Masiro : Technocologist Unknown – Album Review
Masiro – Technocologist Unknown (Self-Released) CD/DL Out 8th July Masiro are a trio, with a new addition of Chris Hutchinson-Mogg on Bass. Chris used to play in legendary noisy Oxfordian instrumental...
View ArticleTom Lockett: Feeling Bad – single review
Tom Lockett – Feeling Bad (Magic Cactus Records) CD/DL Available 5 August Debut single time for former Electroshock Therapist Tom Lockett and it leaves Glenn Airey feeling good. When I first came...
View ArticleThe Wimmins Institute / Tupelo Twins – the Art House, Southampton -Live Review
Live Review the Wimmins Institute / Tupelo Twins the Art House, Southampton 1/7/2016 Feminists with a sense of humour! Female bands from London and Southampton form mutual admiration society whilst...
View ArticleBad Breeding: S/T – album review
Bad Breeding: S/T (self-released) CD/Vinyl/DL 8/10 Furious hardcore-skronk-jazz-punk from Stevenage noiseniks. Louder Than War’s Joe Whyte gives us the score. If you are a fan of the more extreme end...
View ArticleThe Parrots: ‘Los Niños Sin Miedo’ – album review
The Parrots ‘Los Niños Sin Miedo’ 8/10 Out 26/08/16 Psychobilly greatness from this Spanish three piece. Louder Than War’s Ioan Humphreys reviews The parrots are a really lovely revelation. I have to...
View ArticleTom Robinson Band : King Blues : Ferocious Dog : Glastonbury Leftfield stage
Tom Robinson Band King Blues Ferocious Dog Glastonbury Deftfield stage June 2016 Live Review It’s been a good few decades since I last saw Tom Robinson own a stage. These days he is better known as the...
View ArticleDoozer McDooze: Not Going Back To That – album review
Doozer McDooze Not Going Back To That (Self Release) CD/DL Available now on CD, Download From 01 August 2016 Rating 8/10 Festival favourite Doozer McDooze is back with Not Going Back To That, his most...
View ArticleSwans : ‘Glowing Man’ : album review
Swans The Glowing Man 10/10 album review Yet again Swans make another powerful hypnotic album that is as terrifying as it is beautiful as it concerns itself with the powerful intoxicant of love and all...
View ArticleMargaret Glaspy : ‘Emotions and Math’ : Album Review
Margaret Glaspy ‘Emotions and Math’ Album Review 7/10 After dropping out of university when her education grant ran out after just one semester, Margaret Glaspy continued to use her student ID card to...
View ArticleHung Like Hanratty: 50 Shades Of Shit – album review
Hung Like Hanratty 50 Shades Of Shit [Flicknife] CD/DL – Available Now Rating 7/10 Every now and then an album comes along that leaves you a little gob-smacked, the latest release from Hung Like...
View ArticleModern Sound Library: Tippex Tears – Single Review
Modern Sound Library: Tippex Tears DL Out Now Manchester band Modern Sound Library are set to release a brand new EP, ‘Tippex Tears’. LouderThanWar’s James Lowther delves back into the psychedelic...
View ArticleI Swear I Was There: Sex Pistols, Manchester and the Gig That Changed the...
Book review I Swear I Was There: Sex Pistols, Manchester and the Gig That Changed the World David Nolan (Music Press Books / John Blake Books ) Paperback / e-book Third edition – Out now. The...
View ArticleListen to this! American Anymen premiere new single!
Terming themselves an Antifolk band, New York trio American Anymen present their new single ‘Selectively Stupid’, which is the first single from their forthcoming “Start My Center” LP. Somewhat Punk...
View ArticleAlbums we missed: Part 1 – Lark | Neurotic Wreck | Ashley Reaks
Occasionally, albums get caught up in the themes of the day, in the news we see and hear, or just generally don’t get the coverage they deserve. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates felt rather guilty...
View ArticleAlex Somers: Captain Fantastic OST – album review
Alex Somers: Captain Fantastic (Lakeshore/Invada Records) LP/CD/DL July 8th (CD/DL via Lakeshore) July 29th (LP via Invada Records) 9/10 Musician and visual artist Alex Somers scores the new Viggo...
View ArticleTourist Attractions Single Launch: Gullivers, Manchester – live review
Tourist Attractions – Single Launch party Gullivers – Manchester 2nd July 2016 Manchester’s Tourist Attractions held a launch party for their new single A Million Miles Away at Gullivers NQ in...
View ArticlePeter Schilling: Error In The System – Album Review
Peter Schilling – Error In The System Hotshot Records CD/DL Released 1st July 2016 Reissue of the English language version of the “Major Tom” hitmaker’s debut album, with associated single cuts and the...
View ArticleVacances: Runaway – single review
Vacances Runaway (Cooking Vinyl) CD/DL Available Now Rating 9/10 Brooklyn, New York based indie outfit Vacances have released their debut single “Runaway.” Embodying a 1980’s vibe this is debut well...
View ArticleMerzbow / Keiji Haino / Balazs Pandi ‘An Untroublesome Defencelessness’–...
Merzbow / Keiji Haino / Balazs Pandi ‘An Untroublesome Defencelessness’ (Rare Noise Records) CD/DL/Vinyl Rel Date: 17th July 2016 Another Merzbow associated release for RareNoise Records, and once...
View ArticleGlastonbury 2016 – An Overview by Keith Goldhanger
Keith Goldhanger has just spent the week camped next to The John Peel Stage at Glastonbury. Here’s what he thought. . . Where else could we find ourselves eating a cheese and pickle sandwich we made...
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