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The Third Sound have announced details of their forthcoming fifth album, First Light, released on Fuzz Club Records on the 27th of August. Check...
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Killing Joke announce first UK tour for three years

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Dystopia meets its match! the apocalypse is now! Killing Joke announce 10 date UK tour... 

Various Artists – I’m A Freak Baby 3 – album review

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Various Artists - I'm A Freak Baby 3 Grapefruit Records 3CD/DL Released 25 June 2021 Subtitled A Further...
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1919: Citizens Of Nowhere – album review

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Various Artists – I’m A Freak Baby 3 – album review

Various Artists - I'm A Freak Baby 3 Grapefruit Records 3CD/DL Released...
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1919: Citizens Of Nowhere – album review

1919: Citizens Of Nowhere (Manic Depression Records) CD | Ltd...
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Blood Wine Or Honey: DTx2 – album review

Blood Wine Or Honey: DTx2 (Bastard Jazz) LP | DL Released 25th...
Bands

Fear Records presents… Kanteena, Lancaster – Live Review

Fear Records presents… SHADE / The France / Rolla /...
Album Reviews

CHIHUAHUA: Violent Architecture – album review

album review CHIHUAHUA: Violent Architecture (no label) DL only Out now 9/10 Manchester, England....
Heavy metal

Interview: Bossk

Bossk, are at the cutting edge of metal, putting...
News

The Third Sound announce new album – news

The Third Sound have announced details of their forthcoming...
News

Killing Joke announce first UK tour for three years

Dystopia meets its match! the apocalypse is now! Killing Joke announce 10 date UK tour... 
Bands

Watch This! Ceiling Demons unveil new video and album news

This single paints images of the power of nature, self-mastery and unity in broken times which feels fitting for the current climate in 2021.
Film

Friendship’s Death – film review

Friendship’s Death (1987) Director: Peter Wollen Cast: Tilda Swinton, Bill Paterson Runtime:...

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Various Artists – I’m A Freak Baby 3 – album review

Various Artists - I'm A Freak Baby 3 Grapefruit Records 3CD/DL Released 25 June 2021 Subtitled A Further...
Album Reviews

1919: Citizens Of Nowhere – album review

1919: Citizens Of Nowhere (Manic Depression Records) CD | Ltd LP | DL Rel Date 25th...
Album Reviews

Blood Wine Or Honey: DTx2 – album review

Blood Wine Or Honey: DTx2 (Bastard Jazz) LP | DL Released 25th June 2021 Pre-order on Bandcamp   It’s coming...
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CHIHUAHUA: Violent Architecture – album review

album review CHIHUAHUA: Violent Architecture (no label) DL only Out now 9/10 Manchester, England. Art-Noise Socio-politico band. Not to...
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Various Artists: Good As Gold – album review

Various Artists: Good As Gold (Grapefruit) 5CD | DL Released 25 June 2021 Subtitled Artefacts Of The Apple...
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Butterfly 3000 – album review

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 KGLW Records DL/Vinyl/CD Available here King Gizzard return with album eighteen...
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Ursa Minor: Sian Ka’an – album review

Ursa Minor: Sian Ka’an (Velvet Elk Records) DL | Cassette Out Now A transformative experience in the natural...
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Francis Lung: Miracle – album review

Francis Lung: Miracle (Memphis Industries) CD | LP| Digital Out now The intertextual and personal second album by...

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Y Not Festival 2021: The Louder than War Preview

Y Not Festival 2021: The Louder than War Preview It is actually happening: festivals are finally returning and the world is starting to look right...
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Victorious Festival Announces 2021 Headliners

Madness, The Streets and Royal Blood set to Headline Southsea's Victorious Festival this August.

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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...
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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...

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Book Reviews

Helen Reddington: She’s At the Controls — book review

She's At the Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century By Helen Reddington (Equinox Publishing) £24.95 / $32.00 Out now! She's At the Controls is...
Book Reviews

Janis Joplin: Days and Summer 1966-68 Scrapbook- book review

Janis Joplin: Days and Summers 1966-68 Scrapbook Genesis Publications Available to order June 2021 This remarkable book, based on Janis Joplin’s scrapbook from 1966-68, gives us a...

LIVE REVIEWS

Fear Records presents… Kanteena, Lancaster – Live Review

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Fear Records presents… SHADE / The France / Rolla / Rich Kid Problems Lancaster, Kanteena 19th June 2021 Iain Key travelled to Lancaster to attend his first gig...

Himalayas: Manchester Bread Shed – live review

Live Reviews
Like Gareth Bale’s rock n roll football Welsh band Himalayas deliver melodic and powerful songs that embrace the emotion of their home country

Squid: Manchester Stoller Hall – live review

Live Reviews
Tonight is a celebration of the imagination and the Squid squad are the champions of the form. 

Shame: Hebden Bridge Trades Club – live review

Live Reviews
Shame Hebden Bridge Trades Club Friday 27 May 2021 Shame are one of those bands who feed off the energy of a raucous crowd so being faced...

Scott Lavene: George Tavern, Shadwell – live review

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Scott Lavene The George Tavern, Shadwell 26 May 2021 Spring has sprung! The bluebells are out. As Covid hopefully gets a little smaller in the rearview mirror,...

Honeyfeet: Manchester Albert Hall – live review

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Manchester's Honeyfeet perfectly embrace the joyous, very human experience of live music with a heart warming celebration of the form that brings the house down and back up again for a standing ovation
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Heavy metal

Interview: Bossk

Bossk, are at the cutting edge of metal, putting together their new album, Migration, a stunning mix of post-metal music, electronics and sampling, and...
Blogs

Mally Mall: “Conversation With A Global Anomaly” by Eileen Shapiro and Gabriel Evan

The world is no bigger than the people who inhabit it, and some are possessed with the force to embrace the warmth of an...
Music

The Shop Window: The State Of Being Human – album review

The Shop Window: The State Of Being Human (Spinout Nuggets) Vinyl | CD | DL and Streaming Released 25th June The Shop Window release their debut album,...
Bands

Use Hearing Protection: The Early Years Of Factory Records – An Essential Visit!

Following on from Audrey Golden's excellent piece on Factory through the exhibition, Nigel Carr attended the press day on Wednesday and interviewed Archive Manager...
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NEW ARTISTS

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CHIHUAHUA: Violent Architecture – album review

album review CHIHUAHUA: Violent Architecture (no label) DL only Out now 9/10 Manchester, England. Art-Noise Socio-politico band. Not to be dismissed as Post-IDLES, Sonic Youth influenced newcomers, there is...
Blogs

Anti Honey: I Hate Music – single review

Anti Honey: I Hate Music (Self Released) Streaming Out now Chester based artist Anti Honey have released their debut single, I Hate Music, for streaming. I say ‘their’ but...
Blogs

Mally Mall: “Conversation With A Global Anomaly” by Eileen Shapiro and Gabriel Evan

The world is no bigger than the people who inhabit it, and some are possessed with the force to embrace the warmth of an...
New Artist

New band of the day : Pastel : ‘take you on a Madchester rollercoaster that is very much looking into the future’

Pastel are already making waves if we get a heatwave summer in 2022 then, 'The past was yours But the future's mine
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Film Reviews

Film

Friendship’s Death – film review

Friendship’s Death (1987) Director: Peter Wollen Cast: Tilda Swinton, Bill Paterson Runtime: 75 minutes Format: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, BFI Player, iTunes and Amazon Prime. Release Date: 21 June 2021 Jamie...
Bands

Don’t Go Gentle: A Film About IDLES – film review

Approaching its cinema release on July 2nd, Jon Kean reviews Don't Go Gentle, the documentary that captures the essence of IDLES.
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SINGLE REVIEWS

Single Review

Hearts Apart: Number One To No One – EP review

Hearts Apart: Number One To No One (Self-release) DL Out now   Italian power punks Hearts Apart release their new EP, Number One To No One, an energic blast...
Music

Headshrinkers: Interrobang – single review

Headshrinkers: Interrobang  Out Now Headshrinkers, the Midlands merchants of moody anthemic rock, serve up another spoonful of coal-black brilliance. Sam Lambeth reviews. Headshrinkers have been on a...
Single Review

Fred Paa Jord: Bommer På Alt – single review

Fred Paa Jord: Bommer På Alt (Blanca Records) Out now Norway's Fred Paa Jord release a new single with a funky summertime vibe. Summer's upon us and it's...
Music Reviews

Lucy Gooch: Rain’s Break – EP review

Lucy Gooch: Rain's Break (Fire Records) LP | CD | DL Released 25th June 2021 Rain's Break, the new EP from Lucy Gooch, is a lush synth-driven dreamscape...
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