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Clint Mansell & Neon Share New Video

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Clint Mansell and NEON share a striking new video for “Spirit of the Woods” https://youtu.be/2F8A5pNvNi0 Invada Records and Lakeshore Records are set to release the original...

LISTEN! Mick Jagger new solo single ‘a sprightly noisy affair that...

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That was a bit of a surprise. Mick Jagger new solo pandemic defying single ‘Easy Sleazy’  is sprightly noisy affair that sounds like Wire...

Clint Mansell & Neon Share New Video

Clint Mansell and NEON share a striking new video for “Spirit of the Woods” https://youtu.be/2F8A5pNvNi0 Invada...

Alan Vega: Mutator – album review

Alan Vega Mutator Sacred Bones 23 April 2021 An album recorded by Suicide’s Alan Vega at his mid-Nineties...
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Clint Mansell & Neon Share New Video

Clint Mansell and NEON share a striking new video...

Alan Vega: Mutator – album review

Alan Vega Mutator Sacred Bones 23 April 2021 An album recorded by Suicide’s...

The Pastel Waves: The Influencers – EP review

The Pastel Waves: The Influencers (Spinout Nuggets) 7" Out 30th April 2021 Made...

Honey Motel: Keep It To Yourself – single review

Honey Motel: Keep It To Yourself Out Now Liverpool's new guard...

Part one of our interview with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn

Imagine the best bar band in the world recruiting...

Tokyo Lungs: Soul Music – album review

Tokyo Lungs: Soul Music (Kibou/Amok) LP | DL Out Now A short...

International Solidarity Compilation: 100% Three Fingers in the Air Punk Rock – album review

International Solidarity Compilation - 100% Three Fingers in the...

The Good Water – Interview

The Good Water has a growing fanbase on the Birmingham scene with their acid edged, synth tinged psychedelia Nigel chats with them about life, lockdown, recording as a three-piece and their musical progression. 

Jamie Perrett: Masquerade Of Love – single review

Jamie Perrett: Masquerade Of Love (Ditto Music) Available here now on...

ALBUM REVIEWS

Alan Vega: Mutator – album review

Alan Vega Mutator Sacred Bones 23 April 2021 An album recorded by Suicide’s Alan Vega at his mid-Nineties...

Tokyo Lungs: Soul Music – album review

Tokyo Lungs: Soul Music (Kibou/Amok) LP | DL Out Now A short sharp shock of an LP...

International Solidarity Compilation: 100% Three Fingers in the Air Punk Rock – album review

International Solidarity Compilation - 100% Three Fingers in the Air Punk Rock (Death Pint) DL Out...

Mad Daddy: Mad Daddy – debut album reviewed

Album Review Mad Daddy: Mad Daddy (Mad Daddy) CD/DL/ Green Vinyl 8/10 Pre-order now  Released 23 April 2021 High-octane...

Burning Flag: Matador – album review

Burning Flag - Matador   (self-released / Phobia*) CD/DL/LP* Released 16 April 2021 Burning Flag's 3rd album Matador...

MICROCORPS: XMIT – album review

MICROCORPS: XMIT Label: Alter Format: LP/CD/DL Available: 16/04/2021 Brand new album from Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Furs, Imbogodom)...

Various – Riding The Rock Machine – album review

Various - Riding The Rock Machine Grapefruit 3CD/DL Released 23 April 2021 3CD boxset looking at pure 1970s...

The Nightingales: Pigs On Purpose (2-Disc Reissue) Reviewed

Album Review The Nightingales - Pigs On Purpose  (Call Of The Void) 2 CD / 2...

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

Spitting and Screaming: The True Story of British Punk 1971-1979 by Neil Saint – book review

Neil Saint “Spitting and Screaming: The True Story of British Punk (1971-1979); New Haven Publishing 2021 New author Neil Saint – of Retropopic Radio fame...

Tears for Fears: The Hurting In Depth – book review

Tears for Fears: The Hurting In Depth By Laura Shenton Wymer Publishing Out Now Tears for Fears debut album The Hurting positioned them as a sort of chart-friendly...

LIVE REVIEWS

The Cure : retro live review : Leicester 1981 – 40 years since we saw the band move into the future

The Cure Leicester De Montford Hall May 11th 1981 Live Review  It feels strange that something that once felt so much like the future is now part of...

The Charlatans and Guests: The North Will Rise Again – live review

The Charlatans | IST IST | LIINES. Gorilla, Manchester Sunday 28th March 2021 If someone had told us that one day all gig venues would be closed,...

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!...

INTERVIEWS

Part one of our interview with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn

Imagine the best bar band in the world recruiting a gifted street poet like Craig Finn as their frontman and you end up with...

The Good Water – Interview

The Good Water has a growing fanbase on the Birmingham scene with their acid edged, synth tinged psychedelia Nigel chats with them about life, lockdown, recording as a three-piece and their musical progression. 

Nirvana : The John Robb interview

In 1988 John Robb was the first person in the world to interview Nirvana. The following year he interviewed them again when the band was...

Marco : The John Robb interview

Marco : The John Robb interview In depth interview with the legendary Marco former Adaam And The Ants guitarist and key player in the very...

NEW ARTISTS

TASH: Chase – single review + video premiere.

TASH: Chase DL Out Now! TASH invite you to 'unleash the beast within' in their new single Chase, another excellent pop-rock earworm from the Brighton-based band. Back in...

Mad Daddy: Mad Daddy – debut album reviewed

Album Review Mad Daddy: Mad Daddy (Mad Daddy) CD/DL/ Green Vinyl 8/10 Pre-order now  Released 23 April 2021 High-octane Punk Rock ‘n’ Roll Blues from the Isle of Man....

Gintsugi: S/T – EP review

Gintsugi: S/T DL Out Now Gintsugi (aka Luna Paese) releases her eponymous debut EP, a beautifully crafted set of songs with an unsettling but elegant sound.  I recently...

Listen to this! Tommy Lefroy share new song The Cause

Split between Los Angeles and London, Tommy Lefroy release their new lo-fi indie-pop song The Cause. As their new song, The Cause, drifts out from...

Film Reviews

I Start Counting! – film review

I Start Counting! (1969) Director: David Greene Cast: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Claire Sutcliffe Format: Blu-ray Runtime: 105 mins Release date: 19 April 2021 Jamie Havlin assesses a British cult...

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...

SINGLE REVIEWS

The Pastel Waves: The Influencers – EP review

The Pastel Waves: The Influencers (Spinout Nuggets) 7" Out 30th April 2021 Made up of various Medway bands, The Pastel Waves have come together to write an EP...

Jamie Perrett: Masquerade Of Love – single review

Jamie Perrett: Masquerade Of Love (Ditto Music) Available here now on all streaming services Jamie Perrett finally takes a leap of faith in his own considerable talent...

Anastasia Vol: her – single review

Anastasia Vol: her  (Out Now) Anastasia Vol – master of the dark emotion, merchant of the melancholy – blends smoky instrumentation with lush vocals on soaring...

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...