News: The Lonesome Crowded West Midlands

Modest Mates, made up of Sarah Carey and George Gadd, have released a two track EP called The Lonesome Crowded West Midlands where they’ve covered a couple of Modest Mouse songs. The release is the first on the newly formed Midlands-based Not Cool DIY label, and all proceeds will be donated to St. Basils who help homeless […]

News: The Swellers announce final UK tour

The Swellers have announced their final UK tour as part of the “Call it a Night” tour. April 2015: 21: Birmingham – The Rainbow 22: Manchester – Sound Control 23: Glasgow – Audio 24: Leeds – Key Club 27: London – Dome Tufnell Park 28: Brighton – The Hope

Looking back at 2014… with Laura Stevenson

Laura Stevenson looks back at her year with Seeing Your Scene! How was 2014 for you? It was good. Let me see. We toured with Against Me! and Tim Kasher. I don’t even know what else we did. It was good though. I got my masters. Oh yeah, what was that in? Art history. It’s […]

Looking back at 2014… with Corporate Hearts

Philadelphia acoustic punks Corporate Hearts answer our end of year questions! How was 2014 for you? Zack: Awesome and hectic. We put out an EP in January called Deathwishers and a full-length in December called The Shreds, both of which were a HUGE pain in the rectum to make but we’re really proud of. We signed […]

Looking back at 2014… with Mixtape Saints

Sam (vocals/guitar) looks back at his year going solo with Mixtape Saints! How was 2014 for you? Up and down I guess… Played some really great shows with some really great people, but nowhere near as many as I wanted to! I guess its that time of year where everyone gets all introspective and retrospective… […]

Looking back at 2014… with Muncie Girls

Lande (vocals/bass) from Muncie Girls looks back at the band’s year! How was 2014 for you? Well, it’s been a super busy year. We did Reading and Leeds and Fest which were all big milestones for us. It’s also been the year where we’ve been writing our first album and demoing. We’ve demoed the first […]

Band Interview: Laura Stevenson

We had a chat with the amazing Laura Stevenson before her show in Derby. On this UK tour she’s joined by her full band, The Cans, and we spoke about the contrast in touring with a band compared to solo, looking back on Wheel [2013] and her plans for a new record! How’s the tour […]