Album Review: Rich Ragany and the Digressions – What We Do (To Not Let Go).
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 frontman and songwriter Rich Ragany and the ramshackle crew known as The Digressions released ‘Beyond Nostalgia and Heartbreak‘ at the height of the pandemic in …
Album Review: The City Kids – Filth
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 the band had even been in a room together, and certainly before a gig had been played – was something pretty special, followed up for …
News: Oh My God! It’s the church out on tour in support of ‘Revelations’ EP
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 to support the release of second EP ‘Revelations’ on 15th April. The celestial all-singing, all-dancing act consists of the Hail Marys choir and their band The Missionary Position, …
Album Review: Felicia – Feel Good Songs For Oblivion
It was the middle of May 2020 when Felicia released her first musical exploits to the world, in the shape of ‘Felicia and the Gammon Lumps’. Now, almost two years later, comes the full-length Felicia album, to be released (of course) on Valentines Day this year. Opening with a suitably alt-metal double-kick drum instrumental-avec-samples, ‘Feel …
EP review: The City Kids – City Kids EP
The City Kids; low down, gruff, n’ dirty, with enough of a smattering of pop-harmonies to ear-worm their way into your head and refuse to leave again. That’s pretty much the TL:DR of the debut album by this rag-tag collection of reprobates, which featured as guests, amongst others, legends like Kory Clarke of Warrior Soul …
Album Review: Johnossi – Mad Gone Wild
If you’ve not heard of Johnossi before, the Swedish rock duo – consisting of guitarist/vocalist John Englebert and drummer Ossi Bonde – are already six albums and a Grammy Award down and with this, their seventh record, the duo have dug deep into their own psyches and imaginations to realise something part-concept album, part catharthis, …
Album Review: Warrior Soul – Out On Bail
Ok. For those new to the party (sorry, ‘work event’), back in the late ’80s and early ’90s there was Warrior Soul, and a trio of quite frankly stunning records – 1990’s ‘Last Decade Dead Century’, 1991’s Drugs, God, And The New Republic’, and 1992’s ‘Salutations From The Ghetto Nation’. How many rock bands can …
Album Review: Ceramic Animal – Sweet Unknown
New signings to Black Keys’ frontman Dan Auerbach’s fledgeling Easy Eye Sound label Ceramic Animal release their new album, ‘Sweet Unknown’, on March 4th. Hailing from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Ceramic Animal’s previous three albums have all been ruggedly self-released DIY efforts, with this, their fourth, being their first foray into outside label-dom. Also produced by Auerbach, …
Album Review: Steve Conte – Bronx Cheer
The children of musical parents have a mixed blessing when it comes to career springboards; some find the understanding and support (and potentially the genetic passing on of whatever ‘talent’ actually is) a huge help. Others, it seems, find a famous parent a millstone that’s difficult to escape from. For Steve Conte, and brother John, …
Album Review: Seven Days And Doesn’t Die – Seven Days And Doesn’t Die
When we reviewed their last single, we described Seven Days and Doesn’t Die as “snarling, sneering, punk-tinged rock n’ roll, with an aggression that many bands aspire to but so few pull off with such aplomb, yet filled with singalong, gang-vocal chorus and hooklines that sink their teeth in and refuse to let go”. Seven …