They might as well have called this The Next Big Thing Tour. You can feel the heat coming off this thing from as far away as the M40. The bands aren’t cool kids, hipster bait, or even dudes taking a single scene by storm though, just the best new British rock bands, destined for the big time. There isn’t one […]
Read moreThis is what all gigs should be like. Except… maybe not. Maybe if you had to trek to Peckham, find a tiny alleyway into an old cricket bat factory, get past two security checkpoints, and go up three flights of stairs (not four, that’s the community theatre) every time you went to a show, it would start feel like a […]
Read moreThe summer is dead. The sun is gone. The rain has won. But never fear, a top tour to soundtrack the end of times has been booked. Get gloomy.
Read moreA lack of progression can make a band stale. Not so with Fear Factory. If 2010’s comeback of sorts ‘Mechanize’ was a slight return then this thing makes a kick-the-door-in motherfucker of an entrance. Bristling with all the things the band does best, ‘The Industrialist’ entirely forgets the nu-metal lapses of the past, sweeps away with the clutter of pre-hiatus […]
Read moreThis is a weird one. For every moment on Daytrader’s debut full-length that recalls the glory of their early EPs, there’s a clunky verse, energy-sapping chorus, or screeched vocal that sounds like Dexter from The Offspring got drunk and snuck into the recording studio. In fact, where those first releases sounded confident and captivating, this record routinely can’t find the […]
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