The live album used to be the mainstay of any rock band. That seems to have become less essential these days, despite the importance of playing live for most bands’ incomes. Whether you consider them relevant or not, there is [...Read More]
Features
FM / Dare / Toby Jepson – Manchester O2 Ritz Live Review
FM / Dare / Toby Jepson – Manchester O2 Ritz June 9th, 2018 Manchester is basking in an unprecedented run of hot weather and spending the evening in a baking hot dancehall isn’t ideal when one could be sat in [...Read More]
The King Lot – A World Without Evil Album Review
These days you have to go to Europe to find some good, fresh, melodic hard rock, so it’s a joy to find The King Lot hail from Scotland. They have been around for a while, however, and A World Without [...Read More]
RIVERSIDE [archive article from 2016]
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With the hugely exciting news just announced of RIVERSIDE’s new studio album, and European Tour, we thought we’d dig this one out of the archive for you ... Polish ‘prog’ masters ‘RIVERSIDE’ have just released an entirely instrumental album entitled “Eye Of [...Read More]
RIVERSIDE announce new album “Waste7and”, and will play the UK in November!
Exciting news just in from the RIVERSIDE camp! Progressive Rock masters RIVERSIDE have just signed a new deal with longtime partners InsideOutMusic and are pleased to announce their upcoming seventh studio album “Wasteland” as well as its corresponding first European tour for October/November. RIVERSIDE [...Read More]
Keith Scott
As Bryan Adams winds up his latest greatest hits tour of the UK, we just thought we’d pull this gem out of the archive! We had the privilege of attending one of the shows on this leg, and had previously had [...Read More]
Born to ?
Bruce Springsteen is a legend, a man at the very epicentre of his own stories whether he’s playing to a select few on Broadway or he’s making the foundations of a football stadium shake with an exhilarating E Street Band [...Read More]
If you stand in a stream don’t be surprised if you end up wet
Discover Weekly, introduced in 2015, is Spotify’s successful algorithmic sales pitch; it keeps you hooked and monetises your data. It’s been such a successful feature they have been investing ever more resources into it. It also censors what you can [...Read More]
Too Many Festivals…
Last year 3.9 million people attended music festivals in the UK. While Glastonbury is considered to be the ultimate, festivals are literally multiplying like unneutered guinea pigs in a shoddily run pet shop with every cricket ground, Butlins Holiday Park [...Read More]
Catch The Charlatans Sold Out Northwich Show on the Big Screen!
Something a little bit special is happening down at Night People in Manchester on Friday, May 18th. Nearly 30 years since the release of their first single, The Charlatans are taking their music back to where it all started for [...Read More]