○○○○○ AS SUPERGROUP'S go, kryptonite couldn't keep this one down. If you didn't already know about Them Crooked Vultures, the group are a three-piece made up of rock royalty Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and Jon Paul Jones - who between them have...

○○○●● ICELANDIC singer songwriter and Mum member Olof Arnalds crafts a soundscape as barren as the wilds of her homeland on Vid Og Vid. Luckily this, her soon-to-be re-released 2007 debut, is a beautifully sparse folk collection which at...

○○○●● SPUNKY punky newcomers Fighting Fiction have a frank sound on their new EP, A Lesser Of Two Evils. Frank Turner, that is. For the Bristol quartet demonstrate the same mixture of vitriol and perception as the former Million Dead singer...

○○○○● ONE-man band Memory Tapes, real name Dayve Hawk, is a name worth committing firmly to the old grey matter. Seeks Magic, technically the group's debut album although it follows Hawk releases under the guise of Weird Tapes and Memory...

○○○○● THE meandering musical meddling of American band Apse has found an individual feel on Climb Up, which should see them on the rise. As you would expect from a group who have been lumped into genres as disparate as ambient, heavy metal,...