Wild Fruit Art Collective – Under The Hooves: single release
Wild Fruit Art Collective: Under The Hooves Release date: 18 March 2017 Available on Soundcloud Liverpool doom-psych outfit Wild Fruit Art Collective capture the intensity of their live performance on...
View ArticleGreen Peppers: Retrospectively Yours – album review
Green Peppers – Retrospectively Yours (You Are The Cosmos) LP (limited edition) Out now 10/10 Jim McCulloch has long been regarded with huge respect and affection amongst musicians in the...
View ArticleDamselfly – Vottol
https://damselfly1.bandcamp.com/album/vottol Who wants to talk about England and the English? A landscape and a dreamscape (to borrow the words of Peter Ackroyd) this strange, infuriatingly myopic...
View ArticleThe Eskimo Chain: We Are Subcode – single review
The Eskimo Chain – We Are Subcode DL Out now The Eskimo Chain are based in London, but were formed in beautiful Margate by Luke Spinks, Matthew Mullins, Patrick C Smith and Joseph Flaig. Their latest...
View ArticleThe Baby Seals: The Baby Seals – EP review
The Baby Seals – The Baby Seals DL 7 April 2017 The self-titled debut from The Baby Seals is full on female empower pop. Cassie Fox reviews for Louder Than War. You can’t help but love The Baby...
View ArticleRachel Mason unleashes new video for Sandstorm
Rachel Mason whips up uncanny frenzy with latest single Sandstorm. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates finds out more. Performance artist Rachel Mason presents the new video for Sandstorm, a track from...
View ArticleModern English: 100 Club, London – live review
Modern English 100 Club, London 8 March 2017 Nostalgia: there’s a lot of it about. Lover of new music and regular correspondent Keith Goldhanger usually stays away from the past but Modern English...
View ArticleBlack Star Riders: Nottingham – live review
Black Star Riders Rock City, Nottingham 14 March 2017 Black Star Riders are, in their own words ‘The next step in the Thin Lizzy story’ and they came to Rock City on their new tour. Neil Johnson was...
View ArticleSeth Lakeman, Wildwood Kin: The Picturedrome, Holmfirth – live review
Seth Lakeman, Wildwood Kin The Picturedrome, Holmfirth 10 March 2017 Mike Ainscoe catches the penultimate gig on a short ten date tour which once again finds Seth Lakeman promoting his Ballads Of...
View ArticleWreck-Age ‘Orbital’ EP – re
Wreck-Age ‘Orbital’ (Self Released) CD | DL Available now Four track debut from the Corby/Leicester based Wreck-Age who included previous members of both Eastfield and Cretin 77; title track ”Orbital’...
View ArticleSix By Seven: The Maze, Nottingham – live review
Six By Seven The Maze, Nottingham 4 March 2017 A homecoming gig for Nottingham’s Six By Seven thrills Martin Gray and gives him pause to reflect on the history, and perhaps the lost chances, of this...
View ArticleGeno Washington and the Ram Jam Band: The Picadilly and Pye Studio Recordings...
Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band The Picadilly and Pye Studio Recordings Live !!! (Edsel) CD/DL Well overdue reissue of the sixties catalogue of Geno Washington. Louder Than War’s Craig Chaligne...
View ArticleA Top Ten to celebrate 40 years of Barry Adamson… on tour soon and releasing...
BARRY ADAMSON – one of the UK’s most under-rated bass-players, soundtrack composers and musician/ artists. A tribute & retrospective in the form of a Top Ten – compiled by Ged Babey To celebrate...
View ArticleThis is great…Chuck Berry reviews punk and post punk singles from 1980
Chuck Berry was, of course, the architect of rock n roll but what happens when the next generation turns up —-these great singles review from 1980 from Jetlag fanzine show much more wisdom than many of...
View ArticleFrank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Manchester Academy 2 – live review
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes Manchester Academy 2 17 March 2017 Frank Carter returned to Manchester on Friday night as part of his band’s Modern Ruin tour. Nigel Carr reports back for Louder...
View ArticleTHE HURT to release new single ‘Sleeping’
Coming out May 12th former Paris Angels front man Rikki Turner’s group THE HURT release their masterful new single ‘Sleeping’, featuring the bonus tracks ‘Darker Sun’ and a Periscope remix of...
View ArticleElbow: The Apollo, Manchester – live review
ELBOW The Apollo, Manchester 18 March 2017 Mike Ainscoe checks out the first of a run of four homecoming gigs as the Elbow love affair with Manchester Apollo continues to run its course. They may...
View Article‘Bunch Of Kunst’ Sleaford Mods film review
Bunch Of Kunst – a film about Sleaford Mods Director : Christine Franz Review of film screening and in conversation with Sleaford Mods by John Robb put on in Nottingham by the local...
View ArticleCreeper: Eternity, In Your Arms – Album Review
Creeper: Eternity, In Your Arms (Roadrunner Records) CD | LP | DL Released 24th March 2017 10/10 Rock n Roll and boo! Having mastered a sharp and engaging way of including fans into their world,...
View ArticleŽen – Jantar
(Unrecords – Moonlee) https://xzen.bandcamp.com/ It’s funny how the conversations you have seem to guide, or inform you about the music you eventually get attached to. A good example are two scenarios...
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