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From Wednesday 15 October 2014

LIVE: This Wild Life / Rob Lynch @ Underworld, London

See our full gallery here. This Wild Life are not your typical band. Having shrunk from a full band to an acoustic duo following their early reception, Kevin Jordan and Anthony Del Grosso have since found themselves embraced by the alternative scene – not least, judging by tonight’s

Monday 13 October 2014

LIVE: Marmozets / Beats @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston

Album release shows are a chance to see bands in environments that you wouldn’t normally see them in and Banquet Records are quite adept at getting big name artists to play smaller venues for such an occasion. In the past they’ve had bands like Twin Atlantic and Royal

Live: Friday @ WTFest – Apologies, I Have None and more

Southampton hosts one of the UK’s best alternative music scenes. It’s a popular stop off for international tours, boosts some excellent emerging talent, and has one of the most on point studios in the country. Its success has come off the back of solid hard work and blind

Saturday 11 October 2014

LIVE: Marmozets / Lonely The Brave / Allusondrugs @ The Scala, London

The last time Marmozets played Scala, it was on a club night 2 years ago. Tonight they returned as headliners and showed that they deserve to be playing even bigger venues than this. First up though are Leeds natives Allusondrugs. Having a Nirvana flavour to them, they embark

Monday 29 September 2014

LIVE: Beartooth / Dead Harts @ The Borderline, London

Back in December, we posted an Introducing piece about a band called Beartooth. We said they “might just blow your socks off”, but we could never have predicted just how much. Because tonight, on a warm September evening in London, Beartooth are playing their very first

Friday 26 September 2014

LIVE: Rob Lynch / The Candle Thieves / Sam Little @The Monarch, London

After a summer spent playing the acoustic stage at Warped Tour, Stamford’s Rob Lynch is going from strength to strength. His new album, ‘All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow Save My Soul’, has just been released on Xtra Mile in the UK and was picked up by

Thursday 25 September 2014

LIVE: Riot Fest Sunday – Veggie Nachos

My final day at Riot Fest was my busiest day of the three, mainly because there were a ton of smaller bands playing whom I’ve never seen before and I wanted to make it a point to see as much as possible before the festival finished. At the

Tuesday 23 September 2014

LIVE: Owls / Johnny Foreigner @ The Dome, London

It’s a cult thing. Some people tonight will have waited more than a decade to be in the same room as Owls – or perhaps more specifically their frontman and all-round eccentric Tim Kinsella. Joining him is brother Mike on drums, also of singer-songwriter fame as Owen, and

Monday 22 September 2014

LIVE: The Front Bottoms / PUP @ The Garage, London

The Front Bottoms at Reading Festival 2014 Sometimes a band simply explodes in stature before your very eyes, often as the result of being picked up by mainstream radio, press and TV. Sometimes, as is the case with tonight’s headliners The Front Bottoms, the explosion is far more subtle.

Thursday 18 September 2014

LIVE: Riot Fest Friday: Chicken Strips, Orange Mohawks, Ripped Ponchos

For three years now, I have been attending Riot Fest Chicago at the end of summer prior to my favorite time of year in the Midwest: the fall. What used to be a seasonal punk festival in multiple Chicago venues has turned into an outdoor ceremony that spans