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Lydia Lunch: The Lexington

06/09/2012

Fresh from her performance at the Manchester 'Fat-out' festival, Lydia Lunch relished the part of 'Mistress of Ceremonies', showcasing various friends and new talents that she had cobbled together...

Bloodstock 2012

05/09/2012

Their fist-pumping fusion of brutish guitar and folk-esque synth lines make for a brilliant way to kick off my Bloodstock. They bring a feeling of raw ‘epic-ness’ that, although strived for by...

The Heather Findlay Band: Songs from the Old Kitchen

04/09/2012

It's a very different sound from their dynamic electric live shows, but great as Heather Findlay can be in full rock mode, the acoustic sound is a very good match for the natural warmth of her voice....

Neurosis and Godflesh to Play London Show

03/09/2012

Having recently divulged details of the brand new studio album, Honor Found In Decay by Neurosis and their ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival appearance, we can now proudly announce a very...

Free Download: Sarin Smoke

03/09/2012

Sarin Smoke give away 'Upsound' in anticipation of the release of their album, Vent, on September 17th ...

Declan Sinnott: I Love the Noise it Makes

03/09/2012

Adult Acoustic. A domain legendarily populated by the troubled, drunk, sex mad, violent and jail-prone stereotypes that rarely trouble the charts, but in Declan Sinnott they might be given a...

Loitered Lens: Public Image Limited

02/09/2012

Bowie may have snubbed the closing ceremony, Fatboy Slim may have been caught miming by the second loop of the supposedly live soundtrack, and the faint strains of the Sex Pistols may well have been...

Newrising: The Half Moon, Putney

30/08/2012

Now call me old-fashioned but I do believe that some musical styles should not be combined. Reggae, funk and folk are all great genres of music, but like tequila, bourbon and cherry cola, some...

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UFOMammut release track 3 from Oro: Opus Alter

29/08/2012

The release of the second and final installment of UFOMAMMUT’s ORO album series, ORO: Opus Alter, is on the horizon, with a street date of September 17th via Neurot Recordings. In preparation for...

Teengirl Fantasy Live Dates

28/08/2012

'a form of discourse between the band and their instruments'. Coo! Does it count if it's just the keyboardist shouting at the pitchbend wheel for being sticky? The rest of the description...

Bagheera: Swift

27/08/2012

Kipling and Disney aside though, the name Bagheera is now being laid claim to by a Swiss groove metal band, whose debut album Drift will see release on Domino records on October 5th....

Cambridge Rock Festival 2012

27/08/2012

You could criticise the festival bill for relying on unashamed nostalgia acts as headliners, and especially for the way more forward-looking acts like Maschine, Winter in Eden, Kyrbgrinder or Panic...

King Krule/Rinse

26/08/2012

King Krule -the primary creative vessel for 17-year-old south east London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall- is readying its latest release, a double A-side single featuring two...

Loitered Lens: Drunken Balordi [Photos]

26/08/2012

'The night started with what appeared to be an Irish folk band taking the stage – Drunken Balordi comprised a singer/acoustic guitarist wearing an Irish pub t-shirt, bass guitarist, violinist,...

Feed the Rhino: Hevy Fest

24/08/2012

In an age where (a little sadly) aesthetics are as important to the hardcore scene as musical ability, Feed The Rhino cover all of the bases – as one hipster said to another, “we’ve gotta catch...

The Mercy House: Interview

23/08/2012

The genre obsessions have to stop, I guess something is going right when everyone becomes the great ‘opinionizer’, but I think that’s what can be exciting about music, take something out of the...

BLOCatastrophe

22/08/2012

After what I experienced at Bloc I have to admit that I and thousands of others were completely taken in by the promise of a professionally-run event in an innovative new venue with an incredible...

Anklepants (Reechard Farché)

22/08/2012

Anklepants is the electronic barrel organ of your Freudian nightmares . The nightmares where you are being psychoanalyzed by a traveling salesman with a penis for a face. It's a silly stuff that...

Devil Sold His Soul [Live]

21/08/2012

Then, coming to the end of a great set, disaster strikes. “This is our last song”, announces Ed. We’re treated to the opening guitar line of what I suspect was ‘Darkness Prevails’, before...

Loitered Lens: Jurojin

20/08/2012

'Although during the first few songs, they came across as your standard four-piece doomy metal band with powerful vocals and formulaic song structures, when their turbaned tabla drums player joined...

Blur, New Order [Live]

18/08/2012

New Order. Their set is fuelled by absence’s tension from the outset but Bernard Sumner is making light of this. After the group are introduced he quips “apparently we’re New Order, we’ll do...

Swans: The Seer

17/08/2012

The Seer may well be a grower and may accumulate more power with time, but I find it striking that after listening to it the Swans songs I hear in my head are mostly those from much earlier. Time...

Electric Eden [Album Review]

16/08/2012

Electric Eden has surprises in store for folk enthusiasts, however would not intimidate any listeners wanting to dip their toes into the water. ...

HEVY Festival

16/08/2012

When your guitar feedback section is so long that your guitarist has time to have a crafty check of his iPhone, maybe it's time to just get on with the song already. HEVY Festival is HUGE. This...

Matmos: Meltdown 2012

15/08/2012

Rather than understanding Matmos as a quirky part of the nineties electronica wave, maybe we should actually be interpreting them as a continuation of a much older tradition of musical comedy, albeit...

Listener: Mini Interview

15/08/2012

we’re open to pretty much everything. We’re comfortable here – necessity makes heavy music and a lot of hardcore is about being honest and genuine to yourself...

Viza: Interview

15/08/2012

So do they think that music can change the world? Chris told me, “I think it could. I think it allows people, it gives people an outlet. It gives people I guess the right to think freely or...

30 shades of WOMAD

14/08/2012

Despite the 'small is beautiful' ethical basis of the festival where buying a branded plastic bottle contributes to a distant solution, offering an option to feel good without getting personally...

Neurosis Announce New Album No.10

13/08/2012

‘In December 2010 I witnessed rock and roll’s nadir, the point where you look upon a crowd of stupid fucks and wish that each and every one of them would fucking die. My disgust cannot know...