rock/metal
A Buyers Guide to Randy Newman
Quick – who is the greatest songwriter America has ever produced? Okay, how many of you said Bob Dylan? More than three quarters of you I should imagine and you may even be right, but how many of you looked beyond the obvious and said Randy Newman? Quite a few probably, because you’re reading an …
A Buyers Guide to Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin. You’ve heard of them right? They were quite good at that rock music thing back in the day and after years of putting it off their chief architect is finally getting around to releasing their studio albums in remastered and expanded form. Quite why it has taken Jimmy Page until now to finally …
Rising: We talk with Edinburgh post-rockers Wozniak
We were sort of captured when we heard ‘El Maresme’, the latest single by Edinburgh’s Wozniak. We’ve heard layers of guitars before, but this was something else. Moody, downcast even, but writhing beneath layer upon complex layer of effects laden guitars. Our minds might not be the strongest things out there, but they were well …
See: Courtney Love. Releases new video, ‘You Know My Name’, plus Tour details
Unless you’ve been hiding under the covers, locked in a cupboard or in some kind of coma for the past few weeks you’ll be aware that a certain Ms.Love is coming to town. Not only that but she’s got some new solo material, her first since 2004’s ‘America’s Sweetheart’. Ignore the tabloid bullshit and the …
News: Lawnmower Deth plan to re-release Ooh Crikey It’s, plus Download apprearance
It’s not fair to say legendary thrash metallers Lawnmower Deth are back, because technically they reformed in 2008, after three and a half albums worth of injecting humour into the genre, and continuing in the tradition of unlikely covers, taking on the likes of Kim Wilde, Squeeze, The Osmonds and Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and …
See: Thot. release new video for ‘HTRZ’
‘Here mate. Do you fancy a bit of vegetal noise music?’ Don’t know about where you live, but it’s the sort of question we get asked all the time round here. Usual response to the question is ‘Yeah, but only if you’ve got some of that industrial strength stuff.You know the stuff I mean – …
LIve Review: New Model Army. Holmfirth Picturedrome. 24.04.14
In the 30 years since the release of their first album, ‘Vengeance’ , New Model Army have built up an ever increasing and very loyal fan base, and a reputation for staging fierce live performances. Their 2013 album ‘Between Dog and Wolf’ has been their most successful for 20 years. It was time to see …
News: Blackberry Smoke announce October UK Tour
It should be no surprise that Atlanta, Georgia rockers Blackberry Smoke are out on the road, on average they spend most of their time touring, on average playing in excess of 200 dates per year. That hard work is reaping its rewards with their debut UK album ‘The Wippoorwill’ gaining plaudits just about everywhere and …
See: Five Finger Death Punch release video for “House of the Rising Sun”, plus US dates
Let’s get this straight from the start, firstly – yes it is. Secondly – it is nothing like any version you’ve (probably) ever heard. The folk song, famously a hit for The Animals in 1964, but recorded before that by the likes of Josh White and Leadbelly, is given a complete reworking, moved into …
Feature: Cheerio Jethro Tull – thoughts on the ending
Following a particularly demanding day at work, I wandered into Sheffield branch of HMV on Tuesday. As I walked through the doors, my eyes inevitably flicked to my right and across to the new release display. Ninety percent of the time I don’t even recognise the name of at least half of the acts on …