Month: March 2003

The songwriting nucleus behind New York indie band, Madder Rose (they of 1993’s well received ‘Bring It Down’ album) Mary Lorson and Billy Cote have just released the largely (and bravely) instrumental ‘Piano Creeps’. They may have ended their formal arrangement with the release of ‘Tragic Magic’ in 1997 but the two have been virtually inseparable ever since, collaborating in part on Lorson’s Saint Low project. An innocent and pretty collection of musical vignettes, the album portrays the same sparkling innocence Continue Reading

With both hair follicles and riffs cranked up to the nines, these four pesky New Zealanders are presently shaking things up in the UK, and if the US release of their debut album, The Datsuns is anything to go by, then their hellfire brand of super-charged rock is going to doodle those damn Yankees quite squarely too. Alice Cooper riffs and a stoned out blues approach to simplicity make The Datsuns perhaps the coolest kick-ass exponents of plug-in-and-play rock n’ Continue Reading

Want a more legitimate alternative to Avril Lavigne? Heck, who doesn’t? The industry is certainly trying to come up with the goods and just when you thought The Donnas looked likely to be a one-off success up pop the scruffy little alt-pop unit, Damone. Comprising of the barely legal 17 year old, Noelle – blind in one eye and suitably obscured by a tress of nut-brown hair – Damone are the skilfully crafted peripheral to motherboard and writer, Dave Pino. Continue Reading