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Mighty and Thunderous grooves at Camden Underworld (Hang the Bastard)

26/09/2015

The word of Hang The Bastard was both mighty and thunderous...

Love being dirty. Loving sounding dirty (Mother’s Cake)

24/09/2015

Austria's hardest rockers talk to Trebuchet after their clamorous European support slot with Limp Bizkit...

Hitting the Key, or Falling Flat? (Operation: Mindcrime)

22/09/2015

Geoff Tate's voice, once a magnificent lead instrument, is a shadow of what it once was. ...

Great Band, Shame About the Crowd (The Heartless Bastards)

20/09/2015

Interview and review of The Heartless Bastards. The Borderline, London. 1st September 2015 ...

Renaissance Hit or Folk Flop? All Our Yesterdays (Blackmore’s Night)

17/09/2015

About as much in common with actual renaissance music as Dungeons and Dragons has with medieval history...

I want to party hard, but you won’t let me (Best Friends. Sebright Arms)

16/09/2015

Where is the quirky charming genius of 'Surf Bitches', 'Nosebleeds', 'Happy Anniversary'? I want to party hard tonight but you won’t let me. Best friends...

Whip Crack or Bad Craic? (The Bones)

15/09/2015

a smart, catchy sixth album, but rock and roll kinksters The Bones lack the originality to stand out...

Make Better Music 77: The Recording Process (Part Two)

12/09/2015

Style should transcend technique, but it cannot replace it...

Septic September Metal Mania (The Sword, Cattle Decapitation, Ahab)

11/09/2015

Album reviews whilst throwing a basket of kittens into an industrial shredder in the name of Hamas and Communism...

Staying Classy Whilst Skirting the Edge of Cheese (Praying Mantis)

09/09/2015

Praying Mantis play polished twin-guitar hard rock, more AOR than metal. It's a long way from NWOBHM, although they were always on the melodic side...

Many beats, no Spreadsheets. Pattern of Excel (Lee Bannon)

07/09/2015

Pattern of Excel must qualify as Bannon’s most experimental venture yet....

Loitered Lens: Mother’s Cake (Brixton Academy)

06/09/2015

Photos from Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015....

Acoustic Americana & My Nebraska (Warren Haynes)

05/09/2015

Interview with Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers and Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes on Ashes & Dust...

Explora: Morose Dynamism for a Renewed Euphoria (Florian Kupfer)

04/09/2015

In Explora, Florian Kupfer's stated influence from the bleak Berlin winter seems evident...

Love, Fear and the Time Machine (Riverside)

03/09/2015

Not only the best album of Riverside's career, but a strong contender for album of the year...

They’re still here, but have they still got it? (Motörhead)

30/08/2015

Motörhead : With their 22nd album Bad Magic, have the legends still got it?...

Pop a cap on your head. Limp Bizkit rock Brixton

29/08/2015

Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015. ...

Legends of music congregate for the faithful (Ramblin’ Man Fair 2015)

28/08/2015

It was a weekend to wear your denim (double or triple) and not to care too deeply about musical fashions, time, or even bad behaviour. ...

Elder statesmen of the third wave: The Oblivion Particle (Spock’s Beard)

27/08/2015

Swirling Mellotron and Hammond organ, blasts of hard rock guitar, rich layered vocal harmonies, and a strong sense of melody. ...

Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

23/08/2015

Photos from Ramblin' Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent...

Deeper and Darker: Magnet EP (The Fierce and the Dead)

21/08/2015

If Spooky Action had something of a punky, garage-rock vibe, Magnet is darker and denser...

The Sonics at Koko, London, by Carl Batson

And still they scream (The Sonics 2015)

20/08/2015

The suited old gentlemen taking the stage might have entered the Forum slowly, but as soon as the beat kicked in the dust fell off the band, and the beast emerged....

Shit music vs. Shamanic hardware with Author & Punisher

18/08/2015

I think one of the main things destroying our country right now is the boredom of white people. We're bored and depressed so we collect guns and aim them at immigrants....

Deep vulnerability and paranoia. Salt (Roseau)

17/08/2015

Salt's sound palette mixes electronic pop with more organic, natural sounds - the record's sonics were apparently inspired by a walk around a giant abandoned warehouse nearby ...

Industrial, metallic and alienating, Melk En Honing (Author & Punisher)

16/08/2015

Similar in both subject matter and delivery to Godflesh, Ministry and Killing Joke, you'd expect this to be neither an immediate nor an uplifting experience. However.... ...

Loitered Lens : Presence Autochtone

15/08/2015

The festival takes over La Place des Festivals, in the heart of Montreal's entertainment district, with a huge suspended teepee as the centrepiece....

Two Joans, good grace & strong cider. Cambridge Folk Festival 2015

14/08/2015

Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks....

Exclusive track: Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux (Asphyxia)

13/08/2015

Listen to Asphyxia : Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux - released 14th August....

Make Better Music 76 : The Recording Process

11/08/2015

No matter how boring, frustrating, agonising or infuriating it may seem simply going over and over the parts to be recorded, the value of that repetitive hand-eye/finger-digit movement will bring to...