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Don’t Panic, Actually Panic: part two – Bradford
Don’t Panic: Actually, Panic Part Two – Bradford Don’t Panic – Ian Critchley goes off piste in West Yorkshire so you don’t have to. Do not try this at home. I sunk into the bath and tried to steam the...
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Hooligan Dublin: Punk Rock Christmas – single review
Hooligan Dublin: Punk Rock Christmas CD Available November 2013 The Hooligan Dublin Christmas message – “Today’s music ain’t got no soul/ Gimme some of that boot-boy rock ‘n’ roll.” Something a little...
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Gap Dream: Shine Your Light – album review
Gap Dream – Shine Your Light (Burger Records) CD/LP/CS/DL (bonus digital edition with 5 extra tracks available here) Out Now Shine on you crazy diamond! Gap Dream’s Gabe Fulvimar returns with...
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Lobi Traore: Bamako Nights: Live At Bar Bozo 1995 – album review
Lobi Traore – Bamako Nights: Live At Bar Bozo 1995 (Glitterbeat Records) LP/CD/DL Out Now 8.5/10 Glitterbeat release a new live album from the Malian soul/blues guitarist, the late Lobi Traore. Louder...
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The Sunshine Underground: London – live review
The Sunshine Underground XOYO London November 27th 2013 Are The Sunshine Underground still the same band Keith Goldhanger fell in love with? He goes to XOYO to find out. It’s been a while y’know but...
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Korn: The Paradigm Shift – album review
Korn: The Paradigm Shift (Caroline Records) CD/DL / LP Out Now Nu Metal pioneers Korn have a new album out and Lisa Lunney checks it out for Louder Than War. The sound of Korn is constantly evolving,...
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British Sea Power: From The Sea To The Land Beyond – album review
British Sea Power – From the Sea to the Land Beyond (Rough Trade) CD+DVD/LP+DVD/DL Available 2 Dec 2013 9/10 The much loved Brighton Rockers spoil us with a lavish audio-visual package of BBC4′s...
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Paul Weller and Holly Johnson play in church – with an orchestra
Who would have thought it? That young man from The Jam – playing in a church with an orchestra. Paul Weller performed five songs as part of Save the Children’s Christmas Tree Sessions, at the Union...
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Toy announce UK tour dates
TOY, who release their second album, Join The Dots, on Heavenly Recordings on Monday 9th December 2013, have announced details of a U.K. tour in February 2014. They recently announced their biggest...
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Welcome Pariah : New Band of the Day : Catch the Moment EP Review
WELCOME PARIAH : NEW BAND OF THE DAY Southampton indie-psych-mods Welcome Pariah released their Catch The Moment EP on November 22nd on their own Duffle Coat label. It’s a polished, mature work which...
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FINI TRIBE Release the classic Balearic anthem, DeTestimony, 25 years after...
FINI TRIBE Release the classic Balearic anthem, DeTestimony, 25 years after original release – featuring 6 brand new remixes. Release Date: 20th January 2014 Label: FFFt Formats: Limited 12” Vinyl,...
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The Damned | Ruts DC: Tivoli, Buckley – live review
The Damned | Ruts DC: Tivoli, Buckley What can you say that’s not already been said? What can you read that’s not already been read..? – That should be a lyric..! Due to the fall in record sales over...
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top 20 greatest gigs – part 4
Patti Smith CBGBS NEW YORK 1975 The poet priestess emerged from the New York underground in 1975 but would help create the mythic quality around the venue herslef and half the audience at the shows...
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top 20 greatest gigs of all time – part 3
Stone Roses Empress Ballroom Blackpool 1989 The sheer audacity of booking a 3500 capacity venue when you were getting 150 people a show on the toilet circuit is still breath taking but the Stone Roses...
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top 20 greatest gigs of all time – part 2
Black flag Mountaineers Club Seattle 1984 It was 1984 and the serioulsy derranged Black Flag come to town ostensiably to play a hardcore show. Ot that’s what everyone was expecting. What the audience...
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top 20 greatest gigs of all time
Music is littered with great gigs- here are some of the key moments that either defined generations or were catalyst moments… James Brown at the Apollo New York 1963 James Brown knew it- he had been...
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Sweet & Slade: Aberdeen 1st December 2013 – live review
Sweet & Slade The Music Hall, Aberdeen 1st December 2013 Words: Rock Chick Pics: Dod Morrison As a seasoned gig-goer I go to lots of events over the space of a year but, this last 2 years, I can...
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Rocket From The Crypt : London : Live Review
Rocket From The Crypt Koko, Old London Town, UK 6 December 2013 Rocket From The Crypt have been so good on this return to the UK tour that we have decided to review them again!...
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The Fallen Leaves: London – live review
Fallen Leaves 12 Bar Club, London 4th December 2013 The Fallen Leaves head an excellent line up at the 12 Bar Club – Neal Wright reports for Louder Than War. Here’s another familiar haunt that cares...
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Ty Segall with White Fence: London – live review
Ty Segall, White Fence London, The Scala 2nd December 2013 The southern Cali psych artist proves himself an unmatched rock ‘n’ roll powerhouse. A much longer than anticipated queue excludes me from a...
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