadays. In the video (watch it underneath) for their new single Sex War Sex Cars Sex the five of them are strobelit demons in black leather -...

12 oct 10

RIP NC / something new.

Some possibly overdue news: after ten years of musical restlessness, the entity that is Neils Children has been terminated. Core members John Linger and Brandon Jacobs have clearly realised that its ...

01 sep 10

demontré : MASCULIN/FÉMININ

DEMONTRÉMASCULIN/FÉMININThe trick here: conjure up a cloud of psychedelic shoegazing guitar, and then nail it down with a precise and angular post-punk rhythm section. The towering, omnipresent guita...

11 aug 10

EIOH - new single.

Electricity In Our Homes continue to plug away. Their new AA-side 12" Youre Doing So Well/Appletree (released yesterday, self-distributed) is a return to form, a stonking post-punk fist to the st...

29 jun 10

Flats: debut EP

The scuzziest DIY punk band in London are about to be immortalised in plastic, with the release of their self-titled debut EP on 2nd August. The five-track 7" (also available as a download) will ...

24 jun 10

OFFSET FESTIVAL: ECC TENT INITIAL LINEUP

12 may 10

Band spotlight: FLATS

Flats raise and then yank violently together the spirits of every scratchy, raucous punk band ever to surface, play one Peel Session, and fall apart on stage after eight gigs. News of their thrilling...

11 may 10

Offset 2010: INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

More festival news. The people behind Offset Festival, certainly our favourite weekend-in-a-field last year, have just lifted the lid on their first wave of confirmed artists. On the influential/clas...

07 apr 10

Factory Floor / FF - full-length debut

Factory Floor - now known officially as simply FF - are about to launch a renewed assault on the world's ears with a full-length release: 45 minutes, 4 tracks, 17th May. Untitled, out on CD and limit...

30 mar 10

Video: O CHILDREN - RUINS

Impressive stuff. It's out on April 19th on Deadly People.

14 mar 10

News: Wild Palms single

Wild Palms are no longer, as they had been dubbed formerly, 'the best unsigned band in London' - they've got a record deal with One Little Indian, and their second single 'Deep Dive' is out on April ...

09 mar 10

1234... '10 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The first wave of the lineup for this year's 1234 Shoreditch Festival have been revealed. Be prepared: it's good. Highlights include These New Puritans promoting new album Hidden; perennial 1234 asso...

09 mar 10

Band spotlight: THE MURDER ACT

Light from dark, melody from distortion, a chiming guitar and a clanking drive: The Murder Act step gracefully across dichotomies, rolling out waves of noise and beautiful harmonies in equal measure,...

08 mar 10

maria & the mirrors : OMAR

MARIA & THE MIRRORSOMAR(PARLOUR RECORDS)A weird tension runs through this record, a dichotomy between the harshly digital synth/bass noise that floods the speaker, and the organic tribal pulse pu...

09 feb 10

The end of the Experiment.

Distressing news for fans of kickass punk-rock feminism (and lengthy band names): An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump have packed up their drums and unplugged their basses for the last time. This...

28 jan 10

This Thursday: AN EVENT.

Londoners, listen: this Thursday (14th January 2010) Shoreditch's Old Blue Last reopens, refurbished & renewed. They're having a free party to christen the new decorations, and O Children are pla...

12 jan 10

Top releases, 2009:

The countdown begins, the Two-Thousand-And decade is almost finished: here's the best (in our view) of its last year. A happy New Year to all. Thank you for your continued support and interest, and p...

31 dec 09

Tonight we recommend. . .

Shoreditch's Old Blue Last plays host tonight to what promises to be a riotous punk show. Brighton's Bad for Lazarus (led by ex-Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster guitarist Rich Fownes) will be flaili...

30 dec 09

an experiment on a bird in the air pump : BUY A LIFE

AN EXPERIMENT ON A BIRD IN THE AIR PUMPBUY A LIFE(BUY A LIFE RECORDS)You would never guess that this self-released three-track EP was produced by The Charlatans' Tim Burgess: he, by all accounts, is ...

10 dec 09

Return of T N P S

Almost two years after they crashed their debut album Beat Pyramid into our ears and disappeared into the studio to play with brass instruments and prepared pianos, mystical sound engineers These New...

03 nov 09

New Hatcham Social EP

From today, those in London have the chance to be one of only 100 people to own the new Hatcham Social EP, 'Sidewalk'. Each of the limited 10" vinyl copies has different hand-drawn artwork by a fan, ...

02 nov 09

demontré : BRANDENBURG

DEMONTRÉBRANDENBURG(LONDON IS DEAD)An interesting one, this: we touch down in Brandenburg to the sound of a guitar swooning in middle-distance, and are greeted by a feyly sung/spoken verse before bei...

23 oct 09

Project:KOMAKINO album: European release

Project:KOMAKINO's debut album, The Struggle for Utopia, will finally be available in the UK by the end of the month. The exciting new French label Desire Records is bringing the record to French sho...

05 oct 09

disconcerts : A. MEDIC

DISCONCERTSA. MEDIC(PARLOUR RECORDS)February's debut single from Chichester's finest (only?) frenetic post-punk trio was a masterly amalgamation of everything that was best about 80s DIY punk, scratc...

24 sep 09

New Horrors single.

The next single by The Horrors will be out on 2nd November, and will be 'Whole New Way', a non-album track featured as a bonus track on Japanese copies of their current LP Primary Colours. It's rathe...

21 sep 09

The New Italian Wave

At last, a new phenomenon. For three years now, Italian club nights like London Loves in Milan and Rome's Fish n Chips have been bringing the post-punk and industrial sounds of London's East End to I...

05 sep 09

Band spotlight: RELICS

One of my great disappointments on my recent trip to England was that I missed the opportunity to see one of my favourite new bands, Relics. An uncompromising art noise sound with roots in shoegazing...

29 aug 09

Ipso Facto to split

Finally it's official: Ipso Facto are to break up. Since everyone involved except lead singer Rosalie Cunningham has already moved on, she has started a new project: it's called Ketu, and it's progre...

28 aug 09

Ipso Facto moonlighting casts doubt on 'hibernation period'

Here's an interesting trend from the last couple of weeks: members of Ipso Facto (present and past) getting involved with projects outside the band. Former keyboardist Cherish Kaya, who left acrimoni...

19 aug 09

R O M A N C E News

Stirrings from London's angst-ridden up-and-comers R O M A N C E: a new bassist, an upcoming single, and a Japanese release. First: the departed Joseph Eakins has been replaced on bass by none other ...

10 aug 09

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