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HHY & The Macumbas – Throat Permission Cut

20/10/2014

This collaboration, the first Macumbas vinyl release, is based around electric bass, brass, percussion and electronics....

Loitered Lens : UK Subs

19/10/2014

Photos of the UK Subs at the Watford Punk Collective....

The stone cold truth (The Graveltones)

18/10/2014

'not that our music is really ‘saying anything’, but lyrics have to have something in there that connects with people'. The Graveltones talk to Trebuchet...

Transatlantic : KaLIVEoscope

16/10/2014

For all the fabled self-indulgence of their sprawling studio albums, this recording gives a taste of just why Transatlantic are held in such high regard as a live act....

Loitered Lens : The Vaselines

12/10/2014

Kurt Cobain called The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee his favourite songwriters....

Haken : Restoration [EP]

10/10/2014

Haken have the instrumental virtuosity and musical scope of the best in progressive rock, but unlike some other bands they aren't content to create reverential pastiches of 70s greats....

Reeves Gabrels and his Imaginary Fr13nds [Live]

09/10/2014

Just someone else’s guitarist? Not a chance. Gabrels is every inch a worthy frontman. ...

Neil Cowley Trio at the Barbican

08/10/2014

The music is melodic and yet pays homage to the piano's percussive roots....

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Loitered Lens : Josh Flowers and the Wild

05/10/2014

Hard hitting, bluesy, folky rock with the hint of a shanty bellowed out like a broadside of canon towards the crowd....

IntO the mOOn : Passing Clouds [Live]

03/10/2014

A self-possessed alternative gypsy rock band whose lyrics resound with those who want to say something but don’t quite know how to say it....

The Bug : Angels and Devils

02/10/2014

An atmospheric dub record that easily ranks amongst Kevin Martin’s best....

Brother and Bones at the 100 Club [Live]

01/10/2014

With a mixture of rock rebellion, huge choruses, percussion and pounding beat, there’s a lot to recommend Brother and Bones from the start....

Frontiers Records : AOR and Proud

30/09/2014

Three new releases from Frontiers Records give a taste of what the current AOR scene has to offer....

Loitered Lens : Old Firm Casuals / Control / Angry Agenda

29/09/2014

Photos of Old School Casuals, Angry Agenda and Control at The Flag, Watford...

Empty Yard Experiment : Kallisti

27/09/2014

With a sound that stretches from the sparse classical piano of "Sunyata" to the claustrophobic heaviness of "Entropy", Empty Yard Experiment are a band with a strong music identity of their own...

Loitered Lens : White Hills

26/09/2014

Solid, driving rhythms were the bedrock for Dave W's soaring guitar that definitely puts the rock into psychedelic rock....

Josh Flowers and the Wild [Live]

25/09/2014

We danced a merry jig, swilled from the flagon and swashed our buckles for ‘twas indeed one to remember....

Lee Gamble : KOCH

24/09/2014

The fractured, inconsistent nature of the work seems to be inherent to Gamble's approach...

Mono/Poly : Golden Skies

22/09/2014

We’re left with a sense of power and fragmented images of wonder, yet we can’t quite grasp why the component symbols were so important....

Loitered Lens : The Raven Age

21/09/2014

The Raven Age, live and raw. Pictures....

Monomyth : Further

20/09/2014

Gusty keyboard swells, reel-like lead guitar figures and crescendo-borne power riffs building seemingly unstoppable momentum until they, well, stop....

Rich Robinson [Black Crowes] : Interview

18/09/2014

'it’s the imperfection that makes you stand out. Neil Young can sing like Bruno Mars but no one can sing like Neil Young, and a million people can sing like Bruno Mars.' ...

Odesza : In Return

16/09/2014

Is that too much to ask of an album? That it alter a mood and inject a missing confidence?...

When Empires Fall

15/09/2014

An interesting and highly varied mix of indie-rock and progressive rock. Uptempo rockers with trebley guitars sit alongside atmospheric keyboard-led ballads....

Billy Fucking Idol

14/09/2014

Recent internet rumours of his demise now quashed, Billy Idol is very much alive...

Mental Metal Music Mash

12/09/2014

It is the time of year for disappointments, and – one notable exception notwithstanding – that’s exactly what we’ve got here...

RIP Colin McQuillan [Photos]

10/09/2014

Irreverent and raucous, Runnin' Riot brought a touch of humour and attitude to Northern Ireland's punk scene...

We are understandably fazed when approached by new aspects of music genres that are pushing the dimensions of their own genre to another space and alien neighbourhood. The fazing affect of finding a...

enkElination : Tears of Lust

08/09/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”J/dropcapust when it seemed that Valkyrie-fronted metal has reached saturation point, along comes Anglo-Finnish outfit enkElination to...