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Grauzone announce line up for online version of key post punk...
Line-up: www.grauzonefestival.nl/line-up-grauzone-festival-2021
Event/Attend here: www.facebook.com/events/786741651836136 FESTIVAL GOES ONLINE AND REVEALS FIRST NAMES The interdisciplinary Grauzone adds a.o. Amenra, Whispering Sons, Sylvie Kreusch, Zanias, Sons, Rumours
Grauzone Festival announces...
Mush announce UK October tour – news
The Leeds' band Mush, who released their latest album, Lines Redacted , in February, have announced a UK tour for October. On the album, we...
Cathal Coughlan : The John Robb interview
Cathal Coughlan has been on the cutting edge of post punk indie for decades,...
Balmorhea: The Wind – album review
Balmorhea: The Wind (Deutsche Grammophon) LP|CD|DL Released 9th April 2021 Buy here Balmorhea’s latest release, The Wind, is a...
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Music Interviews
Cathal Coughlan : The John Robb interview
Cathal Coughlan has been on the cutting edge of...
Album Reviews
Balmorhea: The Wind – album review
Balmorhea: The Wind (Deutsche Grammophon) LP|CD|DL Released 9th April 2021 Buy here Balmorhea’s latest...
Album Reviews
Autogramm: No Rules – album review
Autogramm: No Rules (Nevado Records) CD | LP | DL Released on...
Music
Out Of Love: Funny Feeling – EP review
Out Of Love: Funny Feeling EP (Venn Records) DL | Streaming...
Book Reviews
A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who – from Pop Art to Punk – book review
A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who – from...
Interview
Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum (Part One) – interview
Interview: Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum (Part One)
When...
Music Reviews
Villins: The Power – EP review
Villins – The Power Debut EP Released 26th March 2021 “Jesyka...
Album Reviews
Morning Bride: Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde – album review
Morning Bride: Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde (Self-released) DL Out Now Morning Bride, purveyors...
Album Reviews
Album Reappraisals: Grouper – A | A: Dream Loss and Alien Observer
Grouper A | A: Dream Loss and Alien Observer Released...
Album Reviews
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! – album review
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (Constellation...
ALBUM REVIEWS
Balmorhea: The Wind – album review
Balmorhea: The Wind (Deutsche Grammophon) LP|CD|DL Released 9th April 2021 Buy here Balmorhea’s latest release, The Wind, is a...
Autogramm: No Rules – album review
Autogramm: No Rules (Nevado Records) CD | LP | DL Released on 16 April 2021 Autogramm return with...
Morning Bride: Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde – album review
Morning Bride: Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde (Self-released) DL Out Now Morning Bride, purveyors of lush Americana tempered by...
Album Reappraisals: Grouper – A | A: Dream Loss and Alien Observer
Grouper A | A: Dream Loss and Alien Observer Released in April 2011 Two remarkable albums...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! – album review
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (Constellation Records) CD | DL | Vinyl Released...
Cold Water Swimmers: Holiday At The Secret Lake – album review
Cold Water Swimmers release the best album of the year so far reckons Wayne AF Carey...
The Armoires – Incognito – album review
The Armoires - Incognito Big Stir Records CD/DL Released 1 April 2021 A new album with 18 tracks,...
Ivan Zoloto: Pleasure Prison – album review
Ivan Zoloto: Pleasure Prison School of the Arts (SOTA311) DL/CD/CASS Karelian-born, Barcelona-based artist Ivan Zoloto releases his...
FESTIVALS
Victorious Festival Announces 2021 Headliners
Madness, The Streets and Royal Blood set to Headline Southsea's Victorious Festival this August.
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...
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
A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who – from Pop Art to Punk – book review
A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who – from Pop Art to Punk by Peter Stanfield. Reaktion Books March 2021 Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation - The Who...
Tracey Thorn: My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend – book review
My Rock’n’Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn Canongate Books Ltd Neil Davenport’s reports on Tracey Thorn’s absorbing book about her friend Lindy Morrison the Go-Betweens drummer that...
LIVE REVIEWS
Alex Maas: Levitation Session, 27 March 2021 – live review
Throughout the last year, Levitation have taken some of the best psych-garage bands around and recorded live sessions in places that really bring out...
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...
INTERVIEWS
Cathal Coughlan : The John Robb interview
Cathal Coughlan has been on the cutting edge of post punk indie for decades, Since coming out of the brilliant Cork scene in the...
Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum (Part One) – interview
Interview: Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum (Part One)
When respected drummer Peter Yanowitz and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen signed up to be part of the...
Pictish Trail: Dream Wall EP review + interview
Pictish Trail: Dream Wall EP (Fire Records) Released 1st of April Pictish Trail, the pseudonym of neo-psychedelia troubadour Johnny Lynch, did not get to be an underground...
Interview: Martyn Ware “Pioneers don’t necessarily reap the rewards they deserve”
From 1977 to the present day, Martyn Ware has made some of the most ambitious and forward-facing music possible. His latest project finds him...
NEW ARTISTS
Out Of Love: Funny Feeling – EP review
Out Of Love: Funny Feeling EP (Venn Records) DL | Streaming Released 16th April 2021 London Punks Out Of Love heralded the coming of their second EP,...
Villins: The Power – EP review
Villins – The Power Debut EP Released 26th March 2021 “Jesyka and Jesus are Villins, the most dangerous band from New York City. A fearless musical...
SHADE : Jump Into Heaven – single review
SHADE: Jump Into Heaven (Fear Records) DL and Streaming Out Now Jump Into Heaven, the third single from SHADE, is proving lucky for the acclaimed Manchester 4-piece...
Radio Silence: Isolation – EP review
Radio Silence: Isolation EP (Self-released) DL Out now! Newcastle garage-psych berserkers unleash their red-hot debut EP, Isolation. Whitley Bay-based writer Gus Ironside hears echoes of The Cramps, The...
Film Reviews
The Lucky Stars 3-Film Collection – film review
The Lucky Stars 3-Film Collection - Winners and Sinners (1983) / My Lucky Stars (1985) / Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars (1985)
Director: Sammo Hung
Cast: Sammo...
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...
SINGLE REVIEWS
M(h)aol: Asking For It – single review
M(h)aol: Asking For It
Out Now Was I asking for it? Did I ask for It? No! With their new single Asking For It, the Irish feminist...
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...
