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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

Album review: The Royal Beggars – Falling To New Heights.

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

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,…

News: Personality Crisis? Rich Ragany and The Digressions ask ‘How Much Of Me Is You?’

‘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…

Album Review: The Balladmongrels – Trouble

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’

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…

Album Review: Trading Aces – ‘Rock n’ Roll Homicide’

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…

Album Review: The Hip Priests – ‘Roden House Blues’

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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