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Cowards: Teeth – album release news
Cowards – Teeth CD/DL Out 14 April 2017 Cowards are set to release their debut album on 14 April 2017. Cowards was born in and around Blueprint Studios, Manchester by three musicians disillusioned...
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The Mute Gods: Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth – album review
The Mute Gods: Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth (Inside Out) CD/DL/2LP/special edition CD Available now The solo project of Nick Beggs – bass and Chapman Stick player of choice to the Progressive...
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The Blinders: Manchester – live review
The Blinders Jimmy’s, Manchester 24 February 2017 The Blinders ripped Manchester’s Jimmy’s apart last night as part of the This Feeling weekender with support from Saytr Play. Nigel Carr reports for...
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Adwaith release new single Haul
Welsh post-folk outfit Adwaith continue their rise with the powerful new single Haul. Carmarthen’s Adwaith are currently making all the right noises in all the right places with everyone from Huw...
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A Tree Grows premiere new video
We are pleased to present the premiere of Future Calculations from Brooklyn-based jazz fusion outfit A Tree Grows, the second single to be released from their forthcoming debut eponymous album....
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CHILDCARE: Kiss? – track review
CHILDCARE – Kiss? (Lost In The Manor Records) DL Out now Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys has a listen to the latest release Kiss?, from indie outfit CHILDCARE. I’m writing this and I just realised...
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Anarchistwood: The Nasty Album – album review
Anarchistwood – The Nasty Album (Ex-Gratia Recordings) CD/Vinyl/DL Out Now 8/10 Anarchistwood prove there’s still life in anarchy. Louder Than War’s Mark Ray reviews. You would be forgiven for...
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Primary Colours: Jam – EP review
Primary Colours – Jam (self-released) DL 9 March 2017 7.5/10 Newcastle band’s stock may have taken a while to ferment, but the result is a smattering as satisfying as a smothering of Duchy Originals....
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BLURT: Live At Oto – Album review
BLURT – Live At Oto (Salamander Records) LP Out now 9/10 Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys has a listen to the legendary BLURT’s latest live LP. This is what it’s all about… In the 1980s BLURT were...
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Ha Ha Tonka: Heart Shaped Mountain – album review
Ha Ha Tonka – Heart Shaped Mountain (Bloodshot Records) CD/Vinyl/DL Released 10 March, 2017 8/10 Ozarks band spread their wings. Louder Than War’s Mark Ray reviews. Heart Shaped Mountain is the fifth...
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Dead Can Dance: The Serpent’s Egg/Aion/Spiritchaser – album reviews
Dead Can Dance – The Serpent’s Egg/Aion/Spiritchaser (4AD) LP Released 17 March, 2017 09/10 4AD, over the course of a year, has been re-issuing their entire catalogue of Dead Can Dance albums, and the...
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Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock: Hebden Bridge Trades Club – live review
Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock Hebden Bridge Trades Club 23 February 2017 Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock bring their new set to the Hebden Bridge Trades Club for a fine set of folk. Paul...
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Spectres: Condition – album review
Spectres – Condition (Sonic Cathedral) CD/LP/DL Released 10 March 2017 8/10 Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys gets pleasantly battered and bruised by Spectres. Spectres were formed in Barnstaple, North...
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Come On, Life: Dinosaur Jr’s Beyond turns ten
By the mid-noughties, alternative rock was that of resurgence. The most surprising of all the reunions though had to be Dinosaur Jr. More surprising was the fact they coalesced long enough to record...
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Fogbound: Fogbound – album review
Fogbound – Fogbound (The John Colby Sect) Ltd LP, DL Out now 7/10 Spain’s hottest new purveyors of acid psych rock, Fogbound, drop their debut full length album. Nathan Whittle climbs aboard and takes...
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Fat Tuesday festival in Hastings : review of key south coast event
Fat Tuesday (website is here) is fast becoming one of the key music events on the calendar. A four day event in Hastings, it’s a key part of the small south coast town’s reinvention that has been going...
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Kobayashi Nights: Intergalactic Champions (Vol.1) – album review
Kobayashi Nights : Intergalactic Champions (Vol.1) (self-release) DL / CD Available now 8/10 Marking a whole year of their regular DIY music gigs London’s Kobayashi Nights have put out a compilation of...
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Blair Dunlop, Kitty Macfarlane: Manchester – live review
Blair Dunlop, Kitty Macfarlane The Ruby Lounge, Manchester 25 February 2017 With last year’s Gilded album now ticked off as done and dusted, Blair Dunlop and his two piece band get the chance to head...
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Things we didn’t know about a month ago: February 2017
Keith Goldhanger rounds up a short month in London that produced more new tunes by more new bands and re-acquainted himself with some stars of the past. February made us shiver, bad news on the...
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Bryde: Less – single review
Bryde – Less DL Out 28 February 2017 Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys falls head over heels for Bryde’s melodies once again. I have reviewed Bryde’s last two releases and I must say they have been...
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