PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING: Every Valley (PIAS Recordings 2017)
With their third album, Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) remind us that concept albums do not need to be about Topographic Oceans or operas about pubescent […]
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REGIME: 3dB (2017 – Self Released)
Their first album, ‘Push’, laid the foundations. This second album, builds the walls and puts the roof on. Regime are the complete package, reggae, hip-hop […]
ARE YOU WATCHING GARETH BALE? Cardiff marches to fight for the right to party.
On 29th April thousands of music lovers marched through Cardiff under the banner ‘Save Womanby Street’. What’s that all about and why should we care? […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Lacertilia, “Fire up the Engine of God”
One does not have to wade far into Lacertilia’s 2016 debut album, We’re Already Inside Your Mind, to find the ethic by which the record […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTTING: New album to be previewed by two gigs in Ebbw Vale
Public Service Broadcasting are to release their third album this summer and will be previewing it with two low key shows in Ebbw Vale, South […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Surplus Fest Sampler Volume 1 (Surplus 2017)
Can’t wait for the festival season to start? Fear not, this fifteen track sampler from the Surplus Crew will help blow those winter blues away. […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio #120 Merthyr Rising Special
Over the weekend of 3rd/4th/5th June, Merthyr Tydfil will be celebrating its rich radical past by hosting the third annual Merthyr Rising Festival. Over the […]
LANDED – what’s that all about then?
The crew of Landed Festival have taken time out from building yurts and planting trees upside down to tell us what landed is all about. […]
TJS THE MOVIE: Be part of history – send the film makers your story
For twenty five years, from 1985 to 2010, South Wales had a music venue that was quite literally known around the world. Newport’s TJs. Local […]
BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS
BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS (2016) After getting rumbled trying to steal a JCB in Cardiff, two sisters, Clare and Lisa, do a runner in the middle […]
A THOUSAND SUNS: Destroycreate EP
A THOUSAND SUNS Destroycreate EP (2007) With so many decent ‘rock’ bands around in South Wales at the moment it takes something special to stand […]