Music News & Reviews from the Rock, Metal, Blues, Prog, Punk & Jazz Genres as well as stage and festival shows
Watch the video for ‘Brambles’ HERE 2024 World Tour on sale now Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes | Photo credit: Brian Rankin Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes are today sharing new single ‘Brambles‘, the second song to be taken from their forthcoming album Dark Rainbow, […]
NewsAmazing Hollywood-style video shot at Pinewood for Christmas single. Trickster, the Austrian singer and entrepreneur from Linz, releases his amped up and swinging mash-up of Christmas classics ‘Silent Night vs Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ on Trickster Recordings through Absolute. Blending nostalgia and festive […]
NewsInfused with Sultry Blues and a Vibrant Pulse, “Wild Love” Delivers a Hauntingly Energetic Sound that Reaffirms Joanne’s Musical Prowess Available now via Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records; Stream “Wild Love” on all platforms HERE Watch the music video HERE British blues-rock virtuoso Joanne Shaw Taylor […]
NewsLISTEN HEREWATCH OFFICIAL VIDEO HEREPRE-ORDER THE RECORD HERE boygenius – the acclaimed trio comprising Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, have today released ‘Not Strong Enough’, the fourth track taken from their highly anticipated debut album the record. Through soaring harmonies and the band’s signature candid lyricism, the song is about paradoxically experiencing […]
NewsChris Shiflett returns to the UK for a run of headline dates this March, the guitarist’s first solo shows here since 2019. In advance of the tour and as a hard-drivin’ taste of things to come, long-time Foo Fighters member Shiflett releases the brand new single / video, ‘Black Top White Lines’; produced by Jaren […]
NewsSo much black in view, everyone was in black but the imagery on the t-shirts was very well split between all three acts due on tonight. KK’s Steelmill has become one of THE venues to go to for music of all types – tonight it […]
Gig reviewsLooking around the venue on the Sunday ‘morning’ there are certainly some there who may have drunk slightly more than they anticipated they were going to the previous evening (again?), some even have facial bruising, gained apparently by successfully face planting whilst falling off the […]
Gig reviewsI saw Focus play live in Liverpool around the time that Focus II (aka Moving Waves) [not to be confused with Focus 11 – see below] was released . This album, and the iconic single, Hocus Pocus, got played to death during the university years […]
NewsGoing into this review is going to be a weird one, you have three bands here that kind of differ from each other in quite a few ways but also bring each other together at the same time. We have Solstafir along with Katatonia supported […]
Gig reviewsSaturdays festivities started with The Forged Hearts, who hail from Northern Ireland. They describe themselves as a ‘female fronted, classic rock inspired band’ and had travelled just to be at Winters End. The first two tracks (I Touched The Fire and Stupid Games) rattled the […]
Gig reviews“Any festivals you want to cover, particularly in the first few months of the year, then let me know?” Those were words from Reg that led me to Planet Rocks Winters End Festival, a little all in one rock festival, held in Porthcawl, Wales. Where? […]
Gig reviewsDo you ever get that feeling when things do not seem to work out, whatever good you try to do? This is what Imperial Age must have felt while organising their last, almost four years in the making, tour, after Covid (twice), the Russia-Ukraine war […]
Gig reviewsAvatar have recently released their 9th Studio album, the previous being Hunter Gatherer being released in 2020. Three years ahead we’re welcomed with their brand new album Dance Devil Dance! The best way I can describe this album from start to finish is badass. It’s […]
Album reviews