Disorder – Distortion To Deafness – Album Review
Disorder – Distortion To Deafness (Westworld Recordings) 2CD/DL Out now 2CD anthology focussing on the early years of Hardcore/Cider Punk trail-blazers, Bristol’s very own Disorder….LTW’s Ian Canty...
View ArticleIsabelle Antena: Sous Influences – Album Review
Isabelle Antena – Sous Influences LTM CD/DL Released 3rd February 2017 New Studio LP by French Bossa-Nova titan Isabelle Antena who over the years has enjoyed large scale success in Japan and sold over...
View ArticleTy Segall: Ty Segall – album review
TY SEGALL – TY SEGALL (Drag City) LP/CD/CC/MP3/FLAC Out Now 8/10 Yet another triumph from the psych-punk supremo, still on peak form. Louder Than War’s Gus Ironside reviews. Over recent releases, Ty...
View ArticleThin Films: Mountains + Machines – Album review
Thin Films Mountains + Machines Self Released DL/LP 9/10 THIN FILMS finally release’s his second LP and Ioan Humphreys is suitably impressed. Dan McRae aka THIN FILMS debuted his first album ‘Eskimo’...
View ArticleMeal Ticket : The Albums – album review
Meal Ticket : The Albums (Cherry Red) CD Out Now Louder Than War’s Craig Chaligne catches Steve Simpson and Willy Finlayson weaving their old magic at The Horns in Watford as Cherry Red releases the...
View ArticleRichard Hawley: Hebden Bridge Trades Club – live review
Richard Hawley Saturday 28 February Hebden Bridge Trades Club Richard Hawley plays an intimate acoustic show at Hebden Bridge Trades Club as part of Independent Venue week 2017. Paul Clarke reports....
View ArticleWild Fruit Art Collective/ Trashmouth event: Liverpool – live review
Photo: @sye_lewis Wild Art Fruit Collective and Trashmouth Event District, Liverpool 28 January 2017 Louder Than War took the chance to see a game of two halves at District, as The Wild Fruit Art...
View ArticleT2: Trainspotting – film review
T2:Trainspotting General release 8/10 If you’ve missed the press around the release of this, you must have been in suspended animation. Joe Whyte chooses life and reviews for LTW. Contains spoilers!...
View ArticleA Festival, A Parade: People Person – single review
A Festival, A Parade – People Person (self-released) DL Available now Louder than War have a listen to more interesting noisy alt rock from Newcastle. Newcastle outfit A Festival, A Parade released...
View Article5 Go Mad: Live at the Rifle Club – Album review
Album review 5 Go Mad: Live at the Rifle Club (Ginger Beer Promotions) CD only Out now 40 years on from ’77, the spirit of Johnny Moped and the Unwanted at the Roxy WC2 is alive and well and residing...
View ArticleThe Moonlandingz: Hebden Bridge Trades Club – live review
The Moonlandingz Hebden Bridge Trades Club 27 January 2017 Forever teetering on the edge of collapse but The Moonlandingz pull their performance into sublime beauty at Hebden Bridge Trades Club. For...
View ArticleHear the first track to be taken from the new GNOD album
Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys get’s some tinnitus (but he didn’t mind!) listening to brand new GNOD. The mighty GNOD are back with their fantastically named new album JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO...
View ArticleRoyal Arcade: Reverie – EP review
Royal Arcade – Reverie DL 7/10 Leicester five-piece lie back and count the stars on sterling new record. Sam Lambeth put pen to paper…and head to pillow. “Let’s just dream for now,” Royal Arcade say....
View ArticleNever Been So Alive – Third Eye Blind’s Self-Titled Debut Turns Twenty
Success for Stephan Jenkins hadn’t come easy, and it wasn’t until the tail-end of 1997 did it finally sink in. “I had this moment of… I had been trying, I had been striving for something,” the Third...
View ArticleSlim Chance: Moth Club, London – live review
Slim Chance Moth Club, London 31st January 2017 Louder Than War’s Craig Chaligne reviews Slim Chance first London date of 2017. A ray of sunshine on a rather drab Tuesday evening. This evening at Moth...
View ArticleThe Routes: In This Perfect Hell – album review
The Routes – In This Perfect Hell (Groovie Records) LP | DL Available from March (Pre-order out now!) Japanese garage merchants, The Routes, have returned once again with another sidestep away from...
View ArticleNightingales : glam-tastic new video, hilarious, in-depth radio interview and...
Nightingales : glam-tastic new video, hilarious, in-depth radio interview and UK tour dates for February… The band that will not die, but just get better and better – Post-punk, prole-art, glam-stomp,...
View ArticleHooton Tennis Club – interview
Hooton Tennis Club are one of the best young bands on the music scene at present. With two albums already released, the second Big Box Of Chocolates just released, and their live TV debut recently...
View ArticleRADIO X X-posure All Dayer 2017: London Bridge Omeara – live review
The ‘Xposure All dayer’ festival is an annual highlight in Keith Goldhanger’s diary and 2017 was no different. Annual highlight number one: Radio X (formerly XFM)’s master of new music John Kennedy...
View ArticleKaleo: O2 Forum, London – live review
Kaleo O2 Forum, London 31 January 2017 Louder Than War’s Naomi Dryden-Smith squeezed into Kaleo’s sold-out gig at O2 Forum in London to see what the fuss is all about. Aside from the impressive...
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