The Daily Scoundrel

Been listening to Stateless again the last couple of days.  But listening once now triggers a memory from – ooh – 2006 I’d guess, around the time the album came out.
They’re playing at Leeds Rio’s, on its launch night, when it looked like it might be a really good venue.  It ended up not being, [...]

R n’ B artist Chris Brown’s new single I Can Transform Ya, featuring Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz has presented me with a bit of a conundrum. I’m a big Lil Wayne fan and would listen to pretty much anything produced by the borderline genius Swizz Beatz but the presence of Chris Brown has left [...]

ridiculous fish out of water, I stood in a queue for my press pass at the 2009 Damnation Festival in Leeds University Union on a rain splattered late October Saturday. So afeared for my safety amongst the heavy metal rabble that as soon as the polite young man affixing passes to people’s wrists had [...]

For starters I think I should point out that this article is not an ill conceived treatment for the third instalment of the ‘Three Men & a Baby’ series. Although to be frank it would be amazing to hear Steve Guttenberg or Tom Selleck deliver classic pimpology like ‘Bitch, before you met me you weren’t [...]

Be prepared this month my friends. For legions of black clad heavy rock fans are set to descend upon our good city with the sole intention of enjoying the finest in extreme music performed by the veritable cream of the heavy metal crop. Yes, the hugely popular Damnation Festival is coming to Leeds University on [...]

I am not going to beat around the bush here, The Cubical’s new album, ‘Come Sing These Crippled Tunes’ is nothing short of fantastic.
From the first track right through to the last it never loses any of the excitement that the band seem to carry around with them in abundance. I was fortunate enough to [...]

Zero 7 must be pretty annoyed by the majority’s reaction to their new record, Yeah Ghost.  Released last week to a collection of relatively decent reviews, there’s a thread running through both the critical and consumer commentary.  Zero 7 has always been the baby of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker, and there’s no change to [...]

Here’s a fact: Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams and I share a birthdate.  Not just a birthday, you understand, but an actual, proper, full-fucking-on birthdate.  I like to think we’re actually estranged twins and one day we’re going to meet, in some sort of hugely emotional embrace, and she’ll somehow imbue on me her power to [...]

Here’s a band I’ve been vaguely following for a while.  They’re based mainly in Oxford, I think, and are a really promising outfit.  I reviewed their last EP over at The Line of Best Fit a while back, and have done the same again for their new record – the resulting article should be up [...]