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From Wednesday 14 February 2018

LIVE: Highly Suspect @ O2 Forum, London

As the crowd waited for Highly Suspect to take to the stage, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to question whether they’d walked into the right venue. The on-stage DJ blasted tracks from Kendrick Lamar and, having chosen to precede the show with a genre entirely different from his own,

LIVE: Motionless In White / Cane Hill / Ice Nine Kills @ KOKO, London

A sold out KOKO is just one of the stops on Motionless In White’s Graveyard Shift UK Tour and the anticipation is palpable. Fans have queued all day long, showing the devotion that Motionless In White have created. Ice Nine Kills kick off the night with

Motionless In White, Cane Hill, Ice Nine Kills @ O2 Academy, Bristol

Funeral Shakes : An Ode To The Jilted

Thornhill – ‘Butterfly’

Coming from the other side of the world and with only a 5 track EP behind them, the name of this Australian quintet will no doubt be greeted by blank looks and shrugs. Their second EP, however, is about to change all of that. Crammed full of instrumental prowess,

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Canvas, Body Hound, X Servitude X @ Temple Of Boom, Leeds

LIVE: Canvas / Body Hound / xServitudex / Lugubrious Children / Underdark @ Temple Of Boom, Leeds

Much like the influences of the headlining act, the support bill for the last ever performance from Canvas (that’s the UKHC one from the late 90s, not the current band for sad lads) is a bit of a mixed bag. Openers Underdark cross the bleak cacophony of Deafheaven with

Asking Alexandria @ Manchester Academy

LIVE: Black Veil Brides / Asking Alexandria @ Brixton Academy, London

Although Brixton Academy has seen both of tonight’s bands headline in their own right, tonight it’s treated to a co-headlining show. Asking Alexandria are the first band on stage and with the electronic wobbles of ‘Into The Fire’ playing over the PA, the band explode into the

Monday 12 February 2018

The Wonder Years release video for ‘Sister Cities’

Nearly three years since the release of their highest-charting album (2015’s No Closer To Heaven), The Wonder Years return with ‘Sister Cities’. Recorded at Sunset Sound with Joe Chiccarelli (Manchester Orchestra, The Shins, Spoon) and Carlos de la Garza (Jimmy Eat World, Paramore), ‘Sister Cities’, out April 6, is an