Album Review The Long Decline Moribundiing Gnu Inc Recordings CD / DL Out now (5/5) The artist formerly known as ‘Kenny Wisdom’, Leigh Goorney and friends including Vic Godard and Mark Perry are The Long Decline. A cult band who should be… a better-known cult act like say, Daniel Johnston or The TV Personalities, sharing as they do, some of the same wayward sensibilities and insights, says Ged Babey. Are the youth of today still Searching For A…
Echobelly are currently on tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their second album, On, widely regarded as one of the foremost Britpop albums and, to date, Echobelly’s most successful. Written and produced at an essentially chaotic and high-pressured time for the young band, it nevertheless successfully managed to funnel that restless, uncomfortable energy into a standout work of glossy dream pop with a darker edge, with legendary ‘90s bangers Dark Therapy, Great Things, Car Therapy and King Of…
The Apartments: That’s What The Music Is For (Talitres Records) Released 17 October 2025 CD | Vinyl | DL | Streaming 4.0 out of 5.0 stars4.0 Cult Australian band the Apartments are releasing their eighth studio album after a five-year gap. In their crepuscular world, romantic attachments from the past gain renewed life through songs. Robert Plummer likes the misery. Sydney-born and Brisbane-bred, Peter Milton Walsh has been plying his trade as a singer-songwriter since 1978. What Mark…
The KooksBirmingham Utilita Arena11th October 2025 Skinny-trousered, tousle-haired noughties survivors reap the benefits of longevity by playing their biggest shows to date. Sam Lambeth knows, she knows, that he’s not fond of asking. How do bands graduate to headlining arenas? In the recent past, it was to write anodyne choruses that could be sang en masse without those people knowing what it even meant – Sex On Fire and Human being two prime examples. In 2025, the secret…
Billy Bragg: A People’s History – edited by Iain Key Published by Spenwood Books Released 24th October 2025Buy HereThe publication of this marvellous celebration of the legend who is Billy Bragg could hardly be more timely. As a singer, writer, social commentator and champion of the disadvantaged and downtrodden, Bragg’s observations have never been more pertinent, which, somewhat ironically, is something which will probably make him very sad. But even if Billy claims he doesn’t want to change…
Nrvs / Free (single) As featured on Netflix series Too Much (written & directed by Lena Dunham), the mysterious outfit are back with Free – just a dumb song about heartbreak… Photo: Hobbs Ginsberg Listen (Soundcloud) – Out Now | Impact Date 3rd Oct – Genre: Post-Punk, Alternative “Uncompromising, irreverent & unnerving punk 21st Century style with a dash of Syd Barrett Blur. ” Louder Than War The ever-elusive Nrvs are back; this time with the emotive Free – a strikingly alternative lament about…
Marina Abramovic ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’ Manchester Aviva Studios Oct 2026 Live review Marina Abramovic’s latest piece is her most ambitious yet. A four-hour, theatrical piece of mind-boggling, thought-provoking, non-stop erotic cabaret that embraces eroticism, spirituality and the rituals of Balkan mythology and her own Balkan roots in a stunning spectacle. It unzips culture and the viewer inside out mentally and physically, whilst asking all the key eternal fundamental questions, and is somehow also total immersive…
Bugeye: This Ain’t A Love Song Bugeye are back! After a couple of years away, they have a new single, This Ain’t A Love Song, a new label, a new album planned for 2026, and a tour planned too… Frighteningly it’s been 5 years since Bugeye’s debut album Ready Steady Bang was one of Louder Than War’s Top 100 albums of 2020. Honestly, where has the time gone? Since then there has been a remix album, Ready Steady Remix, raising…
Teenage Waitress: Upstairs To Finish A Dream (Blackstar Records) All Formats Available Out Now Buy Here Teenage Waitress aka Daniel Ash’s long awaited follow up to Your Cuckoo, Upstairs To Finish A Dream is finally here… With Teenage Waitress the musical landscape changes from track to track…. not my words but those of Mr Ash himself, and it really does. I’ve been fortunate to have had a couple of months to listen to Upstairs To Finish A Dream,…
ELLiS·D: I Want To Be Everything You Desire Crafting Room Recordings Streaming/Download Out Now Fat Dog drummer and musical everyman releases a short, sharp blast from the recent past on his newest single, in between extensive European touring commitments. MK Bennett gets reacquainted. Ellis clearly is not simply the drummer, despite his excellence in that role. The polyrhythmic polymath who recorded everything on this release in one ten hour recording session has a definite need…
Edwyn Collins Manchester Albert Hall Oct 7th 2025 Live review Of course, we were simply thrilled honey, to be immersed in the wonderful world of Edwyn Collins for one last time on his farewell tour. In an evening of indie classic, deep cuts and songs that have resonated through the decades, the masterful songwriter held the audience in the palm of his hands and every song that he announced was greeted like a much loved old friend…
John Robb returns to Ireland for a spoken word tour with special guest Richard Jobson. John will be talking about his upcoming memoirs and his Oasis and Gith book and will also conduct an in conversation with Richard Jobson. There will be books from both available on the night. Thurs 30th Oct-The Glens Centre (Manorhamilton, Co.Leitrim) A Plea From Louder Than War Louder Than War is run by a small but dedicated independent team, and we rely on…