Rock
Live Review: Young Guns, Warehouse 23, Wakefield, 22.10.15
While many people in tonight’s crowd are still wondering what one of the leading bands in the UK’s rock contingent are doing in grey old Wakefield, its nonetheless exciting when said city is almost religiously omitted from band’s touring cycles. Vukovi are essentially pop-rock infused with strains of indie- excitably inoffensive, they add a pop …
Live Review: Sleaford Mods – Brussels Ancienne Belgique 20.10.2015
Much has been written about Sleaford Mods; the non-musicality jibes, the faux-chav accusations, the lazy comparisons. Serendipity allowed me to sit in on the “An audience with…” in the AB’s adjoining bar a few hours before the show, and the strokes of misperception are bolder if anything from a non-UK perspective. The host began by …
Premiere: The Retroaction reveal new video for “Little Strange”
Its clear from listening to Hamilton, Ontario quartet The Retroaction that they’re taking on the spirit of something past, but they met in rather unexpected circumstances, vocalist Thomas Duxbury commenting “I met (drummer) Ron Lang when I went to the ending of a bachelorette party. Ron was the male stripper these girls hired. He commented …
Meet: Liela Moss from The Duke Spirit interview
The Duke Spirit are back, with fourth album ‘KIN’, and this time it’s personal. You could say that The Duke Spirit have been taking some time away from the spotlight except, to my ongoing surprise, they’ve never really been in it. Formed in 2003 in London they’re arguably one of the UK’s most underrated rock …
Track: Unalaska – Unalaska
What started of as a fictional band in the cult vampire film ‘Afflicted’ has now turned into a real EP releasing duo. Comprising of musicians Edo Van Breemen and Zachary Grayth the now real Unalaska join ‘Light Organ Records’ to bring us their first self-titled EP. Working through cross-continental correspondence from their separate studios in Brooklyn …
Track: Paves – ‘Dancing ’til The End Of Time’
With a lot of releases in recent years, the term throwback has almost become meaningless. It’s a term that has become overused and as more and more modern releases seemingly take more than inspiration from certain styles, it’s got to the point where they’re missing what made these styles great in the first place. Now …
Gallery: Rich Robinson – Greystones, Sheffield 2.10.15
Guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of The Black Crowes Rich Robinson landed in Sheffield on October 2nd, playing at the intimate Greystones. A real chance for fans to get close to someone who has sold over 30 million albums through a 25 year career. PLaying material that stretches from Bob Dylan through Buffalo Springfield and traditional …
See: Fizzy Blood reveal new video for “Black Sheep”
On the back of their UK headline tour, and appearances at last weekends Zandari Festival in South Korea, Leeds based quintet Fizzy Blood have released a new video for their track ‘Black Sheep’, taken from their debut EP Feast. Opening with these eerie, wavering chords, it soon bursts into life, these sharp edged guitars bleeding …
A buyers’ guide to AC/DC 1975 – 1981
There is a school of thought that you don’t actually need to know what an individual AC/DC album sounds like, you just need to know if it’s any good… If there is one band that stuck to a formula throughout their career, then it’s AC/DC. Hell, even Status Quo transitioned from their Carnaby Street phase …
Track: HECK – The Breakers
Heck, the band formerly known as Baby Godzilla, are back with a new single ‘The Breakers’. The Nottingham based purveyors of noise’s new single drops on October 30th via Npag Industries, and is taken from a as yet untitled album expected out next year. It (Almost literally) explodes, all tinny production, screaming vocals, trashy drums …