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Album Review: CLT DRP – Nothing Clever, Just Feelings (Venn Records)
6 years in and Brighton based feminist electro-punk trio CLT DRP, have just dropped an absolute banger of an album, their second and first for Venn Records, home of Bob Vylan, Witch Fever and Meryl Streek. Recorded at Shaken Oak Studios in Oxford over the course of a week in March 2022, Nothing Clever, Just …
News: The Xcerts release new track ‘Blame’
Alternative three piece THE XCERTS announce their new album track ‘BLAME’, taken from their upcoming album ‘LEARNING HOW TO LIVE AND LET GO’ out August 18th via UNFD. Pre-order the album on CD and vinyl here, listen to ‘Blame’ on all streaming services here, and check out the band’s self directed one-shot, one-take live vocal video for the track here. …
News: 10 Years Of Live At Leeds & 10 Years Of Slow Club!
It is now just a little over a week until Live At Leeds, which incidentally is celebrating its 10th year as a festival this year! The first event in 2007 was held to celebrate Leeds’ 800th birthday, and has now grown into an integral part of the festival season, which attracts over 10,000 people each …
Live Gallery and Review: The National at the ICC, Sydney 1.03.2024
The National captivate Sydney audience with lead singer Matt Berninger engaging extensively with the crowd and creating an unforgettable, intimate experience.
Live Review: KISS – Utilita Arena, Newcastle 06/06/23
It’s finally time for the End of the Road Tour to make its way through the UK, following the KISS announcement that their last ever live stage performance will take place at Madison Square Gardens this year in New York after 50 years in the industry. So, with only a handful of UK dates on …
News: Malevolence announce UK and European tour
Malevolence, the UK’s reigning champs of contemporary metal, have been unstoppable since unleashing their latest album Malicious Intent. Now they’re ready to conquer the world, starting with an epic tour across the UK and Europe this winter! Brace yourself for a ferocious evening with thrash metal giants Sylosis, rising underground contenders Guilt Trip, and Aussie monsters Justice for The Damned. Malevolence front man Alex …
Album Review: Dead Miranda unleash the anarchic and thoroughly satisfying ‘Anima Pod’: a brutal sonic assault with a soft heart.
Anarchic sonic terrorists from Ital, Dead Miranda, have unleashed their debut album ‘Anima Pod’ on the world and it is a battering ram of deliciously dark noise that puts in a blender an insistent electronic throb with distorted strangulated and abused guitars. Deadpan lyrics are cold and distant, sneering and louche. An utterly cathartic blizzard …
Review: Max Appeal – Confidence Man release furious new track ‘Feels Like A Different Thing’.
Brisbane-based band, Confidence Man have released a new track, ‘Feels Like a Different Thing’ which is lifted from their forthcoming, sophomore album ‘Tilt’, which will be out on 1 April 2022. According to vocalist, Jane Planet: ‘Feels Like A Different Thing’ isn’t here to mess around, Two lyrics, one riff, no fuss. It’ll get your blood …
Live review: The Charlatans and Martin Carr, Exeter University, December 14th, 2021 plus gallery
A GREATEST hits tour, from The Charlatans, you say? Actually, I thought: with the increasingly Kafkaesque qualities of everyday life in the political, viral and, it being December, the actual darkness of the UK at the fraying, fag end of 2021, that would be an absolute tonic. Too right I’m in. The Charlatans have been …
Album review: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Bill Callahan – ‘Blind Date Party’: a rolling thunder lockdown revue of the Drag City stable, cast in cover versions
NOTHING at all, really. That, for a lifer musician with new songs in the back pocket, older ones to take out and share with fans on the road across the country and the world, no chance to get into a proper studio even, if it is only to kinda dick around and have a laugh …