The debut Louder Than War Live event will take place in Manchester on March 14th 2026. Headlined by Sea Power, the one-day event will be the first Louder Than War festival, which we aim to make an annual event. Wehave just announced the first raft of bands with many more to be be announced. Joining Sea Power will be benefits, Evil Blizzard, Benefits, Heavy Lungs, The DSM IV, The Sick Man Of Europe and White Magic For Lovers,…
Gutterblood: Good Dogs Will Never Die (Gutterblood Records) LP | DL | Streaming Out Now A new album from Edinburgh’s Gutterblood delivers an indictment of a brutal inhumane system using a varied range of musical styles incorporating elements of post-punk, dance, stoner rock, reggae and punk. Gets the thumbs up from Nathan Brown. I was emphatic that Gutterblood’s hilarious take down of the new monarch, Gardyloo, was single of the year for 2023. Their Hard Gandhi 10″ was…
Hundreds of fans and pro-Palestinian supporters gathered for a third time outside a London court with music and speeches from a temporary stage, to await news of Kneecap rapper Mo Chara in a carnival atmosphere of solidarity and defiance. Mo Chara, band and team spoke after the case was dismissed from a temporary stage nearby The case, seen as a rushed attempt to silence Kneecap’s commentary on Gaza, was the culmination of a pro-Israel lobby backlash to their…
Album Review Your Heterosexual Violence Some People Have Too Much To Say Trapped Animal CD/ DL/ Vinyl Released today 26 September 2025 (5/5) The Band That Time Forgot / The Band That Forgot the Time… and went to the pub for 40 years. Debut album by Punk/Post-Punk band who formed in the 1980’s and have finally got their shit together thanks to the inspirational Jemma Freeman – It’s a remarkably fresh, funny, strange, sonically & lyrically brilliant album,…
Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram: Hard Road (Red Zero Records) CD | LP | DL | Stream Out 26 September 2025 BUY HERE GRAMMY® award-winning blues maestro from Mississippi Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram releases his third studio album Hard Road in advance of a forthcoming UK tour. And far from being more of the same, this is an album which reaches new uncharted emotional depths with its introspective narrative being infused with a cathartic blend of blues, soul, funk, rock and…
Paul Weller: Dancing Through The Fire by Dan Jennings (Constable Books) Out Now Buy Here Richard Houghton, founder of Spenwood Books, editor of a number of music books and occasional guest writer for LTW reviews Dan Jennings’ authorised oral history of Paul Weller Paul Weller will probably never write his autobiography. That’s partly because he is a musician who has never rested on his laurels but continues to write and perform songs and isn’t prone to looking backwards,…
October 2025 sees the cream of talented survivors from the New Wave, 80’s Indie and 90’s noise-poetry scenes touring the UK. Peter Perrett from the Only Ones! Robert Forster from the Go-Betweens! Pete Astor and Andy Stricklands’ The Loft, the reunited and regenerated Prolapse and a solitary date from the inimitable Wreckless Eric. With an added bonus of the Jim Jones All-Stars and a few Ged Babey favourites thrown in for good measure. Get those credit cards out…
Album Review Eater Duplication Cleopatra Records CD/DL/Vinyl Preorder now for release 31 October 2025 Andy Blade and his 21st Century line-up of Eater release an album of 1976/77 cover versions and it is an utterly brilliant encapsulation of everything Punk Rock was about in the mind of a teenage boy in ’77. AI could never replicate this, as it has no concept of the joy of cheap speed and blow-jobs, says Ged Babey. This is the album Andy…
Feral State – II (Road To Masochist/Noise Merchant/Feral State) LP | CD | Tape | DL Out 26 Sept 2025 The second album by Leicester D-beat thrashers Feral State is huge and energetic and “like being run over by an aural tank” says Nathan Brown. This is crushingly brutal in a Disfear or Wolfpack way. It’s like being run over by an aural tank and I love it. Every now and then you get a bit of metal…
Nell Davies : The End of the World or Whatever (Self Released) CD/DL/Streaming Out 27th September Buy Here Nell Davies, the Penzance based singer-songwriter is set to release new single The End of the World or Whatever. Iain Key listens for LTW, premieres the video and chats to the artist… Nell Davies is what I guess you could class as late developer when it comes to becoming a recording artist, although in fairness LTW’s Ged Babey did wait…
Black Power DeskBrixton House, London5th September 2025 Equality isn’t subversive, or is it? Phil Ross went to Brixton House wondering if a musical about police surveillance of Black communities in the 1970s would resonate in today’s algorithm age. What he found was something he didn’t expect at all. From 1967 to the early 1970s, Special Branch ran a unit known as the Black Power Desk, dedicated to spying on Black activists and community groups in Britain. Set in…
Rhiannon Hope: All Things, Returning and Rising (Private Regcords) Vinyl | Digital Available 25 September This debut EP excels on as many subgenres as tracks – including drone, folk-pop and freak-folk. Tracks that are musically and personally exploratory, and, with traditional instrumentation, vivid production, and fluid songwriting, have all the intrigue of an impromptu folk night. Rhiannon Hope is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Liverpool who has become ingrained within Leeds’s renowned scene; a fitting place for a…