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McAlmont & Butler: The Sound Of McAlmont & Butler – Reissue Review
McAlmont & Butler: The Sound Of McAlmont & Butler (Edsel Records) Deluxe LP/CD Available from 25/09/2015 9/10 This year sees the twenty year anniversary of McAlmont & Butler’s ‘The Sound...
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Modern Life Is War: Reading Festival – live review and interview
Modern Life Is War Reading Festival 28 August 2015 Modern Life Is War emerged from Marshalltown, Iowa to become one of the most influential hardcore punk bands in history. Their intense aggressive and...
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Anthrax, Pedagree Skum, Dog Shite, SLUG: Split EP – EP review
Anthrax, Pedagree Skum, Dog Shite, SLUG – split EP (Grow Your Own) Out now 7″| DL Nathan Brown spins another killer slab of punk rock from the rapidly expanding Grow Your Own Records and gives it the...
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Leeds Festival 2015 – photo review
Leeds Festival Bramham Park, Leeds 27th – 30th August 2015 Our onsite photographer Kristen Goodall, stepped away from the Main Stage to see what the other stages had to offer and was there to...
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Victorious 2015: Southsea, Portsmouth – festival review
Victorious 2015 Southsea, Portsmouth 30th August 2015 Sean BW Parker reports back from Victorious 2015, headlined by The Flaming Lips. Oddly jingoistic as its name seems, the Victorious festival in...
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Chelsea Wolfe ‘Abyss’ album review ‘great work of brooding Gothic power’
Chelsea Wolfe ‘Abyss’ 9/10 album review LA based Chelsea Wolfe has been releasing great series of darkly romantic, highly original releases for the past few years and has hit a stunning peak on her new...
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Worker/Parasite: Depth Charge EP review
Worker/Parasite — Depth Charge (Classicworks) Out: September 21, 2015 DL | LP Worker/Parasite advance the resurgence of acid techno with new five track EP that will delight and confuse. There seems to...
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New Found Glory – Reading Festival – live review and interview
New Found Glory Reading Festival 28 August 2015 It is no exaggeration to say that New Found Glory along with Green Day and Blink-182 were responsible for the spawning of a genre that we now know as...
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Jack Goldstein: Tonic Of Wilderness – album review
Attracted Vinyl DL / LP Out Now 8.5/10 Frontman of Fixers Jack Goldstein releases his second solo album. Louder Than War’s Sean Diamond reviews. Autumn leaves have been and gone, tides have changed,...
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Paul Smith: Cluny, Newcastle – live review
Paul Smith and The Intimations Cluny, Newcastle 4th September 2015 A homecoming show of epic proportions from one of the North East’s favourite musical sons, an evening filled with incredible songs...
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Sunset Sons – Reading Festival – interview and live review
Sunset Sons Reading Festival 28 August 2015 Sunset Sons are currently being hotly tipped for a hugely successful career. They are mentioned in the same breath as Slaves, James Bay and Wolf Alice as...
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Richard Hawley: Hollow Meadows – album review
Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows (Parlophone) CD | DL | LP Available now 9/10 His 2012 Mercury nominated ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’ shifted Sheffield’s Richard Hawley into a generally wider public...
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Get The Blessing: Astronautilus – album review
Get The Blessing – Astronautilus (Naim Records) CD | LP Available 18 September The fifth album from the Bristolian electro-jazzers is a block-rocking riot, says Louder Than War’s Paul Margree. Get...
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The Legendary Shack Shakers: The Southern Surreal – album review
The Legendary Shack Shakers: The Southern Surreal (Alternative Tentacles) CD | LP | DL Release date: 11th September 2015 The first new material from Col JD Wilkes and his Southern wrecking crew in...
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My Morning Jacket: Manchester Ritz – Live Review
My Morning Jacket The Ritz, Manchester 6th September 2015 We see Kentucky rockers deliver an onslaught of a performance in Manchester. My Morning Jacket’s appearance at The Ritz was part of an all too...
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Blank Realm: Illegals In Heaven – album review
Blank Realm – Illegals In Heaven (Fire Records) CD | LP | DL Out Now The Australian quartet return with an LP displaying a more melodic side to their music. Blank Realm is one of the most promising...
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Qwanqwa: Volume Two – album review
Qwanqwa – Volume 2 (FPE Records) DL Out Now 8 / 10 Modern experimental Ethiopian quartet release their new album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. As the title suggests, this is Qwanqwa’s...
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Shannon & the Clams: Gone By the Dawn – album review
Shannon & the Clams – Gone By the Dawn (Hardly Art) CD | DL | LP Out now The 50’s Doo-wop & Rock ‘n’ Roll and 60’s Girl-Group Sound played by former Garage Punks now on their fourth album : a...
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Mik Artistik’s Ego -Trip – Smoke and Buttons – DVD Review
Keith Goldhanger found a DVD in his tent …Then remembers where it came from and what he was doing before the advertised fun at Glastonbury began back in June. There’s a risk involved with artists such...
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The Primary – Arctic Roar – album review
The Primary – Arctic Roar (Self Release) CD/DL Available Now 8/10 Every now and again life throws you an unexpected and delightful cherry, one of those unanticipated moments that brings a little joy...
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