About Alejandro De Luna
Founder & Editor @ TSOD (thesenseofdoubt.com) and obsessed with the possibilities of recorded noise as a tool to squeeze your skull. Wish we were in 1977...
Rating: Despite Motörhead having been on the road for almost 40 years, it is still an unbeatable gear of filth and boisterous noise; a black beast packed with anger and ready to detonate its sonic impurity to the loyal audience…
Rating: Avalanches of noise combined with fat and nasty guitar riffs; endless drum beats overlapped with obscene bass lines; bitter keyboards and the mute howl of inexistent vocals that enhance the mammoth sound, in a collection of nine pieces that…
Rating: If there’s one venue in London that can claim the not so honorable prize of having one of the worst layouts for live shows, that place could be the basement at the Birthdays bar, sited in the land of…
Rating: If you’ve never been to the Buffalo Bar, the place is a cramped venue with no distance between the stage and the audience. The combination of red and dark lights, along with the black leather obsessives, tattoos, Doc Martens…
Rating: Can you think of a pop star with a career and persona that evokes so many contradictory emotions in the public? Although Morrissey has his die-hard haters, he also attracts one of the most devout fan bases of all time. With The Smiths between 1982 and 1987…
10 years on from a masterpiece After a difficult 2013 plagued by bad luck, health problems and cancellations – but also with the release of a successful autobiography, a tribute to Lou Reed on vinyl and the reissues of Kill Uncle and ‘The…
Rating: “Where the heck am I?” I asked myself this question several times during the three-day return of the Hop Farm Music Festival. “Is this a rock ‘n’ roll event?” the answer´s no. Unlike other summer festivals full of tempting…
Hop Farm Music Festival 4-6 July, Paddock Wood, Kent. After last year´s cancellation, the festival that defends no sponsorship/no branding and embraces musical diversity is back with an eclectic line-up and some unmissable acts. Here are our ten acts you must not…
Rating: Say hello again to these black angels of sombre melancholy, defying rhythmic tempos and mathematical sonic precision. Just less than three months ago, Interpol triumphantly left the iconic art-deco walls of Brixton Academy splattered with their sound. Last Wednesday,…
This month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Oasis´ debut single; an essential track in the aftermath of Cobain´s suicide and the decline of grunge, it marked – along with the likes of Blur, Suede, The Verve or Pulp –…