Following the huge acclaim and success of last year’s half-speed master of ‘Specials’, on 20th November Chrysalis Records will release a half-speed master of The Specials’ second album, 1980’s ‘More Specials’… Formed in Coventry in the mid-1970s, The Specials (originally…
The biggest band playing the most anticipated shows of 2018, The Rolling Stones, has just dropped the bombshell that Liam Gallagher, The Vaccines, Richard Ashcroft, Florence + The Machine and others will be supporting them throughout the UK leg of…
The original may have been released in 1984, but this brilliant cover is still incredibly relevant.
The first Gigslutz Girls’ New Music Show of the year saw the usual fantastic collection of upcoming artists including Fallulah, Tender, Clarens and Black Casino And The Ghost. Tash and Mari also took a look back at some of those…
What makes a great protest song? Decent lyrics and worthy sentiments alone aren’t enough – the music also needs to cut the mustard. Great protest songs have a defined purpose; they’re not limited to providing simple commentary or merely bleating on about how shit things are in general….
Rating: I arrive at The Roundhouse earlier than I normally would for the average gig, but then this is no average gig. This is one of the most important bands of the last century, The Specials. The band who changed…
Rating: What can you say about The Specials that hasn’t already been written? They are a band who have earned their stripes and are still managing to mix up the music scene nearly 40 years on since they were formed….
The Scenes are a Finnish rock band with an eclectic collection of songs tucked into their repertoire. A swift run down their Soundcloud drags the listener through the rowdy, yet cinematic clamour of ‘City Of White Blankets’, the meandering ‘Anorexia…
One of my favourite new bands of 2013, Radkey, have now released a follow up to their second EP, with a fantastic new video which features phenomenal footage of their recent UK tour (which I was pretty gutted to miss)….
On what would have been the week Amy Winehouse celebrated her 30th birthday, Ronnie Joice, who regularly bumped into the singer around Camden, remembers Amy’s renegade spirit… It was the summer of 2005 and I was seeing a girl who had a flat-mate called…