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Death Metal is a Serious Business [Dawn of Azazel]

29/04/2015

The relentless hammering and visceral roars will keep their core audience happy – but it leaves you wondering what they'd come up with if they let go of their single-minded obsession with brutality...

Make Better Music 74: Notes on Composition

26/04/2015

When approaching a music writing session, have some sense of the idea you intend to reveal...

His Hobo Cabaret [Seasick Steve]

23/04/2015

The downhome drawl, the dungarees, the hobo stories, the homemade instruments. Seasick Steve Live @ Eventim Apollo, London. April 14th 2015....

Riffs thick enough to float a ship [Rongeur]

20/04/2015

Rongeur's sparse instrumentation gives the music room to breathe...

Courtney Barnett likes chairs

18/04/2015

Courtney Barnett's songs are like diary entries, written to be sung to a captivated audience...

Essence of old school rock [The Amorettes]

18/04/2015

Over all too soon, leaving just telltale scuff marks, a ringing in the ears and the faint smell of perfume ...

A folksy bagpipe-led interlude unexpectedly sweeps in [Skyforger]

17/04/2015

Their use of a jaw harp is perhaps unique in metal....

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]

14/04/2015

Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona...

Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

13/04/2015

This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared....

Lacking in natural grease, Rock Top Trumps Deathmatch

12/04/2015

You can spend hours in your bedroom practising your scales and hours more preening and primping but you can’t spray on that magical gritty rock and roll quality...

An undercurrent of groove and funk… gone dull. [Polar Bear]

11/04/2015

Two tracks in, and the band departs to leave the irritatingly named Leafcutter John to give the audience a few minutes of meandering ambient nonsense....

Fish brings Misplaced Childhood back on tour

08/04/2015

It was not only a breakthrough album for the band but also for me as an artist because I was finally discovering my own individual style as a lyricist and singer....

HRH Prog 2015

08/04/2015

Pwllheli is a long way from anywhere at the far end of a winding single-track railway line. The train stops many, many times at little request stops, but only if you know how to pronounce the...

Officer?! There’s mashed potato on the Pentonville Road! [The Lovely Eggs]

06/04/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere are six people who probably tune in to my witterings, four of whom have probably already abandoned ship half way through this...

A more melodic variation on the metal theme [Karnivool]

05/04/2015

Metal is mostly preaching to the converted, but the congregation at London's Roundhouse was definitely devout and ecstatic....

A battle between nature and technology [Clark]

04/04/2015

Clark's music expresses a world precariously balanced, sounding equally on the brink of triumph and disaster; the two often intertwining...

Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]

31/03/2015

As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner's work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. ...

Ripping into the Islington night [Night Ranger]

29/03/2015

Hardcore fans packed out the venue whilst the band hit the stage with a mighty explosion of raw power. Night Ranger...

Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

26/03/2015

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

25/03/2015

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...

Make Better Music 73: Mindful Qualities

24/03/2015

Quality requires a mindfulness and quietness to allow ideas to form, take shape, emerge and grow...

Deadly Particles at KOKO [Starset]

22/03/2015

For those of us who have stared into alien eyes, we got the message. ...

Built with vision and prowess [Planetary Assault Systems]

21/03/2015

A thriving and rapidly evolving sonic ecosystem, producing an expansive soundfield that's simultaneously serene and nervous...

Cafe OTO Call/Response invocations [Zun Zun Egui]

19/03/2015

Add some Mauritian sunshine with Zun Zun Egui's unique blend of roots, jazz and shoegaze...

Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

18/03/2015

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

Take science out of it; everything is fiction (The Rezillos)

17/03/2015

'the music, the song writing and the recorded performances are by far the most important thing'...

Searching for the Great American Album [JKutchma]

16/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is eternal credence in the idea of “the great American novel”. The essential capturing of American culture – its...

A band looking to the future rather than the past [Karnataka]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been more than two years since Karnataka last toured the UK. Fronted by their third lead singer (former Riverdance singer...