Alt-Rock

Interview: A chat with Baltimore Maryland’s Grunge band Dosser
Words: Letty Sharp. Photo credits: Amanda Adams / Michael York. Dosser are a grunge band based in Baltimore, Maryland,Washington DC. The band are currently getting ready to release theirnew album, ‘Violent Picture//Violent Sound’, which is out the 20th ofJanuary. Guitarists and Co-Vocalists William Teague and Bret Lanahansat down with Letty to answer a few questions. …

News: Canadian riff driven duo The Blue Stones return to the UK in April for a headline tour
The Blue Stones, the two-piece Alt Rock band, best known for their blistering live performances, have announced a return to the UK & Europe for Spring 2023. The Pretty Monster tour comes exactly one year after their wildly successful Hidden Gems UK + EU tour in March/April earlier this year, which included sell-out shows in Manchester, London, two nights in …

Track: Adalita releases evocative second single, Savage Heart, from forthcoming album, Inland.
Liberation Records have released the second single from Australian rock icon, Adalita‘s upcoming album, Inland. The song is accompanied by a lush, widescreen video clip which was produced with film-maker, Adam Harding and is shot on the open roads and vast spaces of rural Australia. Along with a classic 70’s muscle car (a Chrysler Valiant …

Live Gallery + Set List: Counting Crows – 3Arena, Dublin 18,10,2022
Counting Crows slipped their way into Dublin’s 3Arena for their Butter Miracle Tour 2022 and spread out a twenty one song set with a couple of covers thrown in for good measure. One being a personal favourite of Adam Duritz.To the delight of the fans! during their set they switched from the electric set to …

Live Review: Incubus – o2 Apollo, Manchester 02/10/22
This Sunday marked the final stop of the UK headline tour for Incubus following shows in Birmingham and back to back gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The California rock band, formed in 1991, are stalwarts of the rock genre whether through their alt-rock sound or the nu-metal tag of their breakthrough album ‘Make Yourself’. …

Live Gallery + Set Lists: Therapy? / The Outcasts -3Olympia, Dublin 06.10.2022
Well at last Therapy? made it to Dublin for their So Much For The 30 Year Plan tour which turned into So Much For The 32 Year Plan (we all know why) but man was the wait worth it, simple answer YES! as always Therapy? played a blinding set and tore up Dublin’s 3Olympia and …

Live Review: Pillow Queens / Arxx – Vicar Street, Dublin 01,10,2022
Dublin indie rock outfit played to a sold-out crowd, the first of a two night run after a second night had to be added once the first quickly sold-out. Opening the night were Brighton duo Arxx and wow are they a force to be reckoned with, not having heard of these till now I was …

News: RedHook release new single and video for ‘Say’
Eora/Sydney-based alt-rock force RedHook have today returned with their fiery new single ‘SAY’, self-produced by guitarist Craig Wilkinson and mixed by Sam Guiana (Between You And Me, The Devil Wears Prada). ‘SAY’ is a heavy-riffing firecracker that takes its sonic cues from the UK’s new wave of electronic rock pioneers such as Bring Me The Horizon, Nova Twins and Nothing But Thieves, offering up …

Album Review: Affiliate Links – Enough Light : poetic, powerful indie song-craft.
They may be best known for their excavation of long lost classics but, in their noble pursuit of ‘changing the world one record at a time’, Canadian label ‘We Are Busy Bodies’ also champion the new and undiscovered. Cue ‘Enough Light’ by Affiliate Links available from WABB, September 9th onwards. The album marks Bradley Davis …

Premiere: Second Idol Release Scorching New Track ‘Dear X’ Plus We Interview The Band!
Be prepared to be blown away by Second Idol’s new track ‘Dear X’