Billy Idol lights up Las Vegas on opening night
Opening night has an electricity all of its own, and Billy Idol plugged straight into it as he launched his new residency at the...
AFI: A Fire Inside still burns in Manchester
AFI have spent a considerable amount of time away from Manchester, but that finally changed as the California crew made their triumphant return in...
Roger Daltrey: A Great Night Out in Las Vegas
Sixty years on from helping invent arena rock, Roger Daltrey is still centre stage, still finding new corners in songs he's sung ten thousand...
GHOST – 2 BIG TO RIG Film Premiere
Film review: 2 Big to Rig. Cineworld IMAX, Leicester Square, London, August 2026.
Swedish symphonic-doom metal rockers Ghost formed in Linköping in 2006. The band...
Primus: Here Come the Mancs
Manchester has been without Primus for 9 years and the drought from weird proggy funk music about beef and frogs and whatever the hell...
Hollywood Vampires RISE in Manchester
There are few bands for whom the phrase "rock 'n' roll circus" feels quite as appropriate as Hollywood Vampires. When Alice Cooper, Joe Perry...
Kittie’s Three Decades of Legacy Burns Through Manchester
Often hailed ‘Nu metal legends’, all-female heavy metal titans Kittie returned to Manchester for their ‘Legacy of Fire’ 30th anniversary tour, celebrating the band’s...
Jethro Tull: J-Tull Dot Com reissue review
Originally released in 1999, this was to be Jethro Tull's last studio album for 23 years, the 2003 Christmas album apart, though nobody had...
Albert Castiglia: Grits & Glory review
Albert Castiglia is a bluesman born in New York and raised in Miami, who grew up absorbing a love of the British blues and,...
Bloodstock Open Air 2026: 25 Years of Heavy Metal – REVIEW
As we make our annual pilgrimage to Catton Hall in Derbyshire for Bloodstock Open Air, the weather is warm and looks set to stay...
