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.
Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2018: 20 to 11
It’s that time of year again. Here are numbers 20 to 11 in my Top 20 Albums of 2018.
