Review: Petrol Girls – Cut & Stitch
If you were picking one band to tackle the clusterfuck that is planet earth in 2019, Petrol Girls would be more than a solid shout.
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Review: We Never Learned To Live – The Sleepwalk Transmissions
We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to expansive, exquisite and downright interesting music these days. Hell, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it just comes to straight-up good stuff of late.
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Review: Black Coast – Ill Minds Vol II
For a few years now something exciting has been brewing in Stoke-on-Trent. Fuelled by chainsaw guitars, pounding rhythms and raw, spat, aggressive vocals, that something is Black Coast.
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Live report: ‘68 and Palm Reader – two gigs, one night, zero fucks
When it comes to nightmare scenarios for your common or garden gig-goer, few are as frustrating as two of your favourite bands playing in your city on the same night… but on different bills at different venues.
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Live Report: two nights with Black Peaks
When a good band comes to town and you’re available, you go and watch that band, right? If they’re a really good band you might even watch them a couple of times in the same year if they pass by your way enough times.
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Revisiting Forever by Code Orange
Normally, we leave it a bit longer than two years to revisit an album. But the subject of this write-up is no ordinary record, so we don’t feel bound by our own rules.
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Live Report: Milk Teeth, Conjurer and the futility of genre
If you’re going to trek to Milton Keynes – well, Wolverton to be precise – on a frozen Wednesday night in January, you’d want a pretty good reason.
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Revisiting Permission To Land by The Darkness
I can pinpoint the moment I fell in love with Permission To Land, which, weirdly, came before it was released or before I would actually get to hear the whole thing.
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Review: Puppy – The Goat
Debut albums are a funny thing, aren’t they? They are your means to announce yourself to the world, to make a mark and set out your stall.
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Revisiting The War Of Art by American Head Charge
Cast your mind back to 2002. In the world of heavy, guitar-based music, the freaks were in charge. Nu-metal’s rise had thrust the alternative forward and made it mainstream.
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Live Report: Palm Reader play Braille in full
Our favourite band playing our album of the year in full? Of course we were there – well, one of us was able to make it anyway.
Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2018: 10 to 1
And so we move into my Top 10 Albums of 2018, and what a Top 10 they are.