Dial F for Frankenstein: USADial F for Frankenstein have recently had a spot of trouble with their merchandising, a bunch of T-shirts coming back from the printers with the band name misspelt. Howlingly, it was the first word that was wrong, not the last. Still, with a song recently included on Channel 4’s teen drama Skins, a cover appearance […]
I’ve tried, Lord knows, I’ve tried to get past Secret Rivals‘ internet obnoxiousness, their appalling reputation on the local scene and their own boasts of playing unlistenable gigs while inebriated, and have tried to locate something worthwhile in their music, an unremarkable brew of shouty punk pop, but enough is enough. Secret Rivals are a […]
Local rockers Dial F for Frankenstein have followed in the footsteps of Foals in getting their music onto Channel Four’s popular teen drama, Skins. Their song ‘Wes Vega’ is part of the soundtrack to the March 4 episode. Skins has been credited with spreading the music of relatively unknown acts like MGMT and The Gossip to a wider […]
What is psychedelia? My somewhat reductive answer is that it is four or five blokes in beards standing around playing the same chord for twenty five minutes. However, Gappy Tooth Industries oddly shoehorn Bristol’s winning three-piece Schnauser into the genre, despite the fact that their act is cerebral, satirical (with songs celebrating the charms of […]
This demo comes on a Woolworth’s Worthit! CDR, which is just about as good a symbol of low budget, doomed effort as we can come up with. Luckily, Dial F For Frankenstein’s recording is far from a failure; in fact, it’s a cocksure burst of indie rock with plenty of potential and a scattering of […]
Kill Murray Vs Unpunished Monsters: ‘Laser’Those who heard the debut Kill Murray EP ‘A Drug to Shake You Up’ will have recognised the variety of styles it displays. The record is at times reminiscent of Showbiz-era Muse, and vintage Queens of the Stone Age, and at others captures the modern indie sensibilities of the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Bombay […]