Music
Meet: JJ Burnel talks about The Stranglers upcoming tour & past/ present relationships within the band.
After more than forty years of touring and releasing records it seems that The Stranglers are a band that can still electrify audiences, they have been playing to increasingly packed venues over the last ten years with an exciting live show that showcases the band’s hugely underrated back catalogue. I spoke to bassist JJ …
See: Legendary Aussie band The Church unveil new single/video Vanishing Man
These seemingly eternal warriors of psychedelia are on the move again – The Church have only just released their album Further/Deeper in the US (we glowingly reviewed this treasure last October) and will be undertaking an extensive North American tour in the coming months. Read my review of their remarkable gig in Sydney here and make sure you …
Album Review: John Carpenter – Lost Themes
John Carpenter colored at least two generations’ dreams in burnt fall hues. Faded browns, oranges, yellows, and reds, topped with gray, overcast skies bled into our psyche and made us re-imagine Halloween in a whole new way. In a way where the fear we felt walking down the sidewalk in our Darth Vader costume holding a …
Live Review: Justin Townes Earle – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 03.02.2015
Sobriety clearly agrees with Mr Townes Earle as he takes a full house on a relaxed tour through his career highlights with some unexpected detours along the way. The highly intelligent Townes Earle has been refreshingly open about his struggles with serious substance abuse, and in the past it has led to gigs resembling a …
Track: Prides release the empowering synth-pop of Higher Love
Pinned as one of 2015’s hottest new bands, Prides are doing everything in their power to live up to the hype and give us music that’s worth talking about. This synth-pop trio are no stranger to hard work, releasing a handful of perfect pop anthems and performing their own headline tour at the end of last year. ‘Higher …
Track: London quartet Little Grim release new single, Vice
Out on February 23rd is the new and debut single from London quartet Little Grim. Called ‘Vice’, lead singer and guitarist of the band Joseph Murphy describes the story behind the record as “Vice is a song based on jealousy. Like a neon light leaves a distorted impression under your eyelids, I feel jealousy distorts …
News: Earache releases Bolt Thrower “Peel Sessions” LP
Let’s get this out of the way right from the off. Yes, its out now. And yes, it is just an excuse to play some of Coventry’s finest for you all. If you don’t know Bolt Thrower, then they were at the forefront of the grindcore/death metal scene right from their formation in 1986, and …
Interview: We interview Gallows, plus album news
Identifying through their bleak world of austere black and white music videos, and albums entitled Grey Britain, Gallows are very much not a poster band for positivity. However, what they are is a band capable of producing music so beautifully sombre and haunting it transports to their foreboding world where stomping punk songs exist, that …
Not Forgotten: Elliott Smith – either/or
It was a movie that first brought my attention to Elliott Smith. On watching Good Will Hunting in 1998 I heard some remarkable songs on the soundtrack that I didn’t know. It was Miss Misery playing over the end credits that particularly caught my attention. I loved it so much that I stayed to the …
Meet: Idlewild’s Rod Jones
Whilst the first glimpse of Idlewild’s new album Everything Ever Written, titled Collect Yourself was very good when it dropped onto our radar late last year, the bands new single Come On Ghost, is brilliant. Swaying with intent throughout and decorated with grating guitar solo’s and soaring riffs, it shows the band is capable of …