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From Monday 19 January 2015

LIVE: Lost Years, Still Alive, La Armada, A Wilhelm Scream @ Subterranean, Chicago

When I heard that one of my favorite local bands (Lost Years) was opening for one of my favorite national bands (A Wilhelm Scream)–around New Year’s, no less–I was severely stoked. So, I saved some New Year’s cheer, put it in my back pocket, and patiently waited to

Thursday 15 January 2015

LIVE: Fall Out Boy @ Islington Assembly Hall, London [14/01/15]

I just witnessed Patrick Stump faux-rapping. Those are the thoughts commanding my mind as I leave through the understated Islington Assembly Hall foyer following tonight’s ridiculously intimate Fall Out Boy album launch show. No, Stump isn’t channelling his inner hip-hop persona – one which I assume he does

Wednesday 07 January 2015

LIVE: Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour (New Found Glory / The Story So Far / etc.) @ Forum, London

The 28th November marks the first night of the ‘Pop Punk’s Not Dead’ tour stint in London. With all the talk of rock music being dead, this sub-genre has proved that it isn’t dead at all. Opening proceedings were the excellent Dublin 4 Piece, Only Rivals. Arriving on stage

Tuesday 06 January 2015

LIVE: The Xcerts / Kagoule @ Boston Music Rooms, London

Rescheduled from mid-November due to their European Tour with fellow Scots Twin Atlantic, The Xcerts are preparing to showcase material from the third, and critically acclaimed full-length, ‘There Is Only You’. The album, in frontman Murray Macleod’s point of view, is their pop-opus – removed from the more

Monday 05 January 2015

LIVE: Gnarwolves / Prawn @ Underworld, London

2014 has been one hell of a year for Brighton based punk trio Gnarwolves. Not simply content with releasing their well-received debut full-length proper, the band also enjoyed a mammoth slot on the main stage at Reading and Leeds Festival as well as finishing the year with their

Sunday 04 January 2015

LIVE: Twin Wild / Tides @ The Stillery, London

Camden Town is always buzzing. Shoppers, traffic, music. A lot of music. Tonight sees a free show for Twin Wild, a band on the up, taking place at the Stillery. First up are Tides to warm up the crowd. Sounding very much like Don Broco with a synth background

Friday 02 January 2015

LIVE: Me First And The Gimme Gimmes / The Skints / Capdown @ O2 Academy, Brixton

Picture obviously not taken at Brixton Academy. Describing somebody as a “dad” comes with a bunch of connotations, perhaps implying a clumsy but well meaning figure who is past the point of fitting in. Capdown are a band fronted by somebody who could well have been a complete and

Wednesday 17 December 2014

Live: Taking Back Sunday / Marmozets @ O2 Academy, Oxford

There’s a moment towards the end of Taking Back Sunday’s set tonight which sums up the entire evening.  As the crowd sings back the ‘Why can’t I feel anything from anyone other than you’ refrain from ‘Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team), John Nolan – arguably one of the pioneers of the earnest,

Friday 12 December 2014

LIVE: The World Is A Beautiful Place, The Hotelier, Rozwell Kid, Posture & The Grizzly @ World Cafe, Philadelphia

This tour package had been something I was looking forward to for some time. TWIABP has been a band only rising in popularity, along with The Hotelier on the heels of their incredible new record, “Home Like Noplace is There.” These two bands have always

Saturday 06 December 2014

LIVE: Mallory Knox / FrnkIero and the Cellabration / Moose Blood / Fort Hope @ Electric Ballroom, London

Four bands, three weeks and a whole bunch of new records to try and squeeze into half-hour sets. Mallory Knox have hit the road with two of the UK’s hottest new acts and an old emo heartthrob to