Unsung Podcast

With Mark currently undertaking a road trip of the American Deep South, Chris and David thought this would be a fine time to talk about their own road trips, discussing some of their favourite tunes …

Purveyors of fine Southern Fried prog rock, Mastodon, are one of those bands who have slowly grown in stature with each album. Over the years, their sound has evolved, but the musicianship has remain…

When one considers the “golden age of hip-hop”, Public Enemy are rightly discussed as vital element of it. It’s a vitality that’s both earned and odd, as their acerbic, caustic, antagonistic, overtly…

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Because we chopped this in two we decided to drop it on Tuesday instead of Friday. SURPRISE!

In keeping with the usual “Ask a question, we’ll give the answer” theme of our Split 7” episodes we’…

This week David had an urgent family emergency and couldn’t join the proceedings, so we thought we’d shelf our Public Enemy discussion until his return.

With Dave (mostly) out action, Chris and Mark …

This is…three weeks late? We apologise.

In our quest to offer you PREMIUM CONTENT at ROCK BOTTOM prices we’ve slung together the second episode of our new feature Sound is a Pound. This week, David t…

If, like the people on this podcast who are not Chris (i.e, most people), you fuck with Google and Search Engine Optimisation, you would know that Google likes it when you type a blog post that’s ove…

We haven’t done a mixtape in a wee while so we thought fuck it, let’s do something completely different.

This week we’re talking about the soundtracks from films that were commercial failures. There’…

Weezer are a hard band to like.

We need to get this out of the way immediately: The Blue Album and Pinkerton are near flawless records, but there is no chance they will get nominated for inclusion in…

SURPRISE! Here’s a brand new thing that we hope to make into a new thing.

Inspired by random nonsense found in Poundland, we’ve decided it could be entertaining to see what music we can get for exact…

Whilst D’Angelo’s R&B stylings weren’t exactly traditional, or even reflected the popular sounds of the time, Kelela makes him sound positively contemporary in comparison.

Indeed, on her debut releas…

If you’re of a certain age, like your three esteemed hosts, there’s a fair chance you’ve heard the name The Eighties Matchbox B-Live Disaster. The smashed their way into the music press with this, th…

And now, for avid fans, we present part 3 of our interview with Benjamin Power/Blanck Mass.

After two weeks of talking about Blanck Mass and Ben’s career, it’s now time to talk about music that Ben t…

As is tradition for our interviews, we’ve broken it into three parts and this is no exception.

On part two Ben talks about the genesis of Blanck Mass, the method behind some of the music and the boys…

It’s taken more than a bloody year for us to arrange our second interview, but we did it! We promise not to wait so long for the next one. Promise.

This week we sit with producer and musician Benjami…

Grindcore is what happens when hardcore punks start listening to thrash and decide to slam both together and go faster. It’s extreme, uncompromising and sometimes overwhelming. Pig Destroyer are all …

Manchester Orchestra have been a band since high school. Which means Andy Hull has been making music, touring and selling actual goddamn records for around half his life. He’s the same age as a coupl…

Indie darling and savvy industry operator Santi White has been involved in music than you might think. Formerly and A&R rep for Epic Records, she’d been producing and writing songs for other artists …

At some point, some journalist somewhere decided that “celtic fusion” was a genre, and subsequently placed the music of Martyn Bennett in it. What does it mean? Well, your guess is as good as ours. W…

We return to our regularly scheduled programming this week as we tackle a punk album which is difficult to categorise. A Wilhelm Scream originally started off as a skate punk band in the mid-90s, fir…