Male Bonding
Nothing Hurts

Cresting on an Atlantic wave of mid-fi anthems comes London trio Male Bonding, the latest scuzz-punks to scatter the trash and push around your friend...

There?s a good formula for rock records, usually early-career records. First: Build the songs on tested beats and phrases - the "Be My Baby" thud, a S...

This year, like a game of musical name-dropping, delinquent rock has to come with half-formed production: essentially conservative acts adding a false...

Lo-fi is an extremely ambiguous word. By definition lo-fi is “music in which the sound is of a lower quality than the usual standard.” But as of late ...

‘Lo-fi’is an extremely ambiguous word. Bydefinition lo-fi is "music in which the sound is of a lower quality than theusual standard." But as of late...

As musically disparate as British punk and its many antecedents and derivations (everything from the primordial clangor of The Deviants'Ptooff! in 196...

It feels like it's been a long time since a band on Sub Popactually sounded like a Sub Pop band, hasn't it Way back before thePitchforkification of i...

I know it probably gets tiring to hear us critics come off like tired old teachers grading errant bands, leaving notes across the surface of their deb...

Thirteen songs in twenty nine minutes, the longest clocking in at 2:45 is Male Bonding?s debut - a statement of intent, if ever there was one. Debut?...

Bands are often immediately dismissed for sounding similar to their predecessors. Their work is just a rehash of songs we’ve known-and potentially lov...