Author: Jay Graves

About Jay Graves

From Swindon in the South-West of England. Vocalist and Guitarist for Folk-Punk, Mick O'Toole.

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Fliptop Box – ‘Catch 22’ At A Glance.

Fliptop Box – Athens, Greece. From the ever-legendary and beautiful city of Athens comes Fliptop Box, a Progressive Metal five-piece formed in 2003. Since inception the band have received an amazing response from their peers and rightly so, they’ve nailed the border between the 80’s Thrash reaching into the melodic...

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Staff Picks: NOFX – ‘First Ditch Effort’.

NOFX – Los Angeles, California, USA. Mike has been a busy-punker in recent years, releasing new music with cover super-group Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, writing a (s)hit musical and coming out as a transvestite. Some wondered if the day would ever arrive when we’d get to hear a...

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Milo’s Planes – ‘Delivering Business Success’ Bristol Edition.

Milo’s Planes – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. It’s getting on for a year now since we last featured Bristol gents Milo’s Planes. The band have been busy in their bedroom of noise culminating this year already two stellar releases and...

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Bodhi Jar – The Band and The Debut EP.

Bodhi Jar – London, Ontario, Canada. One thing we can all appreciate about Canada is that it’s full Canadians, neighbourly hockey enthusiasts and baby sitters of the Eiffel tower. The nation has also churned-out some awesome and influential bands by the likes The Flatliners, Propagandhi, Sum 41 and countless bands also featured...

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Over To You – The Debut ‘Ideal Lives’ EP.

Over To You – Swindon, England, United Kingdom. With Over To You, we have some Pop-Punkers from my hometown of Swindon, reminding me I should put my Trailer Park Boy’s marathon on hold and get out more. Ideal Lives is the latest EP from the local lads and is also...

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Introducing: Castle Black – Brooklyn’s Sound Bastion.

Castle Black – New York City, New York, USA. When discussing the history of Punk, a city that will always stand out for its artists and culture is New York City, home to the Ramones, The Velvet Underground and of course the legendary CBGB club, where many artists of the time...

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Bristol’s Milo’s Planes Return With The ‘Locks’ EP.

Milo’s Planes – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit –  Simon Holliday. Photo credit – Alex Rawson. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. We’re back in Bristol with Milo’s Planes, for a taster of their second full length Delivering Business Success, set for Summer (UK)...

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Slap Betty – ‘Nothing Out Of Nothing’ In Review.

Slap Betty – Kemi, Finland. (Above) Photo credit – P.Maronen of Outlines.fi – Click Here. Cover Photo credit – Esa Ylijaasko of VII Mentor program. We’ve got some good ol’ fashioned, honest Rock n’ Roll making waves across from the far reaches of Europe in Kemi, Finland, with Slap Betty....

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