When you combine two people known for their eccentric and experimental approach to music as King Buzzo and Trevor Dunn, it’s seldom going to turn out in a straight-laced manner. They’ve worked together in the past in Fantomas, Melvins Lite and elsewhere and we have plenty of evidence of where that went, so how would a more intimate combination fare? Time for DJ Astrocreep to give it the first spin and to find out…
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The Music Venue Trust (MVT), which represents hundreds of grassroots music venues across the Über Kingdom, has issued a statement in response to the UK government’s decision to postpone the planned re-opening of music venues, which was due to take place tomorrow, Saturday 1 August.
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Pain Of Salvation are a relatively new band to Jase W’s ears. We know, we know – their first album was released over two decades ago and he’s an uncultured swine, but you got to find a band at some point though, haven’t you? They first crossed our tech wizard’s path when they played Manchester’s Club Academy back in 2018 but he never really got round to giving them a proper listen despite a few friends of his singing their praises quite loudly. It wasn’t until he decided to sit and watch the music video for ‘Accelerator’ ,which is the first track from the forthcoming album, ‘Panther’ that he really got invested in checking out more of their stuff – it’s a pretty weird video itself but man, there’s something about the swell to a crescendo that really caught his attention… that and the “mad synths”!
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NOFX have been up there with Jonny B’s favourite bands for years, with their short snappy songs and super relatable songs about generally just being a fucked-up waster, it was a soundtrack to his teens. Finding out they had some new tunes coming out got him all excited to get back into that frame of his mind, but it turns out this isn’t just another NOFX release. Instead this is a collaboration with Frank Turner, who isn’t the dude who has a band called The Rattlesnakes (he can’t be the only one to make that mistake, right?), where they cover each other’s songs and put their own unique twist on them…
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Old flesh. Rooted. These are two meanings evoked by the title of the newest output from French post-rockers, Fall Of Messiah. ‘Senicarne’ is an album born out of underlying connections between man and his notions of nature and reality, and the tempestuous relationships that lie therein.
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