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LIVE: Power Trip / The Flex / Blistered @ Boston Music Room, London

Power Trip are not your average hardcore band. While they are rooted within that scene, the Texan quintet draw heavily from thrash and metal, and probably have more in common with Slayer than they do Youth Of Today. Ultimately, the result is something special, and we were lucky enough

Wednesday 08 June 2016

LIVE: Fort Hope / The Gospel Youth / Rory Indiana @ Patterns, Brighton

Until recently, things had been pretty quiet for Fort Hope since they made the huge step to a major label, but in April they delivered a three-track EP to ensure fans they were still around. Though it was a little less than what had been expected, a quick run

Tuesday 07 June 2016

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2016

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Slam Dunk Festival has consistently brought some of the best established and emerging alternative talent to UK shores. Having in its time expanded across three cities, this year celebrates one of the strongest and most diverse line-ups to date, splitting the wealth of acts across

LIVE: The Movielife / PUP @ The Dome, London

On the back of a couple of storming UK reunion dates and a set at Belgium’s famed Groezrock festival, legendary underground punks, The Movielife, return to London alongside their new Canadian buddies and fellow Groezrockers, PUP. PUP meander onto stage and speak to the crowd for a few moments, amusingly

Monday 06 June 2016

LIVE: Deftones / Black Peaks @ SSE Arena, Wembley

Even before the Sacramento behemoths take to the vast Wembley Arena stage for their rescheduled date, having initially postponed around last year’s tragic Paris events, Brighton’s Black Peaks are giving them a run for their money. Their unchartered sound is built for rooms of this size, as vocalist Will

Sunday 05 June 2016

LIVE: Long Distance Calling @ Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes

Germany’s Long Distance Calling are no strangers to performing, having been around for a decade, and their confident, accomplished live performance oozes the kind of quality that can only come from a wealth of experience and huge amounts of talent. The band’s recently released record ‘TRIPS’ features vocals on

Thursday 02 June 2016

LIVE: Our Great Escape

Each year, the city of Brighton and Hove gets completely taken over by over 500 bands and artists, industry experts and music lovers alike to enjoy the madness of The Great Escape. Priding itself on being the best ‘Festival’ to discover new music, the event holds gigs in every

LIVE: Biffy Clyro perform an intimate acoustic show in Leeds

Biffy Clyro have become accustomed to be in the same word-group as “aggressive”, “big-sound”, “festival-headliners” and “sold-out-arena-shows-in-front-of-1000s-of-people.” Tonight however the tables were turned as they played an acoustic set in Leeds city centre’s Headrow House to one-hundred very lucky fans, one of their first shows since headlining the famous

Wednesday 01 June 2016

LIVE: Handmade Festival 2016: Sunday

See what we made of Saturday here Alpha Male Tea Party prove to be a rip-roaring start to the day. Their experimental, instrumental rock is nothing if not intense (and incredibly loud) and although they could have benefited sonically from having a cleaner, brighter sound, their

LIVE: Handmade Festival 2016: Saturday

Handmade Festival, although relatively young for a festival, has experienced an incredible amount of growth in the last three years. What started as a small collection of venues and shops across Leicester putting on a few bands and having a few art exhibitions over a weekend, has evolved into