The Hidden Smashing Pumpkins Record:

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The Hidden Pumpkins Record: Billy Corgan on Zodeon at Crystal Hall tracked down by Marc Burrows author of Nirvana: A Detailed Guide To The Band That Changed Everything (Signed book) Did you know that Smashing Pumpkins put a new album out at the end of 2025? It’s a good one too. Zodeon at Crystal Hall is a collection of loose, sixties-influenced neo-psychedelic pop recorded during the pandemic and left in the vault while Billy Corgan and co concentrated on grander…

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Lemonsuckr – The Lexington – Live Review

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Lemonsuckr (Pic Robyn Skinner) Lemonsuckr | Theatre | My First TimeThe Lexington, LondonJanuary 16th 2026 Lemonsuckr, Theatre and My First Time appeared together at The Lexington in London as part of an evening showcasing new and exciting up and coming bands that are expected to shape the year ahead. We’re attending the final night of The Line of Best Fit series of gigs titled Five Day Forecast at the (200 Capacity) Lexington. There’s been an impressive list of…

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Modern Woman | Dashboard Mary

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Modern Woman: Dashboard Mary (One Little Independent Records) DL | Stream OUT NOW STREAM HERE London art-rock outfit, Modern Woman, have announced the release of their debut album Johnny’s Dreamworld on 1st May 2026 in advance of their forthcoming UK tour and also given us a first taster via new single Dashboard Mary. The single is a true testament to their unique approach to sound and rhythm which explores how noise can collide with melody with spectacularly vibrant results,…

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Win a PAIR of tickets to the Scotland Calling Festival 2026

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Win a PAIR of tickets to the Scotland Calling Festival 2026 Louder Than War is back with another fantastic ticket competition; this time the prize is a PAIR of tickets for the forthcoming Scotland Calling Festival which takes place on the 25th April at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, the total prize is valued at £75. The Exploited are the confirmed headliners, appearing alongside The Rezillos, U.K Subs, Ant-Nowhere League, Subhumans, Ferocious Dog, Bar Stool Preachers, The Meffs, Dirt…

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Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris

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  Screenshot Siouxsie and the Banshees have always had great drummers and in this tribute sent to LTW by the band’s second great full time drummer Budgie he pays his respects to the late and great Kenny Morris.      Kenny Morris 1957 – 2026 A creative, innovative musician with impeccable style. Kenny and I were born in the same year, we both grew up with The Beatles, both went to art college and both dreamed of playing…

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The Song Is Nearly Over: Music Stories 1985-2025

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The Song Is Nearly Over: Music Stories 1985-2025 by Stuart Bailie Out now (Published by Dig With It) £15.99 – 360pp The Song Is Nearly Over brings together Stuart Bailie’s music writing from across four decades, capturing the people, moments and chaos that shaped modern music culture. It’s a personal, sharp-eyed record of life spent close to the noise. Stuart Bailie has been in the front line of music journalism from the high times of the mid 90’s,…

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We Out Here 2026 – Festival Preview

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© Jake Davis | Khroma Collective We Out Here FestivalWimborne St Giles, Dorset 20th – 23rd August 2026 Now in its seventh year, We Out Here Festival is once again serving up a diverse line-up full of acts that are truly distinctive in the summer festival merry-go-round. Tom Parry looks forward to this year’s carefully selected offering. Given how jam-packed the festival schedule has become, it is a credit to We Out Here founder Gilles Peterson that he has…

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Kim Gordon releases new single plus album news!

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Photo credit: Moni Haworth Kim Gordon returns early this year with a Krautrock motoronic offering that only she can produce with her warped visionary sound. First single out today is an instant earworm as you’ll find out below. Read on… Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changed—a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. The adventure continues on the artist’s third…

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Crabs: Shouting at Hotels / The Sound of the Crowd

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Single review / video premiere CRABS Shouting At Hotels DL / Vinyl 7″ DFL Records Out now Follow up to their brilliant Down From London album, Margate’s middle-aged punk protest band target misguided so-called patriots with the two weapons in their arsenal: piss-taking and punk rock. Ged Babey bemoans the fact things move so fast that maybe it’s old news – but a song still worth hearing… and a great B-side cover version. You don’t need me or…

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The Wolfgang Press: The Lexington, London

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The Wolfgang PressThe Lexington, London11th January 2026 Missing in action for three decades, The Wolfgang Press are back, with fresh material and dark sonic tales to tell. Steve Morgan leans in. “Another stress-free beginning”, says Mick Allen as The Wolfgang Press eventually arrive on stage, bang on 10pm. Having weathered a chilly Sunday evening of shitty mizzle to be here, an expectant, sold-out Lexington crowd has patiently endured a 40-minute delay due to technical difficulties. It’s looked touch-and-go…

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Dead Or Alive: Here’s Looking At You

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Dead Or Alive: Here’s Looking At You Moonboy Ltd Publishing Available Now A limited edition photo book of 1,000 individually numbered copies of stunning images by Paul Cox from his photographic work with Dead o Alive, 1984-1990. Pete Burns was nothing short of a work of art. His body and his face were his canvas, on which he created some of the most striking images in modern culture. The fact that he did this in 70s/80s Liverpool, where…

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The Human Be-In

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January 14th, 1967: The Human Be-In Marks The Beginning Of The End by Alex Maiolo Everybody talks about The Hippies when The Diggers were the real heros.  We’ve all seen the trope footage of The Hippies dancing in circles, clearly out of their minds on LSD, while the eternally misunderstood “Eight Miles High” plays. These kinds of scenes were mostly shot at The Human Be-In, which happened in San Francisco, on this day in 1967.  The idea was to…

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