The last year may have left a lot of us black and blue, but even with the twists and turns it brought, we definitely were still gifted with some rad music. Now obviously without shows and promoting new music on the road, bands really used the time to promote in new ways, focused on creating... Continue Reading →
Big Light Shining Through: The Insides
Follow the band on Instagram - @the_insides @evilsisterart (Joe- singer/guitarist) @iangallagher12(Ian- bass) @nowhereusa(Mark- drums) Philadelphia. Yet another East Coast city that shines through with a big light musically. I mean we’ve got bands like Circa Survive, Modern Baseball, and The Starting Line, just to name a few. It is no wonder when living and or growing... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Borstal – ‘At Her Majesty’s Pleasure’
Rating - 4/5 Borstal is the new UKHC project featuring Pierre ‘Pelbu’ Mendivil (Knuckledust), Nick Barker (Brujeria, ex-Cradle Of Filth/Dimmu Borgir/Testament), and members of Dripback and King Of Pigs. A veritable supergroup of legends from across the scene, the group is releasing their first EP ‘At Her Majesty’s Pleasure’, a gritty look at political and... Continue Reading →
Staying Sad in Scranton: The Maguas
2020 was definitely a year for hardships and drastic change to our daily lives. We all handled it in different ways and though it’s hard to find some light through the dense fog that was 2020, we were given some absolutely brilliant music to get us through. Now, I could go on a tangent of... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Hello Cosmos – Dream Harder
Rating - 4/5 Instagram http://bit.ly/HCinsta Soundcloud http://bit.ly/HCSound Twitter http://bit.ly/HelloCTweet Facebook http://bit.ly/HCFace ‘Dream Harder’ is the debut LP from Manchester-based collective Hello Cosmos; here to deliver a message of unity and positivity with their music, it’s an album with a clear mission statement…”dream harder”, of course. Sonically there’s a wide band of influences, encompassing many styles;... Continue Reading →
Real Talk – The Magaus
The Magaus have achieved a sound that is so hard to achieve in the modern age. A musical identity that breaks the mold of the modern boundaries and shows that there are no limitations to songwriting. This band has taken a set of ideas and gave them a modern twist to provide us with a... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – The Ghosts of Helags – Parallel
Rating - 4/5 website: http://www.theghostofhelags.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/theghostofhelagsTwitter: @theghostofhelagsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theghostofhelagsofficial/ As a little reminder, The Ghost of Helags are singer-songwriter and producer duo Teresa Woischiski and John Alexander Ericson. Hailing from Sweden and now located in Berlin. We looked at their previous single Chemistry which was inspired by a night time drive and was full of eerie... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Gürl – Saga
Rating - 4/5 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/4RLFV8ILaUuAysAUjDOQfN Saga is the third single from Gürl, a triumvirate comprising Joshua Dalton, Seb Pelter and Jonny Turner. The single is a slow burner and it builds from a sparse darkness into something slightly more vocal and visceral, the piano giving it soul and a thread that runs through it... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Mawpit – Natures Curse
Rating - 4/5 Bandcamp - https://mawpit.bandcamp.com/releases Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mawpitband/?hl=en Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/2RD7z9F2Px2N47I8jOJYpS?highlight=spotify:track:36134CQG6Gz15e0LpZdAOC F.F.O : Wolf Alice, Royal Blood, Garbage, Turbo Wolf Modern rock from Cardiff is a simplistic way to state the identification of Mawpit. The Welsh trio are a tight unit. They quite clearly have music embedded in their daily desires and it shows... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Neck Deep – All Distortions Are Intentional
Rating - 1/5 Welsh pop-punk outfit Neck Deep return with ‘All Distortions Are Intentional’. Billed as a concept album, the group delve into exploring themes through the lens of fictional protagonists in what we can only assume was supposed to be a sunny-yet-fractured charming set of reflections on existence. It’s a lofty ambition to “do... Continue Reading →