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I Mother Earth: Canada – live review
I Mother Earth The Oak, Winnipeg, Canada 1 November 2012 Live review Our Canadian correspondent Chris Hearn catches up with another band from his youth as I Mother Earth tour after an eight year...
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Manic Street Preachers release 20th anniversary edition of their debut album-...
I still have the letter sent by Richey Manic before anyone had ever heard of the band. It was a a long letter wrapped around a cassette of a demo. The band were looking for press and they had targeted...
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Reso: Check 1,2 – EP review
Reso – Check 1, 2 (Civil Music) 12″ EP / DL Out Now It comes as no surprise at all that londoner Reso has built himself a solid reputation in the bass music scene. He has a new double album out today...
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Crowns: Stitches in the Flag – album review
Crowns Stitches in the Flag (Ship Wreckords) CD/DL/LP Out Now Cornish ‘Fishpunk’ band Crowns have a new album out today, Stitches in the Flag. Our man Chris Hearn was sent a copy to review for us &...
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Diablos Del Ritmo: The Columbian Melting Pot 1960-1985 – album review
Diablos Del Ritmo – The Columbian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa) 2xCD /2xLP / DL Out 12 November 2012 Ever wondered what Columbian music sounds like? Thought not, and neither had Paul...
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The Walkmen, Wild Nothing : Manchester Ritz : live review
The Walkmen Wild Nothing Manchester Ritz Oct 30th 2012 live review This is Wild Nothing’s fourth visit to Manchester in a couple of years and their largest to date. The words dream pop spring...
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David Byrne in Conversation: How Music Works – live review
David Byrne in Conversation: How Music Works. Curzon, Chelsea, London 24rd Oct 2012 David Byrne recently came to the UK on a three leg tour promoting his new book, How Music Works. On the first date in...
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Emilie Autumn : London Electric Ballroom : live review
Emilie Autumn Electric Ballroom, London Friday April 13 2012 Emilie Autumn sold out the Electric ballroom in Camden with no music business backing, no media and no radio. Her theatrical, neo-gothique...
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Public Enemy: In:Motion, Bristol – live review
Public Enemy In:Motion, Bristol 28 October 2012 The amazing Public Enemy are celebrating 25 years together. Part of those celebrations included an inevitably sold out date at Bristol’s Motion Skate...
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Rites Of Spring: Six-Track Demos – ep review
Rites Of Spring: Six-Track Demos (Dischord Records) 10″/CD/DL Out Now It’s impossible to underestimate the importance of Rites Of Spring, both on the mid-80s hardcore scene and on the evolution of punk...
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New Band of the Day: Skeleton Suite
One of the reasons music’s always so exciting is the possibility that around the next corner the next artist you’re gonna listen too could totally floor you. This has just happened to Jeff Mason. Read...
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Theme Tune Boy: Return of the Living Dead – album review
Theme Tune Boy: Return of the Living Dead DL Out: Now Amidst a current pledge drive, Theme Tune Boy are the latest project from Irish Indie/Punk legend Niall Quinn. Our Dublin reporter Ray Burke...
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Pelt: Effigy – album review
Pelt: Effigy (MIE) CD/DL/2XLP Out: Now Improv drone merchants Pelt deliver a new album which further solidifies their self proclaimed title of New Weird America. Pelt have been around for a while and...
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Win tickets to Ska Fest 2…
Win tickets to Ska Fest 2… We are delighted to be able to offer yet another Louder Than War ticket competition – the prize this time is a pair of tickets for the forthcoming Ska Fest 2 which is being...
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Tame Impala : big interview with Australian tripped out groove band
Following up on their wondrous debut with new album ‘Lonerism’ Tame Impala are about three quarters through a world tour that’s seen them take in most of Europe with the US up next. Its in between...
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The Whatevers: Lo-Fi Infidelity – The Best of The Whatevers: album review
The Whatevers: Lo-Fi Infidelity – The Best of The Whatevers (Local Underground) Out Now Charming posthumous ‘best of’ collection from Leeds indie poppers The Whatevers. Read Maren McGlashan’s reaction...
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Pipes And Pints ‘Found And Lost’ – album review
Pipes And Pints ‘Found And Lost’ (People Like You Records) CD/LP/DL Released 5th November 2012 Second album from the Prague based Pipes And Pints, the follow up to 2009’s ‘Until We Die’ – for those of...
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Mid 80′s Half Man Half Biscuit song told the truth about Jimmy Savile
Yesterday we printed the lyrics to the Smiths ‘Panic’ after a net rumour went round about them alluding to Jimmy Savile. As many people pointed out they could have been about many different things and...
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Dragged Into Sunlight ‘Widowmaker’ – album review
Dragged Into Sunlight ‘Widowmaker’ (Prosthetic Records) CD/LP/DL Released 5th November 2012 This is brutal; the aural equivalent of staring into a blackened void; sounds from the depths of whatever...
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an open letter to Barack Obama
Dear Mr Obama, Well I see you just about got your job back then. It was looking pretty touch and go out there during one of the most bitter and expensive races for the White House ever. At one point...
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