Rock Sound 100% Volume: 174
One of the best compilations I’ve heard in a long while – Volume 174 delivers the goods superbly. True stand0ut acts include Arcane Roots, Heights, Anacondas, Restorations, Cry Havoc, Golden Tanks, The American Scene and Nai Harvest, but really, you can’t go wrong with checking out every damn band here, because you’re bound to find ...
Arms And The Man – Blood Junkie (Debut Video)
Hertfordshire-based Every Time I Die-loving, popular beat-combo Arms And The Man have gone and recorded a video! Blood Junkie depicts a little girl traveling to the band's show and commencing to have a one-man (girl) mosh pit - all flailing limbs, swinging hair and seems to be copying every move made my madcap frontman, Ben Davies. ...
Ice, Sea, Dead People – If It’s Broken, Break It More
Never ones to do things neatly, Ice, Sea, Dead People attack music on their second album with the same no-frills fury that litters their debut, Teeth Union. The addition of a second guitarist (filling the band out to a noisy, axe-laden four piece) has added way more meat and considerable fuzz to their already barbed and raucous caterwaul...
Megachurch – Megachurch 2: Judgment Day
Megachurch's unique brand of raucous, crunching rock is deeply unnerving, chaotic and hilarious in equal measure, as is their delightful album artwork. Yes, what I want to see is a bespectacled man wielding a fiery sword in one hand, a bible in the other, riding a massive dragon as pink hot lava bursts forth from a blue volcano, swamping the landscape...
Crap Crab – Crap Crab EP
Band – Crap Crab EP – Crap Crab Label – Wild Animals Records Release date – out now Sounds like – Crustacean-core - I picked up this EP after seeing Crap Crab and the pelvis-shattering hip-shakers that are Sons of Guns last weekend at a local Philip’s Uncle’s Boat (PUB). Having seen them before and ...
New stuff from Your Demise, Fights and Fires
So….I guess some news or something? Baseball-cap wearing jokers Your Demise keep on truckin’ it seems. ‘The Golden Age‘ only came out last year (March) but they’ve already been back in the studio and are ready to chuck out some more noisy, hardcore punk shenanigans. The ‘Cold Chillin‘ EP (featuring artwork of a Monkey Pope) ...
Inbox Round Up: Fuck Mountain/Pray For Teeth/Cerce
Band – Fuck Mountain EP – The Mountain Strikes Back Release date – October 2012 - “I’m an ideas man, Michael. I think I proved that with Fuck Mountain.” More bands that are Arrested Development quotes please. Ireland’s Fuck Mountain are a strange one. Two forces seem to be battling at work here. A bass ...
Guest post: Jack Murray’s Top 10 albums of 2012
Guest post time! Jackson Lee ‘The Machine’ Murray, former member of The Bareback Ninja Turtles, current drummer for Ratpigeon and the Ratpigeon Experience (a tribute to Ratpigeon, by the members of Ratpigeon) gives Keep It Fast his top 10 of 2012. - 10. METZ – METZ This self titled debut from Sub Pop signed three ...
Keep It Fast’s Top 10 albums of 2012
Ah, yet another end of year list, don’t you just love them? It’s been another fantastic year (I always say this) with BATS scooping album of the year, with ‘The Sleep Of Reason’ – the final release from the sorely missed Richter Collective; but a truly fantastic album to go out on. - 10. Pig ...
Keep It Fast’s favourite tracks of 2012
Here are some words about my favourite/tracks you NEED to hear from this year. Sleigh Bells – Comeback Kid (from ‘Reign of Terror’) For once, jangly-guitar bedwetter indie is a million miles away from iTunes free downloads section. Thank god. ‘Comeback Kid’ is a torrent of LOUD NOISES, heavy, punishing synthesized beats, Derek Miller’s wailing ...
