Brotherhood of the Lake hated you. They hated you and they hated me and they hated everybody else, but most of all, I’m pretty sure, they hated themselves. From 2005 to 2013 the Devon quintet played a hard, fast and uniquely angry brand of heavy metal, “a soundtrack to the social decline that surrounds us”. Their early work had all the […]
Read moreThe last time Thrice were here they were going away forever. Or at least for a very long time. The dreaded word ‘hiatus’ was fresh in the air and when the band waved goodbye to a packed Forum in 2012 they seemed to mean it, there was no longing in their eyes, only resolution, almost relief. Which only makes it […]
Read moreAmerican Football have been back for a while now- the seminal emo outfit reunited in 2014 after a 15-year hiatus to play a few festivals and finish a few tours- but it was never clear just how long they intended to stick around. All of a sudden though, there’s more, there’s new music. ‘I’ve Been So Lost For So Long’ […]
Read moreOld faithful. Mr reliable. Comfort music. It might not blow the bloody doors off but ‘Get Right’, the debut single from Jimmy Eat World’s as yet untitled ninth (!) album, is more of the same steady-handed sweetness you’ve come to expect from rock’s most reliable outfit.
Read moreAnd just like that the best weekend of the year is back. Yeah yeah, argue all you like but there is no other festival with this many great bands in such a great space watched by such a great crowd. For three years now the folk behind ArcTanGent have successfully increased the size, scope and ticket sales of their festival […]
Read moreI could rant and I could rave. “Buy this album,” I could yell, caps lock jammed down. But that’s not what ‘Centres’, the latest work of art by Vancouver native Ian William Craig, would want. This is a precious whisper of an album, see, a magnetic and masterful but almost always quiet and careful record. There are waves and swirls […]
Read moreNarrow Head nearly pull off the perfect heist here. ‘Satisfaction’, the Texas trio’s debut full-length borrows from a bunch of great bands. Ok, so maybe borrows isn’t strong enough. This is a record that sounds like it’s been copied, cut, and pasted right out of the 90s. The hazy, hammering riff of ‘Necrosis’ owes much to prime Deftones, ‘Feels Like […]
Read moreWes Borland will never escape the shadow of Limp Bizkit. But on the basis of everything he’s chosen to do outside of being the guitarist of the biggest nu-metal band in the world, though, he’s not going to stop trying. Borland has explored oddball cartoon-core, stomping industrial, and even being part of Marilyn Manson’s band over the years, all with […]
Read moreThis is brilliant. A heady mix of memorable melodies, hard-driving rhythms, soft focus soundscapes, feedback, thick swirls of darkness and glimmers of light, the second record from North Carolina quartet Jenny Besetzt is everything I want from indie rock. Opener ‘Authorless Speech’ sounds so warm and familiar that you’ll swear you’ve heard it before. It sounds like the best thing […]
Read moreThis isn’t a supergroup. Sure, a bunch of folks know what Jeremy Bolm, Neeraj Kane, Stephen LaCour and Jay Weinberg have done before but way more people would have to fire up a search engine to find out. Hell, the guy who mixed this record, erstwhile Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, is a bigger deal. This isn’t a supergroup and don’t […]
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