House of Tracks Reviews

Exploding in Sound records have released a new compilation entitled Empire of Fuzz. It features indie tracks, some good, some not so good, but all refreshing at a time when claiming…

First things first, Happy new year! We survived mayan apocalypse, the four horsemen of 2012 and Jedmas. Unfortunately it seems the worst is yet to come. We’re in the thick of…

It’s likely that if you know about Halo 4 or are in the slightest bit into games or has been playing on Xbox live you’ll have no doubt been drowned in…

Vice Magazine celebrated 10 years of their UK operations by holding a party in London on Thursday. Readers were invited to apply for free tickets online and a handful on entrants…

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is one of those games many people will walk past in the shop and think it’s a 20min knockoff, a Mario kart clone balanced for kids…

I still remember listening to John Peel play Drunk Trumpet on Radio 1 and thinking that this sounds like nothing else. I caught the train to Tempest records in Birmingham the…

Having lived in Kings Cross London for three months already, I have only just taken the initiative to visit my local venue, KOKO. Tonight was Club NME headlined by Man Like Me and…

A media frenzy was unleashed the other day over Dan Deacon’s remix of Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. He exponentially layered an acapella recording 147 times over, causing a…

Thomas Was Alone is a game about squares and rectangles. A game that will make you care about squares and rectangles. A game about friendship and jumping! This isn’t the usual…

I get an email from my editor today. He said he had a challenge for me. “I think that your sarcastic satyrical style of writing will suit this quite nicely.” Is…

For some of us Slow Club is a well known band but now it’s time for the rest of world to listen up. Daniel Radcliffe most recognised as Harry Potter has…

Every console purchase needs a point of justification, a game that can front your gamble on the new platform. For me; Gravity Rush justified the purchase of a PSVita. Upon first…

It seems like only yesterday I went to join my friends at the front of the queue for Flight of the Conchords tickets. It’s a rare thing to see people camped…

Scottish video game developer Chris Sawyer is most famous for building Transport Tycoon and the Rollercoaster Tycoon series. If you’ve not played any of these games; do. They’re excellent and that’s…

Who remembers MySpace?! It helped a lot of struggling artists find an audience and sparked an amazing era for indie music. Even I got signed through it. Anyway, during one of…

On Monday evening The Prince Charles cinema (just off Leicester Square, London) screened two Sofia Coppola movies back to back. First, The Virgin Suicides (which I hadn’t seen) and second, Lost…

Tonight is a night of largely atmospheric, dreamy, soundscape escapism which perhaps explains why White Heat at Madame Jojo’s is uncharacteristically dead. Will tonight be a sleep inducing disappointment or will we be pleasantly surprised? I…

On Tuesday last week, I saw my new favourite band at White Heat in London. They’re called Ghost Eyes and they started their set by explaining the international sign for Ghost…

It’s just dreadful. Admittedly, I have only seen the first fifteen minutes of one episode (Series 3, Episode 3) in which all of the characters are at a high class pyjama…