Teesside alternative night, Committed is due to find new life in Stockton venue Biancos. Moving from the historic Georgian Theatre, the night will begin in its new home on Saturday September 25. Committed is Stocktons largest and only monthly alternative night out with regular bands and much more, in the past playing host to The [...]

Faderhead return this October with brand new album Black Friday. Released October 11 the album is a 16 track concept album telling the tale of a Friday night gone wrong and includes a 15 minute short film featuring And One’s Steve Naghavi. This album is set to provide the same club thumping guaranteed awesomeness that [...]

The Brechtian Punk Cabaret duo of The Dresden Dolls have announced a string of reunion concerts this Halloween to coincide with their tenth “bandiversary”.
Following the release of singer Amanda Palmer’s solo album The ‘Dolls dissolved, meaning that this will be the first time in three years that the two will have played together.

A Perfect Circle have officially announced their reunion and intent to tour the American Midwest with a majority of dates featuring three night stops in each city.  At these three night performances the band have announced that they are to play each of their three albums (Mer De Noms, Thirteenth Step and eMOTIVe) in their [...]

The scrambly haired dream master Neil Gaiman is in the news again inspiring young children to follow their ambitions and create. What’s curious about this latest news item is that Neil will be preaching this message to animated aardvarks and rabbits in TV’s Arthur.

New coming monthly anthology CLiNT takes a different tack to established titles in the UK such as 2000AD, instead mixing its graphic serialised action titles such as the second volume of Kickass and Mark Millars evil genius ‘Nemesis’ in with a smattering of articles. The main flaw with CLiNT lies in these very articles which [...]

This is the first in a series of features I hope to run highlighting bands, albums and songs that we’ve all connected with at one time or another and have for all intents and purposes forgotten. Songs we’ve loved and lost; that tie us to a memory or time in our life and above all [...]

Rumors abound that as the thoroughly modern adventures of Clark Kent, otherwise known as SmallVille draw to a close development is underway for a TV adaptation of Sandman. For a long time considered unadaptable, and held as a pinnacle of graphic storytelling by many fans this is alternately exciting and worrying news.