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Live Review: NewDad – The Lexington, Islington 17.11.2021 plus gallery

After falling into an old smuggler’s cave with only an old CD player and the 4AD label back catalogue for company, NewDad experienced a transformative adolescence. Probably. Several years later…

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Tallinn Black Nights Review: Erasing Frank

Rising from the ashes of numerous different movements and sounds, punk rock established itself as a major music genre in the 1970s. The main hubs were New York City and…

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Tallinn Black Nights Review: A Vanishing Fog

The Sumapaz Páramo is the largest stretch of alpine tundra ecosystem in the world. This huge swath of Andean moorland is located in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense near the Columbian capital.…

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Live Review: Self Esteem – Leadmill, Sheffield 12.11.2021

The buzz of anticipation was all but overwhelming. Like most cities, Sheffield looks after their own – those people that were at Pulps ‘last ever’ gig, or those nights at…

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See: LA’s Independent Project unveil Alison Clancy with the brooding, potent ‘Mutant Gifts – Live At St John’s’

SHE’S a multivalent creative force who moved from the mountains of California up to New York to pursue a creative life; but the potent, brooding and mantric gem that is…

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Track: North Carolina’s Boulevards sings an addiction siren song in ‘Better Off Dead’ – an album follows in February

WE’RE born of the good earth, and thence shall we return. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Mud to mud. It’s that thick, wet, good earth of home that keeps…

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Track: Zimbabwe’s Gonora Sounds preview their hot stepping ‘Mukoma Shadrek’ ahead of February debut album.

Ah, memories of the first time hearing early cuts from Staff Benda Bilili or Malawi Mouse Boys –eyes closed, the inner smile, that warmth of discovery….It all comes back with…

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See: Wunderhorse – ‘Poppy’: Dead Pretties’ Jacob soars into widescreen guitar drama

WITH one breezy and effortlessly ace single under his belt, the bass lyricism and indiepop jangle of “Teal”, former Dead Pretties man Jacob Slater is out to prove his champion…

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IDFA Review: Eskape

The Khmer Rouge, also known as the Communist Party of Kampuchea, ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. While their period in charge was brief, the impact they had on Cambodians…

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See: Behemoth Unveil new Video From UpComing Live Release ‘In Absentia Dei’

At the peak of the pandemic lockdown last year, Behemoth set the world on fire when they took over an abandoned church in rural Poland, bringing their truly spectacular production for a…

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Live Review: NewDad – The Lexington, Islington 17.11.2021 plus gallery

Tallinn Black Nights Review: Erasing Frank

Tallinn Black Nights Review: A Vanishing Fog

Live Review: Self Esteem – Leadmill, Sheffield 12.11.2021

See: LA’s Independent Project unveil Alison Clancy with the brooding, potent ‘Mutant Gifts – Live At St John’s’

Track: North Carolina’s Boulevards sings an addiction siren song in ‘Better Off Dead’ – an album follows in February

Track: Zimbabwe’s Gonora Sounds preview their hot stepping ‘Mukoma Shadrek’ ahead of February debut album.

See: Wunderhorse – ‘Poppy’: Dead Pretties’ Jacob soars into widescreen guitar drama

IDFA Review: Eskape

See: Behemoth Unveil new Video From UpComing Live Release ‘In Absentia Dei’