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3 Chords punk Festival 2015 – The full lineup video premiere.
This August bank holiday Men, Women and Children from across the country will invade The Tereife Estate in Penzance, Cornwall to bare witness to some of the most talented bands on the scene. Spanning...
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Shilpa Ray : Last Year’s Savage : Album Review
Album Review Shilpa Ray : Last Year’s Savage Northern Spy CD /DL /LP Nick Cave sings her praises and ‘just about every musician in New York City, who doesn’t hate her, loves her.’ She sings about...
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Film Preview – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the...
This coming Friday, as part of Edinburgh International Film Festival, a documentary titled “Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream – 1977 – 82″ will be receiving its first...
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Helm: Olympic Mess — album review
Helm — Olympic Mess (PAN) LP | CD | DL Due Out: June 23 Much has already been made of ‘Olympic Mess’, an album which sees electronic experimentalist and Londoner Luke Younger move away from his...
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Anxiety Junkies: Self Sabotage – album review
Anxiety Junkies – Self Sabotage (self released) DL Out Now Louder Than War were asked to listen to this DIY hardcore release from Anxiety Junkies so Nathan Brown accepted the mission and dusted off his...
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Mir: Truth Be Told – album review
Mir – Truth Be Told CD / DL Out Now 8 / 10 Scottish based Country rockers Mir release their new album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. It’s been a while since Mir’s last album Secret, but...
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Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and Andy Cutting: The Met, Bury – live review
Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr & Andy Cutting The Met, Bury 12th June 2015 Three names synonymous with quality, class and eminent musicianship. Alone, each capable of giving a masterclass in their...
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Lynne Jackaman: No Halo – EP review
Lynne Jackaman – No Halo DL Released on iTunes, June 16th Former member of Saint Jude Lynne Jackaman releases her debut solo EP. I have to admit to being bemused at the current idea that “there...
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Unleashed: Dawn Of The Nine – album review
Unleashed- Dawn of The Nine (Nuclear Blast Records) DL/LP Out Now 7/10 Unleashed has been a band for nearly 30 years and the only thing that mainstream music fans know about them is that Nirvana...
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British Sea Power: Manchester Ritz – live review
British Sea Power Manchester Ritz June 14th 2015 Of course all the greatest bands create these strange little worlds for you to go and co-exist in. Parallel micro universes were there are all kinds of...
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PINS ‘Wild Nights’– album review
PINS ‘Wild Nights’ (Bella Union) CD/LP/DL Available now The follow up to the 2013 debut ‘Girls Like Us’ – a release which catapulted this Mancunian outfit into the critical glare; I recall PINS and...
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Northside Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY: June 8 – 14
The 7th annual Northside Festival took over Brooklyn last week, celebrating emerging names in music, film, food and art. Louder Than War’s NY correspondent Carrie Quartly reports back on the events...
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Reptile Youth: Away – ep review
Reptile Youth – Away (Self-Release) DL Out Now 6.5 / 10 Hotly tipped “psychedelic indie vibe makers” Reptile Youth have just released their new single, Away, a track taken from the forthcoming EP of...
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Limp Bizkit: Bratislava – in photos
Limp Bizkit 9th June 2015 Aegon Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia We were not even sure if they were still going but nu metal pioneers Limp Bizkit are still packing them in on the arena circuit as Anna...
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Download Festival: Donington Park – live review
Download Festival Donington Park 12 – 15 June 2015 The 13th Download Festival took place at Donington Park from 12 – 15 June 2015. Described as Europe’s biggest and best rock and metal festival...
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POP WILL EAT ITSELF : Anti Nasty League : album short review and interview
POP WILL EAT ITSELF Anti Nasty League album short review and interview 9/10 A couple of weeks ago I visited London and witnessed P.W.E.I. play to an up for it, filled to capacity crowd of loyal...
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Shirley Inspired: A Tribute To Shirley Collins – album review
Shirley Inspired – A Tribute to Shirley Collins (Fire Records) CD | LP | DL Out Now Legendary Folk-singer and Raconteur Shirley Collins gets the tribute treatment with a rather superb cast. Louder Than...
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Reggae Round-up: The Expanders | Morgan Heritage | The Ship-Tones
The sun is hot, we’re wearing our Bermuda shorts and it’s that season again when a bucket load of reggae releases seem to appear. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates listens to the best riddims and...
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The Jackobins: Waiting On The Sun – single review
The Jackobins – Waiting On The Sun (self-released) DL Due out 30th June Liverpool indie poppers with a penchant for light psych, The Jackobins release new single Waiting On the Sun. Louder Than War’s...
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The Stone Roses – In a small Room with not many people
Many of us have seen bands before they got famous, but how many of us can say they saw the first ever Stone Roses gig, and not even realise at the time? Louder Than War’s Keith Goldhanger can. I first...
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