Eyeplugs
June 5, 2015
Brian James: LP Review by Colin Bryce
This is a rough and ready release and guest guitarist Cheetah Chrome grinds it out…
Hype
June 5, 2015
Boo picks 10 (modernist)
With a slightly modernist Flavour Boo picks 10 that you may well enjoy!
Eyeplugs
June 5, 2015
Scaling The 50ft Woman
Scaling The 50ft Woman Hot on the (high) heels of their recent Menage à Trois…
Indie
May 28, 2014
Cherry Red Album Reviews – May 2014 by Long John
Northside Shall We Take A Trip: The Factory Recordings 1990-1991 Manchester band Northside receive the full…
Gigs
June 5, 2015
The Lovely Eggs – Food (New Single)
A new ‘FOOD’ video by art-cool director, Casey Raymond captures the pych pop-punk pop-art culture…
Eyeplugs
January 5, 2018
Nick Churchill’s Interviews Alex James (Blur)
NC: It’s late autumn in the year 2000 and the Britpop party was over long…
Music
September 15, 2023
There is beauty in decline…Golden Hours s/t album
Golden Hours are heading out for a handful of live dates later this month coinciding…
Features
June 5, 2015
Interview with Phil King
Phil King has just returned from a series of foreign dates playing bass with the…
Glam
September 22, 2016
Silverhead and Michael Des Barres – Scenester Reviews
Silverhead (Purple 001) 16 and Savaged (Purple 002) Live At The Rainbow (Purple 003) Three…
Features
October 21, 2015
Artifact, Part 1 – Longjohn Reviews
Artifact – The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85 is a 5 CD box set containing…
Taboo
June 16, 2015
Backmasking = Gniksamkcab?
Backwards messages, known as Backmasking, in songs have been around since the Beatles (Tomorrow Never…
Blues
June 16, 2015
Ace Album Reviews – May 2013 by Colin Bryce
The Ace (USA) Story The Ace (USA) Story – Volume 5 (Ace) Here we are at fifth…
News
June 16, 2015
Sam Cooke’s early recordings to be released as ‘virtual boxset’
Sam Cooke’s breakthrough ‘Reel Keen’ tracks are now available digitally exclusively from ABKCO: The Complete…
Gigs
June 16, 2015
Scared To Get Happy: A Story Of Indie Pop 1980-1989
Last night saw Cherry Red Records launch the ‘Scared To Get Happy’ compilation in fine…
Animation
June 5, 2015
Duggie Fields – Merry Christmas
British Maximalist Artist and Icon Duggie Fields kindly and generously issued this piece via a…
Art
June 5, 2015
God Save The Queen: Kunst, Kraak, Punk – 1977-84
Picking my way around the medieval city of Utrecht, eventually coming upon the Centraal Museum…
Hotplugs
February 23, 2015
Metal Gear Solid Madonnas (MGSM) Review – Feb 2015 by Colin Bryce
MetalGearSolidMadonnas (MGSM) Reload/Viking Queen/Supreme (Dig the Fuzz Singles Club 7 inch, Ltd. Edition of 250)…
News
June 5, 2015
Panic Cell to play final gig on 9 July at Sonisphere Festival
Panic Cell to play final gig on 9 July at Sonisphere Festival Metal behemoths Panic…
Culture
June 16, 2015
‘Ritual’ by David Pinner
(publ. Finders Keepers) The gap since original publication in 1967 and this year’s re-release by…
Recent
June 5, 2015
Noel & Julian in (Un)natural Acts Part 1 of 2
Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett in (un)natural acts.
Music
January 3, 2015
Cherry Red Album Reviews – Jan 2015 by Scenester
Marc Almond Ten Plagues A Song Cycle (Strike Force SFE034D) Unlike many of his pop…
Beats
June 5, 2015
DozenQ – Jesse Futerman
Fuse The Witches features seven distinctive tracks to take the listener into the next chapter…
News
June 16, 2015
Dum Dum Girls – New album, ‘Only In Dreams’ due 26 September
EYEPLUG favourites, the Dum Dum Girls release their second album, Only In Dreams is set…
Features
June 17, 2014
The Polyphonic Spree @ The Clapham Grand
Braving a trek south on the Northern Line and a rampaging army of One Direction…
Features
June 16, 2015
Album Reviews – September 2012 by Colin Bryce
Nobody Wins, Stax Southern Soul 1968-1975 (Kent/Ace) By all accounts the tail end of Stax…
News
June 16, 2015
Waterboys to release long awaited new album on 19 September
The Waterboys long awaited new album ‘An Appointment with Mr. Yeats’ is set to be issued…
Garage
June 5, 2015
What Would Jesus Drive – Black and Blue
(album, Eye See Sound) Some great albums float pleasantly out of the speakers like a…
Punk
June 5, 2015
Anarchive – 001 The Mob
Firstly, if you've never heard The Mob, this album is the wrong place to start.…
Garage
June 16, 2015
Ringo DeathStarr – Colour Trip (album, Club AC30)
Occupying a kind of salted soil middle ground between My Bloody Valentine and late era…
