Ithaca – ‘THEY FEAR US’

“Nothing stays the same,” bellows Djamila Azzouz barely four minutes into Ithaca’s new record, acknowledging, right there, a universal truth – the world has changed since their 2018 debut ‘The Language Of Injury’. Aware they have a lot to live up to, the five Londoners are meeting

Cheerbleederz – ‘EVEN IN JEST’

Choosing a band name isn’t easy. Deciding what to listen to as a music fan is even harder. You find yourself wading through bands called Above This or Betray That and a million starting with ‘The’, so when you discover a band calling themselves Cheerbleederz you can’t

Senses Fail – ‘Hell Is In Your Head’

Since emerging out of New Jersey almost 20 years ago, Senses Fail have been through numerous line-up changes but the one constant is frontman Buddy Nielsen. At this point, you could suggest that Senses Fail and Buddy Nielsen are one and the same. Over the course of seven

Viagra Boys – ‘Cave World’

Post-punk is in a good place, thriving you could say, and no band is as distinctive within the genre as Sweden’s Viagra Boys. Following on from 2021’s critically acclaimed ‘Welfare Jazz’, Sebastian Murphy and the Boys are back with another helping of visceral absurdity in the form of ‘Cave

Highly Suspect, Calva Louise @Electric Ballroom Camden, London

Filled with enthusiasm and relief to be touring again around the world, Highly Suspect persevered through all technical challenges and served an unforgettable set of thunderous masterpieces.

LIVE: Highly Suspect @ Electric Ballroom, London

It’s 8pm on a Friday and Brooklyn made Highly Suspect are already kicking off the evening’s events, the track playing them onto the stage at Camden’s Electric Ballroom causing our hearts to thump even harder than the adrenaline and anticipation already has.  The sparse crowd suggests

Interview: Snowfish

LIVE: twenty one pilots @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

It’s fair to say that before 2020, London had gotten a little complacent when it came to having twenty one pilots in town. Their one-off Complete Diversion show back in September 2018 gave us the world’s first glance into what the pair had in store as it

Sick Joy – ‘WE’RE ALL GONNA F**KING DIE’

If you’ve brushed shoulders with Brighton’s music scene, you’ll have heard of Sick Joy. In 2019 they dropped an EP titled ‘Them Days’, a release that harked back to a different time. Their grungy rock sound was familiar and one you’d probably heard a thousand times before,

LIVE: Download Festival 2022 – Sunday

It’s been three long years since we’ve been able to grace Download Festival at its full capacity, and we are delighted to finally have it back in 2022. All four stages, countless amazing bands, beautiful sunshine and tens of thousands of eager, smiley, energetic and ever-so-slightly drunk rock