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Is Martha becoming a thing?

According to the folks who track baby names and their respective popularity, the name Martha peaked in the 1880's (#14) and has steadily declined to basically no one naming their kid Martha in 2016 (#1076). Given the cyclical nature of many baby names, as well...

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Don Broco wearing Don Bronco T-shirts

I've been listening to this song for a few weeks now, quietly admiring their sweet band name, which for the life of me I thought was "Don Bronco," not Don Broco. Only upon looking them up for the purposes of this email did I realize...

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Boston Manor guide to life: Be Nothing.

Previously covered in February, the Blackpool five-piece is back at it again, out with their debut LP. I'm not gonna lie, there's a really good chance I've been listening to this album nonstop over the last two weeks. Is it the best album of 2016?...

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Moose Blood: drink it in

Just got back from vacay, and what was waiting to ease me back in to the work week?, nothing but the long awaited album release from Canterbury four piece, and heavily FSL mentioned, Moose Blood. I saw them a few weeks ago at a tiny...

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Can Trash Boat be the Junk Boat of UK Punk?

Just another killer band in the burgeoning UK punk scene? I think not! A Trash Boat, not to be confused (yet) with junk boats (above), which can be found cruising through Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, is a group of 5 young squires from Saint...

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Justly Jonesing for Jones

JONES is a singer whose name, btw, is in all caps, similar to receiving a text from your grandma, or an email from your aged boss - "If it's not in ALL CAPS, then how will you know I'm yelling?!" The producer of this lovely...

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Send Your Valentine a Shit Present

Hailing from Exeter, not the prep school Phillips Exeter, but the Cathedral city in southwest England best known for being a wool trade hub in the late 19th century and then destroyed in WW2, Shit Present (ya...

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WSTR: it’s pronounced WASTER, ugh

The UK is crushing the US these days in terms of pop punk. If any of you are friends with me, then you've heard me yapping about Neck Deep (sick Welsh band). Well now it's time to yap about WSTR. The Liverpool pop punk quintet...

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