Rating: Nostalgia’s not such a bad thing sometimes. It’s not ultimately going to take you somewhere new – you might not end up with that tattoo or piercing you secretly wanted but were too afraid to follow through with –…
Rating: One of 70s punk rock survivors William Broad (a.k.a Billy Idol) returns with his trademark sneer after an eight year hiatus to release his seventh studio album Kings & Queens Of The Underground. With a career spanning five decades,…
The Charlatans return to form with ‘So Oh’, a single taken from forthcoming album ‘Modern Nature’. ‘So Oh’ has an official release date of December 1st. The band have announced ‘Modern Nature’ released scheduled for Jan 2015 along with details…
Rating: I tried hard to read James Joyce’s Ulysses, really, I did. And some of those first three pages made an iota of sense. I nearly made it through two episodes of that Scandinavian crime drama The Killing that everyone…
Golden God and former Zeppelin front man Robert Plant kicked off his UK tour at a jam-packed Newport Centre on Sunday night. Support came from New Yorkers ‘The Last Internationale’, a trio with one of the strongest female vocalists that…
Rating: It has been four years since we have heard new material in bulk from Antony Hegarty and his Johnsons, and with new release Turning being a live album soundtrack (albeit to a new concert film documentary) that will extend…
The Ordinary Boys are currently working on their new album with Rory Atwell (Vaccines, Veronica Falls, Palma Violets) and MJ from Hookworms to be released early next year.
Rating: I’m not going to lie I hadn’t heard too much of Amber Run before I was invited along to their gig at EVAC by their support band for the night Stillia. I can tell you now though – after…
It’s ever-so-often that a main headliner’s hand-picked support band wipes the floor and blows everything out of the water for the rest of the night. On Thursday 6th November, Manchester’s Courteeners took up residency at Newcastle Upon-Tyne’s O2 Academy and…
Rating: If there was ever a reason to worship the ground Communion Music walks on, their ‘New Faces’ tour would be it. Perfectly curated by Communion hero Maz Tappuni; Amber Run, Fyfe, Kimberly Anne and Pixel Fix took to storming…