Review: Spike -100% Pure Frankie Miller
If the thought of Spike singing Frankie Miller songs (with Bonnie Tyler) is your idea of hell on earth - then look away now....
Almost Honest – Welcome to the Viking Groove Machine
It was hard to know exactly what I was in for heading into the first listen of Almost Honest’s Seiches and Sirens, a full-length...
MØL’s blackgaze album ‘JORD’
Did you know there is a genre of music called blackgaze? I certainly didn't. It is the ambience of shoegaze (post-rock) combined with the...
Review: Electric Six – Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres
SEX! DISCO! GORE! MORE SEX! GUITAR SOLOS! NEAR-EXTRATERRESTRIAL KEYBOARDS!
That’s right ladies and gents, the only band to convincingly replicate the sound of a LSD-fuelled-disco-rock-orgy...
Katatonia – City Burials
Katatonia have been prominent figures in the gothic rock scene, if you so wish to brand them as such, and their latest album City...
Review: Flyleaf – Between the Stars
Grammy nominated co-founder and lead vocalist Lacey Sturm stepped-down from her role in American hard rock band Flyleaf during 2012 - to concentrate on...
The Winery Dogs – Dog Years: Live in Santiago & Beyond in 2013 –...
The Winery Dogs, a band I knew nothing of around two years ago, but with some members I was all too familiar. Two legendary...
Jetboy were Born To Fly
Founded in 1983, Jetboy first came to my attention with the brilliant and rocked up version of the Johnny Cash tune 'Folsom Prison Blues'. How...
Leader of Down presents The Screwtape Letters
Leader Of Down owe their name to a mishearing of Quo’s ‘Down Down’ by the sadly departed ex-Motorhead guitarist Wurzel who, for several years,...
Dirty Rats rock on Ends In Tears
As soon as a band reveals it's from Australia, assumptions are made… often fair and obvious but, in the case of Dirty Rats I...