LIVE: Dead Sara @ The Old Blue Last, London

In a venue the size of The Old Blue Last, there are no grand entrances. Tonight, the tiny space above the iconic Shoreditch pub plays host to Los Angeles’ Dead Sara for their first of a handful of headline shows in the UK. The band enter the room through →

Static Dress – Rouge Carpet Disaster

If you’ve got through the last few years without seeing the name Static Dress crop up somewhere, you’ve either been stuck inside for the last two years (good joke, right) or you’ve not been paying any attention to anything at all whatsoever. Having performed alongside a huge range →

LIVE: Twin Atlantic @ The Roundhouse, London

It’s a glorious Sunday evening in London and excitement reverberates off of every surface as fans file off the streets of Camden and into The Roundhouse ahead of the evening’s main event – Twin Atlantic. It’s an important night – one we’ve been anticipating for →

GALLERY: Twin Atlantic, Declan Welsh and the Decadent West, Dead Pony @ The Roundhouse, London

GALLERY: Kid Kapichi, Hotel Lux, King Nun @ Electric Ballroom, London

LIVE: Kid Kapichi @ Electric Ballroom, London

Hastings four-piece Kid Kapichi are fresh off a tour supporting UK giants Nothing But Thieves and still riding high off of the widespread acclaim of last year’s debut album ‘This Time Next Year’. Add in a blistering collaboration with politically-driven punk duo Bob Vylan in the form →

GALLERY: TOOL @ Resorts World Arena, Birmingham

LIVE: Tool / Brass Against @ 3Arena, Dublin

There’s something to be said about ’90s pageantry in rock. We may give all our love to the grand stadium performances of pop and hip-hop of the modern era, and rightly so. The art of the live show has been perfected and with the high quality of →

Cage Fight – ‘CAGE FIGHT’

You sit on the side-lines wanting to get stuck in. Two opposing fighters, locked together in combat, exchanging blows. It’s vicious, brutal, almost anything goes. There’s nowhere to run, no escape. It’s intense, visceral, blood splashes across the canvas – and you’re only listening to Cage Fight, →

Simple Plan – ‘Harder Than It Looks’

It’s been 20 years since Simple Plan burst onto our airwaves with the uniquely infectious debut album ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’. Two decades and five albums later, and the band’s sixth release ‘Harder Than It Looks’ has an equally punny title and is closer musically to their →

Puppy – ‘Pure Evil’

If 2019’s debut LP ‘The Goat’ was anything to go by, then existing listeners of London three-piece Puppy already had plenty of reasons to be hyped when the band announced the release of ‘Pure Evil’. The promise of a second full-length, complete with a sizeable flurry of →

Peaness – ‘World Full of Worry’

In a world which seemingly lurches from one disaster to another, we each develop our own coping mechanisms. For Chester-based trio Peaness it’s to write, in their own words, “sad bangers,” and their debut ‘World Full of Worry’ is chocked full of them. It’s the ideal blend of dark, →

LIVE: Salem @ Cathouse, Glasgow

On any given night, Glasgow’s alternative scene descends upon Cathouse for an unholy communion – but tonight is special as Southampton’s favourite son, Will Gould, is back in town, this time with his side project, Salem. Just one month after rocking Glasgow’s Garage with the much more theatrical Creeper, where →

LIVE: Ghost / Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats / Twin Temple @ The O2 Arena, London

If you know anything about Ghost, it’s that they thrive on the theatrical. Everything about their genetic make-up, from the narrative intricacies of their century-spanning storytelling to the dazzling costumes and the shrouded mystery of the members (apart from front man and band mastermind Tobias Forge, of course), →

GALLERY: Ghost, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Twin Temple @ The O2 Arena, London

Cold Years – ‘Goodbye To Misery’

Let’s admit it, the past two years or so have been a little weird for all of us. The pandemic affected everyone in different ways; some used it to learn new skills while others used the time to reconnect with former loves, whether that be people, books, films. In →

Northlane – ‘Obsidian’

Northlane’s last album ‘Alien’ saved them. The band were ready to throw in the towel, seeing their ticket and album sales declining, feeling as though something was missing, and that album could’ve been their swan song. Thanks to the brutal industrial approach to their signature groove-laden sound and →

Bob Vylan – ‘Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life’

“Some are drowning in money, I’m barely keeping my head up / price of life on the rise, I’m feeling like it’s a set-up,” spits Bob Vylan – the eponymous vocalist of the band of the same name on their latest record ‘Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life’. →

Spanish Love Songs – ‘Brave Faces Etc’

When Spanish Love Songs released their 2020 album, ‘Brave Faces Everyone’, we started our review with the line “Look, we get it. The world has gone to shit.” Little did we know, just a few weeks later, it was going to get worse. With live music put on hold →

Greyhaven – ‘This Bright And Beautiful World’

At first glance, Greyhaven’s new record ‘This Bright And Beautiful World’ looks like a relatively upbeat, happy outing. Ignore the monochrome balloons and metallic dullness of the cover art, it sounds like it’ll be a nice album based on the title doesn’t it? If you’ve heard of the →