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Sometimes you have doubts and delusions and you go off the path a bit [Youth]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”M/dropcapartin “Youth” Glover, known by many as the bassist and founding member of the influential Post-Punk band Killing Joke,  is...

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Ari Up on The Slits and Chris Spedding [Interview]

The Clash and the Pistols all became extended family to me. They were all like my brothers....

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Four-track orange vinyl-only (Grey Branches)

I think most of my output has an Industrial feel to it. It’s the first genre of music I really fell in love with as a teenager, and it’s seems I can’t undo that love. ...

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London Drum Show

Spread over two floors, the London Drum Show was a mixture of commerce, education and performance. ...

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Manami Mogg’s Metal Medley

This is the proverbial bollocks, with an utter mastery of brutality and method in equal measure....

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Are You ‘Beat Deaf’?

Beat-deafness, though very rare, is a problem not simply of how people feel a pulse or move their bodies, but instead, how people synchronize with sounds they hear....

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Luna Rossa : The Borderline

Stripped-down intimacy rather than full-on rock. Luna Rossa at the Borderline...

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In Flames, Wovenwar and While She Sleeps. Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Entering the fray with a blistering intro, In Flames demonstrated what an experienced metal band should sound like....

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Raging Speedhorn : Interview

Just the fact that so many people are so into us being back is awesome! Considering we're a shitty underground band from Corby, it's pretty amazing that so many people still care....

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Dave Lombardo (Slayer, PHILM) : Interview

There is a time in the song where the drummer should let loose a little bit but then there are times when he should let the other members shine...

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Reeves Gabrels and his Imaginary Fr13nds [Live]

Just someone else’s guitarist? Not a chance. Gabrels is every inch a worthy frontman. ...

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Frontiers Records : AOR and Proud

Three new releases from Frontiers Records give a taste of what the current AOR scene has to offer....

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Empty Yard Experiment : Kallisti

With a sound that stretches from the sparse classical piano of "Sunyata" to the claustrophobic heaviness of "Entropy", Empty Yard Experiment are a band with a strong music identity of their own...

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Cambridge Rock Festival [Part 2]

The veteran acts topping the bill pulled in the punters while the newer acts lower down the bill ended up giving the best performances....

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Bloodstock 2014

Whereas most crowds will sing the words to a song, Megadeth’s break from tradition a little bit by singing the riffs. ...

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Umphreys McGee : Interview

I think this is when we let it all out. Don’t leave an ounce of anything that we haven’t already used. ...

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Tricky : Adrian Thaws

Adrian Thaws, Tricky’s new album, is accessible, and at points even memorable....

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Entrails Vs King of Asgard Vs Secret Cutter

Metal is a means of escape, perhaps even transcendence; its extremity allowing an explosion of raw passion and primal emotions...

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3 Teeth [Album Review]

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

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Alt-Fest Organiser Dominic Void [Interview]

Promising edgy art, truly creative sideshows, and oddball theatre, Alt-Fest is more than just an alternative music festival. Dominic Void explains all....

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Hearts Aren’t for Drowning (Nicole Atkins)

My old label had some suggestions that I sing like Alanis Morisette! I said, 'F*ck that!' ...

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The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]

I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear...

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Jon Edwards, Anne-Marie Helder (Panic Room) : Interview

It’s fun for us as musicians to see how the material subtly changes and develops when you play it live...

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Gallon Drunk [Interview]

In the late afternoon, on the last day of winter, James Johnston and Trebuchet’s Kailas caught up to talk over the reinvigoration of Gallon Drunk and the ghosts of the past....

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HRH Prog 2 Festival

There were complaints from some quarters that it was an inconvenient location. But it was an equal opportunity inconvenience; it takes just as long wherever you're coming from. HRH Prog 2...

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Def Leppard Interview (Part 2)

I think a lot of that was down to “Mutt” Lange. He worked us so hard on those records to make it sound special. He didn’t want us to sound like a run of the mill rock band. ...

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Def Leppard : Interview

There are so many artists, bands and so many different ways of getting them. It’s taken the special out of it. There’s too much out there. ...

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Darren MacPherson : Interview

It’s never about the figure, always about the painting. I know some people will view it as erotica but I can’t control that.......

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Since Zero Dark Thirty (Martin Delaney)

People like me are just the manifestation of an over-active mind, not cut out for the hard work of the real world! ...

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Uwe Schmidt / Atom TM : Interview

I never touched the topic of "harmonies" or "musical notes"… everything was just "rhythmical sound", that either "worked" or "did not work"....

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