2009 has been a great year for music, unfortunately a lot of releases have somehow passed me by (It’s been a tight year financially!) such as the new Why?, Real Estate and Mountain Goats albums amongst a lot more. Here’s my picks of 2009 along with a brief summary of each and a song for [...]

Well here’s our first list for the year. Draper has been kind enough to list his top 10 in no particular order. Mine’s coming soon! -Dan Wild Beasts – Two Dancers Wilderness – (k)no(w)here Fine Before You Came – Sfortuna Converge – Axe To Fall The Antlers – Hospice My Heart To Joy – Seasons [...]

We Were Promised Jetpacks – Roll Up Your Sleeves. I now have it in my head that the line “Stay Calm” is actually “Steak Arm”, thank you Oli!

Hi all, I’ve added a streaming version of the podcast to the original post if people are put of downloading it. The next podcast will be up in the next couple of days too, I’ve had a fair bit on recently with reviews and constantly playing FEAR 2. Hopefully it’ll be done by the time [...]

Crash of Rhinos Ex-Little Explorer/Jesus years ripping it up in a way no one knows as no one’s heard them yet! Switzerland Derby’s own twiddly/shouty indie rockers Wooderson Trail of dead/Hoover loud indie Malarky At Bar One, Derby Friday 11th September. Probably around £4

Voo are possibly my favourite UK band in existence at the moment, so have a look and see what you think. I think you’ll all agree it’s a lovely video and a great song to boot. (Myspace)

Washington Indie Rockers Monument have made their entire back catalogue available for free download here. I’d recommend the 7″(the first 3 tracks) as it’s one of my favourite purchases of all year, just fun, happy and VERY good. Give it a go if you like Cap’n Jazz, the usual blah blah blah…. And on another [...]

Hi All, welcome to Basic Text, a little project I started to try and get some bands some more exposure. I think navigation is pretty much self explanatory if you use the side bar to your right. The upcoming events section is designed to highlight any gigs coming up in the Midlands area, so if [...]