1+ day, 6+ min ago   (170+ words) More jangulating gold from the bottom of The Tubs’ tub. Self-hatred has never sounded so good! Hell is other people, or so they say, but Hell, the song, here seems more to be much closer to home. A superb thrash…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (307+ words) Rockabilly, country and a smidgeon of folk see Sunjay cherry-picking from rock’n’roll and country legends to put his own twist on well recognised songs. Sunjay says: “This song captures love exactly as it is, joyful, chaotic, and impossible to control....

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1069+ words) The Meffs – Business: Album Review At The Barrier The Meffs – Business: Album Review Business is the second LP from UK Britpunk mob, The Meffs. The duo bring forth more fire and fury. The Meffs deal in what they have cheerfully…...

5+ day, 44+ min ago   (223+ words) A place or their masterplan, I don’t know, but there is no mistaking their intentions. Ibibio Sound Machine want you to dance ’til you drop. Having dealt such a killer punch finale, and that right at the very start of…...

1+ week, 57+ min ago   (103+ words) Venceremos heralds a majestic and pulverising return for the Villagers Of Ioannina City. Blame Slash. His philosophy for life – ‘always get a band’s live album first’ – proving a worthy mantra, worthy of its simplicity. The Villagers Of Ioannina City’s Through…...

1+ week, 14+ min ago   (232+ words) A lavish 3rd helping of songs in the key of bird, brimming with brightness and beauty, as the dream team, Polwart, Fowlis, Drever etc, reprise the impossible. The book follows the seven wonders of birds: Nest, Egg, Beak, Song, Feather, Flight…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (284+ words) Heavy music’s patron saint of the beautifully bleak, Chelsea Wolfe, releases The Dark. Wolfe has always kept one boot in heavy territory, citing black metal as an influence, has flirted openly with doom, and made an entire record (Bloodmoon: I)…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (298+ words) Glorious Wolf is a studio project by guitarist/composer and recording artist Ruud Dielen from the Netherlands. Blending progressive rock soundscapes and epic stories, their latest album, Elements Of Hope was released in June 2026. Ruud parks his prog for a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (272+ words) A bumper banging bonanza from Banter shows that, regardless, they can’t be downhearted, needing you neither to be likewise. Listen hard and, yes, the squeeze of Simon Care’s melodeon is in there, rising slowly through the mix, in a slow…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (316+ words) The Jayhawks return with their first album in six years – just in time to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. Sanctuary Park is frontman Gary Louris’s paean to his wife, Stephanie and to the Canadian environment that shaped her. It’s lead single, Keeping…...