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TexasBob Juarez – On A Distant Shore: album review
TexasBob Juarez – On A Distant Shore Available now DL TexasBob Juarez is the guitarist/keyboard player in London band Television Personalities. He also plays lead guitar with Rose Mcdowall. He has...
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Three Smiles Wide: Three Smiles Wide – EP review
Three Smiles Wide – Three Smiles Wide EP Limited CD (150 copies) Out now Annoyingly talented West Wales trio re-release their acclaimed EP. Ioan Humphreys reviews I have to be brutally honest. My...
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Weaves: Think Tank, Newcastle – live review
Weaves Think Tank, Newcastle 18th July 2016 Weaves produce a scintillating set on this sweltering evening, packed with passion and excitement they truly blow us away! Weaves have been tearing across...
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The Tuttles: Green Note, London – live review
The Tuttles Green Note, London 19th July 2016 A breath of bluegrass fresh air in rather warm warm London evening. Louder Than War’s Craig Chaligne reviews The Tuttles first London Show. Back at The...
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Donovan: Hebden Bridge Trades Club – live review
Donovan Hebden Bridge Trades Club July 15, 2016 Donovan plays a rare band gig as the folk legend knocks out the hits backed by a crack team of Manchester musicians. Donovan has always slightly...
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The Fireworks: Black and Blue – EP review
The Fireworks: Black & Blue EP Vinyl/Download Shelflife Records 8/10 Following from last year’s triumphant debut LP, Switch me On, the boy-girl fuzz-pop/punk quartet return with a 10” EP of brand...
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Andy Bell: Variance II (The Torsten The Beautiful Libertine Remixes) – album...
Andy Bell – Variance II (The Torsten The Beautiful Libertine Remixes) (SFE) CD / DL Out Now 8.5 / 10 Andy Bell returns once more in the latest of the Torsten series. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates...
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Welcome to the Village Festival Review
Photo courtesy of Hans Jellema and WTTV Like many other places in this last decade, Leeuwarden, capital of Friesland up in the north of the Netherlands, has caught the festival bug. There’s no point...
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The Dandy Warhols: Kasbah, Coventry – live review
Courtney Taylor and co mark their first visit to Coventry with a set that articulates the band’s brand of unashamedly vain indie rock. Sam Lambeth discovers whether or not the Dandies still rule OK....
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Has It Got Better (Man!!!) – Is ‘Be Here Now’ Worthy of Readmission?
If there ever was an album that summed up the halcyon haze of living in the moment and regretting it later, it would be Be Here Now. Acclaimed on its arrival and now mocked in memory, Oasis’ bloated,...
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Tonefest Dorset: festival review
Tonefest Halls Road, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset 22 -24 July 2016 Festival Review Tonefest is a tiny grassroots festival set in the heart of the Dorset Countryside. For the price of a few beers, a curry...
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Queens of Syria: West Yorkshire Playhouse – theatre review
In an age where dead children are washed up on beaches, and what seems like an endless stream of refugees risking everything on a dinghy to escape tyranny, it is all too easy to forget all those...
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Jeremy and the Harlequins: Into The Night – album review
Jeremy & the Harlequins: Into The Night LP/CD Yep Roc 7/10 Praised by Springsteen guitarist & Sopranos actor, Steve Van Zandt, the New York rock & rollers return with a second album only a...
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Palm Springs: No Love is Ever Lost – album review
Palm Springs: No Love is Ever Lost LP/DL Random Acts of Vinyl 9/10 Bosses of Brighton’s Random Acts of Vinyl Records return with another stunning album with spaced-out melodic melancholy, wrapped up...
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Momus – Pubic Intellectual: An Anthology 1986-2016 – Album Review
Momus – Pubic Intellectual An Anthology 1986-2016 Cherry Red 3CD/DL Released 19th August 2016 First career anthology for Momus aka Nick Currie spread over 3CDs with observations from the man himself on...
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Descendents: Hypercaffium Spazzinate – album review
Descendents: Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Epitaph) Out 29th July CD/DL /LP Descendents’ first release on Epitaph since ‘Everything Sucks’ in 1996. Formed in 1978, the concept of the band is ‘ Punk, pop,...
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Ocean Colour Scene: Leeds – live review
Ocean Colour Scene with Shed Seven, The Bluetones, Reverend and The Makers, and Carnabells Millennium Square, Leeds 24 July 2016 Marking twenty years since the release of Moseley Shoals Ocean Colour...
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Aaron Holm: The Boy – album review
Aaron Holm: The Boy (Dissolve Records) LP/CD/DL Available 29th July 7/10 A concept album of sorts, Aaron Holm takes us on an aural journey from boyhood to manhood. Simon Tucker reviews: The ambient...
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True Neutral Crew: soft rules – album review
True Neutral Crew: soft rules (Deathbomb Arc) CD/DL Available 29th July 8.5/10 Experimental hip-hop outfit True Neutral Crew come out swinging on their debut double length album. Simon Tucker reviews:...
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Stealing Sheep: Hebden Bridge Trades Club – Live review
Stealing Sheep Hebden Bridge Trades Club Thursday 21 July Once upon a time Stealing Sheep were a perfectly decent folksy trio then they discovered electronica and everything changed for the better....
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