Tag: rock

Tarja : Colours in the Dark

It's all completely over the top, but then it's a Tarja record, and you wouldn't really expect anything else; it would be like expecting Meatloaf to make a lo-fi Americana album. ...

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Mudhoney : HMV Forum

'themes of angst and resentment rage against the hagiography, by self and others, of youth'...

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Marc Bolan at the BBC

Whether you are just a fan of his pop orientated, hook filled classics or a hardcore Bolanite on a quest for the grail; this well researched and well collated set of interviews, poetry readings and...

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Loitered Lens : Mudhoney

Photos from Mudhoney's recent gig at the HMV Forum, London...

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The Icarus Line : Slave Vows

A dangerous high-powered oxyacetylene blowtorch aimed straight at the heads of all those preened plastic pretend pointy-shoed rock and rollers that have bred like maggots over the stages of the land...

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Iain Jennings : My Dark Surprise

Some of the delicate piano lines on this record are quintessential Iain Jennings...

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Queens of the Stone Age – New Show

The High Lords of Loud Sell out Wembley Arena - so more shows for us! New added show 23rd November 2013...

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Loitered Lens: Tribes

Photos of Tribes at the Roundhouse where damp gussets and hormone-saturated sweat....

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Mick Harvey Interview: Part 2

In part 2 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Nick Cave, murder and PJ Harvey....

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Master Musicians of Bukkake : Far West

This is unashamedly music for musos... there are rapid and unpredictable chord changes, sudden transitions in tempo and then multipart drone...

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Mick Harvey Interview: Part 1

In part 1 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Australia, love songs, religion, songwriting and the new album...

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Flamin’ Groovies first UK Tour in 30 years

Seminal Proto-punk garage rock band Flamin Groovies to tour the UK twice in 2013...

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Riot:Noise [Live at the Borderline]

Playing at 8pm to a room of first pinters shouldn't make a difference to these seasoned road dogs, and true enough by the end of the show there were new fans aplenty....

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Steve Hackett : Hammersmith Apollo

It wasn't a reverential note-for-note reproduction of the original recordings, but neither was it a ground-up re-imagining that didn't respect the original versions....

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Volbeat : Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies

Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies is definitely a triumph for Volbeat and exhibits an underlying confidence and joy in writing good songs. ...

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Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

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Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

Despite the bands occasional use of the term "prog" in promotion, they don't go in for grandiose epics. ...

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The Shaking Sensations : Start Stop Worrying

This is an album to induce a trancelike post-rock euphoria, rather than one to focus on. ...

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Sun Explodes Release Video for Seven Three one

The Sun Explodes are a heavy rock/metal band from Carlisle, UK and have just released their first single from upcoming second album "We Build Mountains" to an overwhelmingly positive response! The...

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Cattle : Cattle [EP]

And so the EP balances perfectly between the extremes of order and screechscreechscreech, and it's oh so very dazzlingly wonderful....

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Loitered Lens : Willy Moon

ic in the mouth, Willy Moon channels some of that Lux Interior voodoo at XOYO. ...

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UFO : Live, Oxford

Never a swaggering frontman in the first place, UFO's Phil Mogg reaps the benefits in his latter years, still delivering classic rock in 2013 to Oxford's O2...

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Blue Coupe : Live

The new material stands up well alongside the old, and marked them out as something far more than a mere nostalgia act, rather a band who still have something to say....

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Meshuggah and Devin Townsend headline Brixton show.

Meshuggah and The Devin Townsend Project co - headline show at O2 Academy Brixton 3rd May 2013...

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Tomahawk: Oddfellows

Is it a bad thing that we're given an album of the classic-era Patton that we've learned to revere? No way....

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Loitered Lens: Reptile Youth

Fired up, quite possibly by a pre-gig interview with Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett (in which they talked about the Arab Spring and the London riots) Reptile Youth went on to cane Hoxton silly(er)....

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Rob Cottingham: Captain Blue

Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band's early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the...

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Loitered Lens: Macy Gray

A throatful of gravel and a bag of class, Macy Gray rules the pink feather boa onstage at Koko, London...

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Albums of 2012: Steven Turk’s Choice

an indie rock record of tremendous quality where the singles are difficult to differentiate from the other tracks comprising this compelling slice of modern tribal psychedelic pop...

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Albums of the Year: Editor’s Picks

If Lana Del Rey, Flying Lotus or Grimes aren't on any Trebuchet lists this year, it's certainly not because we haven't heard them (indeed, how could we miss them?). And we're not coming over all...

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