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The Melvins: Tres Cabrones – album review
The Melvins – Tres Cabrones (Ipecac Recordings) CD/DL Out Now 8/10 The Melvins new album reunites Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover with the band’s original drummer Mike Dillard, as you would expect it’s a...
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Black Roses; The Killing of Sophie Lancaster – review of stunning emotional play
Black Roses; The Killing of Sophie Lancaster words by Sylvia Lancaster, Poetry by Simon Armitage review by Elspeth Moore Manchester Royal Exchange until 8th March 2014 So, here I was sat in the...
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Einstein’s 9 rules of pop – science genius basic rules of music still hold true…
Einstein is famous for many things but it’s his long lost and, fortunately, recently discovered theorem of pop that seems to hold far more truth than his far more famous theory of relativity that has...
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special tribute gig for Dr. Feelgood’s late Gypie Mayo
There is going to be a special celebration gig for the great Gypie Mayo- the only guitar player who could stand in the genius Wilko’s shoes in the legendary Dr’ Feelgood. Guitar player Leigh Heggarty...
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New Material From Burnley Post Punkers The Strange
Burnley’s most terrifying band, The Strange, are back; bigger, badder and nastier than ever…Louder Than War’s Sean Diamond takes a listen. Fearsome four piece The Strange are back to play havoc with...
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The Current Northern Soul scene: Is it just nostalgia?
The underground music and dance youth movement known as Northern Soul has survived well over fifty years since its emergence in the nineteen sixties, but are the 21’st century “all-nighters” just men...
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Multiple Tap Festival: Cafe Oto, London – live review
Photo Junko in full flow © Fabio Lugaro Multiple Tap London, Cafe Oto 22-23 February 2014 Some of Japan’s most uncompromising musicians landed in Dalston, east London, for a two-day free-for-all of...
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The Nightingales: Tour And New LP News
Currently without a record company or management, The Nightingales are 100% independent – so Louder Than War doesn’t mind giving them a bit of free advertising space by passing on details of their new...
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Dave Davies (The Kinks) to play first live show for 13 years
Dave Davies of the Kinks returns to London to perform his first UK concert for 13 years at the Barbican Hall on Friday 11th April. This concert will see him celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the...
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Peter And The Test Tube Babies: Grimsby – live review
Peter And The Test Tube Babies/Ming City Rockers The Yardbirds, Grimsby February 14th 2014 A raucous night at The Yardbirds with local heroes Ming City Rockers and Peacehaven’s finest Peter And The...
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Nat Lyon: Small Victory On A Fallow Field – album review
Nat Lyon: Small Victory On A Fallow Field DL/ CD Out Now The third album from Nat Lyon is an instinctive and uncompromising example of in-the-moment music. Steve Swift is enthralled. A brief history....
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Morrissey claims the Beatles had ’4 magnificent songs’ but which 4?
Morrissey has been setting the internet chat rooms off again by his faintly non controversial thoughts on the Beatles. Much as we love the Beatles here it seems bizarre that any criticism of the fabs...
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BBC 6music festival – Damon Albarn, the Horrors and more : live review
BBC 6music festival – Damon Albarn, the Horrors and more : live review Victoria Warehouse Manchester Feb 2014 In what is like a 21st century version of seventies impressionist Mike Yarwood ending...
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Dubblestandart: In Dub – album review
Dubblestandart – In Dub (Echo Beach) CD/DL Out Now 9/10 Austrian Dub band, Dubblestandart, release their fourteenth studio album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates is impressed. When I met my wife, a...
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Cosmic Psychos ‘Blokes You Can Trust’ – London screening
Cosmic Psycho’s ‘Blokes You Can Trust’ – London screening For one night only, UK Premier of “Cosmic Psychos – Blokes You Can Trust” at the Rio Cinema, London – Sat 15th March 2014 For 30 years, the...
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Liam Gallagher takes to twitter to tell fans not to buy Definitely Maybe...
Liam Gallagher has taken to twitter to tell fans not to buy the Oasis Definitely Maybe remasters . The announcement of the remasters this week caused an internet meltdown with many people thinking...
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watch this! John Robb in conversation with Jah Wobble
Great in conversation with the wonderful Jah Wobble from the recent Louder Than Words festival in Manchester. Louder Than Words website here The post watch this! John Robb in conversation with Jah...
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Temples : Manchester Academy : live review
Temples Childhood Manchester Academy March 2014 live review Photos by Mel Mudkiss. ’I ain’t no square with my cork screw hair’ There is a neat tradition of classic curly hair and psych genius that...
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Watch this! Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey post first track from upcoming album
Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey post first track from upcoming album. Titled ‘I Keep It To Myself’, it is, as you would have wanted, a slice of prime time Wilko driven blues … and it’s great… The...
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Danny Brown / Vic Mensa: Gorilla, Manchester – live review
Danny Brown/ Vic Mensa Gorilla, Manchester 23 February, 2014 A definition of punk? Michael Bennett sees Danny Brown in Manchester and reckons he’s found it. How does one define punk? Not punk rock,...
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