Track: Another Now Release First New Music Since 2021 With New Single
The Dutch metalcore 5-piece from Eindhoven have released a new single, “Breathe”. This is the band’s first new music since their debut LP OMNI released 3 years ago. In “Breathe”, the band showcases a refreshing change with guitarist Miquell doing a clean, melodic verse. This is followed by the heavy vocals of Stef that are alternated with …
Festival News: Pssst, Wanna Be A Rock Star? – Applications Now Open For Grass Roots Artists To Play Tramlines Festival
Grassroots talents can now Apply To Play at Tramlines Festival 2024 If you’re an up and coming artist, looking to mix it with the big girls and boys this summer, then here’s your chance! Applications are now open for Apply To Play, the annual new talent scheme hosted by Tramlines Festival, which offers local and upcoming …
Album News: Laibach And Think Of Slovenia! – Cherry Red Records Release Expanded Version Of 1986 Album “Nova Akropola”
Described by Sounds magazine as the “First Dangerous Album of The Eighties” Laibach’s seminal 1986 Album revisited and expanded. Curated, remastered and Re-designed by The Laibach Organisation. Complete With 2 CDs of live versions of ‘Nova Akropola’ songs from the band’s own archive, with sleevenotes by Alexei Monroe. For the uninitiated this might easily be …
Album Review: The Darling Buds 5CD Box Set – Cherry Red Records. Perfick Pop Larking!
Every so often a band resurfaces, and people proclaim them as some sort of ironic “guilty pleasure”, as if good music should be embarrassing! We’ve seen it loads in recent times with the likes of ABBA and Sparks. Now, I’m not about to join the trend but I did bloody love this band back in …
Album Review: Chelsea – The Step-Forward Years 1977-82 4CD Box Set
Hands up who loves a box set? I know I do! Most die-hard fans of an artist typically have all that’s on offer for their favourite artist already. Any collector who frequents the numerous record fairs up and down the country, looking for rare “live” recordings, or the Japanese 7” in puce green vinyl, tend …
Track: Cult Psych-punk Hero Dez Dare Launches 2024 With Stomping New Single
Dez Dare launches 2024 with ‘Got a Fire In My Socket’, his first song from new album ‘A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.’ due March 1st via God Unknown Records. ‘A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.’ features 11 songs that delve further into the void than previous records, leaving the sardonic frustration behind …
Album Review: The Oppressed – The Complete Oi! Recordings (1981-2018) 4CD Boxset on Cherry Red Records
Of all the iterations of “punk rock”, it’s “Oi” that probably divides the fans more than any other genre. Whilst the biggest hitters from the scene, the likes of Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer and Angelic Upstarts have always been crowd pullers and led from the front, there has always been a darker underbelly on the …
Track: Manchester legends join forces and announce their first collaboration
This has probably been coming for awhile, some would say with a high degree of inevitability. Oasis legend and more recently solo star, Liam Gallagher has teamed up with John Squire, one of the most influential guitarists and songwriters of his generation via his time with The Stone Roses. The duo today set a high …
Feature: UK & Ireland live review team’s Top 5 gigs of 2023
It’s been one hell of a year for live music and our UK & Ireland review team have covered the length and breadth of the British Isles, to bring you the very best coverage, befitting one of the UK’s Top 10 music websites. Did we mention we’d recently come 9th in the Top 100 UK …
Festival News Update: Deer Shed Festival announce headliners for 2024
With announcements about line-ups coming thick and fast for 2024, North Yorkshire’s Deer Shed Festival has released their headliners, which sees Bombay Bicycle Club, The Coral and CMAT heading to Baldersby Park, Topcliffe over the weekend of 26-29th July. Also on the bill are BSM faves, Los Bitchos, Viji, The Go! Team, Bess Atwell, Personal …