LIVE: Turnstile @ Kentish Town Forum

Every now and then, after the final chord of the show has rung out and the crowd start to pour out of the venue, there is a palpable sense that you’ve just experienced something special. At this point in time, Baltimore five-piece Turnstile are enjoying what can

Turnstile, Chubby And The Gang @ O2 Kentish Town Forum, London

Zeal & Ardor – ‘Zeal & Ardor’

The brainchild of Swiss musician and sole member Manuel Gagneux, Zeal & Ardor is one of the most interesting, uncompromising and unique contemporary metal bands on the planet. If you’re new to this band, we promise you’ve never heard anything quite like this before. So what exactly do they

Knuckle Puck – ‘Disposable Life’

Throughout their 10+ years together, Knuckle Puck have consistently carved an emotional brand of pop-punk. While 2020’s suitably titled ’20/20’ record somewhat stepped away from that, allowing the quintet to be at their most upbeat, overall, it centred on an uplifting and looser songwriting approach. Now, as

Rolo Tomassi – ‘Where Myth Becomes Memory’

Rolo Tomassi are a band that are impossible to pigeonhole into a genre. Maybe once upon a time you could’ve painted them with the mathcore brush, the progressive rock brush, the experimental brush or maybe even the post-hardcore brush, but none of those colours have ever really looked

Crown The King – ‘ Groundhog Day’

You wouldn’t believe it by what’s played on the radio, but the past year has seen the Irish music scene explode in nearly every genre. Independent hip-hop, dance, and pop artists have taken the time in lockdown to hit new heights with their work, and the reopening

Perennial – ‘In the Midnight Hour’

When you hear Perennial describing themselves as ‘art punks’ it’s hard to know what to think. Inspired by the Seattle post-hardcore scene and the stripped-back power of The Hives, their sound is propelled by short bursts of garage rock riffing, all rounded out with keyboards and back-and-forth vocals. It’s

As It Is – ‘I Went to Hell and Back’

Having embraced a darker tone on 2018’s ‘The Great Depression’, the return of As It Is is very much on par as being the “light at the end of the tunnel”. With the departures of guitarist Benjamin Langford-Biss and drummer Patrick Foley, the band’s fourth album, ‘I Went

Bad Suns – ‘Apocolypse Whenever’

January. It’s cold, dark, miserable; the perfect time for a new album from Bad Suns. With their fourth full-length the California four-piece are offering another slice of  light upbeat pop-rock, exactly what you need to chase away the winter blues. Having scoured chart hits from the 1980s for inspiration ‘Apocalypse

LIVE: Black Foxxes @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge

There’s truly nothing more exciting than watching something so undeniably extraordinary unfurl before your eyes, and tonight’s show at this local pub venue in Cambridge offers exactly that. From the moment they take to the stage, Mark Holley and his friends are not just performing – they’re