In 1996, the world was still digesting what Rage Against the Machine had done to it three years earlier. Their self-titled debut album had arrived like a grenade rolled under the door of mainstream ...

The most immediately notable aspect of Teen Suicide’s latest offering – ‘Nude Descending A Staircase Headless’ – is that the production value is great. This is worth pointing out as the band initially ...

The problem with naming your band Tired Of Fighting is that it is literally asking for a reviewer to list all the things they’re tired of. Let’s not do that. Let’s talk about their new record, ‘And ...

Covering themes of generational trauma and toxic familial relationships, ‘Pain Travels’ seems a particularly apt title for the debut album of Leeds-based mathcore/post-hardcore quintet Love Rarely.

‘Did You Ask To Be Set Free?’ is a potent mixture of experience, ambition and grief. Imagine a broken heart buried in a pop song; imagine a dove; listen to the sound of hope.

It’s Grade 2’s album launch show and we’re here to celebrate the music of 1977 with the future of the old school scene. As a crowd, we’re a tight fit into the venue, guys with Cock Sparrer skull ...

Grade 2 are the best kind of young punk heroes. Five albums into their quest from the Isle of Wight to the glittering heights of Campbell, California, the trio have somehow managed to sound more like ...

Don Broco are now on the Dark Side. Gone is the whimsy that punctuated their earlier albums. They’ve kept the electronic hints, of course, but taken their sound in a distinctly heavier direction on ...

You hear it all the time. That same phrase. ‘They don’t make music like that anymore.” Honestly, they do. Whatever it is, whatever you like, there is a band out there somewhere doing your thing, you ...

Names are important. You can tell a lot from a name. Butch conjures a very different mental picture to Clive. You’d imagine a band called Cannibal Corpse sounding very different to one called Floral ...