Manchester indie/rock five-piece* Daystar* is set to release their latest single ‘*Sleeper*’ on 11th June. *Daystar*’s rise over recent months has been impressive to say the least. With a sound drawing expertly from contemporary influences like The Smiths and The Stone Roses and with song...

A newJoey Ramonealbum entitled ‘YaKnow?’ will be released onMay 30th.Compiled byJoey’sbrotherMickeyLeigh, the fifteen-track album primarily consists of previously unheard songs written and performed by the lateRamonesfrontman, songwriter and visual icon. The album was previewed with the release of a coloured 7” vinyl A-side single featuring‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Is The Answer’and‘There’s Got To Be More To Life’which was issued onApril21stas part of this year’sRecordStoreDay. Named after a phrase that was a staple of Joey’s conversation, ‘YaKnow?’ adds a significant new chapter to the seminal punk icon's hugely influential body of work ...

A new Joey Ramone album entitled ‘YaKnow?’ will be released on May 30th.Compiled by Joey’s brother MickeyLeigh, the fifteen-track album primarily consists of previously unheard songs written and performed by the late Ramones frontman, songwriter and visual icon. The album was previewed with the release of a coloured 7” vinyl A-side single featuring ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Is The Answer’ and ‘There’s Got To Be More To Life’ which was issued on April21st as part of this year’s RecordStoreDay. Named after a phrase that was a staple of Joey’s conversation, ‘YaKnow?’ adds a significant new chapter ...

No words are needed.  From TOTP on Thursday 30 August 1984:- mp3 : Kevin Cavanaugh - William, It Was Really Nothing I know. It's an appalling cover. But any I've heard have been equally as bad. Next up a much delayed TOTP appearance.

I've taken just a week off, but I've gone from a loveable, scrounging student, to an unemployed scab, and I bloody love it. Who needs beautiful weather and babes when you can eat chicken kievs and watch Community in your pants? To match my glorious mood, the label gods have kindly granted that a handful of belting singles will be released this week, with This Many Boyfriends leading the pack. Enjoy the sun, drink too much cider, then throw exceptional shapes to our Singles of the Week. This Many Boyfriends - 'I Should Be A Communist' As an adopted ...

Get a taste of Belleruche 's new sound at London's Scala on May 31st. The turntable soul group has gone a bit darker on new LP Rollerchain , which is out now on Tru Thoughts Records. Check out our exclusive mix from the band, and grab tickets to the show (which also features Py and KidKanevil ) here . Belleruche - Train Tracks: A tour mixtape by DJ Modest 1. Blue Train, John Coltrane 2. Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train, Louis Armstrong 3. Take the "A" Train, Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald 4. All Aboard, Muddy Waters 5. The Rock Island Line ...

Koji, Kurt Travis, and Bearcat just recently finished up a full US tour with Never Shout Never. The tours over, but we’ve put all three artists together for a great new PropertyOfZack Playlist feature. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs on Spotify while reading everyone’s thoughts! (Click on image to listen in Spotify) IT’S SPRING TIME. SOUTHERN MUSIC IS WHAT’S GOOD. First thing you should know, my favorite singer is—without a doubt—Otis Redding. “Dock of the Bay” is one of the first songs I ever heard, ever learned. Secondly, B.B ...

Dummy : Five rare videos shot in the Haçienda 30 years after it opened, take a quick look at five magic moments in the history of the Haçi, from the Smiths to the ravers. Read and comment. From dummymag.com.

The Temper Trap confound expectations on the follow-up to 2009’s widely successful ‘Conditions’, writes DARREN LEVIN . In a scathing, two-star review of their new album, UK critic Alexis Petridis likened The Temper Trap’s musing on the London riots to Air Supply taking a stab at Thatcherism. Writing in The Guardian , he said that while “uniquely placed” to write on the riots – having relocated from Melbourne in 2009 – the band had really nothing to say. “The sense of a band who felt impelled to write about the riots without first checking whether or not they had anything to say ...

In accordance with The Smiths’ song “Unhappy Birthday” from 1987′s Strangeways, Here We Come, we’d like to wish Steven Patrick Morrissey a/k/a Morrissey a very merry “unhappy birthday” on his 53rd year on this planet. So, we are celebrating Moz’s decades-long perfection of the lovelorn, rock dirge and tongue-in-cheek black humor ditties with what we [...]

This story is from the October 9th 1986 issue of Rolling Stone Steven Morrissey the bookish-looking beanstalk who sings with the British rock group the Smiths was thirteen when he fell in love for the first time – with the York Dolls">New York Dolls He saw the band on British television in...

If you liked the chiptune cover of The Smiths’ “This Charming Man” that the internet obsessed over for an internet minute a couple of months ago, you’ll probably love these... Click on the headline to read the rest of the story.

It’s hard to think that they’ve now got five albums to their name, had a member of the Smiths amongst their ranks for a while and all without losing their accents. Tonight, the Cribs are bringing ‘The Belly of the Brazen Bull’ (reviewed by Cheryl here) to London’s Troxy, and they’re leaving the flowers at home. They open in boisterous fashion with the fitting ‘Glitters Like Gold’: “it’s a straight seeming / like a friend... Continue reading Live Review: The Cribs at London Troxy – 8th May 2012

belabor \bih-LEY-ber\, verb: 1. To explain, worry about, or work more than is necessary. 2. To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule. 3. To beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows. 4. Obsolete. To labor at. Like besot, belabor comes from the prefix be- which makes a verb out of a noun and the root labor meaning "to work." Cyclops date A date with someone you've met over the internet; it's not quite a blind date because you've seen their photo, chatted with them and possibly talked to them on the phone. I have a cyclops date ...

No matter what kinds of music I explore, I always come back to the Ramones. Today we double up on the hero worship with reviews of Joey Ramone's new solo album and Black Tambourine's Ramones tribute OneTwoThreeFour . We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below: Joey Ramone - ...Ya Know? Meshuggah / Baroness / Decapitated - Live in Philadelphia Best Coast - The Only Place Avengers / Pansy Division - Live in Santa Cruz Alex Kerns / Mikey Erg - Split [7"] Black Tambourine - OneTwoThreeFour [double 7"] The Best of the Worst - Grand Slam Digital EP GnarBoots - Live in Berkeley Thrashington D.C ...