It’s snowing here in the UK. Well, when I say ‘snowing’, I mean, ‘light smattering of quickly melting white sludge which is inevitably causing the country to grind to a pathetic halt’. So, seeing as the motorways have spontaneously reconstructed the scene out of Falling Down that causes Michael Douglas’ teeth to grind themselves into oblivion, let’s get zen and reflect on The Top Five Bands Of ANBAD In January!

It was a bumper month of great new bands, which started slowly, but quickly and suspiciously grew to something much more impressive than anticipated. Keep slanderous musings on any parallels …

TWITTER- FINALLY! In keeping with ANBAD‘s slavish devotion to using the latest technology from three years ago, we now have a sparklingly exciting Twitter feed! It’ll have all sorts of regular mindless extra ANBAD updates. Hook up to it for NEW BAND EXCELLENCE (in 140 characters or less).

Also, apparently, we’ve been picking up a few Diggs recently – so a huge thanks to those kind voting people, and if anyone fancies joining in with a Digg of their own and spreading the ANBAD word, we’d be so much more than grateful, and will shower you with …

November is the least fun month in many ways. With the crippling cold, the leaves falling dejectedly from the trees and the prospect of Christmas just too far away to be properly exciting, you can be left scrabbling around for any viable crumb of comfort.

Fortunately, on ANBAD, we’ve had a bumper month of excitement to compensate, what with all the fancy-pants website redesign, new writers, the thrilling ANBAD eBook and the emergence of My First Hate Email. And this is all before you consider all the great bands that have swilled around the place like …

THE EXCITING ALL-NEW A.N.B.A.D. RE-LAUNCH WEEK!

A New Band A Day has changed! Not by a huge, terrifying amount, but enough to make everything look and work better. It’s been a long time since our old friends, The Alibies, were the first band on A New Band A Day, and as the writing got better, the website was still its clunky old self. It was time for a clean broom, and everything (if you understand the word ‘everything’ to mean ‘a few bits and pieces here and there’) is sparkling and new!

The robot has been terminated, and been …

Perhaps music is a bit like TV, in that, as autumn slips by and winter looms large, the programmes shown get better and newer. This month has been the most varied, exciting and downright unusual on A New Band A Day – EVER!

So here’s the traditional look back at October’s five best bands, in no particular order (except for the month’s #1 band, obviously):

5) Keyboard Choir – We said, “plaintive electronic sounds – the noises glum, lonely astronauts would force out of their simple onboard computers in the 1970′s.”

4) The Furbelows – We said, “as …

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Ah, July. You just whoooooshed by again in a blur of ice cream vans, newly-released schoolkids scuffing knees and day after day of relentless staring at the cloudy sky, screaming profanities at Baby Jesus, whilst waiting for a ray – just one single ray – of sunshine. Fortunately for those of you who are trapped in a similar tupperware-skied hell, July was a BRILLIANT! month on A New Band A Day, positively overflowing with bands so good that the Vitamin B your should have got from the sun was absorbed through your earholes instead. This is a medical fact.…

So, by now, your intrepid* A New Band A Day campers will probably have caught dysentery, have woken up to find that their tent has floated off into a field of cows, and is now wondering how to calm that little voice that’s shouting MUST KILL NOW in our heads.

*idiotic

So whilst we’re busy trying to zen out in a field of mud/cow dung, here’s some other GREATEST HITS from the ANBAD Archives that you might have missed.

Sounds-like-an-electro-band-but-they’re-not band, Heartbeeps!

Worryingly crazy Eyes and Teeth!

The fabulous ANBAD Radio show!

And Finally: Ace Welsh Hip-Hoppers Genod Droog!…

Ahhh, holidays. Sun, sea, sand and beautiful, cultured people. All of those things are going to be absent from ANBAD‘s holiday for the next two days, as we cower under canvas at the 2000Trees festival, where rain, rain and even more rain has been forecast. So, while you’re sitting in a warm room, reading this, spare a thought for those of us dumb enough to go to a music festival in the UK, even after years of bitter experience has proven it to be an almost guarenteed washout.

Anyway, while we’re off eating mud, here’s some great bands …

Frankly, it was a minor miracle that any new bands got written about during June. A New Band A Day towers was massively preoccupied with Euro 2008, and thus was very busy with the important tasks of watching football all day, drinking beer to accompany the football and filling in the wallchart so that we would know exactly how hard France were tanking.

Still, confounding expectations is always fun, and what actually happened was the most exciting month on A.N.B.A.D….. EVER! Great new bands slopped out of our bucket almost non-stop, and here’s a round up of the …