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Loitered Lens: Zulu

11/11/2012

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

A scruffy bunch of Canterbury hair-farmers they may be, but Syd Arthur certainly nailed that awful hopelessness of pavement cafes and flimsy sundresses giving way to the slate-grey gloom of November....

Panic Room: On Performance

08/11/2012

'It's always a balancing act when you're drawing up a set list; I think people would be surprised to know how many hours we literally spend agonizing over it'. UK rock band Panic Room talk about live...

Loitered Lens: Jim Jones Revue

04/11/2012

A raucous night of leather-larynxed rock 'n' roll played to a crowd packed with music writers only too delighted to be blown away by a power act deserving of its hype. Jim Jones Revue....

RIP: Mitch Lucker (Suicide Silence) 1984-2012

02/11/2012

RIP: Mitch Lucker 1984-2012 - Trebuchet remembers...

Panic Room: On Songwriting

01/11/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”S/dropcapwansea’s Panic Room are one of British rock’s best-kept secrets. Over the past few years they’ve built up a loyal...

Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

Loitered Lens: Death Letters

21/10/2012

On support duty for Anneke Van Giersbergen at the Borderline and a stint opening for Enter Shikari, Death Letters are on a trajectory to shuck off bridesmaid's syndrome. ...

Twelfth Night: Live and Let Live

20/10/2012

Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their...

Great Walls of Fire! Psychobilly goes Chinese

15/10/2012

Hot dang if these Asian dudes aren't slamming out some of that much talked about psychobilly music....

Loitered Lens: Sleepy Sun

14/10/2012

'All eyes were on Sleepy Sun. They hypnotized, mesmerized, and with a click of a finger they were gone and an almighty surge began for the smoking area.'...

Sankara: Guided By Degrees

10/10/2012

At an LP-length forty minutes it's a record that doesn't outstay it's welcome, and there's no room for much in the way of filler. ...

Loitered Lens: The London Punk Festival

09/10/2012

Punk is dead? Well no-one told the mass of sweating, heaving bodies, young, old (some maybe a little too old) who were dancing, sweating, singing and generally having a right old time at...

Mad Sin: 25 Years ‘Still Mad’

08/10/2012

Personally I’d rather see them live or listen to Burn and Rise, but this is an ideal Halloween present for any hardcore fan with a Mad Sin patch sewn onto their sleeveless denim jacket. And it’s...

One Mile an Hour [Album]

04/10/2012

Perhaps the music should be taken in the context of entertainment to fill six months of darkness with little more than cod heads, limpets and puffin broth for sensual pleasures. ...

The Peacocks: Don’t Ask

03/10/2012

Curiously, as they get older The Peacocks seem to mutate into a band that will appeal to a younger audience. The music may not be breaking any musical boundaries, but they retain their youthful anger...

Missy Le Pink: London Crawlin’

02/10/2012

Now that the crossfire has died down, Col. Jon pokes his head up from behind the outhouse to review Viva Le Pink's London Crawlin' EP. Warning: Contains the word 'Psychobilly'. ...

Loitered Lens: Howlin’ Rain

01/10/2012

They started firing shots from the guitar like armour piercing rounds, and with that you just knew this was going be jaw-droppingly brilliant. ...

Dum Dum Girls: End of Daze [EP]

25/09/2012

'one of the most brutally honest emotional floods in music', Dum Dum girls channel heartbreak into deftly crafted indie pop....

The Meteors: Doing the Lord’s Work

25/09/2012

Will The Meteors bring anything new to the Psychobilly genre? What if they bring samples and a cover version of 'Paranoid'. What then, flat-top?...

As I Lay Dying: Awakened

24/09/2012

Awakened lacks the complexity of an August Burns Red record, but also manages to avoid the overly commercial pitfalls of later-era Killswitch Engage material. What it does offer is a balanced...

Loitered Lens: Van Susans

23/09/2012

Strong vocals and elaborate melodies resulted from the groups' ingenious use of electric and acoustic guitars, with a touch of violin played by Holly McLatchie. Olly Andrews carries the whole...

Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

King Mob: Interview

18/09/2012

Side effects of the full King Mob experience may include: drowsiness, delirium, radio poisoning, severe hair growth, waxy pallor, vitriol spray, flushing, unexpected time manipulation and space...

Inside Out: Anton Corbijn on film

17/09/2012

Inside Out attempts a look at who the man is, truly believing itself as presenting some insight. To a degree, yes, but the documentary is ultimately unfulfilling, choosing just one aspect of his...

Satan’s Wrath: Galloping Blasphemy

17/09/2012

it's fun, it's heavy, and the over the top Satanic lyrics are often hilarious. By no means should Satan's Wrath hang up their goat-skull helmets and battleaxes any time soon. It'd just be nice if...

Jeff The Brotherhood [Live]

14/09/2012

Jeff The Brotherhood are amongst the new wave of noisy duos to create a substantial buzz. Although the Nashville band have now been in existence for more than a decade - including drummer Jamin's...

Redrails [Album]

12/09/2012

Challenging, Redrails most certainly is. Rewarding, in equal measure. Intriguing, and destined to be the source of many hours spent, headphones on, grasping to find the mental setting in which it all...

Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

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