Just as the news about David Grahame quitting the “business” hit the pop world, here comes Chris Brown, continuing exactly where’d left off. What you’re being “fed” with here, are mostly Macca-ronies by way of […]
You don’t really have to think twice to get an idea about where the main Cavemen influences come from. Rooted mostly in the mid’60s American garage punk sounds, they tend to combine the authenticity of […]
Though I might prefer the purer ‘60s garage approach of their earlier works, it’s pretty obvious that The Sick Rose have progressed towards a more contemporary, full blown “blastin’ pop sound”, as they label it […]
As the promo sheet says “The Dutch-Beat scene is alive and well”, but we all know that already, don’t we? Still, it’s good to see that a new bunch of mop-topped youngsters pops up every […]
After last year’s CD single, taking them even further away from their initial post-punk mod revival aesthetics, towards some more appropriate sounds, suggested by the band name itself, with this latest long-playing release, Long Tall […]
Though mostly sticking to the more than usual B-bands influenced power-pop formula, I’m pretty sure that some of these hooks from down-under will make you realise that resistance really is futile. Some of the songs […]
Remember Shampoo from the mid’90s? Replace the trashy glam image with the kind of a bespectacled, nerdy-looking, cardigan-wearing pair of teenage girls, put them in the studio with an all-round pop-wiz (Michael Carpenter), let them […]
After hearing that The Eddies are scheduled for a whole bunch of forthcoming mod-revival tribute albums (The Manual Scan/Shambles, Squire, The Jet Set, The Risk), seeing three rather ordinary looking guys on the cover of […]
It’s nice to have Pop The Balloon back again with this newly-pressed 7” single. After the “return” in 2004 with a great pop 7” (Dwight Twilley Band) the label now draws their attention to rawk […]
After creating quite a buzz on the Glaswegian scene, The Ronelles are the youngest bunch of Highlands beatsters, getting ready to take over either The Beatstalkers’ “Scotland’s No.beat group” or maybe even The Poets’ “Scotland’s […]
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