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Wales Goes Pop Day 1 – festival review
Wales Goes Pop The Gate, Cardiff 18th-20th April Billed as an “all-ages pop weekender” and held over the Easter bank holiday in Cardiff, Wales Goes Pop also has a great lineup featuring many artists...
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Wales Goes Pop Day 2 – festival review
Wales Goes Pop The Gate, Cardiff 18th-20th April Our review of the second day of the children friendly Cardiff based music festival Wales Goes Pop. Nick Fisk keeps us up to date with his review of day...
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Watch This: Boy George joins Black Lips to cover a T.Rex classic, Bang A Gong...
Atlanta’s beloved sons the Black Lips were joined by none other than Boy George on Friday to perform a cover of T.Rex’s T Rex’s ‘Bang A Gong (Get It On)’. Check out the video below. The new Black Lips...
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Huge anti Fracking festivals rumoured…
We are hearing on the grapevine that two huge anti tracking festivals are being planned in the north of England. With really strong and eclectic bills with several legends the bands are making their...
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The Wildhearts: Manchester Academy and Nottingham Rock City – live review
The Wildhearts Manchester Academy and Nottingham Rock City 10th and 12th April 2014 Britrock legends The Wildhearts make Andy Santiago keep going back for more, 80+ gigs and counting – “unfeasibly...
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Louder Than War Interview: Tracey Donnelly – one of the people behind Formal...
Louder Than War’s Carl Stanley talks to Tracey Donnelly, one of the people behind Manchester’s premiere boxing nights, Formal Fight Club, about them and the 5th annual white collar charity boxing event...
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Adam Ant : Hammersmith Apollo : live review
Adam Ant as Dirk : photo Martin Unsworth In what could be the final show of part one the great comeback and before work starts on the new album Adam Ant delivers a gig of very much two musical halves....
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Listen To This: Torch Runner drop track of volatile metallic hardcore. from...
Who fancies something devastatingly fierce on their bank holiday Easter monday? Something that’ll hit them in the gut like a ton of bricks? Read on if you, if not, well, go have another egg or...
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Woods: With Light and With Love – album review
Woods – With Light and With Love (Woodsist) CD/ LP / DL / Cassette Out Now 8/10 Folk Rockers Woods recently released their new album, Louder Than War’s Adrian Bloxham has been listening, read what he...
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Louder Than War Interview: Errors
Katie Clare catches up with the Scottish electro-indie pioneers on the cusp of their tour of Japan, and discusses the culture shock, new music, the price of whiskey and that Kenny G collaboration…...
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The Menzingers: Rented World – album review
The Menzingers – Rented World (Epitaph Records) CD / LP / DL Out Now The Menzingers make “the kind of pure punk rock that I grew up with” according to their label’s boss (and Bad Religion guitarist)...
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FEEDING FINGERS: Germany/USA POST-PUNK TRIO PLAY FIRST UK DATES
First UK dates start this Thursday at Whitby Gothic Weekend. Founded in the USA in 2006 (and relocated to Germany in 2010) by international award-winning multimedia artist, author, puppet animator and...
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Hooligan Dublin: Criminal Damage – ep review
Hooligan Dublin: Criminal Damage (EP) (Oi the Boat Records) 7”/DL Apr 2014 The fourth EP from Irish punk rockers Hooligan Dublin is the most accomplished in the band’s catalogue to date. Andy...
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King Khan and The Shrines: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds – live review
King Khan and The Shrines Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 18 April, 2014 King Khan came, saw and conquered Leeds with a jaw dropping, genre-hopping performance. Lee Hammond has his mind truly blown by the...
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Louder Than War Interview: Mike Watt – ex Minutemen / fIREHOSE bassist and...
Mike Watt, the man who played bass in one of the best and most influential punk rock / hardcore band ever, The Minutemen, has just finished his latest tour of Europe with his Missingmen. We spent over...
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Mike Watt On… Brother Mike Shares Words of Wisdom About Punk, The Minutemen,...
During the interview we recently conducted with Mike Watt we got sidetracked an awful lot. Mostly we were trying to talk about his upcoming projects, but invariably we ended up talking about the 80s...
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Kvelertak | Empress | Wounds: Cockpit, Leeds – live review
Kvelertak The Cockpit, Leeds 18th April 2014 Bare chested frontman Erlend strides onstage with a huge owl on his head, it’s wings spread wide and eyes illuminated. Andy Santiago reviews Kvelertak at...
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Below: Across The Dark River – album review
Below – Across The Dark River (Metal Blade) Out Now CD/DL 8/10 Doom metal? From Sweden? Who would have thought that?! Below continue the Scandinavian doom tradition. Hailing from Nyköping, in Sweden,...
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Gallon Drunk – Liverpool 19th April 2014 – live review
Gallon Drunk The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool Saturday 19th April 2014 The Hold; the basement venue of Liverpool’s Shipping Forecast is an entirely suitable venue to witness the sonorous hypnotic...
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Michael Eavis ‘Oasis – not playing Glastonbury’
The on going will they/won’t they reform story bubbling around Oasis has taken anew twist with Michael Eavis saying that the band are NOT doing the still vacant Saturday night slot there. It never felt...
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