Moderate Rock

This month’s mixtape was a monster! At 24 tracks and over 90 minutes of music it was the longest mix since, I think, the middle of last year. But I want you to hear every song, every one of them made me stop and take notice, and most of them did that thing to the hairs on the back of […]

This month’s mixtape was made of punk rock from San Francisco and punk rock from Milan, of Swedish shoegaze and Scottish post-rock, of brand new music and discoveries of older music. I hope you find something to love. RIP ROOM– ‘Worth Repeating’ DAMEFRISOR- ‘Do You Think I’m Special?’ THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES- ‘Camera Shy’ HERBERT POWELL- ‘Velcro Dinner’ SPICE- ‘Any […]

We did it, guys. We made it another year. I’m so proud of you. Let’s not list the worst things that happened hey, we just don’t have the time, but the best thing is easy- we got to hear more music! A look back at my favourite albums of the year is here, and below is December’s mixtape- a little […]

I hope you find something to love. STATES OF NATURE- ‘Carry Along’ BLOC PARTY- ‘Traps’ DRUG CHURCH- ‘Million Miles of Fun’ SUNTITLE- ‘Royal Blue’ WEBBED WING- ‘For Real’ GLEUE- ‘Glow’ PARTING- ‘Jesse Eisenbird’ I FEEL FINE- ‘The Ladder’ FAILURE- ‘Headstand’ GATES- ‘If I Could’ DEADRAMONES- ‘Still Life’ PLIOCENE- ‘Estuaries’ LOST HORIZONS- ‘Florida’ (Feat. KookieLou) ALLISON LORENZEN- ‘Chalk’ (Feat. Midwife) RADIOHEAD- […]

From punk to pure ambient, from Scottish shoegaze to Canadian indie, and from a song about dying alone to a track about never ever quitting, I hope you find something to love. SUNSTINGER– ‘Shadows’ BLEED– ‘Silver’ GLEAN– ‘Faceless’ ANXIOUS- ‘Call from You’ TREE RIVER- ‘Lotus’ EVERY TIME I DIE– ‘Thing with Feathers’ CHURCH GIRLS- ‘Vacation’ ROPES OF NIGHT- ‘Perfect Prison’ […]

From returning greats to brand new bands, from an unexpected cover of a classic track, to an album of the year contender from a completely unexpected source, from punk rock, to post-hardcore, to indie, to some kind of pop, I hope you find something to love. KALI MASI– ‘Still Life’ WAYSIDE- ‘Suffer’ SUNSTROKE- ‘I Wanna Be Ignored’ UPPER WILDS- ‘Love […]

This month went in the blink of an eye for me! Does August always do that? Maybe. Should I be Christmas shopping already? Probably. Should I stop moaning and start talking about music? Definitely. There were loads of a great releases worth slowing down to hear- from the triumphant return of Every Time I Die, to Foxing’s potential album of […]

Look, i’m not saying that fuzzy, furious, feedback-manipulating shoegaze-savvy bands sound better in the sunshine. I’m just saying that the weather has been ridiculously hot at times this month and, well, check out some of the names below. There’s more. From the return of Thrice to Pile playing piano, from Washington DC grunge to London emo, these are the songs […]

I hope you find something to love. HOME IS WHERE- ‘Assisted Harakiri’ FRANKIE & HIS FINGERS- ‘Just Because You Are, Doesn’t Mean You Have To’ THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD FERRIES- ‘After You’ FIDDLEHEAD- ‘Million Times’ MAN ON MAN- ‘1983’ ADIOS COMETA- ‘Franco’ ASSERTION- ‘Supervised Suffering’ THE BREEDERS- ‘The Dirt Eaters’ A.A. WILLIAMS- ‘Where Is My Mind?’ LIT. MAJOR- ‘Ghosts’ SLOPING- ‘Treading’ […]