Brix Smith & Marty Willson-Piper – Lost Angeles
Brix Smith is the ex-guitarist in The Fall and ex-muse of Manchester legend, the late Mark E Smith. Lost Angeles is a collaboration between her and guitarist Marty...
Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra reflect on Memories Of Machines
Tim Bowness is a musician probably better known for his collaborations with Steven Wilson in No-Man, as well as some delightful solo albums, notably...
Gramma Vedetta hear The Hum of the Machine
You have to love a band who, in their own publicity says: “Gramma Vedetta landed in the Year of 0x7E1, sailing through the...
Smith and Swanson dismount on self-titled release
American vocalist, Phil Swanson has been working with German multi-instrumentalist Tim Schmidt since 2006 in a band called Seamount, although I only know Tim...
Once Human bring the heavy on Scar Weaver
Groove metal crew Once Human are about to unleash Scar Weaver on the world, their third studio album. The band is fronted by Lauren...
Reckless Love: Turborider – Futuristic Nostalgia?
High kickin’ high pitchin’ frontman Olli Herman is back with Pepe Reckless shredding the strings, Jarle Verne on trembling bass and Hessu Maxx on...
Empath have a Visitor
Philadelphia’s Empath class their music as “a kaleidoscopic mix of psych & punk-rock” and, with their follow up to 2019’s 'Active Listening: Night on...
Jonas Lindberg’s The Other Side are Miles From Nowhere
This is the second release from Jonas Lindberg’s prog-rock side project, The Other Side, the follow up to 2016’s Pathfinder, and it’s truly an...
Quickstrike is certainly None of a Kind
You kind of know that you’re in for a treat when a band from Latvia list their names as Ritchskies, Piggy, Fourleaf, Armyfox and...
Venom Prison stir up some chaos on Erebos
Venom Prison are part of what I like to class as the new wave of modern death metal, bands such as Gatecreeper, Celestrial Sanctuary,...