The Room 1985 open their doors
Manchester-based The Room 1985 trio included Sam Stone (vocals/bass), Chris Crysand (guitars/synths) and John Hulse (drums/programming). They mix electronica with various rock genres and a chunk...
Blackmore’s Night – Shadow Of The Moon (25th anniversary edition)
Ritchie Blackmore made his name, not just as a guitar God in the late sixties and throughout the seventies with Deep Purple and Rainbow...
Review: Dream Theater – The Astonishing
The Astonishing is a two hour long concept album and is the brain child of guitarist John Petrucci, and its musical foundation is a...
SheZoo’s Agony of Doubt
The multi-national band Shezoo consisting of Natacha Starke (Vocals), Micha Jennissen (Guitar), Ralf Luz (Bass) and Jerry Getler (Drums) are Dutch, German, Swiss and Swiss....
Live Review: Young Guns – Bowery District, Reading
Before making my way down to the Bowery District for the first time, I worked out it was five years since I’d last seen...
Krokofant find themselves in a playful mood on the catchy 6
Renowned Norwegian jazz rockers Krokofant have always been at the vanguard of forward-thinking, original music in their native country, and in many ways, they...
CROWBAR – To the Thunderous Beat of Impending Doom – Live in Bergen, Norway
Sludge metal stalwarts Crowbar from New Orleans recently laid siege to one of the coolest venues in Bergen, Norway, more specifically the atmospheric and...
Review: F.O.E.S – Antecedence
Genre: Post Rock
Well as this band is from my hometown of Liverpool I had to review them didn’t I? The first track called ‘Rival...
The Waeve weave The Waeve
The Waeve is the new project from Blur’s Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall. (I can’t be sure of the inspiration for the name,...
Pattern-Seeking Animals raise some Prehensile Tales
Pattern-Seeking Animals (humans who seek out patterns which may/may not exist) were originally put together as a recording project in 2019 by keyboard man...




























