ALBUM REVIEW: Augustines ‘Augustines’

Following their 2011 debut, ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’, Augustines return with their eagerly awaited self-titled album. It’s been quite the journey for the Brooklyn based boys, with the first album revealing the hardships life has thrown at them; most prominently the death…

FOR THE RECORD: Queen ‘Queen II’ (1974)

In the category of “forgotten albums that should be in everyone’s record collection, but aren’t”, let me call Queen II, by the band we don’t need to present anymore, Queen. The second album from the band, recorded in just a month,…

Gigslutz Interview: THE HEARTBREAKS

After forming in 2009, the Heartbreaks traded in their lives of ice-cream and ‘floating’ around Morecambe to make it big in the rest of the world. An exciting, moving alternative/ indie-rock background has helped the band through an album, an EP…

ALBUM REVIEW: iTCH ‘The Deep End’

Over the last few weeks I’ve been listening to iTCH’s debut album, The Deep End. Even now, I’m not entirely sure what to make of the offering from the former The King Blues frontman. Its one of those albums where…

The Game LIVE @ Shepherds Bush Empire

The Blood Money Tour; The Game’s first return to the UK since his sell-out tour in 2011. As one of the most critically acclaimed rappers of the current crop and, arguably, one of the all-time greats, this has been one…

The Twang LIVE @ Ruby Lounge Manchester 19/02/2014

The Twang have coined this tour ‘intimate’. Well if you consider a cramming a few hundred club kids, football hooligans and lairy couples into a beer soaked underground intimate…well maybe we need to redefine intimate. As a group they are…

ALBUM REVIEW: Black Lips ‘Underneath the Rainbow’

The last time we heard from Black Lips was back in 2011 with ‘Arabia Mountain’ but we’re soon to be graced with ‘Underneath the Rainbow’, the band’s seventh studio album. The lyrics “I don’t want to wait” from Track No….

Le Titt’s Ode To International Women’s Day!

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day – hells yeah!  And as it’s GigSlutz, I’m all about the women in music, so travel with me down my road of feminine musical joy… Growing up as dance kid, who loved all things…

International Women’s Day Playlist

So, today is International Women’s Day – a day when all women, the world over, are celebrated and celebrating. On the 8th March, annually, events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements. And, there’s certainly plenty…

Radkey LIVE at The 100 Club, 05.03.14

“We’ve got one rule on this tour… Start Freakin’ Out!” An apt proclamation from Isaiah, the middle Radke brother, as freak out you will, if you ever get the chance to see Radkey live. As they take to the stage…