Top 10 bands from the M for Montreal festival
M for Montreal – a musical mystery tour of a fascinating city M for Montreal is a four-day music feature which takes place around Montreal itself – the largest city in the Canadian province of...
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Run The Jewels The o2 Academy, Birmingham EL-P and Killer Mike celebrate Run The Jewels most successful year to date. Christopher Lloyd went along to review. 2017 has been a benchmark year for Run...
View ArticleREVIEW- POEZEST By Mike Bennet : audio book reimagines Edgar Allen Poe
REVIEW- POEZEST By Mike Bennet order now from Amazon : Mike Bennett’s re-imagining of Edgar Allen Poe in ‘Poezest’ is a joyfully transgressive and rib crackingly amusing affair. Available now via...
View ArticleWeaves: Think Tank, Newcastle – live review
Weaves Think Tank, Newcastle 18th November 2017 The brilliant Weaves tear the roof off Think Tank tonight with an impressive set filled with dazzling pop tracks! They’re a band who still retain the...
View ArticleThe Cadillac Three: O2 Academy Newcastle – live review
The Cadillac Three O2 Academy Newcastle 19th November 2017 The Cadillac Three unfortunately fall short of all of the excitement tonight, with a set over reliant on overzealous solos. Having released...
View ArticleGodsticks: Faced With Rage – album review
Godsticks Faced With Rage CD/DL/LP Kscope Available now A band who’ve been labelled “one of the UK’s most idiosyncratic rock bands” Welsh quartet Godsticks follow up the heaviness of 2015’s Emergence...
View ArticleWalter Lure of The Heartbreakers gives an incredible, in depth interview....
Heartbreakers Walter Lure Interviewed On the back of the re-release of L.A.M.F, Joe Whyte speaks to last-man-standing, the legendary Walter Lure, for LTW. With more lives than a cat with a lucky...
View ArticleThe Moonlandingz: O2 Ritz, Manchester – live review
The Moonlandingz | Black Lips | Pins O2 Ritz, Manchester 21st November 2017 Louder Than War’s Lee Ashworth plunges into an Iggy-esque triple bill heavy on big riffs, swagger and a sense of conviction...
View ArticleSuzie Stapleton: Yesterday’s Town – single review
Single review Suzie Stapleton: Yesterday’s Town (self-released) DL only Out now Australian singer/guitarist Suzie Stapleton is back with a brooding new single that rocks like Sister-era Sonic Youth...
View ArticleDrunk Gods: Found the Lord and Lost Ma Soul – single review
Drunk Gods: Found the Lord and Lost Ma Soul/Pet Hate (self released) CD/DL Available from 2nd Dec (CD)/4th Dec – DL 9/10 Lanarkshire’s Drunk Gods follow up their stunningly cacophonous 2014 debut...
View ArticleHooligan ft. Christy Dignam ‘Teenage Rebel’– EP review
Hooligan ft. Christy Dignam ‘Teenage Rebel’ (Reekus Records) CD | DL Available now Long overdue follow-up to the 2014 released ‘Criminal Damage’ EP; sadly, this one is only available on CD and...
View ArticleThe Fall : The Singles 1978 – 2016 singles box set : review
The Fall: The Singles 1978 – 2016 Cherry Red album review Other bands come and go. The Fall are always there. They always have been. A new Cherry Red Records release documents...
View ArticleLee Brilleaux : Rock n Roll Gentleman 4 CD box set review & The Feelgoods Heresy
Lee Brilleaux : Rock n Roll Gentleman 4 CD box set review & The Feelgoods Heresy In light of the new 4CD Dr Feelgood collection – with Lee Brilleaux as the thread stringing the various eras...
View ArticleThe Slow Readers Club: The Albert Hall, Manchester – Live Review
The Slow Readers Club – with support from Desperate Journalist The Albert Hall, Manchester 24/11/2017 I felt like some ‘Desperate Journalist’ on Friday 24 November – and I mean that in both senses of...
View ArticleActive Minds: The Age of Mass Distraction – Album review
Album Review Active Minds – The Age of Mass Distraction (Looney Tunes) LP/DL Out now In their 9th album Scarborough’s Active Minds take on the economic catastrophe we are living in and how the...
View ArticleCaravan: Komedia, Bath – live review
Caravan Komedia, Bath 19 November 2017 As prog stands for ‘progressive,’ Caravan’s 2017 iteration ought to be the highly-evolved by-product of 49 years of progress. LTW’s Jon Kean went to Bath’s...
View ArticleAullido Atómico: Decadencia – album review
Aullido Atómico Decadencia FOLC Records LP / DL Out now! 9/10 Valencia’s Aullido Atómico return for their third album and add a heavy dose of 80s Spanish rock-pop and brushes of tropicana to their...
View ArticleSex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks 40th Anniversary deluxe edition – Album...
Album Review Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks, 40th Anniversary deluxe edition (UMC) CD/Vinyl/DL Dead horses flogged and more cash from chaos? Joe Whyte reviews the latest NMTB for LTW. I was,...
View ArticlePissed Jeans: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds – live review
Pissed Jeans Brudenell Social Club Leeds 12 November 2017 Arriving in the UK with lines like “Those we adore just haven’t spilled their secrets yet” might make it sound like Pissed Jeans have the sort...
View ArticleAbandon Normal Devices 2017: Castleton, Derbyshire – live review
Abandon Normal Devices Festival 2017 Castleton Derbyshire 21-24th September 2017 Friday Night Following the low-key success of AND festival 2015 at Grizedale Forest, Louder Than War’s Lee Ashworth...
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