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Table Scraps - Doom Generation

Table Scraps sum up 2020 with riff-laden new single, Doom Generation

December 11, 2020 Emily Doyle Table Scraps

Table Scraps drop a thunderous new single; the first from their upcoming album Coffin Face. Watch the video here.

cage park

EP review: Cage Park are unleashed on the perfect ‘Parma Violets’

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Samuel Lambeth Cage Park, FEET

Cage Park match the sweetness and addictiveness of Parma Violets with their amazing EP of the same title. Sam Lambeth reviews.

dorcha - honey badger

Album review: Dorcha embrace weirdness on genre-fluid LP, Honey Badger

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Emily Doyle Dorcha

Dorcha’s tumultuous new album Honey Badger plungers the listener into a swirling pool of psychedelia. Read our review.

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Martin Reynolds looks on the bright side with solo debut ‘Strange Days Indeed’

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Emily Doyle martin reynolds, You Dirty Blue

Most readers will recognise Martin Reynolds as the drummer from Tamworth grunge blues outfit, You Dirty Blue. Over lockdown, Reynolds

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Review: Mike Skinner’s The Streets provide a glimmer of hope with ticketed live stream gig

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Richard Franks

On Thursday 6th August, your local city poet Mike Skinner proved that ticketed live streams can work, and offered hope for many in the music industry

sofasonic festival supersonic 2020

Review: Supersonic Festival streams experimental performances to thousands of viewers

July 21, 2020July 22, 2020 Emily Doyle algiers, ben venom, Black Sabbath, blue ruth, Capsule, covid19, dalek, decolonise fest, gnod, haress, ichi, j.zunz, lankum, Melvins, paul purgas, rocket, rocket recordings, Sofa King, sofasonic, supersonic, supersonic festival, the quietus, tirikilatops, White Hills

Despite COVID-19, Supersonic Festival brought new music and more to around six-thousand fans through a weekend of live streams.

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Watch: Bad Girlfriend are back with new video ‘Here It Comes’

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 Sophie Hack Bad Girlfriend

Birmingham based punk trio Bad Girlfriend are back with their sludgiest, riffiest single yet.

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Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam deliver a polished, snappy album with ‘Blackout Cowboy’

November 8, 2018July 15, 2020 Luke Charnley Birmingham, Blackout Cowboy, Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam

King’s Heath veterans Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam deliver a short yet sweet 7th album that distills down everything that fans love about them.

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Redditch band The Jewellers stamp their hallmark with impressive pair of singles

June 4, 2020June 19, 2020 Aisling Bruce New Music, The Jewellers

Redditch-based indie-rockers, The Jewellers, showcase their trade with the release of their first two singles.

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Liamosino’s debut single ‘Samhraí Imithe’ is a sun drenched breather in lockdown

May 23, 2020June 15, 2020 Sophie Hack Brain Food, liamosino, Review, SETTING SON RECORDS, single

The glowing new single, out now on local label Setting Son Records, drips in morning light and shimmers in 60s psychedelia.

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