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Meet: Nate Bergman; A Bruce Springsteen For The Noughties

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News: Smashing Pumpkins & Weezer announce joint UK dates for summer 2024

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Live Review: Billy Idol – Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY 12.09.2023

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I’ve been digging into the Red Fang discography for the last few days, ever since I picked up their newest album Only Ghosts on the always trusty Relapse Records. I have to say, with the exception of a few songs I’m not all that moved by these Portland stoner rockers. I’d heard the track “Cut …

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American Industrial Alt band Kidney Thieves fresh from the successful crowd funding of their fourth studio album The Mend, their first since Trypt0fanatic in 2010 (available in digital, CD and Vinyl formats here), are planning on a couple of intimate private shows in L.A this November. Free Dominguez and Bruce Somers who make up the …

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Polica bassist Chris Bierden is a staple on the Minneapolis music scene – contributing both bass and vocals to the last two Har Mar Superstar records, as well as being involved in projects such as Heavy Deeds, Pony Trash, and Bones & Beeker. He releases his first solo album on 11th November under his Invisible …

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Only a year has passed since the release of an album from the Blackberry Smoke camp, yet they’re already at it again with their fifth studio album, Like An Arrow. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, the five piece have their work cut out in following the footsteps of their last album, Holding All The Roses, which …

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Since their 2011 album Heritage, prog metal titans Opeth have been exploring their more progressive side. To various reactions from fans, the band have seemingly stood firm in their decision to eliminate the more metal part of their sound. 2008’s Watershed; with its growled vocals and technical death metal style riffing, marks the last time …

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“30 bloody years! Who would’ve thought it, eh? As we were well renowned for our, ahem, lifestyle choices, shall we say, I remember Melody Maker ran an office pool betting which member of The Mission would die first!” But survive they did – and they brought quite a few of us along with them, picked …

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Do you like big riffs? Yeah course you do, well if you haven’t already make sure you do yourself a favour and listen to Every Time I Die’s latest record. Got that? Good. Every Time I Die releasing great records has now become almost boringly predictable. Their latest release entitled Low Teens is the eighth …

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You can form your own opinion on Attlia, and in particular their outspoken frontman Chris ‘Fronzilla’ Fronzak. But by the words of the Director of their new video for ‘Bulletproof’, Frankie Nasso, explained that they are one of the most hardworking and dedicated groups out there. “It was well over 100 degrees when we shot …

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For those of you who may have missed the last Trivium UK tour, do not fear, the band are hitting the UK again early next year. The massive run of dates across Europe sees them hit, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Scotland before spending over a month in mainland Europe, so there’s no excuse to …

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It can’t be easy having been the interesting member of Yes. While the rest of that most hilariously pompous prog-rock act had their heads firmly jammed up their own derrieres, keyboard twiddling cape fancier Rick Wakeman alone was responsible for ‘keeping it real’. Or as real as things can be when your vocalist sounds like …

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