LIVE: Muncie Girls / Happy Accidents – The Underworld, London

Happy Accidents look just delighted this evening. Frontman Rich Mandell has the ecstatic grin of someone who’s recently undergone a full sad-ectomy and his visible enthusiasm radiates from the Underworld’s stage, infecting the growing crowd. The London trio are apparently certified experts in having, and facilitating, fun. While we

LIVE: Jimmy Eat World @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

Jimmy Eat World don’t really do bad gigs. Not anymore. Fifteen years of persistent touring since the release of global-breakout record Bleed American has transformed the Arizona quartet into an enviably polished live proposition. Really, your opinion of their shows in 2016 will be informed by two things: sound

LIVE: Alien Ant Farm / hed(p.e.) / Sumo Cyco @ Sub 89, Reading

It’s a freezing cold Thursday night, and we’re stood in a dingy club in Reading town centre watching a 52-year-old man sing a version of ‘Oops Upside Your Head’, its lyrics ‘hilariously’ altered to refer to fellatio. Although to describe the man in question, Jahred – the

Stream the New Track From Ghost Cub

Ghost Cub, the Britrock-influenced project from producer Neil Kennedy (Creeper, Milk Teeth, Boston Manor), are streaming brand new track ‘Bloom & Rot’. We’ve been waiting for new Ghost Cub material since we premiered their first tracks last Summer; Neil promises that ‘Bloom & Rot’  is the first track from an

Sum 41 – ’13 Voices’

We all saw the photo. Deryck Whibley, frontman of arena-bothering rock club inevitabilities, Sum 41, lies on a hospital bed. His tattoos augmented by the tubes and bandages wrapped around his frail-looking frame, the latter reflecting the realities of the rock star lifestyle aspired to by the

Bayside: “I don’t care whether we get any bigger or not.”

Like a Puppy on a string

Pressing Shuffle: The ever-eclectic Reading and Leeds 2016

The Fairweather Band Get Bloody in Brand New video

Exeter indie-punks The Fairweather Band have released a video for new track, ‘Nosebleed Song #1’ which is as bloody as it is short. Clocking in at just 89 seconds, the single comes from the trio’s debut album, ‘Meow’, which will be released on 2 September by Specialist Subject Records.

Cane Hill – ‘Smile’

To press ‘play’ on ‘Smile’, the début album from New Orleans metal mob Cane Hill, is to activate an all-encompassing nostalgia for Ross Robinson production, Todd MacFarlane artwork and nihilistic slogans daubed on school textbooks. The album is so savage a slab of unadulterated, 00s-inflected metal that the band’s hometown