Album Review: International Superheroes of Hardcore

[Album: Takin’ It Ova!]
[Label: Bridge 9 Records]

The International Superheroes of Hardcore will from here on be referred to as ISHC not because it’s “cool”, “edgy” or “scene”, but because my male logic dictates that there is not enough room or time to type that shit every other sentence. Anyway, for those not in the know, […]

Album Review: Hatchet

[Album: Awaiting Evil]
[Label: Metal Blade]

Hatchet are a five-piece from the San Francisco Bay Area, the starting point of American thrash metal, where bands like Slayer, Testament and Exodus (to name just a few) all honed their skills. Their record label, Metal Blade, spotted their respective talents early and snapped them up in time for them […]

Latitude Festival: Music & Film Arena, Theatre Arena Updates + More

More announcements have been made concerning this years Latitude Festival. Sonic Dice takes a further look at a few more stages, the Music & Film Arena, the Theatre Arena, and On the Lake.
Music & Film Arena
The Music and Film Arena at this year’s Latitude will once again prove to be one of the most popular […]

Single Review: The Metros

[Single: Last Of The Lookers]
[Label: 1965 Records]

In the space of twelve months, Peckham boys The Metros have risen from practically nothing to selling out headlining tours across the country, as well as being picked to join the roster on the recent MTV Spanking New Music Tour. They are signed to the impressive 1965 Records and […]

Less Than Jake: Free Download of Latest Single ‘Does The Lion City Still Roar?’

Florida based ska/punk band Less Than Jake are giving away their new single ‘Does The Lion City Still Roar?’ before its official release on Monday 16th June. All you have to do is go here and you will be able to download it.
Available on 7” single and as 2 digital downloads bundles, the lead track […]

Gig Review: Cancer Bats + Johnny Truant + Hexes

[Venue: Barfly, Cambridge]
[Date: 16 May 2008]

Hexes, a quartet from London and Southend, have described themselves as “a cyclopean howl as a burning torch is thrust into a drunken eye” which gives you the impression that they love to hurt their audiences. In truth, their music is very easy on the ear. They dabble in fast […]

Album Review: Mindless Self Indulgence

[Album: If]
[Label: The End Records]

By the time you’ve reached track five of ‘If’, I hope that you will have realised that there is absolutely nil artistic value to this album. Mindless Self Indulgence, a band apparently famous for their lead singers ‘zany’ on stage antics and crazy dress sense have only achieved one thing with […]

Moby: $10,000 Video Competition For Single ‘Ooh Yeah’

Moby announces details of an exclusive global $10,000 video competition going live on mobygratis.com. Directors are invited to submit their films for the track ‘Ooh Yeah’ and the winner, chosen by Moby, will win the $10,000 prize money and have their video used as the official music video for ‘Ooh Yeah’ from Moby’s latest album, […]

Album Review: Shai Hulud

[Album: Misanthropy Pure]
[Label: Metal Blade]

So after a couple years of farewell touring and breaking up, Shai Hulud have returned with a new full-length, on a new label and with a new line-up - business as usual. There was a running joke on certain websites about how it was taking forever for them to complete their […]

Gig Review: Chris T-T + Thomas White + Monster Bobby

[Venue: Amersham Arms, New Cross, London]
[Date: 19 May 2008]

In the back room of a comfortable, friendly and (given the overwhelmingly powerful display of arse cracks on bar stools) clearly very local pub in New Cross, tonight’s acts are playing to a rather meagre audience. Be it the lack of promotion or the pub being fairly […]