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Featured - Pygmy Lush - Old Friends

Pygmy Lush - Old Friends

Good lord was this s surprise to my ears, given that I’d held off listening to this lp on the pretence that I thought it would be of the scream genre (especially due to the pg.99 connection), I was taken aback when I finally sat down with the record.

Featured - Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off

Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off

10 Songs, 14 minutes, from that information alone it tells you that this is either a long grindcore album or some cracking punk rock that is self aware enough not to over indulge in their songs.

Featured - By Surprise - Mountain Smashers

By Surprise - Mountain Smashers

For some reason Mountain Smashers wasn’t on my list of most anticipated lps of year, a mistake I now openly admit to after hearing the damn record. I guess that leaves it wide open to make an obvious pun about how the record took me ‘By Surprise’, but I won’t.

Featured - Crushing Blows

Crushing Blows

Crushing Blow's Foster gets the Basic Text interrogation on how 2010 was for the band and what 2011 has in store...

Featured - Bangers

Bangers

Andrew from the band Bangers sits down to answer questions on their recent euro tour, their forthcoming full length and the current state of punk rock in the UK.

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  • Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off
  • By Surprise - Mountain Smashers
  • Crushing Blows
  • Bangers

News

Enablers Announce UK Dates

Enablers Announce UK Dates

22 Sep

New Videos From Polyvinyl Artists...

New Videos From Polyvinyl Artists...

22 Sep

from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Asobi Seksu & Starfucker
Stream a New The Twilight Sad Song

Stream a New The Twilight Sad Song

22 Sep

taken from the forthcoming lp 'No One Can Ever Know'
New Owen Lp 'Ghost Town'

New Owen Lp 'Ghost Town'

31 Aug

Kinsella's 6th lp under the moniker of Owen

Album Reviews

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Pygmy LushOld Friends

Good lord was this a surprise to my ears, given that I’d held off listening t...

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Deep SleepTurn Me Off

10 Songs, 14 minutes, from that information alone it tells you that this is e...

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By SurpriseMountain Smashers

For some reason Mountain Smashers wasn’t on my list of most anticipated lps o...

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RestorationsStrange Behavior

2009’s Of Trees/Frankfort 7” was one of my favourite releases of that year, w...

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After The FallEradication

Albany punk rockers, After The Fall's 3rd full length...

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The Twilight SadThe Wrong Car ep

With a couple of ‘leftovers’ from the Forget The Night Ahead sessions and a c...

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CaloriesBasic Nature

At times, it still feels like a loveletter to mid-90′s melodic “alt-rock” but...

Podcast

  • Joan of Arse

    The Slaves Are In The Galley, Sharpening Their Oars

  • Emphemetry

    Four Million Silhouettes

  • Luke Elliot

    Mon Amie A Deux Noms

  • Masters Of The Hemisphere

    Map

  • Awful Lot of Tigers

    Nothing At All

  • Insouciant

    Natural

  • Arrows

    No Prizes For Pioneering

  • The Forms

    Redgun

  • Animal Names

    Lookout Records Tryout

  • Bird Calls

    Seven

  • Crushing Blows

    Liberate Yourself

  • The Shape

    I\'ll Hang Myself With The Good Towels

  • Pudge

    Fucking Yes Mate

  • Cattle Drums

    Sluts and Coconuts

  • Restorations

    Linear Notes

  • Rapid Cities

    Techno After Party

  • The Great Explainer

    Michael Jordan 666

  • Frontier(s)

    Radiomine

  • S

    5 Dollars

Twitter

  • @jimexplore @rjbirkin @Na7hanGood @Wineisallforme @borgasm @KempFolds http://t.co/ucRvx8Ja Only had time to animate the legs. 2009!

    24 Jan 12 12:25

  • @jimexplore @rjbirkin @Na7hanGood @Wineisallforme @borgasm @KempFolds it was pure analog, scanned each slide separately in stop motion!

    24 Jan 12 11:56

  • @jimexplore @rjbirkin @Na7hanGood @Wineisallforme @borgasm @KempFolds trying to find the animated one I made at work!

    24 Jan 12 11:46

  • @jimexplore nope, it's just one of the bigger t shirts I own to cover up the rapidly growing man boobs I seem to have developed over crimbo!

    03 Jan 12 12:25