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News: Smashing Pumpkins & Weezer announce joint UK dates for summer 2024

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Live Review: Billy Idol – Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY 12.09.2023

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live review: new model army, holmfirth picturedrome, 4th august 2023

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The children of musical parents have a mixed blessing when it comes to career springboards; some find the understanding and support (and potentially the genetic passing on of whatever ‘talent’ actually is) a huge help. Others, it seems, find a famous parent a millstone that’s difficult to escape from. For Steve Conte, and brother John, …

Multi-platinum Danish rock group Volbeat are excited to announce a special, intimate show in London ahead of their June 2022 Download Festival performance, where they play directly underneath headliners Biffy Clyro and Korn on Sunday’s main stage. The one-off London date will take place at the 800-capacity O2 Academy Islington venue on May 21st, 2022, a giant …

An excitement was built for this gig after having doing some research into Opus Kink. The Brighton band are described as Horn-fueled filth-funk, where punk and jazz combine in grimy circumstance. The night was a packed affair with three bands on the list. The young rockers Undivine Telephone Line and Northern troubadour Travis Shaw. After …

Finnish extreme metal band, i Helvete have released the second single “Sairaan Mielen Sinfonia” from their upcoming debut album ‘Sinisten Puiden Niitty’ Singer-guitarist Aleksi Mäkelä tells about the song: “The song was written for a long time before the lyrics were completed. We had to choose between this and another track, which one will be the second single. …

Five-piece Venom Prison have shared ‘Judges Of The Underworld’, the first song and video taken from their upcoming album ‘Erebos’, due 4th February, 2022 via Century Media Records. The band comment,  “’Judges Of The Underworld’ deals with the crippling reality of people who face incarceration, who oftentimes are followed by violence over a lifetime. This violence can …

Irish quartet The Risen Dread debut album ‘Night Hag’ is set for release on January 28th 2022 via Wormholedeath records. ‘Night Hag’ is a concept album with mental illness as its central theme, with all the tracks focusing on a particular illness or a historical figure that had multiple disorders. A whirling mash of heavy guitars …

Finnish melodic death metallers Omnium Gatherum have just announced a slew of dates as part of their 2022 North American tour. Support will be provided from Allegaeon and Century Media labelmates Black Crown Initiate, and starts on February 26th in Brooklyn, NY wrapping up on March 27th in Boston, MA. The news comes ahead of the release of their forthcoming …

Hailing from the Midwest, Breed Of Aggression is a new heavy metal project founded by Scott McClellan and Susie Hoffman Beahm. Breed Of Aggression have released the for their first single “Unmasked”.  Scott McClellan talking about the single ‘Unmasked’, “When Unmasked was written, I had the idea of Painkiller by Judas Priest in my head, …

Gojira have shared the official music video for ‘Sphinx’ a standout track from their acclaimed new album Fortitude. (read our review here) How can you not be affected by that heavy powerful riffing and the harsh vocals that sound almost unworldly. Directed and animated by Zev Deans, the music video sees Gojira delivering a pulverising performance at the feet of …

Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. According to frontman Britt Daniel, “It’s the sound of classic rock as written by …