BAND OF THE DAY: POWERCUP

DIY in the literal sense of the word, Canada's Powercup may book their own tours, screenprint their own shirts and press their own tofu etc, but they're also slavishly devoted to the cult of the power tool and 'Home Improvement's wisdom dispensing, blue collar patriarch Tim Allen.

The gimmick isn't all that impressive in itself - we live in a world with Attack of the Mad Axemen dressing as woodland creatures after all - but 2010's brilliantly named 'Renovate At All Costs', the Montreal trio's debut full-length, is a ferocious blast of rough hewn, lo-fi grind that tells its own story: dirty chugging powerviolence with plenty of gurgling low end, powered by a outside diesel generator and played on a circular saw.

And they're playing Obscene Extreme, so check them out there and fill in the gaps left by their scarce online presence.