Apart from the time they got slightly irked with me during an interview I still likke Lovvers.

Their new album ‘OCD go go go girls’ (anything to do with Airheart?!) is out 10th August with single ‘OCD go go girls’ out the week before.

Here is a single from the new album called ‘AXTXTXIXUXDE’ for your downloading pleasure.

Lovvers - AXTXTXIXUXDE

And also a video of The Murder of Rosa Luxeumburg from back in the day. This will probably irk them.

Not wanting to get into the pedantries of what hardcore is or what it means to anyone specifically, what can broadly be labelled ‘hardcore’ as a type of music as well as an ethos is something which drives Holy Roar as a record label and we find ourselves re-evaluating.

Alex from HR mused on this for the NME blog ‘Notes from the underground’ and it’s well worth a few minutes if only to discover that his favourite albums from 2009 include both Passion Pit and Agoraphobic Nosebleed. You can read it here.

Playlist: Finally Punk

I did consider trying to come up with another pun-worthy title but the one they’ve gone with is clever enough so I’ll just reuse that if that’s OK?

Huw Stephens is a good DJ type chap who has played a lot of Holy Roar bands on his radio show in the past so I dig him. Because he’s a good guy he’s put together a compilation CD featuring some of his favourite new bands around right now, including Pulled Apart By Horses, Calories, Gentle Friendly and Holy Roar-ers Holy State. You can buy the CD via Wichita records or actually just stream the tracks on the website here.

Playlist: This goddamn compilation

When you’re in the habit of doing it regularly you feel so good and self-righteous and generally amazing at life, and you basically can’t stop.

But once you’re out of the rhythm just the thought of it makes you feel awful and you can barely drag yourself to go anywhere near your blog/the gym.

So yep, I’m trying to pick up my gym bag for the first time in ages again.

Playlist: Passion Pit