Lost Crowns assault the mind with the densely detailed songs of Richard Larcombe (Stars In Battledress). There’s a lot going on here – complex drum patterns, bass and guitar parts with a lot of notes and hardly a […]

MOLO from Bergen, Norway, is all about contemporary rocky shore music. The band – deeply embedded within transatlantic musical traditions – has received inspirations from bands like Fairport Convention, The Rol […]

In the 90’s they played some of the world’s largest festivals, toured with the likes of Rammstein, Deftones and Metallica and were highly regarded in the German music scene for this ability to mix metal with pop […]

Yes, this really is what it sounds like, it is an album full of acoustic versions of AC/DC classics. But, easily the worst thing about this album is the artwork, and once you get past that this is a little gem. A […]

There can be few bands who have been going as long as these guys without a single line-up change, but Isaiah Mitchell (vocals, guitars), Mike Eginton (bass) and Mario Rubalcaba (drums) came together in 2001, and […]

This is the debut album from Berlin-based quartet Engst (the title translates to ‘Major Fire’), and as the title may suggest it is all in German. That is probably down to their refusal to conform and do what is […]

Although this may seem as if it is another seasonal digital only single (and it is these things as well, to be fair), what we have here is a really interesting take on folk-rock, and while based in the folk […]

In Seattle in 1984, high school friends Ted Pilot (vocals) and Ed Archer (guitar) teamed up with lead guitarist James Byrd, completing the line-up with Ken Mary (later Alice Cooper, House of Lords) and bassist […]

The more I listen to David Brenner’s work with Gridfailure, the more I understand what he is attempting to achieve, and hence find myself enjoying his “music” even more. I have put that inside quotation marks […]

I must confess to not having heard anything by these guys since 2005’s ‘Pedal To The Metal’, but guitarist Chris Impellitteri isn’t showing any signs of relinquishing his title of world’s fastest guitarist […]

Apparently one of the reasons for the album title is that this is Judith’s second album, but when opening the gatefold there is a further explanation. Judith met Artie, the love of her life, on a blind date on N […]

This is the follow-up to ‘The One Who Makes You Happy’, which I reviewed some time ago, and contains the same core line-up of clarinetist Anna Patton, Don Anderson on trumpet and flugelhorn, pianist Eugene Uma […]

Following on from the success of ‘Rough Times’, the stoner trio of Christoph ‘Lupus’ Lindemann (vocals, guitars), Christoph ‘Tiger’ Bartelt (drums) and Simon ‘Dragon’ Bouteloup (bass) of course hit the road, w […]

When I was young we used to have a record store in town, and in a glass frame on the wall they would put their record of the week. I can clearly remember seeing ‘Razamanaz’ there for the first time and won […]