Ally Venable brings Texas blues to Manchester
The Deaf Institute is a room where a guitar solo hits differently. Low ceiling, tight crowd, no gap between the stage and the front...
SOiL on the new album, UK tour and never quitting
More than a decade on from their last album of original material, SOiL are back with a brand new record that, in their own...
Cavalera’s Tribe: Soulfly and Nailbomb in Manchester
Max Cavalera is a living legend, an innovator of many extreme metal genres who boasts a colossal resumé of certified classics. This time he...
Live: Wailing Banshee, Rattlesnakes, White Lightning
There are hundreds of different kinds of music out there. From pop to metal, rock, disco, techno, rave, you name it, and countless mixes...
The Damn Truth Live At Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
The Damn Truth take the stage at Waterloo Music Bar to the sound of Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit' playing over the PA, and by...
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...
