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Alex Holmes

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Alex Holmes is a freelance music writer and reviewer for PowerPlay Magazine and ANR Factory. He's also the guitarist for UK sleaze punk 'n' rollers The Suicide Notes. https://thesuicidenotesuk.bandcamp.com
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Album review: The Royal Beggars – Falling To New Heights.

  • July 13, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
The Royal Beggars might currently be one of those ‘best kept secrets’ of the UK underground sleaze scene, but that’s definitely set to change with their long-awaited full-length debut “Falling…
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News: Swedish Sleaze-Mongers The Royal Beggars Launch their Debut album through Desert Rambler recordings

  • June 3, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
Swedish sleaze-rockers The Royal Beggars return in July 2023 with their long awaited debut album “Falling To New Heights”, the follow-up to three critically-acclaimed EPs, and their first full-length studio record. Sleazy, trashy,…
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News: Personality Crisis? Rich Ragany and The Digressions ask ‘How Much Of Me Is You?’

  • June 2, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
‘No matter how much you try, sometimes the people you want to accept you just won’t,’ explains Ragany. “You can poison yourself with the elixir of their love … Get…
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Album Review: The Balladmongrels – Trouble

  • May 14, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
The Balladmongrels is a raucous new band featuring Dogs D’Amour frontman Tyla J. Pallas and Northern Irish singer-songwriter Matty James Cassidy. And with Trouble, released this week, they launch themselves…
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News: UK Punk Rock leaders Desperate Measures return with new single ‘Back To The Rats’

  • May 9, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
New Zealand born, London based rockers Desperate Measures return on May 12th with a banging brand-new single titled ‘Back To The Rats’. Featuring a blazing duel vocal from frontman Eugene Butcher and guitarist…
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Album Review: Trading Aces – ‘Rock n’ Roll Homicide’

  • April 27, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
Ok, firstly – full disclosure. I’ve worked with Frank and Dennis from Trading Aces on a project called Antifashion, and with Dennis also with The City Kids, and both of…
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Album Review: The Hip Priests – ‘Roden House Blues’

  • April 24, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
Thirty singles, four albums, two compilations, and three EPs across a sixteen-year career, a red-hot live show with scene luminaries such as New Bomb Turks, Dwarves, and The Hellacopters, and…
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Album Review: Rich Ragany and the Digressions – What We Do (To Not Let Go).

  • February 1, 2023
  • Alex Holmes
The new album from the UK’s most gregarious rock stars is due to be released 3rd March via a freshly signed deal with Barrel and Squidger Records. When ex-Role Models…
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Album Review: The City Kids – Filth

  • November 10, 2022
  • Alex Holmes
To say that The City Kids have had a good couple of years is taking understatement to the very extreme; their first album – a lock-down project recorded before half…
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News: Oh My God! It’s the church out on tour in support of ‘Revelations’ EP

  • April 22, 2022
  • Alex Holmes
Celebrating the release of their ‘Revelations’ EP and recent single ‘Kiss My Apocalypse’, the notoriously uproarious funk’n’roll misfits are hitting stages across the UK in a string of rescheduled dates…
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