Random Hand have been around for quite a while now, having released their first EP back in 2005. They are a band that I’ve always
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Toronto Blessings – Big Wins (Serial Bowl Records, 2023)
This is one of those occasions where people that you know do something cool. The people, or rather, person in question is one Rik Whitehead.
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Junkbreed – Music for Cool Kids (Raging Planet Records, 2021)
I’m not too familiar with Portuguese music. I’ve played live in that there Portugal a few times, though. To my shame, I’ve never really paid
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Lower Automation – Lower Automation (Zegema Beach, 2021)
Chicago mathpunks, Lower Automation, have based their self-titled record around a single premise: let’s make the weirdest record we can. They originally made 12 demos,
Read more7in and EP round-up: February 2021
Toronto Blessings – Life (self-released) Barnsley’s Toronto Blessings are back, and a most welcome return it is. You may have caught these guys on these
Read more7in and EP round-up: November 2020 (part 2)
The Raging Nathans / Reaganomics – Midwest Duress EP (Rad Girlfriend Records / Red Scare Industries) Goodness me. The Raging Nathans have already been hella
Read moreFollow Your Dreams – The Half Life of Teaspoons (TNS Records, 2020)
Follow Your Dreams are from Manchester, and are formed from the ashes of the now defunct Rising Strike. Their singer / vocalist Kaz is apparently
Read moreColored Moth – DIM (Wolves And Vibrancy Records, 2019)
I’ve always had a thing for both European screamo bands and noise rock. Discordant blasts of noise are a hell of a lot of fun
Read moreToronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released, 2019)
Toronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released) My dude from back home in Barnsley, Rik Whitehead, hit me up a few weeks ago to tell me about
Read moreDeath & The Penguin – Anomie (self-released, 2018)
London-based avant-garde alternative rock band Death & The Penguin apparently take their name from a work of post-soviet satire by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Already
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