Published on August 12th, 2010 by The Editor
Now listen up: if it’s spit’n'sawdust bar-room blues-rawk’n'roll you’re after, it doesn’t come much louder or more fun than a Nashville Pussy live set.
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Tags: blues-rock, hard rock, Nashville Pussy, rock, rock'n'roll
Published on July 27th, 2010 by The Editor
Heroically disturbing face-taped post-hardcore freaks Kong headline an interesting selection of noisy stuff on the middle date of the three-day Wolves Festival.
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Tags: Brontide, Castrovalva, Kong, noise, post-hardcore, post-rock, These Monsters
Published on July 22nd, 2010 by The Editor
Skinny Puppy‘s live shows are legendary in their own right, and with good reason: you’ve never experienced a hypermediated sensory overload like this before.
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Tags: electronica, industrial, Skinny Puppy
Published on July 21st, 2010 by The Editor
It wouldn’t be a Future Of The Left show without the equipment failures… but the Mclusky covers are unusual. Is this a new phase, or the beginning of the end?
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Tags: alternative, Future Of the Left, post-hardcore, rock, weird
Published on July 20th, 2010 by The Editor
Every now and again, a band manages to deliver everything their records promise, and a little bit more besides. One such band is prog-emo outfit Circa Survive.
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Tags: Circa Survive, emo, Halos, post-hardcore, progressive
Published on June 14th, 2010 by The Editor
Male Bonding are just about passable, but support band Pens suggest it’s all over bar the mumbling and eBaying of vinyl for the lo-fi dumb pop thing.
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Tags: lo-fi, Male Bonding, noise, Pens, pop, punk
Published on June 4th, 2010 by The Editor
Californian garage noiseniks Thee Oh Sees are a lot of fun to watch while they make their revivalist psyche-pop pastiches, but not as much fun to listen to.
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Tags: alt-rock, garage, ironic, Mazes, noise, pop, psychedelic, retro, Thee Oh Sees
Published on June 3rd, 2010 by The Editor
As good as Crime In Stereo turn out to be on a small club stage, they can’t help but be upstaged by their fin de siecle punkpocalypse support act, Wounds.
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Tags: Crime In Stereo, noise, post-hardcore, post-post-hardcore, punk, shitgaze, Wounds
Published on May 12th, 2010 by The Editor
Everything you’ve heard about iwrestledabearonce may be true. Or maybe it isn’t. But one thing’s for certain – they’re a mad experience on stage.
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Tags: Dead And Divine, experimental, iwrestledabearonce, mathcore, metal, noise, post-hardcore, spazzcore, technical
Published on July 31st, 2009 by The Editor
Long-lived lords of Los Angeles drone-psychedelia The Warlocks bring the darkness and the volume to a tiny cupboard somewhere in Southampton.
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Tags: art-rock, drone, psychedelic, retro, rock, shoegaze, The Warlocks