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Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

15/07/2015

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

Loitered Lens : Magenta

12/07/2015

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

11/07/2015

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

Boys on parade (Beasts)

09/07/2015

It’s an unspoken thing really, whether we play to five people or a thousand, it just comes out naturally. As soon as we start playing it just happens for us....

Loitered Lens : The Movielife

06/07/2015

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

Loitered Lens: LTNT in the Studio

29/06/2015

Where formerly fantastic musicians suddenly clam up when faced with the prospect of ‘being recorded’, not so with LTNT...

A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

25/06/2015

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

The Blues Needs a National Presence

24/06/2015

The UK blues world has some stupendous talent that should be playing both nationally and internationally...

Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

23/06/2015

We’re recording. Carefree and silly, it's going be hard to get a serious question past them. LTNT Camden Rocks interview...

Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

13/06/2015

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

11/06/2015

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

10/06/2015

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

Rock now, Rock the Night! Loitered Lens [Europe]

07/06/2015

Joey Tempest banging out some ultra weird shapes...

Jaz Coleman Spoken Word Tour

06/06/2015

Letters from Cythera...

A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

06/06/2015

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies....

‘Meat is just like dog food to me’ [The Picturebooks]

03/06/2015

We had a bassist but he tried to Yoko Ono us....

Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

01/06/2015

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one...

Amenra and Sólstafir Join Damnation Festival 2015

31/05/2015

Sólstafir will be the first band in Damnation history to play the festival in two consecutive years...

Loitered Lens : Theory of a Deadman

29/05/2015

So much rock awesomeness on the stage, it almost spilled outside...

June Gigs, London [Thunder on the Left]

27/05/2015

Makes you want to jump behind the wheel of the Mustang and hit the road on a prolonged killing spree. ...

Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]

24/05/2015

Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

Craving acceptance [Dir En Grey]

21/05/2015

'I think that it’s really up to the listeners to determine what we are, not us.' ...

Grunged Up and Greasy, Beast of Eden [Beasts]

19/05/2015

Beasts have the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom softened by catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

Blues Pills Photo: Carl Byron Batson. Not to be reproduced without express prior permission.

Taking the Tablets, Popping the Blues [Blues Pills]

08/05/2015

Psychedelic riffs chimed out and drifted over the O2 like clouds of incense then metamorphasised into groovy guitar solos...

Atmospherics and Optigans, Soundscapes and Steinways [Jacco Gardner]

05/05/2015

From swirling layered atmospherics to stripped-down minimalism and back again, it all hangs together well as a coherent whole...

Don’t Blame Bonamassa : Tours, Tickets and Touts

02/05/2015

PR and marketing people know full well how to get their talent to the right audience but while much of this can be done for free, more often than not someone, somewhere, sometime will have to sign a...