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Track: Melanie MacLaren Is Doing Much More than “Pushing Daisies”

“Pushing Daisies” is a new single from Nashville-based indie folk musician Melanie MacLaren. Leading up to her debut EP in January 2022, the initial singles have brought a chilly atmosphere,…

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Live Review: Rise Against – Key Club, Leeds 15.11.2021

Rise Against are more familiar with playing the hallowed main stage at Donington as opposed to the small basement confines of an intimate club in Leeds. This, however, is going…

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Live Review: The Casualties, Defiance, Piñata Protest – Bossanova Ballroom, Portland, OR 14-11-2021

The Pacific Northwest in November is a damp, chilly, and dreary place so if you are going to out at night it better be for a good reason. What’s more,…

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Premiere: Lazyrave reveal the trashy brilliance of ‘Snakey’

Newcastle Upon Tyne’s indietronica outfit Lazyrave – aka the unlikely union of frontman (Dan Clark) and drummer (Ben Kindlan) from rock & roll band ‘The Kush’ with producer (Mark “Clem”…

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IDFA Review: 1970

The Cold War threw up many challenges but one of the strangest, in hindsight, was the lack of information about the daily lives of people living behind the Iron Curtain.…

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See: La Armada Share Video For Track ‘Checkmate Humanity’

Chicago by way of the Dominican Republic 5-piece La Armada has unveiled the video for the new single ‘Checkmate Humanity’. Taken from their upcoming album ‘Anti-Colonial Vol. 2’, due 11th Feb, 2022 via the…

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See: Matchess invites us to embrace meditative drone and transcend the flesh in the practise of ‘Almost Gone (Excerpt)’

WHITNEY JOHNSON has been releasing albums exploring really gorgeous deep inner space in song and sound for a number of years now as Matchess. Her journey in this guise began…

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IDFA Review: Trenches

Due to advances in weaponry and military technology, trench warfare became prevalent in 1914 at the beginning of World War I. It started an age of martial attrition, where the…

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IDFA Review: I’m So Sorry

The climate crisis is reaching a crunch point and there has never been as many people in positions of power wanting to change things for the better. Will the agreements…

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Film Review: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

A global pandemic poses unique challenges for filmmakers. Each country has their own set of rules and regulation, which can change with little or no warning. How could it be…

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Track: Melanie MacLaren Is Doing Much More than “Pushing Daisies”

Live Review: Rise Against – Key Club, Leeds 15.11.2021

Live Review: The Casualties, Defiance, Piñata Protest – Bossanova Ballroom, Portland, OR 14-11-2021

Premiere: Lazyrave reveal the trashy brilliance of ‘Snakey’

IDFA Review: 1970

See: La Armada Share Video For Track ‘Checkmate Humanity’

See: Matchess invites us to embrace meditative drone and transcend the flesh in the practise of ‘Almost Gone (Excerpt)’

IDFA Review: Trenches

IDFA Review: I’m So Sorry

Film Review: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn