Welsh rockers The Blackout have never been Britain’s most popular band, but after a number of successful tours and festival appearances in the last few years, and another Welsh band’s sudden slip in popularity, 2013 could be the band’s chance…
Quentin Tarantino has a history of producing fantastic soundtracks. ‘Soundtracks’ almost doesn’t do them justice: they’re more like mix-tapes. As a rule the only original content they contain is sound-bites or lines of dialogue from the film they represent and…
Writing this review seriously hurt me. I know that is a weird way to start a review for any album, but Justin Bieber’s new album, very cleverly entitled Believe Acoustic has caused a ridiculous moral dilemma. Because I kind of like…
From the advent of international success in the Eighties, to facing changing line-ups, several side projects and Cave’s commitments to film scores and solo performances throughout the Nineties and Noughties, 2013 heralds the third decade of Nick Cave and The Bad…
The late 2000’s was a wonderful time in music. Eminem was still talented, nobody had ever heard of ‘dubstep’ and Nicki Minaj wasn’t a thing yet. Staring out from the cover of Kerrang! Magazine was a bloke who looked a…
Trichotomy, an Australian jazz piano trio, made waves with their previous two albums, Variations from 2010 and 2011′s The Gentle War and now they are working the currents and catching us in their tide with their third studio album, Fact Finding Mission. Trichotomy…
Scottish music has come a long way in the last decade or so. Six or seven years ago if you were asked to name a Scottish band you might have said Belle and Sebastian and that would’ve been about it….
As soon as you listen to Arc you are instantly struck by the unique noise that this band can produce. For those of you unfamiliar with Everything Everything, they are a Manchester-based band that formed in late 2007. Many great…
¡Dos! Is the second and latest installment in Green Day’s ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! trilogy and, alas, Green Day seem to have fallen victim to that ‘tricky tenth album’ cliché that we all know so well. As an album it finds the typical Green Day stereotypes:…