GALLERY: Reclusé – ‘The World Can’t Take Much More’

Unless you’ve been under a rock this summer (and who could blame you? It’s probably very relaxing) there’s no way you could have missed the rise of Reclusé. The brief backstory: Daniel P. Carter, ex-Hexes guy turned Radio 1 DJ, joined up with Soren Bryce of Tummyache to bring →

GALLERY: Crawlers – ‘LIVE WITH THIS’

The music industry is weird. It has always been weird, but the streaming era seems weirder somehow. All it takes is a snippet of your song to go viral on TikTok and you’re made. That’s what happened to Crawlers. One of the quirks of streaming is you can see exactly →

GALLERY: LIVE: KoRn + Architects @ The O2, London

Eighteen months ago, Korn reminded us at Download Festival that they were a force to be reckoned with. Tonight’s the final night of the UK leg of their European tour – Korn’s first visit back since 2025, and their first arena tour over here in a decade – and →

GALLERY: Anberlin – ‘CURRENCY’

Think about it like this. You attend Anberlin’s 2014 farewell show. After seven albums they are calling it a day. Before the band take to the stage, a young man of perhaps twenty taps you on the shoulder. ‘I’m too old for this’ he tells you despite →

GALLERY: Spanish Love Songs – ‘Future Nausea’

There’s been a fundamental seismic shift in the world of Spanish Love Songs. Previously, they made music that translated personal experiences into universal truths. That strategy however has been eclipsed given the outside world is more bewildering than their own inner turmoil. Crypto, the January 6th Insurrection and the →

GALLERY: Headsend – ‘A DELICATE BALANCE’

Nothing has a beginning or an end. The internet collapsed the whole idea of time. One era bleeds into another. Listening to the new EP from Headsend; you could be in 1992, living through the grunge era, but that’s not a bad thing. Imagine a butterfly in a →

GALLERY: Boss Keloid – ‘FLOAT & APERTURE’

Have you ever stared at an M.C. Escher painting? You know the ones. Where there’s a staircase that goes around and around but has no beginning or end. Or the flock of white birds flying one way and the flock of black birds flying the other. They’re a kind →

GALLERY: INTERVIEW: BLIND CHANNEL

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GALLERY: Fake Names – ‘Punk Ruins’

What do you do when your punk band of several decades pulls down the metaphorical shutters on making music? The options for unemployed frontmen boil down to starting a label or becoming a graffiti artist, but Dennis Lyxzén of Refused took the third path; reignite the supergroup. After teaming →

GALLERY: FAVOURITES: Feldspar

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GALLERY: Like Roses – ‘After It Ends’

If we’re going by endorsements alone, Like Roses are the new gold standard. Sleeping With Sirens have deemed the Bay Area pop-punkers to be the perfect tour mates for their next outing, and the New York Times have called them proof that “the dream of emo is alive”, a →

GALLERY: LIVE: Creeper, Calva Louise + Starbenders @ Manchester Academy 1

It wouldn’t be spooky season without Creeper playing at least one show during the Halloween period. For the last few years, they’ve made it their mission play at least one show in the month of October, this year bestowing four dates upon us across the country. Tonight is Manchester’s →

GALLERY: Creeper, Calva Louise, Starbenders @ Manchester Academy 1

GALLERY: Moni Jitchell – ‘AWARE’

Many things can attract you to a band. Maybe it’s a catchy single, maybe it’s a cool photoshoot, maybe it’s because their name is an amusing spoonerism. In the case of Moni Jitchell, it’s unlikely to be the first two. The Scottish duo make music for a →

GALLERY: Venus Grrrls – ‘To Die As Lovers May’

Maybe you’re a romantic. You find beauty in tragedy. You dream of windswept moors and ruined cathedrals. Of Cathy and Heathcliff. When you close your eyes you imagine your back being pressed against a gravestone, a hand sliding up your thigh. You exist between darkness and the →

GALLERY: Unpeople – ‘We Are Unpeople’

If anyone can save the world, it’s Unpeople. In their jet-propelled rise to stardom, they’ve inspired dance parties at Download at a time when any sane person is hiding in their tent with a bacon sandwich, taken over a corner of Slam Dunk’s main stage and even persuaded Metallica →

GALLERY: Love Is Noise – ‘THE SPACE BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND HEARTACHE’

If you have a big family you may have seen this play out. It’s Christmas. A boy who we’ll call Harry opens a huge present. Inside is a marvellous gift covered in bells and whistles that must have cost a fortune. But Harry isn’t happy. He bursts →

GALLERY: INTERVIEW: Unpeople

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GALLERY: Beartooth, Silverstein @ O2 Academy Brixton

GALLERY: LIVE: Beartooth + Silverstein @ O2 Academy Brixton

‘I Am The War’ proclaims everyone’s shirts – after a quick change at the merch stand, that is – so a casual observer would be forgiven for thinking tonight was going to be a militant affair. The war that Beartooth are winning, however, is one against the haters and →