So here we go with the THE BEST OF THE BEST OF 2009 (in the world… EVER!)…

We’ve been discussing this on the forum since December began but we’d love your opinions too.

The DbR Awards will take place in the New Year with the best Doncaster band having a full feature and a mystery prize! HOW EXCITING!?

RIGHT… a very easy system this year… Just pop your answers in the boxes and hit “Submit answers”… Enjoy! Fill your email in if you’d like to be notified when the awards are due to be announced. VOTE BELOW!

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Hope Not Hate is a growing campaign against racism & fascism that educates the public about the real face of the British National Party.

Two BNP Candidates gained seats in the European Parliament in June on the back of low voter turn-out. This doesn’t represent a surge in support, they actually got less votes than in the last Euro-elections in 2004. What it does mean though, is that they now have greatly increased funding to step up their campaign in the run up to the council elections in May 2010.

But they ARE beatable. There is widespread anger and . . . Read More

Just a quick notelet to let everyone know that a gig calendar has been added at destroybeforereading.com/calendar and also a popup version on the forum at destroybeforereading.com/forum . . .

Anyone is welcome to add gigs to the calendar but you do need login details – If you need the details, just email us at mp3@destroybeforereading.com and I’ll mail them over, no problem. Alternatively, head over to the forum and make yourself known… (If I leave it open it will surely be vandalised… now I like a bit of free expression but… well.. you know)

Be sure you head over to the forum… Don’t be shy!

Devin DiMattia graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a degree in Film Studies in 2008. It’s been his dream to make movies ever since he saw 2001: A Space Odyssey when he was 15.

Q1. Devin, the subject of your new documentary is a very emotive one for a lot of people and particularly for those of an age that can remember a time before people held their entire collection of music on a hand held device. What inspired you to make this film and what kind of reaction are you receiving to it so far?

I guess my biggest inspiration . . . Read More

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Steve Albini

“Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit.I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.”

Steve Albini is revered throughout the punk rock world as the antithesis to the corporate, money hungry record ‘industry’… Some think his views are skewed and tainted by his own previous bad experiences, but when it comes down to it, Albini has spent more time than most picking up the pieces of bands left by Major Labels. . . . Read More