Japanese Voyeurs have a new album and plenty of tour dates in the pipeline, which means someone must think they’re doing all right. I remain to be impressed.
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Tags: alt-rock, grunge, Japanese Voyeurs, nineties-retro
Japanese Voyeurs have a new album and plenty of tour dates in the pipeline, which means someone must think they’re doing all right. I remain to be impressed.
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Tags: alt-rock, grunge, Japanese Voyeurs, nineties-retro
Much-lauded grunge revivalists Dinosaur Pile-Up roll into Manchester, proving themselves to be capably raucous and angsty, but regrettably samey.
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Tags: alt-rock, Dinosaur Pile-Up, electro-rock, grunge, pop, rock'n'roll, Turbowolf
Newport prog-grungers Blue Gillespie aren’t the jazz outfit that their name implies; low-slung nihilist alt-metal is the sound of Synaesthesia. Get yer bleak on.
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Tags: alt-metal, alt-rock, Blue Gillespie, grunge, progressive, Synaesthesia
Take a look over the lip of the void: Black Mountain return with Wilderness Heart, a lushly gloomy collection of stoned-out psyche-rock, drug-blues and protometal.
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Tags: Black Mountain, blues-rock, grunge, proto-metal, psyche, psychedelic rock, rock, space-rock, Wilderness Heart
Lone Hannoverian Sven Missullis is also known as Reebosound, and he’s got all the gloriously dumb nineties alt-rock-pop fun you need in your life, right here.
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Tags: alternative, fuzz, grunge, grunge-pop, pop, Reebosound, rock, This Is Reebosound
Thirteen acts from the UK rock underground return to the material of Kilnenny’s finest sons on pretty decent covers collection Pledge: A Tribute To Kerbdog.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, covers, grunge, Kerbdog, Pledge, pop, tribute
A second single from young grunge-revivalists Japanese Voyeurs fails to impress with its uninspired retreading of ground conquered two decades beforehand.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, Blush, grunge, Japanese Voyeurs, punk rock, That Love Sound
London alt-rock revivalists Grand Central sound a lot like the Smashing Pumpkins; if they were to somehow acquire their own sound, they could be dangerous.
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Tags: alt-rock, fuzz, Grand Central, grunge, Inside
What if Curve had been based in Seattle and listened to A Perfect Circle albums through a wormhole in spacetime? Luder‘s Sonoluminescence, that’s what.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, grunge, Luder, shoegaze, Sonoluminescence, stoner
Blending a hint of country and a pinch of psychedelia with spacious grungy alt-rock, Confederate Dead‘s Wrecking Ball is both gloomy and glorious at once.
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Tags: alt-country, country, Dead Confederate, grunge, noise, post-rock, psychedelic, Wrecking Ball