My Bloody Valentine announce Manchester gig at Manchester Aviva on Nov 24. All details here  We have a small favour to ask. Subscribe to Louder Than War and help keep the flame of independent musi...
Bloodywood | Calva LouiseO2 Ritz, Manchester25th March 2025 Bloodywood return to Manchester promoting their new album New Delhi, captivating and inspiring an adoring sold-out O2 Ritz. I open the doubl...
Lovejoy: Let There Be Love (Spinout Nuggets/Creation Youth) Lovejoy return with a new single, available digitally and as a limited edition 7″ ‘team up’ between Spinout Nuggets and Alan McGee’s...
John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs by Ian Leslie Published by Faber & Faber – out now John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie is a majestic biography of two young geniuses whose...
boice: Preset Emotions (Rattlecat) DL/Streaming Out Now Available Here boice has released, his fourth album Preset Emotions hot on the heels of recent singles Just A Tourist and Could’ve Been My Lif...
Men Of A Certain Age by Kate Mossman Published by: Nine Eight Books Release date: 3rd April 2025 Music journalist Kate Mossman has compiled a selection of interviews with ageing male rock stars and us...
Chris Pope & The Chords UK: But Then Again (EPOP Records) CD | DL Out 4th April 2025 PRE-ORDERÂ HERE Chris Pope & The Chords UK unleash an epic 44-track collection of songs which tells the sto...
Bristol art rock agitators Erotic Secrets of Pompeii return with their torturesome new single, ‘Speak Medieval’, set for release on 27th March.  A frenetic assault of chromatic riffs and stop-st...
Black Bordello Diaries: New Cross to New York and Back Again. Intro In February Black Bordello had a problem; we were on a short tour of the north and Sienna had damaged her voice. We’d got as far...
Photo: Jane Barnes, taken at the Brighton gig a few days after Bristol The Loft | The Lovely Basement |Gerard Starkie The Thunderbolt, Bristol 21st March 2025 A short tour to promote their ‘4 deca...
Daniel Meyer: Kneeling (The Flenser) DL | LP Out March 28 Is the balance between beauty and abrasion hard to achieve? Picking up from where a frustrated musical inroads once abandoned him and setting ...
Sunday Driver: Silk And Filth                     Trapped Animal Records All Formats Out Now London by way of Cambridge, the band who came up through but musica...
Synthetic Villains: Cosmic (Flood Of Sound) DL Released: 31 March 2025 Synthetic Villains take you on a journey through time and space, creating a soundtrack of classic SF tropes. For the next 30 minu...
The excitement is mounting as Dead Pioneers release their last single off the highly anticipated second album PO$T AMERICAN which is purely going to blow you away says Wayne AF Carey… Gregg Deal nee...
KnivesOld Blue Last, London20th March 2025 Bristol band Knives visit London to perform a free show as a warm-up for the forthcoming Great Escape Festival in Brighton. Keith Goldhanger (words) and Roby...
