Rock
Album Review: Baroness – Purple
As a Baroness album Purple is exceptional, as a rock album in 2015 Purple is unmatched and as an example of modern forward thinking music Purple is a shining light. With their previous album, Yellow and Green, Baroness began to experiment with bigger and more expansive sounds all contained within the mould of short, punchy, …
EP: JOHN – Validation
Fancy something heavy and riff-y this Christmas? Duo, JOHN, have just released their gritty second EP, Validation, and it’s more than worthy of going on your Christmas list this year. JOHN are exactly what they say on the tin, sort of. They’re a duo made up of two members both called John and a love …
The Provincial Archive: Bad Connection
“But Craig, isn’t rock ‘n’ roll dead ?” No. Turns out that our Edmonton heroes, The Provincial Archive, are reincarnated proof. Back as a three-piece, having said good bye to Ryan Podlubny and Nathan Burge, new single ‘Bad Connection’ finds them in fine, punching form. Singer and guitarist Craig Schram, and drummer Bramwell Park, have been …
Live Review: The Staves – The Roundhouse 9.11.15
School night out. Early start in the bar of the Roundhouse. Camden Brewery beer. Hot dogs and ale over the road at Joe’s. More beer back in the venue. Beautiful music from the Staveley-Taylors. Back into the bar for more beer. Urgh. And an über taxi home. Dirt. I think I’ve just about recovered and …
See: The Wicked Mercy reveal new video for ‘Fading Fast’
Ottawa quintet The Wicked Mercy are preparing to release their second full length records, Sundown, on December 4th via Bad Reputation. It wasn’t all plain sailing though, with guitarist Dave leaving his new Les Paul guitar in the back of a cab late at night. Thankfully, appearances throughout the country saw brief stardom and an …
Track: Spookyland – Bullimic
New Play It Again Sam signings Spookyland follow their performance at Lollapalooza with a new single, Bulimic, ahead of their forthcoming debut album. The Sydney rockers entered Conor Oberst’s Nebraskan recording studio, Another Recording Company to begin work on their debut full-length effort, and Bulimic is an early indication of how that record is going …
News, Don Broco announce full support for December tour
Broco are back, and this time they’ve brought some friends. This week the Oxford-rockers have announced their support for their upcoming December tour. Joining them on the road are Coasts, Arcane Roots, and Symmetry on the 9 date tour all over the UK. With the Edinburgh show already sold out, the Automatic live show is …
Album Review: Richard Thompson – Still
Good grief. I’ve had this album forever and I’ve been totally unprofessional and sat on it, and sat on it, and sat on it. Why? Well firstly, because I had been hoping that it would be as good as ‘Semi-Detached Mock Tudor’, which is the best of the, er, two Richard Thompson albums that I own. …
See: Joe Jackson reveals Spring 2016 European tour dates
It’s amazing how some artists stay with you over the course of your life. In the days before iPads and things and 24 hour children’s programmes, as children we used to end up sometimes doing quiet things, like reading and drawing – on paper, with pencils and everything. In the kitchen my mother would have …
See: The Lonely Together release video for Congregation
Maybe it’s The Lonely Togethers Scottish roots, but there’s something of both the Biffy Clyro and Snow Patrol about them. A mixture of the anthemic and the emotional, if you like. It wrapped up in swathes of guitars and atmospheric backing vocals, aiming to, according to the band themselves “carve(ing) a mysterious path through love …