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Album Reviews - Koreisch - The Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex (Calculated Risk) By Steve Rudd
	This 14-track album is actually a re-release, although it has been remixed and remastered and so might still appeal to folk who bought this monster the first time around in the late nineties. Such folk would have been of the variety that is obsessed with hardcore rock to manic Read more...

Album Reviews - The Clauberg Opera - The Death of this City By Michelle Dee
	Is The Clauberg Opera's foreboding CD title, The death of this city, prophesising the end of Hull? It could be describing the very nature of urban society where all cohesion is lost to poisonous, suspicious, insular, ideologies. When does a city actually die? Read more...

Album Reviews - Three Movements - Electricity Wiped out Heaven (Calculated Risk) By Steve Rudd
	If you've got half an hour of your life to spare for this 6-track mini-album, then good for you - it's nigh impossible to be disappointed by the raving beauty and dynamic musicianship on offer. The atmospheric, haunting subtlety of instrumental opener Awaken is so breathtaking that Read more...

Album Reviews - Ernest: (Pimps, B**ches and) Superheroes By Elsie Creek
	Ernest have progressed quite steadily in the two years since they formed. Some bands make a big entrance and disappear just as fast, while others go on for years wondering why they don't get the recognition they deserve. However; for this four-piece from Hedon, the hard work is paying off, Read more...

Album Reviews - Hayley Hutchinson - Independently Blue (album/ R N R Music) By Steve Rudd
	This 12-track, 43-minute album is packed with some of the most beautiful and heart-breaking songs that I've heard in years, and singer-songwriter Hayley - now living and working from her base in York after a childhood brought up in Scotland - is only in her early twenties. Listening to these astonishing tunes, all of which Read more...

Album Reviews - The Boxer Rebellion - Code Red (single/ Mercury) By Steve Rudd
	These guys have led a lucky couple of years since Alan McGee spotted them playing their hearts out in the New Bands tent at Glastonbury. So impressed was he that he signed them up to his Poptones label, through which two severely limited edition/ scandalously sought after Read more...

Album Reviews - We Start Fires - Caught Red Handed (11 tracks/Head Girl) By Steve Rudd
	Proudly keeping the DIY punk spirit alive, Darlington quartet We Start Fires (in which female members outnumber the male contingency three to one) aren't ones to wait around for a record company exec to get out his chequebook. They believe in their music to such an extent (which they Read more...

Album Reviews - Cathy Davey - Something Ilk (album/ Regal) By Steve Rudd
	This 14-track release is an infinitely interesting and beautifully conceived album, opened with Come Over, which is reminiscent of the sultry sounds that Italian-born singer-songwriter Elena is making. Complete with a cool riff and sexed-up PJ Harvey-esque swagger, this is Read more...

Single Reviews - Still Life at the wheel By Michelle Dee
	After a promising start, a distinctive vocal, which can only be described through emotions rather than words, tells a story of a road trip gone sour. Short chords punctuate the verse and, at the wheel, gathers pace. The chorus kicks in followed by rolling guitars. One or two of the backing vocals seem superfluous but Read more...

Single Reviews - Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue (Parlophone) By Steve Rudd
	Release Date: September 6th 2004. It's been one hell of a couple of years for this American pop-punk-rock quintet, and deservedly so. This is the title track from their ever-so-popular Ocean Avenue album that was released to instant acclaim earlier this year, and - somewhat Read more...

Single Reviews - Sam Roberts Band - Brother Down By Steve Rudd
	Release Date: August 30th 2004. This guy - and his band - has long been big business in Canada from where they hail, going so far as to be awarded with Best Artist and Best Album awards at this year's Juno Awards. Now it's time for the UK to see and hear what all the amassed fuss Read more...

Single Reviews - Ricky - That Extra Mile/Beat The Best Out Of Me By Nick Quantrill
	Release date - 6th September, 2004. Following hot on the heels of acclaimed debut album, The Summer Sun Still Echoes, Portsmouth's finest, Ricky return with a double A-side that will (hopefully) accompany some long awaited summer sun. The single picks up Read more...

Single Reviews - The Hot Puppies - Green Eyeliner (single/ PURR) By Steve Rudd
	Release Date: September 27th 2004. I've got a funny feeling that this Aberystwyth quintet is about to become very well known indeed over here in England, following a prolonged spell of relative fame in Wales, courtesy of their last Dawn Of Man release Read more...

Single Reviews - The Beastie Boys, Death Cab For Cutie and The Departure By Steve Rudd
	After all these years, The Beastie Boys are still making amazing music, here presenting the second single of 2004 from their To The 5 Boroughs album. These Manhattan-obsessed guys have long been respected for their refreshing fusion of rap, hip-hop and dance elements, and if Read more...

Single Reviews - Single of Week - Cornershop Presents: Bubbley Kaur Topknot By Lee Cassanell
	Only in a world of George Bush and Sudanese Genocide could Busted be riding high in the Charts with the theme from Thunderbirds so in the spirit of such rampant insanity I've decided to make a little deal with you the good people of Kingston upon Hull. Every Saturday I'm going Read more...

CD Reviews - What Ya Cryin' For by The Landau's - By Tony Bates, Jim Hines and Leigh Lee-Roy Stancliffe (Aussie Radio)
	Every now and then a new band comes along, complete with biography promising a new sound and telling one and all that to miss this band and their release will be at their peril. I've heard it all before; haven't you?. Well this time I have to say that I have received a couple of releases from The Landau's, but without the usual hype. Read more...

Album Reviews - Michelle's CD choice of the moment CRUSH double CD by Polygram T.V.
	Where did all the good stuff go, those great bands of the nineties with cool sounding one-word names like Dodgy, Lush and Pulp etc. The t-shirts were tight fitting, brightly coloured with trims on neck and sleeves. The band logos were unobtrusive in trendy oval shaped designs. Read more...

Single Reviews - Agent Blue, Cherry Falls and Elena By Steve Rudd
	Brazenly busting out of Stoke-on-Trent, this punk-spirited rock 'n' roll bunch of boys means business. This is their second single, and although it is only 2 minutes 20 seconds in length, the quality of the music more than outweighs the accompanying quantity. Armed with Read more...

Single Reviews - Ryan Adams, The Divine Comedy and The Beta Band By Steve Rudd
	Something of a bizarre choice of song for this North Carolina-hailing genius to cover, but Ryan sings and plays this Oasis classic anthem wonderfully.. and, in doing so, stamps an astonishingly original seal of style on the tune. This cover version also actually features on his heart-attackingly Read more...

Album Reviews - The harriWattsband - Comin' Out By Elsie Creek
	The harriWattsband, purveyors of fine melodies, have finally decided to take the momentous step for which we have waited so long. Comin' out. I have been honoured with the task of communicating to you the important knowledge: has it been Read more...

Album Reviews - The Landau's - What Ya Crying For Pre-release CD Single. By Darren Bunting
	The Landau's second CD single What Ya Cryin For shows quite a step forward in production, song writing abilities and out and out confidence from their first release Sweet But True. it is very easy to forget this band are still only teenagers on the evidence of their recordings. CD opener What Ya Crying For Read more...

Album Reviews - Marlowe - Popularity Gel (single/ Probe Plus) By Steve Rudd
	With no fewer than eight band members involved, Marlowe songwriter and assumed ringleader is a brave man by the name of Simon Bradshaw, who shares the vocal duties with Chloe Mullett's sensual voice. John Peel is alleged to be a big fan of the band, and their third album is already on the way, so why Read more...

Album Reviews - Razorlight - Up All Night (album/ Vertigo) By Steve Rudd
	The rise and rise and rise and rise in popularity of Razorlight, frankly, has been utterly extraordinary. It seems, in just a few precious weeks, that they have been elevated way above their hard-working class roots into relative superstars, given the huge Read more...

Album Reviews - X Is Loaded - Raw Nerve (album/ Music For Nations) By Steve Rudd
	This Bath-based band is one of the hottest and most exciting rock bands to really step-out in the past couple of years, blasting out with sky-scraping Emo-rock guitars, beguilingly soulful vocals (delivered by photogenic frontman Jake) and plenty of on-stage energy necessary to enthrall anyone who has ever had Read more...

Album Reviews - Salako - The Story Of Our Life So Far By Nick Quantrill
	Oh, the frustration of being a music fan. After whining long and hard about how recent years have been a lean period for good music and searching high and low for things for something to excite my ears, it came as somewhat of a surprise to find it lurking under my nose in Hull. Read more...

Album Reviews - The Trailers - From The Top - 7 track EP - By the Sea By Steve Rudd
	The DIY punk ethic is still alive and kicking, even down the East Coast of England in the semi-sunny seaside town of Bridlington. While there aren't many great bands kicking-out of Bridlington at the moment (save for the mighty Goth-Rock spectacular that is Torso Horse) Read more...