Tag: Nirvana
Video: Dirty Dishes – ‘Thank You Come Again’
by Tom Roden
Sometimes you just allow your mind to wander into strange places and you begin to ponder things that you’ve never thought too much about before, like ‘what if elephants were the size of Chihuahuas?’ or ‘what if Bieber’s videos had gone unnoticed?’. For anybody whose mind has ever wandered to the ‘what would it be like if Kurt Cobain was a girl?’, wander and wonder no more. Dirty Dishes can give you a pretty good idea of what that would […]
Categories: Video • Tags: Been A Son, Bleach, Dirty Dishes, In Utero, Kurt Cobain, Music Video, Nirvana, Official Video, Thank You Come Again
Dirty Money Album Launch @ Sugarmill, Stoke
by Tom Roden
Live billings are a very tricky thing. You don’t want to have everybody in a very close-fitting genre, because it runs the risk of feeling like you’re at a Status Quo gig and everything melding into one cohesive sound. At the same time, you don’t want too much variation because it can confuse an audience. It’s tricky business. Dirty Money No. 5’s album launch show at The Sugarmill in Stoke (Saturday September 6 2014) played it risky in this regard. […]
Categories: Live Review, Review • Tags: Album Launch, Blitzkrieg Bop, Breed, Digging For Clouds, Dirty Money No 5, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Nicola Jayne, Nicola Jayne Chirnside, Nirvana, One Day, Review, Status Quo, Step Out, Stoke-On-Trent, Suburban Radio, Territorial Pissings, The Ramones, The Sugarmill, Venombase Studios, We All Deserve To Be Free
Vomitface – ‘Huffer’ Review
by Tom Roden
Fuzzy. Disgusting. Angsty. Unapproachable. Just the way I like it. With a name like Vomitface, you know what to expect from the band and this track. And what you expect is about 50% of what you get. ‘Huffer’ is the perfect piece of distortion-ready anti-pop that you need to refresh your musical palette once in a while. It’s the ideal blend of Grunge and Post-Hardcore (which somebody has geniusly termed as ‘Avant-Grunge’, which is probably my favourite genre title ever), […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Avant-Grunge, Frank Carter, Gallows, Grunge, Huffer, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Vomitface
Cymbals Eat Guitars – ‘Warning’ Review
by Tom Roden
Cymbals Eat Guitars are a band that have won my heart over multiple times. From their recent track ‘Chamber’ to their amazing humour (if you don’t get the 90’s gag, you’re probably too young), Cymbals Eat Guitars keep finding new ways to win me over. And new track ‘Warning’ is no different. ‘Warning’ establishes Cymbals Eat Guitars as one of the most exciting new acts of recent times. It’s the sound of what would happen if you pumped Death Cab […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dave Grohl, Death Cab For Cutie, In Utero, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Pop-Rock, Post-Punk, Warning
Bohica – ‘Dry’ Review
by Tom Roden
Cue the alarm bells. Bohica are a band that describe themselves as ’emo’. As we’ve said before, we’re immediately skeptical of bands that apply such a tag to themselves – not least because even superstars of the emo movement (ah, the good(?) old days of last decade where angst was in and rumours of wrist-slitting apocalypse worshippers were all the rage) didn’t brand themselves as such. And, as with Coasts, we sit here chomping down on our own feet as […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Bohica, Coasts, Demo, Dry, Emo, Grunge, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Post-Punk, Shoegaze
Allusondrugs – ‘Allusondrugs’ EP Review
by Tom Roden
There’s a faint line between shoegaze and grunge, one that is walked by Allusondrugs. Their debut EP is released tomorrow (July 21), and it’s a powerful release that will turn heads and draw some attention to a band that are on the cusp of collapsing into a vacuum of fuzzy guitars and spacey vocals. The EP starts as it means to go on – with a shoegrunge powerhouse track in the form of ‘I’m Your Man’, with its driving drums and catchy […]
Categories: EP Review, Review • Tags: Allusondrugs, Alt-Rock, Alternative, Biffy Clyro, Cherry Pie, EP, Grunge, I'm Your Man, Nervous, Nirvana, Shoegaze, Ted Whats The Porn Like In Heaven, Thingio
Video: Allusondrugs – ‘Nervous’
by Tom Roden
We’ll lead in with this: we think that Allusondrugs might actually be on drugs. How else can you explain this video for ‘Nervous’? Nervous is a great post-grunge track, sounding equal parts Nirvana and Biffy Clyro while also having a slight indie tinge to it, and it has some great vocal deliveries. But the video? We’re pretty confused. We’re not sure how the two fit together, and we’re not sure what we’re watching sometimes. But hey, it’s music. It’s art. So […]
Categories: Video • Tags: Allusondrugs, Biffy Clyro, Nervous, Nirvana
Video: Kagoule – ‘Glue’ (Glastonbury 2014)
by Tom Roden
Kagoule gave a rousing performance of ‘Glue’ at Glastonbury last weekend, blending a feeling of detached tranquility with a muscular energy that was almost Nirvana-like in its volatility. And that chorus hook is straight out of the Graham Coxon book of guitar riffery, circa 1992’s ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’. It begins unassumingly, but it grows to something with so much potential that it’s sad that Kagoule didn’t exploit this energy further. Hopefully Kagoule will make a return to Worthy Farm […]
Categories: Video • Tags: Blur, Glastonbury, Glastonbury 2014, Glue, Graham Coxon, Kagoule, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Nirvana
The Sunday Reeds – ‘Jean-Luc’ Review
by Tom Roden
Grunge, like punk before it, is a movement that ended many years ago and – despite many artists trying hard to recapture the spirit of the movement – has not shown too many signs of making any sort of return. We’ve seen a lot of new artists trying to blur the lines between shoegaze and grunge, but they never produce anything that really stands out as signalling a return to Grunge. But if anything is going to give us that signal, […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Garbarge, Grunge, Jean-Luc, Nirvana, Post-Grunge, Shirley Manson, The Rolling Stones, The Simpsons, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Sunday Reeds
