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From Monday 09 January 2017

Dropkick Murphys – ’11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory’

With drums, strings and whistles heralding the arrival of ‘The Lonesome Boatman’, soon giving way to crushing distorted guitars and gang vocals, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys set the scene for ‘11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory’, their ninth album. Borne out of recent tragedies and the band’s

Sunday 08 January 2017

You Me At Six – ‘Night People’

After the 2014 release of ‘Cavalier Youth’, Surrey quintet You Me At Six went rather quiet. Once the initial album release tours and shows were complete, they seemed to fall off the face of the planet – but they only did so in order to write and record their

Friday 06 January 2017

Chasing Safety – ‘Nomad’

If there was a book called “How to Create Your Debut Album: Post Hardcore Edition”, Chasing Safety’s ‘Nomad’ would undoubtedly be the sample record stuck to the back cover. Across eleven tracks, the band manage to cover everything the genre has become known for in recent years; from strong

Thursday 05 January 2017

Brutai – ‘Born’

Brutai seem to have popped up out of nowhere to a huge round of applause. Aside from those who religiously visit Tech Fest, not many people talked about them, and now here we are: a debut album on Transcend Music, Radio 1 play,

Saturday 17 December 2016

Megosh – ‘Apostasy’

Sometimes you can be oblivious to how bored you are with something until you’re forced into a new experience. If you have a favourite restaurant, for example, it’s natural to gravitate there whenever you want a nice meal, but being taken to a new place instead can open your

Friday 16 December 2016

Beans on Toast – ‘A Spanner In The Works’

Having long gotten rid of the stigma of just being Frank Turner’s mate, Beans on Toast has his own army of fans, and having stuck to his own made rule of a new album every year, released on the same day, the singer refuses to be out of touch

Headstone Horrors – Tales From The Murder House

We know what happened when corpse paint met metal.  Some people took things way too seriously and a few Scandinavians even decided to start a church reduction campaign. Thankfully things have calmed down a bit now and we have the splendidly tongue in cheek Evil Scarecrow singing about cyborg

Wednesday 14 December 2016

‘Get Better: A Film About Frank Turner’

Streamed across the country via satellite, Frank Turner’s film premiere – accompanied by a Q&A, solo acoustic performance, and some technical difficulties (the sound didn’t work in some venues for more than 20 minutes at the opening) – was an unexpected event. One that most of us never expected

Monday 12 December 2016

Yearbook – ‘I Stop Somewhere Waiting For You’

It must be hard to feel like this. It’s taken three years for Yearbook to write, record and release their debut album; three years on an album that they’ve poured their heart and soul into; three years to give it their all until there really is nothing

Thursday 08 December 2016

Enemies – ‘Valuables’

All things must come to an end. It’s one of the only certainties we have in life. But, endings don’t always have to be negative, bitter experiences. They can be joyous, celebratory, triumphant. ‘Valuables’, the final album from Enemies is just that. After almost a decade of writing, recording and