Music
Album Review: Public Enemy – Live From Metropolis Studios
“Feels good to be around some familiar surroundings” Flava Flav announces during the opening to Public Enemy’s DVD, Live from Metropolis Studios. For someone that has listened to Public Enemy as an impressionable youth, it’s great to be in familiar territory also. Where there is perhaps a sect who think that Flava Flav is this …
News: Soundcrash and DJ Yoda announce Halloween night at Rich Mix, 31.10.15
This Halloween, get ready for the scariest (and possibly grooviest – do people still say groovy?) party around as Soundcloud and celebrated DJ, DJ Yoda take over the performance space Rich Mix for a monumental party, including hair-raising audio and spine-chilling visuals. As ever with Yoda, aka London turntablist Duncan Beiny, expect the unexpected – …
Live Review: Mallory Knox At Manchester Ritz 29.09.15
Set It Off are part of the newest wave of pop-punk bands to grace the rock scene. While far from ground-breaking, their saccharine spirit provides the most energy this stage will see all night. The pace picks up from the very beginning, and stays there as Cody Carson stands on the barrier and puts his …
Live Rview: LoneLady, Gorilla, Manchester, 01.10.2015
For years, I had a vague feeling of musical dissatisfaction. Sure, The Heartbreaks tried their best to make me happy and, briefly, I was in love with The Slow Show. But deep, down inside, a still, small voice kept whispering to my middle-aged complacency, “Simo, Simo—. You’re more into Post-Punk than all of this Indie-schmindy …
Album Review: The Virgance – ‘Paradigm 3’
‘Paradigm 3’ is the 3rd album in 18 months from precocious and prodigious talent, The Virgance aka Natham Smith. It follows hot on the heels of 2014’s ‘Lost Continent’ and this January’s ‘Hiko Shrine’, a release which, in conjunction with an interview with the man himself, I was honoured to have grace this page – “‘Hiko Shrine’ …
See: Slipknot Announce UK Arena Dates For 2016 And Premiere New Video
America’s finest masked metallers Slipknot are set to return to UK shores in February 2016. After smashing the headline spot at Download Festival this year for the third time, the iconic nine-piece return for their second arena headline run in as many years. The shows are set to be huge with the band never shying …
A buyers’ guide to AC/DC 1975 – 1981
There is a school of thought that you don’t actually need to know what an individual AC/DC album sounds like, you just need to know if it’s any good… If there is one band that stuck to a formula throughout their career, then it’s AC/DC. Hell, even Status Quo transitioned from their Carnaby Street phase …
Album Review: Chvrches – Every Open Eye
If I were to introduce you to my sister I’d probably say: “She hates loud noises, dark spaces, and people.” She’s not a fan of music and her opinions of the medium range from complete indifference to downright cynicism. It’s a surprise to anyone when she finds a band she likes – she’s only bought …
Meet: The Van T’s
Photo by Martin Barker Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to make the e-cquaintance of Claire Lim who along with partner-in-crime Paul McCallum, co-founded A Badge of Friendship in 2009. Their roster is choc full of the sort of bands like The Van T’s, who scratch my “melan-phoric” itch. Prophetically, just a few days before hand, I …
Track: Annabelle’s Curse – Brother in Arms
Brother in Arms, the new single from Virgina five piece Annabelle’s Curse, immediately has this warm fuzzy indie-folk feeling about it. Maybe its the bass, that rumbles along underneath everything, maybe its the lilting nature of it, shuffling from one chord to another during the verse, maybe its the lovely harmonies that sweep over the …