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Hark
I have been caught speeding on three occasions. All of these offences were committed whilst driving to college in 2007. Writer: Robin WallaceGenre: MetalNoise rockPunkCategory: Band of the weekArtist:...
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Cuddles
I’ve never climbed a mountain or fought junky bears with a machete but I can tell all my Darkwülf fans that climbing out of writers block or as I now call it “MONNOS Block” has been as tough as I...
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Divorce
In these times, it’s not difficult to figure out why Divorce feels the need to make such a fucked, psychotic, angry racket. You don’t know? How long you got? Their first album proper, 'Divorce' is a...
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EndAnd
EndAnd's 'Commando' is a supercharged little tune, classic rock squiggly bits meshing nicely with noise rock thuggery. Fans of Helmet, Surgery and Wavves should be truly sated. "Commando" is the...
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You’re Not In Hell, You’re In Purgatory My Friend
“Irk the purists / It’s a right good laugh.” So sang the great Half Man Half Biscuit. The bass-heavy shoutiness of Leeds trio Castrovalva makes them a difficult proposition for some of your most...
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Thought Forms
YESSS! Beautiful songs that aren't scared of a lovely bit of feedback! Here's the video for the rather glorious 'Sans Soleil' from Wiltshire dreamfuckers Thought Forms. It's taken from their...
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Negative Pegasus
Brighton instrument-warpers Negative Pegasus follow up their Beard Rock-approved LP'Looming' with this track, 'Unimmortal'. Disorienting, swimming in FX but always hammering away in a hypnotic groove,...
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Unconscious Collective
Looking like the waiting room of a Goat audition, this Jazz/punk/noise trio from Dallas punch through the continuum with unfettered guitar, bass and percussion to access some ancient indigenous bond to...
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The Condition
This is, I am reasonably sure, the Buckinghamshire wild men of noise's fifth full album. Do you like rock music?The map below details elements I hear and see in this mad blur of rock and sweat via the...
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Monster Island
Like death, taxes and a preponderance of breathy female piano interpretations of rock classics, it is inescapable. They’ve even joshed about it on their Facebook page (sparsely attended yet rich with...
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72% Morrissey
I do not mind, for a second, overstating the fact that I am very easily amused and pleased by any bands that have amusing song titles. What I like even more is bands that have amusing song titles and...
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All For One
Arthouse Hours. Hmmm... I’m thinking elegantly pale, floppy haired students. Sculpted little chin beards. More money than talent, playing techy art rock with the best instruments daddy can buy and all...
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Fashoda Crisis
Southend’s “Transgressive Satirical Alt Rock Noiseniks” Fashoda Crisis strike that fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous, stopping short of the ridiculous mainly by actually having something...
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Foughts
With Andy Miller of Mogwai twiddling knobs and suggesting ways to make things better, you know that Me After You is going to be something pretty interesting and probably a bit testing; at least out of...
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Coilguns
If you were lucky enough to get up close and sweaty with Coilguns on their recent European tour, you're probably still smiling and the tinnitus is just abating. Here Beard Rock chats with Jona and...
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