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Riffs thick enough to float a ship [Rongeur]

20/04/2015

Rongeur's sparse instrumentation gives the music room to breathe...

Courtney Barnett likes chairs

18/04/2015

Courtney Barnett's songs are like diary entries, written to be sung to a captivated audience...

Essence of old school rock [The Amorettes]

18/04/2015

Over all too soon, leaving just telltale scuff marks, a ringing in the ears and the faint smell of perfume ...

A folksy bagpipe-led interlude unexpectedly sweeps in [Skyforger]

17/04/2015

Their use of a jaw harp is perhaps unique in metal....

A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]

14/04/2015

Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona...

Faith No More UK Dates Announced

13/04/2015

- Playing main stage Download Festival Saturday June 13th - Band to record session at legendary BBC Maida Vale studios - Sold out US headline tour starts April 15th...

Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

13/04/2015

This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared....

Lacking in natural grease, Rock Top Trumps Deathmatch

12/04/2015

You can spend hours in your bedroom practising your scales and hours more preening and primping but you can’t spray on that magical gritty rock and roll quality...

An undercurrent of groove and funk… gone dull. [Polar Bear]

11/04/2015

Two tracks in, and the band departs to leave the irritatingly named Leafcutter John to give the audience a few minutes of meandering ambient nonsense....

System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

10/04/2015

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

Bloodstock 2015 Updates and Club Nights tour

09/04/2015

Bloodstock 2015 strengthens its lineup with seven more bands, and announces a slew of club nights to warm up the metal glands...

Fish brings Misplaced Childhood back on tour

08/04/2015

It was not only a breakthrough album for the band but also for me as an artist because I was finally discovering my own individual style as a lyricist and singer....

HRH Prog 2015

08/04/2015

Pwllheli is a long way from anywhere at the far end of a winding single-track railway line. The train stops many, many times at little request stops, but only if you know how to pronounce the...

Officer?! There’s mashed potato on the Pentonville Road! [The Lovely Eggs]

06/04/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere are six people who probably tune in to my witterings, four of whom have probably already abandoned ship half way through this...

A more melodic variation on the metal theme [Karnivool]

05/04/2015

Metal is mostly preaching to the converted, but the congregation at London's Roundhouse was definitely devout and ecstatic....

Ripping into the Islington night [Night Ranger]

29/03/2015

Hardcore fans packed out the venue whilst the band hit the stage with a mighty explosion of raw power. Night Ranger...

Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

26/03/2015

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

25/03/2015

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...

Deadly Particles at KOKO [Starset]

22/03/2015

For those of us who have stared into alien eyes, we got the message. ...

Take science out of it; everything is fiction (The Rezillos)

17/03/2015

'the music, the song writing and the recorded performances are by far the most important thing'...

Searching for the Great American Album [JKutchma]

16/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is eternal credence in the idea of “the great American novel”. The essential capturing of American culture – its...

A band looking to the future rather than the past [Karnataka]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been more than two years since Karnataka last toured the UK. Fronted by their third lead singer (former Riverdance singer...

The broho vigour of a shotgunned Pabst Blue Label (Attila)

13/03/2015

Loitered Lens captures Attila at Electric Ballroom...

Denying the standard of musicianship (Neal Morse)

11/03/2015

Neal Morse Band at Islington Assembly Hall, March 7...

FFS! (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks)

10/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapranz Ferdinand and Sparks. Together, Not just sharing a bill, but as a bona-fide Los Angeles/Lanarkshire supergroup! The mind...

Allowing the innate weirdness of the musicians to shine : Primus live dates

10/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’The/dropcap gobstopping formula conjured by Claypool is to play the weird line very straight. This plays out with few of the...

The Rezillos attack every fibre of your being

09/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”P/dropcapresented in glorious 3D THING-O-RAMA, a live stream of B-Movie horror was intercepted from outer space and beamed directly into The...

Jackie Chan-loving metalcore Alaskans : 36 Crazyfists

08/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’With/dropcap the new album a cathartic cry from vocalist Brock Lindow, following the death of his mother… grief never sounded...

Heavy, indulgently vulgar and bro-ho as Spring break in Cancun

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’Even/dropcap if you pretend to hate our music, you will love this album. It will be your guilty pleasure.’ – Fronz,...

Ideological Fractals, Elite Conspiracies and Hard Rock. Starset UK dates

03/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been a while since we’ve had a proper concept album. Startset look set to change that with Transmissions, exploring...

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