Music
News: Over 100,000 Fans Celebrate Download Festival’s 20th Anniversary And Its Biggest Year Ever
This weekend’s Download Festival 20th anniversary welcomed a record breaking 100,000 attendees to Donington Park becoming its most successful year ever. The fastest selling Download in its 20-year history, 2023’s edition showcased world-class rock and metal across four days and six stages. With an unbelievable line-up, featuring the likes of Halestorm, Skindred, Evanescence, Pendulum, Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro)’s new project Empire …
Gallery and set-list: Lorna Shore / Ingested -The Academy, Dublin 14.06.2023
American Deathcore act Lorna Shore tore apart The Academy in Dublin as they played a night for their Pain Remains tour and openers on the night were Death-metal boys from Manchester Ingested. Photos Abigael Paquet. Ingested Photos: Lorna Shore photos & set-list: Sun//EaterCursed to DieOf the AbyssTo the HellfireWelcome Back, O’ Sleeping DreamerSoulless ExistenceInto the …
Live Review: Be Your Own Pet – Moth Club, London 07.06.2023
“Back from the dead!” announces Jemina Pearl as she begins the second consecutive night leading Be Your Own Pet in Hackney. Judging by the ragged band of fans before her the previous night was a suitably raucous resurrection of the Nashville punks who first started their love affair with London some 17 years ago. London …
News: Duff McKagan announces third solo album ‘Lighthouse’
Duff McKagan has shared the song LIGHTHOUSE, the title track from his third solo album, LIGHTHOUSE, arriving everywhere on Friday, October 20. Pre-orders are available now. The album will be available in several variations, including CD, deluxe CD with fold-out photo print, cassette, standard black vinyl, and deluxe vinyl in a host of colors, each with lithographs, booklet, sticker, …
News: The Struts announce UK/EU headline tour
The Struts have announced a headline tour of the UK and Europe for August 2023. The band will play eight headline dates alongside a number of festival appearances throughout Europe this summer. The tour will start in the UK where the much-loved British rock band will play three headline shows including Nottingham Rock City (10th), …
News: The Xcerts release new track ‘Blame’
Alternative three piece THE XCERTS announce their new album track ‘BLAME’, taken from their upcoming album ‘LEARNING HOW TO LIVE AND LET GO’ out August 18th via UNFD. Pre-order the album on CD and vinyl here, listen to ‘Blame’ on all streaming services here, and check out the band’s self directed one-shot, one-take live vocal video for the track here. …
News: Stone announce UK headline tour for October
Gearing up for their debut appearance at Glastonbury Festival next week, where they will take to the BBC Introducing stage on the Friday, Liverpool four-piece STONE share another euphoric, pop rock cut ‘I Gotta Feeling’ alongside a lyric video, watch here. The new track was premiered as Clara Amfo’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ on BBC Radio 1 last night, and follows …
Live Review: Download Festival 2023 – Castle Donington, Derby 09.06.23
As I entered the arena for day two I decided to take myself to the Dogtooth Stage in preparation for Pupil Slicer and in doing so I managed to catch the last 3 songs of Mancunian outfit, Witch Fever, and their brand of post punk measured chaos, and from the moment the anarchic and frenzied …
News: Tracy Bruen announces headline show at The Workman’s Cellar, Dublin
Galway singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and spellbinding vocalist, Tracy Bruen, blends and bends folk, prog and pop with classical and theatrical influences to create epic compositions of power and vulnerability which lie between the folk stylings of Joni Mitchell and art pop of Kate Bush. Tracy toured extensively throughout Ireland and Europe over the last few years …