Blues Rock
EP Review: Little Brother Eli (Self Titled)
Releasing a self titled EP can bring a few ideas to mind but the truth of it is it a self titled EP shows the confidence a band has with their material, and in this case that confidence is justified. Four musicians showing the best of their ability with three songs that are brilliantly written …
Album Review: The Wave Pictures – Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon
With a name like Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon, you would expect The Wave Pictures’ incredible 14th studio album to be quite exuberant. But really, Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon is less bells and whistles and more straight talking Bluesy Rock. The Wave Pictures have taken a modernist blues sound and mixed it with lyrical …
See: Knuckle release video for “Living Hell”
We’ve written about punk blues two piece Knuckle before. The pair, drummer Ben Wallbanks and singer/guitarist Jonny Firth describe themselves as being ‘The Black Keys on Crack’, and are gaining a reputation for their explosive live sets, which has seen them support the likes of Little Barrie and Holy Mountain. They’ve now released a video …
News: The Temperance Movement announce spring European Tour
London-based blues rockers The Temperance Movement are off on tour. Nothing new there, they played over a hundred gigs last year, and have already built a reputation for their live show here in e UK especially. This time though, the boys are off to peddle their considerable wares around the concert Halls of Europe first, …
A buyers guide to Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull are a band who are special to me. They’re the first band I saw live, the first band that I felt a genuine connection to, the first band where my adolescent mind went ‘Yep, this is for me’. Given that my peers at the time were obsessing over Nirvana or the contemporary hiphop …