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News has broken in the last 24 hours of the sad passing of Dan Sartain at the age of 39. The gothic-noir Western punk rocker...

Swans announce new album

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Could there ever be a more perfect time for a new Swans album to be announced? in the middle of a dystopian plague, we...

Gardenback: Word Of Mouth EP – review

Gardenback Word Of Mouth EP Sour Grapes Records DL all available platforms / Limited edition cassette Oldham trio...

Fightmilk: Overbite – single review

Fightmilk: Overbite (Reckless Yes) DL | Streaming Out Now Fightmilk have digitally released Overbite, the 3rd single from...
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Gardenback: Word Of Mouth EP – review

Gardenback Word Of Mouth EP Sour Grapes Records DL all available platforms...

Fightmilk: Overbite – single review

Fightmilk: Overbite (Reckless Yes) DL | Streaming Out Now Fightmilk have digitally released...

Special Friend: Ennemi Commun – album review

Special Friend: Ennemi Commun (Howlin’ Banana Records / Hidden Bay...

Elegiac – Elegiac – album review

(All City Records) https://elegiacupp.bandcamp.com/ A meeting of likeminds bringing a sideways...

Edo Funk Explosion Volume 1 – Review

https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/edo-funk-explosion-vol-1 Sometimes you just want to kick your shoes off...

Cult Figures: Deritend – album review

Cult Figures: Deritend (Gard du Nord Records) CD | DL |...

Dan Sartain has died

News has broken in the last 24 hours of...

CONFLICT: Statements Of Intent Box sets – Album review

CONFLICT: Statements Of Intent (1982-1987) and Statements Of Intent...

INTERVIEW : Poly Styrene speaks in depth to John Robb in 2008

INTERVIEW : Poly Styrene spoke to John Robb in 2008...

Swans announce new album

Could there ever be a more perfect time for...

ALBUM REVIEWS

Special Friend: Ennemi Commun – album review

Special Friend: Ennemi Commun (Howlin’ Banana Records / Hidden Bay Records) LP| DL | Streaming from...

Elegiac – Elegiac – album review

(All City Records) https://elegiacupp.bandcamp.com/ A meeting of likeminds bringing a sideways sort of wisdom to bear...

Edo Funk Explosion Volume 1 – Review

https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/edo-funk-explosion-vol-1 Sometimes you just want to kick your shoes off and relax and cut some...

Cult Figures: Deritend – album review

Cult Figures: Deritend (Gard du Nord Records) CD | DL | LP Released 26 March 2021 Brand new...

CONFLICT: Statements Of Intent Box sets – Album review

CONFLICT: Statements Of Intent (1982-1987) and Statements Of Intent (1988-1994) (Mortarhate) CD Released 26 March 2021 Cherry Red...

Brian Bennett: Voyage – album review

Brian Bennett - Voyage (Expanded Edition)   (Strawberry) 2CD/DL Released 26 March 2021 2CD reissue of Shadows...

Loney dear: A Lantern And A Bell – album review

Loney dear: A Lantern And A Bell (Real World) LP | CD | DL Released 26 March...

William Doyle : Great Spans of Muddy Time – album review

  William Doyle Great Spans of Muddy Time Tough Love Records CD, vinyl and digital  Buy here!   When Louder than...

FESTIVALS

Standon Calling 2021 – festival preview

Standon Calling have announced the first wave of bands for this year’s three-day event in the fields of Lordship Standon in Hertfordshire. Keith Goldhanger...

Six Of The Best Sets At Loftas Fest 2020

From toe-tapping rock n’ roll to darkly ethereal modular synthpop - discover highlights from the vibrant Loftas Fest in Vilnius, Lithuania... It’s predominantly local acts...

Photo Reviews

Stereophonics: Manchester Arena – live photo review

Stereophonics Manchester Arena March 13th 2019 Louder Than War photographer Michael Bond, captured Stereophonics on the Manchester leg of their European tour, promoting their 11th studio album...

Nasty Cherry: Manchester Academy 3 – live review

Nasty Cherry | Noisy MancesterAcademy 29th February 2020 Cazz Blase and Melanie Smith witness Nasty Cherry’s turbocharged Manchester debut. A far cry from the howling wind and...

Book Reviews

There And Black Again by Don Letts with Mal Peachey – book review

There And Black Again by Don Letts with Mal Peachey. Bryony Hegarty reviews for Louder Than War

Kate Bush The Kick Inside In Depth by Laura Shenton – book review

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside In Depth Laura Shenton Wymer Publishing - out now In the opening chapter of this in-depth look at "The Kick Inside,"...

LIVE REVIEWS

Band Of Holy Joy: Gallery 46, London – live stream review

Band Of Holy Joy London, Gallery 46 24 -27 February Band Of Holy Joy stage an event with a sense of occasion that emerges out of the...

A Celebration Of The Musical Life Of Sylvain Sylvain – live stream

A Celebration Of The Musical Life Of Sylvain Sylvain 14 February 2021 The sad and untimely death on 13 January 2021 of Sylvain Sylvain, the very...

Bush Tetras: Live Stream from (Le) Poisson Rouge – live review

Bush Tetras  Live Stream at LPR.tv  January 23, 2021 Stop what you’re doing and turn on your screen: Bush Tetras are playing again in New York City!...

Peter Hook And The Light: Mexico City – live stream

Peter Hook & The Light Mexico City January 15, 2021 Sure, it’s strange to be seeing live shows solely from the spaces of our own living rooms,...

Mike Garsons – A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day

A Bowie Celebration - Just For One Day Jan 10th 2021 (UK) Live Stream It's Five years to the day since the greatest singer/ songwriter of our...

Buck & Evans: Ratio Studios, Merthyr Tydfil – live stream review

Buck & Evans Ratio Studios, Merthyr Tydfil 12th December 2020 Buck & Evans crank up the amps for the first time in months to join in with...

INTERVIEWS

Interview: Night Beats – Louder Than War

As the global pandemic struck, Danny Lee Blackwell (Night Beats) made the move from his birthplace of Texas to the streets of old Hollywood...

Leah Callahan: Simple Folk – album review + interview

Leah Callahan Simple Folk Self Released DL from 22nd March Leah Callahan self releases her second solo album of the century on 22nd March. Simple Folk is an...

Interview: Graham Lewis (Wire/Elegiac)

Dan Volohov speaks with Graham Lewis about the upcoming ELEGIAC record and it’s first single - Vous Et Ici , about painting and Dada-mentality, about the formation of Wire and the importance of Dome for his current career.

Trigger Cut: Rogo – Album Review and Interview.

Trigger Cut: Rogo - Album Review and Interview Bandcamp  LP | CD | DL Out Now. German three-piece art-rock noise-unit Trigger Cut dump their bloody, new album,...

NEW ARTISTS

Special Friend: Ennemi Commun – album review

Special Friend: Ennemi Commun (Howlin’ Banana Records / Hidden Bay Records) LP| DL | Streaming from 26th March Formed in 2017, the duo of Erica Ashleson (American,...

Pelazo: Lie To Me – single review

Pelazo: Lie To Me (FOLC Records) 7" | DL Out now The debut single from new Spanish powerpop band packs a mean punch. Given the pedigree of those...

Play Dead: Skint – EP review

Play Dead: Skint (Blitzcat Records) Out 26 March 2021 on digital service providers After the delights of holidaying in Whitstable, and dodgy drugs on previous releases,...

New Artist Of The Day: ZoZo Ginzburg

ZoZo Ginzburg has travelled from Israel to Berlin and back to bring her Desert Punk sounds to the masses. Louderthanwar’s Christopher Lloyd reports. Many average...

Film Reviews

Russian Raid – film review

Russian Raid (2020) Director Denis Kryuchkov Cast: Ivan Kotik, Ilya Antonenko, Sofya Ozerova Language: Russian with optional English subtitles Format: Blu-ray 103 mins Release Date: 22nd March 2021 Jamie Havlin assesses...

Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry – film review

Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry Dir. R.J. Cutler Apple Original Films Runtime: 140 min Now Available on Apple TV+ R.J. Cutler's new film charts the meteoric rise...

SINGLE REVIEWS

Hannah Rose Kessler: My Theories On The Apocalypse – EP review

Hannah Rose Kessler My Theories On The Apocalypse EP Reckless Yes CD | DL | Streaming Out now Following on from recent singles Come Feel Me and A Thousand...

Brains For Breakfast: Repetition Over Again – single review

Brains For Breakfast: Repetition Over Again (Out Now) Brains for Breakfast - AKA West Midlands ukelele lover Andrew Webster - is back with a stinging slice...

Headshrinkers: Haggard Muggins – single review

Headshrinkers Haggard Muggins Out now West Midlands' most marvellous purveyors of post-punk return with a tale of male toxicity and tumultuous households. Sam Lambeth reviews. On the...

Jamie Holmes: From the Boots – single review

Jamie Holmes: From the Boots (Out Now) Freedom fighter, green warrior, great songwriter – Jamie Holmes is the full package. From the Boots, his new single,...