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Track: Novatines – Joyride

Bath-based rock band Novatines have released their new single ‘Joyride’ via Say Something Records. Lyricist Jamie Beale explains: “The sheer corruption, greed and contempt that the ruling elite has over…

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Album Review: Billy F Gibbons – Hardware

What to say about the Reverend Billy F Gibbons, one third of boogie-rock legends ZZ Top and with a career at the forefront of Texas Blues for over fifty years?…

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Album Review: Rich Ragany and the Digressions – Beyond Nostalgia and Heartache

Why is Rich Ragany not consistently selling-out theatres and gracing the covers of the likes of Mojo and The Wire? That’s a question that repeatedly came to mind during the…

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News: Rock fans rejoice as 10,000 gather at Download Pilot Festival

IN A ground-breaking experiment as part of the second phase of the Government’s scientific Events Research Programme, Download Pilot invited 10,000 rock and heavy metal fans back to the hallowed grounds…

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Track: Cellist Gaspar Claus begins the imaginary journey of his September debut for InFiné with the day-into-night odyssey of ‘Une Foule’

A FRENCH cellist who sees no genre boundary, having worked with artists as fine and disparate as Sufjan Stevens, The National, Jim O’Rourke, Third Eye Foundation, Efterklang, Pedro Soler (his…

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News: Low attempt to make sense of ‘Days Like These’ as they announce new album HEY WHAT, schedule 2022 UK and EU tour

HEY WHAT? A NEW LOW ALBUM IS ON THE WAY? There’s some news worth shouting about. The Duluth, Minnesota-based duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker are set to follow…

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Meet: Land Trance talk of their debut album, the places that informed it, and more

ALTHOUGH their debut album, First Séance, was only released via Rocket Recordings last week, and originally through Forest Swords’ Dense Truth label in May 2020, the duo behind the Land…

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Album Review: John Myrtle’s debut ‘Myrtle Soup’ brings the sunshine even when it rains.

In the week that John Myrtle’s debut album Myrtle Soup has released, the weather has shifted from blistering sun to pouring rain. There are drops tapping on my window as…

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Album review: Birds of Maya – ‘Valdez’: Philly stoners come back for your greasy, sexy soul after eight long years

PHILADELPHIA is a city that knows how to properly rock, dirt under its nails, filthy fuckin’ fuzz in its heart. With the news that Philly headz Bardo Pond are getting…

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Track: Dr Joy – ‘Signed, The Body Electric’: a meeting of Toronto minds spills out in psych technicolour

DR JOY is a meeting of minds on the vivacious Toronto psych scene, comin’ atcha with a dose of technicolour sonic blur to administer aurally in their debut single, “Signed…

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Track: Novatines – Joyride

Album Review: Billy F Gibbons – Hardware

Album Review: Rich Ragany and the Digressions – Beyond Nostalgia and Heartache

News: Rock fans rejoice as 10,000 gather at Download Pilot Festival

Track: Cellist Gaspar Claus begins the imaginary journey of his September debut for InFiné with the day-into-night odyssey of ‘Une Foule’

News: Low attempt to make sense of ‘Days Like These’ as they announce new album HEY WHAT, schedule 2022 UK and EU tour

Meet: Land Trance talk of their debut album, the places that informed it, and more

Album Review: John Myrtle’s debut ‘Myrtle Soup’ brings the sunshine even when it rains.

Album review: Birds of Maya – ‘Valdez’: Philly stoners come back for your greasy, sexy soul after eight long years

Track: Dr Joy – ‘Signed, The Body Electric’: a meeting of Toronto minds spills out in psych technicolour