Review: 36 Crazyfists – Time and Trauma
36 Crazyfists have always been a band hard to define by a genre. Caught between the Nu Metal and Metalcore scene, listeners have always...
Win Tickets to Takedown Festival!
A staplepoint in the calender of alternative music in the South, this year's Takedown Festival has grown to it’s biggest yet! Lucky attendees this March,...
Interview with Altered Sky
You may have heard of up and coming pop-rockers Altered Sky, especially since their cover of Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' was posted on YouTube,...
Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd – Vinyl Box Set 1973-1977
What can you say about an iconic band like Lynryd Skynyrd that hasn't been said before? A band who are the essence of Southern...
Mötley Crüe – All Bad Things Must Come To An End
Everything bad is good for you...
"The world's most notorious rock band" reads Mötley Crüe's autobiography, and rightly so. Notorious in the best possible way. A...
Live Review: Slipknot & KoRn ‘Prepare For Hell’ Tour, Arena, Newcastle
“In many ways Newcastle is like Des Moines,” announces Slipknot frontman Cory Taylor to the crowd “because Newcastle is home of some of the...
Review: Papa Roach – F.E.A.R.
FEAR the emotion induced by threats which cause a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in the way we behave - and now F.E.A.R' is...
Preview: Takedown Festival 2015
The story of Takedown Festival is a truly inspiring one. Once a small annual gig in Salisbury that has now become a staplepoint in...
Live Review: Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock, Robin 2 Bilston
A sell-out show audience greeted me as I walked into the Robin 2 for the Temple of Rock 'Bridge the Gap' show; Michael Schenker...
Review: AC/DC – Rock or Bust
The sun comes up, Justin Bieber’s a twat and AC/DC play Rock and Roll. These are just facts and for most of them we...