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The World Cup Of Music – the contest continues, we bring you more matches...
By now you should be familiar with the concept of the world cup of music, if not please click on this link where we explain the nitty gritty, followed by this one where we rounded up the first four...
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‘Arty’s, Party’s & Smarty’s – The Best of Free Rock & Roll Vol 2′ – FREE...
‘Arty’s, Party’s & Smarty’s – The Best of Free Rock & Roll Vol 2′ – FREE download available now… Free Rock & Roll is a loose collective of DIY bands and artists based in Liverpool, UK who...
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New artist of the day : Boz Hayward with new single
I’m Coming Home’ is ’100 seconds of wonderful country pop’ (Mog, ALL FM) from Boz Hayward. The song complete with brass and string sections has an upbeat, energetic feel perfect for the summer. Boz has...
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The Jim Jones Revue: Shoreditch Blues Kitchen, London – live review
The Jim Jones Revue Shoreditch Blues Kitchen, London June 1st 2014 Not quite the last hurrah, Martin Haslam catches The Jim Jones Revue, formidable keepers of the rock’n’ roll flame, before they...
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Peter Murphy: Lion – album review
Peter Murphy – Lion (Nettwerk Music) LP/CD/DL Out Now 8.5/10 Bauhaus frontman, Peter Murphy, releases his latest album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. Make no mistake, Peter Murphy is a...
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Jello Biafra pulls out of festival that booked Dead Kennedys on the same day...
Things can get a bit frosty in rock n roll- especially when bands fall apart or reform awkwardly. When the Dead Kennedys reformed without iconic singer Jello Biafra it famously ended up in court and...
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Iggy Pop praises Justin Bieber whilst getting ‘tortured’ in new Amnesty...
Amnesty International has launched a series of new ads that use a very dark humour to make a very important point. “Torture a man and he will tell you anything.” is the tag line of the new series...
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A Riot of Our Own – a symposium on the Clash – Belfast University celebrates...
‘All culture becomes history and all the noise and confusion of rock n roll will one day be a University thesis’ someone once said. A Riot of Our Own – a symposium on the Clash - is being...
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the world cup’s most popular haircut is the mohican we celebrate with a top...
your author john robb sports his version : photo by karen mcbride When we were callow youths shaving the side of your head in all the glorious variations of the so called Mohican hair cut was a risky...
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Hugo Kensdale: Animals – EP review
Hugo Kensdale – Animals DL Out Now One of Manchester’s best kept secret, Hugo Kensdale, releases his debut EP Animals. Louder Than War’s Ian Critchley reviews. Manchester has always been seen as a hub...
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Go-Qualia | Expensive – split EP review
Go-Qualia | Expensive – Split EP (Wild Combination Recordings) CD Out Now 8/10 IDM artist Go-Qualia and electropop trio Expensive release a split EP. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. What a...
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Boris: Noise – album review
Boris: Noise (Sargent House) DL / CD / 2xLP Out Now 6/10 Louder Than War’s Simon Tucker reviews the new album from one of London’s most prolific recording bands, Boris. Boris are a very difficult band...
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Pond: Koko, London – live review
Pond Koko, London 10th June 2014 Aussie psych-rockers Pond bring their recent UK tour to a triumphant close. Mistakenly referred to for some time as merely Kevin Parker’s ‘other band’ (though there was...
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The Restarts: Manchester Saturday 14th June – live review
The Restarts Gullivers, Manchester Saturday 14th June 2014 The Restarts describe themselves as purveyors of political angry punk rock; their Wikipedia entry describes them as a ‘street punk’ band....
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Are Iron Maiden right to call Glastonbury ‘too middle class…’
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickenson is back in the news again after calling Glastonbury ‘too middle class’. maybe he was miffed after Metallica got the token rock band slot, maybe he feels this… “In...
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Fat White Family announce UK tour
Oh yes the gods of terror noise and blues manglers with drug stained lunacy and party of ye gods attitude and the best new band in the UK etc Fat White Family, who recently announced the formation of...
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Louder Than War Interview: Willy Vlautin touring with his band The Delines
Last month we reviewed the new album by The Delines giving it a pretty impressive 8.5 / 10. The band are now touring, last night playing the Night & Day Club in Manchester. After the show Willy...
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Nick Zinner: Interview Exclusive With Yeah Yeah Yeahs Guitarist
Nick Zinner spoke to Louder Than War’s Willow Colios ahead of his performance of 41 strings at Meltdown 2014. Check out this exclusive interview where he discusses how he wrote and produced the 41...
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US Footie Player Clint Dempsey To Release Rap Album – here’s five other...
US footie player Clint Dempsey is to release a rap album. To mark this occasion Louder Than War’s Carl Stanley brings you five more unlikely rap records. Oh, and if you can think of any obvious ones...
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Watch This: New Video From Code Orange – awesome contemporary hardcore band
A few weeks ago Code Orange, whose last album scored a spot in our 2012 albums of the year list, dropped details of their new album, I Am King. They followed that news up last week by premiering a...
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