Pavé: Whatever The Cost Self Released DL | Stream Out Now Pavé are back with another slice of attention-grabbing alternative rock as they follow up their debut EP with their latest release, Whatever The Cost. The Manchester band constantly strive to keep things fresh, examining all facets of the human psyche to dramatic effect, and...
L.A. Witch DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze) LP | CD | DL Released: 4th April, 2025 L.A. Witch play a psychedelic, post-punk, drugged out drone blues that has become refined to scuzzy psych perfection on their third album. Emerging from the Southern California underground in a mist of dry ice and kick-ass tunes, L.A. Witch released their...
The Oidz: Self-titled EP Prison Records Vinyl | Streaming Out now Featuring members of Leeds cult favourites Fuzz Lightyear and Volk Soup, The Oidz came into being in a way that compliments the scrappy adrenaline of their music. The band’s frenzied rhythms resemble The Fall played at the wrong speed or Siouxsie & The Banshees...
The Unset – Decay/Bloom                     Self-Released Streaming Out Now A new Australian alt-rock band, their release schedule and subsequent plans ruined by the lockdown, finally rejoin the fray with the first of three songs to be...
Public Warning: Over/Under Digital Out Now Ashbourne, Ireland-based indie-rock quartet Public Warning have released the vibrant debut EP Over/Under. Produced by Keelan O’Reilly (known for his work with Post-Party, Still Blue, Paddy Keyes, and The Drive), the EP captures the band’s youthful indie flare in such a way to preserve a DIY undertone akin to...
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 double doors to the downstairs room and instantly think, I’m going to die. The room’s completely packed from side to side and front to back. As...
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 Life. The New York podcaster, novelist and singer-songwriter says the ten-track affair was part-inspired by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s 2004 mindfulness classic, Wherever You Go, There...
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 uses them to analyse her obsession with ageing male rock stars. Does the world need another book about middle-aged male rock...
Chris Pope & The Chords UK: But Then Again (EPOP Records) CD | DL Out 4th April 2025 PRE-ORDER HERE Chris Pope & The Chords UK unleash an epic 44-track collection of songs which tells the story of the band since its glorious reincarnation over a decade ago, alongside his own solo career. It’s an album...
Bradley Gerrard Local Democracy Reporter Google Mid Devon District Council overcharged and undercharged thousands of social housing tenants due to wrongly applying a rent formula About 70 council tenant evictions could be reviewed in Mid Devon as council officials grapple with social housing rent errors dating back to 2002. There are cases where rent arrears...
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 alight to the bed of past as it sleeps in, the dive bars it drinks in, but watching something astoundingly restorative...
Sunday Driver: Silk And Filth                     Trapped Animal Records All Formats Out Now London by way of Cambridge, the band who came up through but musically outlived steampunk, Sunday Driver have a new album of many...
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 minutes do not adjust your hi-fi, but prepare for a journey from the known into the unknown, as Synthetic Villains take you...
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 needs your attention. Every once in a while a group hits the scene that sends your music brain into overload with how...
To Hell With Poverty by Jon King Published by: Constable Release date: 3rd April 2025 This memoir from the Gang of Four’s singer is the story of a band and the story of a friendship. It’s also about the damage that a band and a friendship can do to each other. The book is subtitled...