Film :: Music :: Feature :: DVD Review 01 Oct 2008
Ewen Millar: The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the house and release the DVD. Produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty, each DVD is rigidly formulaic ...
Music :: Feature 11 Apr 2007
Dave Kerr: "I'll try and keep it fresh," asserts Brian Cook - former Botch bassist and founding member of post-hardcore quartet These Arms Are Snakes. Going by the state of his outfit's recent longplayer, Easter, he's not lying either. Although, rather than lift ...
Records :: Feature :: Label 12 Nov 2006
Jamie Borthwick: Back in 1980 when the cornerstones for Dischord Records were laid, an 18 year-old Ian Mackaye is unlikely to have envisaging the passing of a 26th anniversary for the record company he co-founded. Yet still he speaks with a verve for music which cannot...