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Sherwood At The Controls Volume 2: 1985–1990 – album review
Sherwood At The Controls Volume 2: 1985 – 1990 (On-U Sound Records) LP / CD / DL Out Now 9 / 10 Second instalment of legendary Adrian Sherwood productions and remixes. Louder Than War’s Paul...
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Fields Of The Nephilim, The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing: O2...
Fields Of The Nephilim | The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing O2 Forum, London 20th June 2016 North London gets a dose of gothic cinematic rock from Carl McCoy’s Fields Of The Nephilim, with...
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The Julie Ruin: Hit Reset – album review
The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset (Hardly Art) LP | CS | CD | DL 9/10 The Julie Ruin have found their sound on Hit Reset, packed with fizzing pop melodies and honest lyrics this album has everything. The term...
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Iggy Pop American Valhalla: “The Art Of Post Pop Depression”– exhibition review
Iggy Pop American Valhalla: “The Art Of Post Pop Depression” The Flood Gallery – Greenwich, London Until 7th July 2016 Greenwich’s Flood Gallery plays host to an exhibition by German Photographer...
View ArticleBilly Bragg, Rhoda Dakar, Man With Echo : Leftfield stage Glastonbury : live...
Billy Bragg Rhoda Dakar Man With Echo Leftfield Stage Glastonbury June 2016 Well it was never going to business as usual. On the day of the historical leave vote and against a background of confusion...
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The Stone Roses at The Etihad Stadium – More Than Just Great Gigs
Two nights out of four, I watched the Stone Roses at the Etihad Stadium last week and as the reviews pour over the brilliance and beauty of it all, I thought about what made the Stone Roses and last...
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Muse : Glastonbury : live review
Muse Glastonbury Live Review June 2016 Somewhere in the distance something mighty is going on. There it is blown up into hammer of the gods proportions on the huge screens – the tiny ants of Muse...
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Les Harry’s live at WORM Rotterdam 15/6/16
Sometimes you see a gig that is key; a game changer. Key in reminding you of music’s potential to open portals to spaces you never thought you’d explore, spaces that you’d assumed would be closed to...
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Blink-182: California – album review
Blink 182 – California July 1st 2016 DL/CD/LP 8/10 Former kings of pop-punk return with a new album and new member. Surrounded by controversy (at least within the pop-punk community) does it live up to...
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Bivouac: The Stag & Hound, Bristol: Live Review
Bivouac The Stag & Hound, Bristol. 18th June 2016. When I heard the news that Bivouac were reforming this year I literally jumped for joy. Back in the early nineties when Nirvana changed the game,...
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Lord Kesseli and the Drums – EP Review
Lord Kesseli and the Drums (Ikarus Records) DL/LP Out Now Switzerland. Home of Nucleic Acid, Absinthe, Velcro, the Swiss Army Knife and the Toblerone. It’s also been home to a mind expanding scene of...
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New Artist of the Day: Wesley Fuller
Tousled Melbourne rocker Wesley Fuller has announced details of his debut EP, as well as releasing a video for his new single ‘Runaway Renee’. Apparently inspired by a girl who hooked up with one of...
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Henri Herbert: Green Note, London – live review
Henri Herbert Green Note, London 23rd June 2016 The Franco-English keyboard wizard returns to The Green Note with his trio to perform an incendiary show. Louder Than War’s Craig Chaligne reviews....
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Vessel: Patterns of Blue – album review
Vessel: Patterns of Blue (DME) LP/CD/DL Available now! 7/10 Vessel is Dane, Anders Mathiasen, a prolific artist, whose activities include sound installation, poetry, performance, teaching and various...
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King Harvest And The Weight: The Castle, Manchester – live review
King Harvest And The Weight The Castle, Manchester 19th June 2016 A day ahead of the release of their debut album (LTW review here ) and following the successful launch gig a couple of nights...
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Barnbow Canaries: West Yorkshire Playhouse – theatre review
Alice Nutter used to be Chumbawamba but now she is a respected playwright. Paul Clarke enjoyed her new play Barnbow Canaries telling the tale of a forgotten group of Leeds women. One hundred years...
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Unit 4 + 2 – Concrete and Clay: The Complete Recordings 1964-1969 – Album Review
Unit 4 + 2 – Concrete and Clay The Complete Recordings 1964-1969 RPM 2CD/DL Released The whole story of the “Concrete And Clay” hit-makers 1960s output……Ian Canty looks the band that struggled under...
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Lonely Robot: The First Step – EP review
Lonely Robot – The First Step EP DL Released 14 July 2016 Having been gigging under the name Lonely Robot for the last four years James Stewart commits his brilliantly imagined reflections on growing...
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Shibusashirazu Orchestra : Glastonbury festival : Live Review
Shibusashirazu Orchestra Glastonbury festival June 2016 Live Review John Robb from LTW and the Membranes returns from Glastonbury after seeing this most bizarre 30 piece free jazz orchestra who had a...
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Steve Hackett: The Total Experience Live In Liverpool – album review
Steve Hackett: The Total Experience Live In Liverpool (Inside Out) 2CD/2DVD, BluRay Available now Steve Hackett’s been touring his Genesis Revisited II album in various forms since 2013, doing...
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