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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Long-lived lords of Los Angeles drone-psychedelia The Warlocks bring the darkness and the volume to a tiny cupboard somewhere in Southampton.