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Alan McGee: Creation Stories; Riots, Raves, and Running a Label – book review...
Creation Stories, Riots Rave and Running a Label (Sidgwick & Jackson) Alan McGee Out Now Louder Than War’s Carl Stanley reviews the new biography of Alan McGee, a man who’s arguably done more to...
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A christmas story…traditional of course
Happy Christmas mr. Psycho Cat! It was snowing outside, like it does every xmas, sort of- the clock had stopped at midnight xmas 1974- it had not moved from there as the years rolled past and the TV...
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Marilyn Manson Is Announced As Alt-Fest 2014 Headliner…
Marilyn Manson Is Announced As Alt-Fest 2014 Headliner… The self-proclaimed ‘God of Fuck’ has been confirmed as the headline act for Alt-Fest – Saturday 16th August 2014. This will be the band’s only...
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Angelic Upstarts, Crashed Out, The Reaktors, Lo-Fi Poet Band: Joiners,...
Angelic Upstarts, Crashed Out, the Reaktors, Lo-Fi Poet Band; the Joiners Southampton 22nd December 2013 Nothing says Christmas quite like Geordie Punk Rock hitting the South. Ged Babey loosens his...
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Fight! Mayor of Liverpool demands apology from Boris Johnson over Beatle’...
Fight! Mayor of Liverpool demands apology from Boris Johnson over Beatle’ comments In the slow lane of early January, where the word sluggish is an insult to slugs; the news that Liverpool’s Mayor is...
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The Slow Readers Club: Heaton Chapel Blue Cat Cafe – live review
The Slow Readers Club Heaton Chapel Blue Cat Cafe 22nd December 2013 Sometimes there’s a band that you look at and listen to and wonder why they haven’t quite made the next step up. The Slow Readers...
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John Lennon McCullah hits the road in March
John lennon McCullah facebook John lennon McCullah twitter John Lennon McClullah the 15 year old teenage wonderkid whose raw songs that tell the truth of life in current UK made a real...
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High Hazels / The Orielles: Sheffield Shakespeare – live review
High Hazels / The Orielles Sheffield Shakespeare 28th December 2013 It’s been quite a year for new Sheffield band High Hazels, releasing their debut single, Hearts Are Breaking, getting some serious...
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official documents released today show how Crass rattled Thatcher and the...
The official documents today released after 30 years show that Thatcher had not only planned to send in the army during the miners strike (although many eye witness reports from the time report seeing...
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Morrissey writing a novel and recording new album…
Morrissey live in Manchester 2012 : photo Hayley Taylor In a frenzy of typing Morrissey is to follow up his controversial Autobiography with a novel- we wonder if he will call it ‘novel’ In a...
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Pixies release limited edition EP- listen to it here- it sounds great
The Pixies have chosen the early January slumber to release a limited edition EP. The 4000 only ten inch vinyl is their second release since their comeback and features ‘Blue Eyed Hexe’ which you can...
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All American Bowie: new book gives unique perspective on Ziggy Stardust!
With his bog-brush hair, zigzag kimono and stack-heel boots, David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) cut a formidably glam dash through the early 1970s rock scene. We know this because we’ve seen Mick Rock’s...
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New Artist of the Day: Sisteray
From London, Louder Than War presents the excellent new band Sisteray, whose new EP, She Likes the Drama, comes out on 17th Feb 2014. Influenced by classic groups such as The Beatles, The Who, The...
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Inspiral Carpets Announce New Album and Classic Reissue
Inspiral Carpets have announced the release of their first new album for twenty years and the release on vinyl and CD for the first time of two classic cassette-only demo tapes, Dung 4 and Cow, as part...
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watch RZA, Wayne Coyne, OutKast & others in hilarious short story cartoons
check out these excellent animated reenactments from a selection of Hip Hop artists such as Wu Tangs RZA, OutKast (image right) and Danny Brown as they look back on some of the craziest and oddest...
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Phil Everly RIP
Phil Everly, one half of the Everly brothers hads died at the age of 74. Along wth his brother Don, Phil was one of the founder fathers of rock n roll and pop culture. Their perfect harmonies were a...
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Vamos ‘More Songs About Circles’ – album review
Vamos ‘More Songs About Circles’ (Antipop Records) CD/DL Available now First off, this album came out prior to Christmas 2013, the danger with that, certainly for a small label release being that your...
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The Passing Of Phil Everly Makes Former Icicle Works Mainman Ian Mcnabb Look...
With the passing of another great artist, Phil Everly, I once again ponder the future. There will never be another Everly brothers, music that will live forever. They came up through the old route....
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John lennon McCullagh top 10 favourite albums : number 6
6,the Beatles – Revolver John ‘My favourite Beatles album without a doubt. You can’t really say much on this album that hasn’t already been said, it’s just a beautiful album from start to finish. They...
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John lennon McCullagh’s top 10 favourite albums : number 7
7, David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World – John ‘Such a different album, unlike anything i’ve ever heard. “All the Madmen” is one of the creepiest songs i’ve ever heard, it sounds like it belongs on a...
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