Demon Pigeon

(J Records, 2009) by Paul Stephenson Contrary to popular belief, Pearl Jam have never really been away. Certainly they’ve had periods where they haven’t been as visible as others, but a new album by these once ‘kings of grunge’ is as reliable as people telling you that The Stone Roses were a really important band, [...]

(Universal, 2009) by Paul Stephenson I hate film reviewers sometimes. So often you find one that you think is going to match your tastes and then they go and fuck it all up with one review, and you’re left as a reader adrift in a sea of useless, tasteless opinion. I most often realise this [...]

by Paul Stephenson It’s fucking hard work being a Billy Corgan fan. Younger readers out there may only be able to identify him as that crackers bald fella who ruined Leeds and Reading a few years back, but for those of us who can remember hearing ‘Siamese Dreams’ for the first time and being bowled [...]

(Dynamite Entertainment) by Noel Oxford Time to face up to it, lads. Superheroes are shitheads. They just are. They’re cunts. That – that right there – is the singular realisation that has sailed over the head of almost every hack who ever dreamed a dream of crafting the definitive grim-n-gritty ‘realistic’ take on the superhero [...]

Nottingham Rock City 05/12/2009 by Noel Oxford Without wishing to sound rude, while none of us are ageing gracefully, the tolls of the rock ‘n’ roll existence seem to weigh heavier on some than on others. On Dave Wyndorf, apparently, they weigh quite heavily indeed. But then, it’s pretty easy to forget that he’s a [...]

(Profound Lore, 2009) by Dan Cairns First things first, I must stress this very clearly; I hate the majority of death metal. Which doesn’t make sense really. In principal it should be my favourite thing ever. I like horrible detuned guitars. I like blastbeats. I like lyrics where people get stabbed up good. Yet I [...]

(Epitaph/Deathwish, 2009) by Dan Cairns (Editor’s note: You may be able to sense that Dan wrote this review for another site, but that for some reason it wasn’t used. So I thought we’d use it, because it made me giggle like a Twilight fan in Robert Patterson’s bedroom) Hey, you know all the albums that [...]