Around these parts, we’re unreasonably fond of the Leeds based (hey, that’s where I’m from!) 5 piece Hookworms. From early single releases, to the groups outright brilliant debut effort Pearl Mystic, their winning combination of psychedelic noise kraut and blood sucking is something that’s never flinched in the face of the effusive praise being heaped upon it. Unsurprisingly, following that debut album, [...]

It’s with a heavy heart, that MiscMusic reports the most tragic news that’s ever crossed our desks. Yes the rumours are true, Yuck, Britain’s premier combination Dinosaur Jr/Pavement/Sonic Youth tribute act, have lost a member. No, it isn’t the one with the wild afro, or the lady or even that guy out of Cajun Dance Party, no. It’s frontman Daniel [...]

There’s something intrinsically hilarious about Vampire Weekend’s return, a double A-side single with two tracks from their forthcoming LP ‘Modern Vampires of the City’. The first ttack, ‘Diane Young’, is all Footloose shimmer, Status Quo aping structure and comically modulated vocals, topped off with the kind of maximalist production that’ll see it played at every party this side of the [...]

Don’t lie now, you were as bitterly disappointed by The Strokes long awaited 2011 effort ‘Angles’ as the rest of us were. Oh, sure, you might have claimed to like it for a few weeks as you rode that wave of pent up hype, but like most of us you crashed down on the beaches of reality and thought  ”huh, [...]

Ask yourself this, is there a more obvious metaphor for playing around with darker themes than naming your album after a material that is literally darker than the namesake of your last album? No, of course not, unless you’re willing to title your record “SAD SONGS” and put a big crying face on the cover, along with a complimentary vial of tears [...]

Before we begin, a quick question; what were you expecting from new music from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Given their last outing, 2009′s outstanding It’s Blitz!, few would point at you and laugh if you suggested they embrace those moments of dancefloor genius that littered Blitz and use them as a basis for the disco revival that I’ve been fruitlessly predicting for 6 years now. [...]

Listeners of Jame Blake’s debut long playing effort fell into two rough categories, the first of which were drawn in by his uber kawaii Topman looks and the promise of a dubstep record which wouldn’t result in YouTube comments declaring it the dirtiest thing this side of a Catholic priests fantasy (arf arf arf). The other, an ill tempered group [...]

Tonight, Nigel Godrich and Thom Yorke (T-homme, Thombola, et cetera) will be running an Ask Me Anything on the website Reddit. If that hasn’t been enough to turn your stomach and force you into the fetal position, then the supergroup formally known as Thom Yorke are offering their follow up to the largely brilliant 2006 LP The Eraser as a free stream over [...]

Imagine you’re in a band, right, just knocking about in your rehearsal space. There’s Kevin Shields fucking around with vacuum cleaners and pedals in the back. There’s some guy with a sax, nobody invited him, but he’s throwing out this Disney’s Aladdin hook which sounds pretty decent, but will end up in the middle of the mix anyway, just because sax hasn’t been at the [...]

The year is 2023; England finds itself in the midst of a sextuple dip recession, our economy buoyed only by the repeated prostitution of former boy group One Direction. Crime is rife, with government officials bumping Manchester from a ‘Mad Max’ classification to ‘The Road’ in search of a post-apocalyptic film metaphor strong enough. It is also in this year that video artists finally exhaust the list of unusual [...]