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Video Exclusive : Sleepy Sun – Galaxy Punk

02/04/2014

An amazing video from our favourite ...

John Wesley : Disconnect

02/04/2014

Wesley keeps a foot in both the singer-songwriter and guitar hero camps, and the songs are far more than mere vehicles for guitar pyrotechnics....

A picture of Amund Maarud by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens: Big Boy Bloater

30/03/2014

Tight grooves, infectious melodies and the unique voice of Big Boy Bloater...

Gotthard : Bang!

27/03/2014

It's tip-of-the-brain stuff, trying to list all the possible classic Hard Rock references for these songs, yet they stay on the right side of pastiche....

Gallon Drunk : The Soul of the Hour

25/03/2014

Gallon Drunk have never sounded so together nor so accomplished. The result of such symbiosis is seven tracks of intense mood and impressive groove. ...

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Loitered Lens : Boom Tales

23/03/2014

Photos of Boom Tales by Carl Byron Batson...

Halo Blind : Occupying Forces

21/03/2014

Memorable but unconventional melodies, and some great use of atmospheric instrumental passages in place of conventional solos...

Roni Size / LTJ Bukem : Village Underground

20/03/2014

Chatting and dancing with people in crowd, it was obvious this was no Fabric...

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

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Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang : Four Foot Shack

17/03/2014

There will be someone out there, bored by the usual, willing to listen to a bluegrass barn-dance inspired acoustic record that contains covers of the Bee Gees and Alice in Chains....

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Loitered Lens : Prosperina

16/03/2014

Photos of Prosperina live at London's KOKO....

Conan : Blood Eagle

12/03/2014

Devastation bleeding from the speakers....

Def Leppard Interview (Part 2)

11/03/2014

I think a lot of that was down to “Mutt” Lange. He worked us so hard on those records to make it sound special. He didn’t want us to sound like a run of the mill rock band. ...

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Loitered Lens : Church of Misery

09/03/2014

Doom-sludge metal at stratospheric volume. Photos of Church of Misery live at Koko, London...

Keel Her [Album]

07/03/2014

Mood music matching the most foul of moods...

Nocturnal Breed album cover for Napalm Nights

Caliban versus Slough Feg versus Nocturnal Breed

06/03/2014

It’s immature, it’s juvenile and it will never, ever grow up. ...

Def Leppard : Interview

04/03/2014

There are so many artists, bands and so many different ways of getting them. It’s taken the special out of it. There’s too much out there. ...

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Bigelf : Into the Maelstrom

03/03/2014

It's been a long wait for this album, but the wait has been worth it. ...

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Loitered Lens : Tribazik

02/03/2014

Despite having a lot of distorted rock trappings, Tribazik are a force of groove...

Panic Room : Incarnate

28/02/2014

This is an album by a band not afraid to try something slightly different, and there is much to like about it. ...

Monster Magnet , Koko

27/02/2014

Monster Magnet ripped out the spine of the packed Koko, swung it around with the head still attached and drooling, and smashed it down hard and heavy into the stage....

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Argy Bargy [Live]

26/02/2014

The underground movement of Punk and Oi. Will it ever die? Not in Watford at any rate....

Tribazik : Data Warfare

26/02/2014

Pulsing bass, heavy insistent drums, chugging guitars. Despite having a lot of distorted rock trappings, Tribazik are a force of groove and emphasise the ‘one’ with the sort of dedication you...

Óscar Mulero / Pole Group : Interview

25/02/2014

We don't have one type of sound that we want to focus on or develop to a higher or lesser degree, we just make music and if it fits our philosophy, we release it....

A photograph from Tarja Turunen London show by Tim Hall

Loitered Lens : Tarja Turunen

23/02/2014

'the world of metal definitely needs more cellos'. Photos of Tarja Turunen live at the O2 Academy, February 2014...

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Current 93 : Union Chapel

21/02/2014

The reverence that fires culture and the reverence that inspires the stillness and coolness of religion are hard to tease apart in the world of Current 93...

Tarja Turunen : 02 Academy [Live]

19/02/2014

Tarja is a dynamic live act with a remarkable and unique voice, and on the strength of performances like this doesn't only reproduce her records live but exceeds them. ...