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Tear: VINYL01 – album review
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Jeb Loy Nichols: Country Hustle – album review
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Devin Townsend Project: The Academy, Manchester – live review
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Damien O’Kane Trio, Daoiri Farrell: The Met, Bury – live review
Damien O’Kane Trio, Daoiri Farrell The Met, Bury 17 March 2017 St Patrick’s Day, an Irish double bill and the potential for some of the black stuff to have been going down and we don’t mean the...
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Alimony Hustle – new band of the day
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Great Cynics: POSI – album review
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Empty Lungs: Don’t Get It – ep review
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The Moonlandingz: Cluny, Newcastle – live review
The Moonlandingz Cluny, Newcastle 22nd March 2016 A blistering opening to The Moonlandingz tour, tonight they’re firing on all cylinders as they thrill a capacity crowd in Newcastle. For a band that...
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Vulgarians: Almost Instinct, Almost True – EP review
Vulgarians – Almost Instinct, Almost True DL 5 May 2017 Louder than War get some lessons in melodic noise rock from Vulgarians. Ioan Humphreys reviews. In the last few weeks I have, via Twitter, been...
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Hanoi Rocks: Bangkok Shocks Saigon Shakes Hanoi Rocks, Oriental Beat, All...
Hanoi Rocks – Bangkok Shocks Saigon Shakes Hanoi Rocks, Oriental Beat, All Those Wasted Years (Dissonance) CD/DL Out now Reissues of the first two albums by Finnish Glam Punkers Hanoi Rocks and also...
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Barry Adamson: Love Sick Dick – EP review
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Trans AM: California Hotel – album review
Trans Am – California Hotel (Thrill Jockey Records) LP 22 April 2017 9/10 US electro-rockers Trans AM return with new album. Jay Stansfield of All Hail Hyena reviews. Talk about an opener! Straight in,...
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Vukovi: Vukovi – album review
Vukovi – Vukovi (LAB Records) CD/DL Out now The alternative-rock scene is one that regularly goes through the motions and suffers from periods where, creatively, many of the acts sink into sonic...
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The Blue Carpet Band: Rock And Roll Carpet – album review
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Tom Prior, Roughion and Marsicans: The Social , London – live review
Tom Prior, Roughion, Marsicans The Social, London Whilst many of our favourite bands are in Texas this week for South by South West Keith Goldhanger gets to see one or two bands that may be there...
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Edinburgh Of The Seven Seas: L’Âtre et l’enfant – EP review
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Pharmakon: Contact – album review
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The Twistettes @ Sound, Liverpool – live review
The Twistettes @ Sound, Liverpool Thursday 23rd March 2017 Sound, Liverpool – no stage, no specific lighting, the crowd are packed in tight forming a polite semi-circle – inches ahead of them, hazed...
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Stiff little Fingers/Theatre Of Hate : Manchester Ritz : Live Review
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Senseless Things: O2 Shepherds Bush, London – live review
Senseless Things O2 Shepherds Bush, London 25 March 2017 Naomi Dryden-Smith went to check out much-missed London band Senseless Things deliver the most eagerly anticipated comeback gig of the year so...
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