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Colossloth: Anchored by Lungs – EP review
Colossloth Anchored By Lungs EP (Peripheral records) DL Out Now 8/10 Following the review of Colossloth at the recent Ovo Birmingham gig, Louder Than War’s Adrian Bloxham delved further into this...
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top 5 bands missed out of Manchester music history
There is an endlessly trotted out Manchester music story that is stuffed full of fine moments but also, somehow, manages to miss out music that doesn’t fit into the whole narrative. Here are just 5 of...
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The Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime is 30 This Summer. Read About A...
One of the greatest albums of all time, Double Nickels on the Dime, by Minutemen, is thirty years old this summer. To celebrate this momentous occasion there’s a tribute comics anthology being put...
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New single from Bentcousin
Pop punk upstarts are about to release a new single, Dizzy, on Team Love records and we’ve got an exclusive play of the b-side featuring Keith Levene on guitar. The single is available to stream now...
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Gary Numan: The Live Rooms, Chester 23rd June 2014 – live review
Gary Numan The Live Rooms, Chester Monday 23rd June 2014 Gary Numan, as befits a man with a 30+ year career, generally appears at arenas – intimate for Gary will be a 1500 capacity city centre venue;...
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An appreciation of the Dead Kennedys (sparked by new book on the band)
The new upcoming book about the Dead Kennedys by Alex Ogg (Buy it from here ) made me think about this band again- the brilliant band who ,whilst never broaching the ramparts of the mainstream like...
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Saint Etienne: photo book review
Saint Etienne (First Third Books) Various formats Out Now Saint Etienne’s quarter century has been revisited in a new photo book, a collaboration between Saint Etienne and First Third Books. Saint...
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Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams: The Railway, Winchester – live review
Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams The Railway, Winchester 19th June 2014 The Cult Boyfriend himself, one of the greatest living Americans, visits Hampshire. Ged Babey is struck dumb in the presence of a...
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Geraint Watkins and The Mosquitoes: The Wheatsheaf, Tooting Bec – live review
Geraint Watkins and The Mosquitoes The Wheatsheaf, Tooting Bec 22nd June 2014 Geraint Watkins is a famous keyboard session player who’s played with Paul McCartney, Van Morrison and Dave Edmunds. Last...
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Beverley Folk Festival – festival review
Beverley Folk Festival Beverley Racecourse June 20th-22nd 2014 Big enough to attract top class performers, small enough to still be friendly. That’s what they claim. idp checks to see if the Beverley...
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The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival Is Back Next Month w/ Phil Jupitus,...
The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival is back very soon, running between 1st July – 31st July. Details below. Following last years highly successful event Greater Manchester Fringe is returning for a...
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Chris Stroffolino: Griffith Park – album review
Chris Stroffolino: Griffith Park (Broken Horse) CD/ DL Out now Raw, passionate and joyous field recordings by a homeless, down on his luck Shakespearean scholar, Chris Stroffolino’s Griffith Park is an...
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Bobby Womack dies
Legendary soul singer and musician Bobby Womack died, aged 70, yesterday (27 June 2014). Womack, who’s career spanned six decades, worked with artists including Sly Stone and Damon Albarn. He was a...
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New Artist of the Day: Explosive alternative rock band Honey. Louder Than War...
A taste of honey – Melanie Smith photographs and interviews explosive alternative rock band Honey in Cornwall. Currently nestling in the glorious sunny confines of Cornwall, the rock band Honey took...
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World Cup Of Music: Days Fourteen and Fifteen Plus Results Groups A and B
More games from the world cup of music. Don’t forget you can still vote on all the matches below – get your votes in (i.e. send your match scores, i.e. 1 – 2, 3 -3 etc) either on an email to...
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Toy : Glastonbury : live review
Toy Crows Nest Glastonbury June 2014 John Robb stays up all night to watch a guerrilla gig from ‘skinny jeaned noiseniks with hypnotic pulsing trips…’ You can’t beat a guerrilla gig – especially one...
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John Robb’s Glastonbury diary : Friday
Glastonbury diary Friday I’m sat on the train on the way to Glastonbury eavesdropping a conversation between a gaggle or a herd of brash and confident young A and R men (and it’s still me for some...
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Billy Bragg : Glastonbury : live review
Billy Bragg Leftfield Glastonbury Whilst all the media hoo hah is clogging up the arteries of the mainstream with its well intentioned warm fug of not very shaggable shagpile carpet indie there are...
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Noura Mint Seymali: Tzenni – album review
Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (Glitterbeat Records) LP/CD/DL Out Now 8/10 Mauritanian vocalist Noura Mint Seymali releases her new album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. From the North West...
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M.I.A : Glastonbury : live review
MIA West Holts Stage Glastonbury June 2014 live review MIA is owning the stage. With more attitude than nearly every other act put together she is cajoling and ordering her dancers, her DJ and the...
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