BOY HARSHER @ WIDE AWAKE FESTIVAL, BROCKWELL PARK (SOUTH LONDON) MAY 28, 2022 Boy Harsher has played another great show as the band has become more popular. Their shows are still as DIY as ever. The duo of Jae Mathews and Gus Muller form a [...]
VR Sex Rough Dimension Dais Andrew Clinco, the man behind the mythical Drab Majesty, is back with his post punk/anti-pop release, Rough Dimension. Recorded again with Ben Greenberg of Uniform fame, it checks all of the right boxes that one has [...]
The Darkness Motorheart Cooking Vinyl The Darkness have been the go-to band for tongue in cheek glam rock, with the secret being that musically, they are insanely talented and their songs sonically are off the charts. With this in mind, [...]
Black Marble Fast Idol Sacred Bones Black Marble has grown sonically on their new album. Whereas in the past, listeners came to expect lo-fi bedroom Synth Pop hits, Fast Idol is changing those expectations, one smash hit at a time. The album [...]
Sculpture Club Worth Funeral Party Records Chaz Costello, Bass player for Choir Boy and co leader of Human Leather always has another trick up his sleeve, in particular, Sculpture Club and all of the melancholy pop punk that it brings to the [...]
Twin Tribes Altars Negative Gain/Young & Cold Records/Manic Depression Records Darkwave duo du jour, Twin Tribes, have released Altars, a remix album that encompasses their first two records. Twin Tribes, like the new era of dark wave bands [...]
Xiu Xiu OH NO Polyvinyl Records Xiu Xiu has been around almost two decades now cranking out experimental masterpieces. Singer songwriter Jamie Stewart’s lyrics are so intimate that some songs have been a hard listen. What is not talked about [...]
Egret Zero Exploring Shackleton Luno Records Baltimore duo Egret Zero met 30 years ago and shared their love of obscure musical references. Fast forward to 2019 where they get back in touch and start making and releasing music. Although their [...]
NOFX Single Album Fat Wreck Chords NOFX is still around 40 years since their early beginnings, and what is there left to do when the rest of their era’s punk bands have fallen or sold out? Well, you can begin an album with a six-minute mid-tempo [...]
GWAR Scumdogs of the Universe (30th Anniversary Edition – Remixed and Remastered) Metal Blade Records/Slavepit On the 30th anniversary of Scumdogs of the Universe, GWAR is rereleasing the album but this time it is remixed and remastered. Unless [...]
Erasure The Neon Mute Records Erasure is the innovator of feel-good dance songs. Vince Clarke, one of the founders of Depeche Mode, Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America), and The Assembly, went on to create Erasure along with Andy Bell. Now on [...]
Kidsmoke A Vision In The Dark Libertino Records Welsh quartet Kidsmoke debut their new album, A Vision in the Dark, and at first listen, this gorgeously-layered record is anything but dark. It is a dream pop record with the best elements of Real [...]
The 1975 Notes On A Conditional Form Interscope/Dirty Hit Originally titled Music for Cars and slated for release immediately after the last album, Notes on a Conditional Form is fascinating. Now it is in our hands and it is beautiful and [...]
Choir Boy Gathering Swans DAIS Gathering Swans is Choir Boy’s second album following Passive with Desire, where the world got a chance to find out just how talented Adam Klopp and his distinct voice really are. Klopp could be the second wave of [...]
Snow Patrol Reworked Universal Music/Polydor Records Snow Patrol’s latest release, Reworked, is just that. It is a collection of reworked classics, in essence much different and many better in some ways. “Chocolate” is a classic which we all [...]
DRAB MAJESTY @ LES CAVES DU MANOIR, MARTIGNY (SWITZERLAND) NOVEMBER 1, 2019 To celebrate the Day of the Dead, Les Caves du Manoir has hosted bands for 30 year, putting on a spooky show in a small wine cellar underneath an even larger wine [...]
Moon Duo Stars Are The Light Sacred Bones Moon Duo’s new record Stars Are The Light is a new direction for one of the more talked about psychedelic rock outfits. Coming off the well-received Occult Architecture releases, the new direction I [...]
Kassogtha The Call Independent Switzerland is not known globally for Death Metal but there have been some influential bands for sure, we are looking at you Celtic Frost and Coroner. Kassogtha’s new EP The Call is the new wave that will make you [...]
Ride This Is Not A Safe Place Wichita Recordings Ride’s sixth album, the second since 2015’s sudden reunion sees them exploring new sonic territory, while at the same time making an enjoyable record for the listener. Ride for most people is up [...]
Those Darn Gnomes Calling Whitetails To A Tuned Bow Nefarious Industries Those Darn Gnomes might be on to something. That something is a beautiful mix of all genres, instruments, noise, singing., and production all wrapped up on an EP that runs [...]
The Ocean Blue Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves Korda Records The Ocean Blue, who started back in 1986 from all places Hershey Pennsylvania, has always fit perfectly in place with Dream / British pop legends. They stood on their own with mega [...]
Josephine Wiggs We Fall The Sound Of Sinners Josephine Wiggs has given us a soundtrack to our youth with her work in The Breeders. Her musicality and alt-rock writing really changed things, specifically for women-fronted bands in the ‘90s. They [...]
Nightrage Wolf To Man Despotz Records Nightrage is back with their eighth album Wolf to Man and it is a melodic death metal powerhouse. Many have compared Nightrage to In Flames, but on the new record, they are anything but. Let us get some [...]
White Lies Five [PIAS] Recordings White Lies is bringing the hooks on their fifth album, but this time without the naïve sense of live or die urgency of their first, To Lose My Life…, rather this is a more seasoned albeit subdued take on pop [...]
