Now this is a rock show. Not a stadium gig or an arena event or anything like the sort of enormo-performance the Foo Fighters are now used to playing in the UK (and will play again come July), this is a rock show. Oh sure, there are giant speakers, flashing lights and 10,000 people here but the band on stage […]
Read moreThursday have announced a short run of UK shows. These fall neatly between the end of their US ‘Full Collapse’ anniversary tour and the release of the band’s new record, album number six, ‘No Devoluciòn’ so expect a special mix of classic old songs and brand spanking new ones. Sweet! Kings College, London. 19.04.11 Academy 3, Manchester. 20.04.11 Venue TBC, […]
Read moreIt’s official. After much speculation following the end of their contract with Victory Records, BTBAM have inked a worldwide recording deal with Metal Blade. The North Carolina quintet will kick off the partnership with the April release of their new album ‘The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues’. “We are delighted in the opportunity to join the Metal Blade family,” commented guitarist Paul […]
Read more‘The King of Limbs’ is coming. Uh huh. Although recent rumblings did suggest that the band had album number eight in the bag, it’s still something of a surprise that you’ll be able to get your ears around the thing as soon as this Saturday. The much-anticipated follow-up to 2007’s stunning ‘In Rainbows’ will be titled ‘The King of Limbs’. You’ll have to wait until […]
Read moreIt seemed like brilliant Brighton noiseniks Rolo Tomassi might spend most of the year off radar while they hunker down to write and record album number three but they’ve just announced an octet of official show. Supports announced soon but see the tour poster below for the other specifics. Let’s rock!
Read moreEmmure release their fourth album, ‘Speaker of the Dead’, on Monday and are celebrating by showing off the video for ‘Solar Flare Homicide’ and booking a UK tour. They’ll be taking Winds of Plague, War From a Harlots Mouth, and iwrestledabearonce to the following stops… Concorde 2, Brighton. 01.05.11 O2 Academy 2, Birmingham. 02.05.11 The Cockpit, Leeds. 03.05.11 O2 Academy, […]
Read moreSeeing Comeback Kid live and in flesh is key. Oh, they’ve been good on record before, great maybe, but they’ve never been able to capture the unrestrained energy of their show on disc. At least, that is, until now. Album number four see, finds the Canadian five-piece on their finest form yet. And from the firebreathing first track to the […]
Read moreTera Melos have changed. But that shouldn’t be a surprise. Tera Melos hate ‘the same’. And ‘normal’ and ‘safe’ and ‘simple’ too. So while the Californian combo have kept the instrumental math-rock backbone from their early efforts, they’ve added loads more fuzzy layers, blissy melodies and smooth hooks to the mix for album number two. Oh and vocals too. Yeah, […]
Read moreWhat’s the difference between growing up and getting old? Well, one usually means development, maturity, confidence and clarity. And the other means teeth falling out and eyes glazing over. Perhaps, if you’re lucky, the latter comes with a little grumpy belligerence but most of the time it means going soft, going off the boil, and fading away. Just ask Skunk […]
Read more‘Beacons’, the second full-length from Cloudkicker, is a whirlwind of progressive, instrumental rock, dense post-hardcore, and complex metal. It sometimes sounds like two bands playing at once. Impressive then, that it is all the work of just one man. This hasn’t exactly come out of nowhere, Ohio native Ben Sharp has been kicking out solid solo jams for a few […]
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