Brudenell Groove are a pretty decent unsigned band from London. They've several mp3s on their site so you can check out their funk, rock stylings and decide for yourselves. I particularly like Suicidal for its strangely upbeat tune. Hopefully they'll leave London and come up to Cambridge some time.

[Via Chasing Parked Cars and B3ta]

This is an interesting story about the Cambridge punting scene. It'll make me think twice about using Scudamores again.

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[Listening to: Army - Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner (03:23)]

The Spiders is an online comic by Patrick Farley based in an alternate universe where the Afghan War was fought using mind-altering drugs and robotic technology. At first it seems like the usual war-time nonsense but as you get deeper in it raises some thought provoking points. The first three and a half parts have been finished and the author's working on the final episode as we speak. Enjoy.

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[Listening to: I Don't Care - Yesterday's Kids - Can't Hear Nothin' (04:38)]