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Witness: Before The Calm – Album Review

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing Gerald Starkie’s solo revisiting of Witness’s debut album: I’ll try not to repeat myself so please click here to read my Witness ‘origin story’. Now the ‘full-fat’ version of ‘Before The Calm’ has been reissued and pressed onto vinyl for the first time (a limited […] The post Witness: Before The Calm – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War .

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THE JUDGEMENT, THE CONDEMNATION, THE SENTENCE : A THINK PIECE ON GOTH

A history of Goth The post THE JUDGEMENT, THE CONDEMNATION, THE SENTENCE : A THINK PIECE ON GOTH appeared first on Louder Than War .

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Blood Red Shoes: Gorilla, Manchester – Live Review

Blood Red Shoes | Alice Costelloe Gorilla, Manchester 28th October 2026 The Brighton punk stalwarts launch a new era in typically deafening fashion. Two years ago, Blood Red Shoes played a handful of special shows to celebrate twenty years together as a band, allowing dedicated audiences in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin to choose the […] The post Blood Red Shoes: Gorilla, Manchester – Live Review appeared first on Louder Than War .

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The Homesick: What’s Up With All These Shangri-Las – Album Review

A wonderful and mystifying pop odyssey from Dokkum’s finest. God gets everywhere. Certainly in the world of Frisian trio The Homesick, who have never held back in talking about Christianity in their music, however sardonically. We’ve had their sonic commentary on Jesus, St Matthew, St Boniface, and now John Calvin, who has to explain himself […] The post The Homesick: What’s Up With All These Shangri-Las – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War .

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Various Artists – Cronyvirus Detector: A Studio 1 in 12 Sampler Vol 1 – album review

As the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford celebrates it’s 45th birthday, a benefit CD compilation has been produced of all the bands who recorded in its basement at the Studio 1 in 12. Compiled by resident engineer/producer Bri Doom, who provides liner notes on the studio history. Neil Crud applauds loudly. There is something […] The post Various Artists – Cronyvirus Detector: A Studio 1 in 12 Sampler Vol 1 – album review appeared first on Louder Than War .

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Ugly: The South Facade – Album Review

Notebooks out progressive fans! An enervating and memorable, if damned eccentric debut from Ugly. What to make of Ugly’s debut album? The shrill trill of guitar that leads in opener Wasteland introduces an album that is at turns incredibly catchy, nerdy, wimpy, tooth-rottingly saccharine, sharply observed, beautifully played, brilliantly clever and overbearingly precocious. On hearing […] The post Ugly: The South Facade – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War .

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SAL: SAL & Barney Greenway – EP Review

While clocking in at a brisk 10-minutes, SAL and Barney Greenway manage to pack a whole lot of noise, chaos and creativity into their first collaborative EP. As the longest-serving vocalist for Napalm Death, it would be fair to say that Greenway knows a thing or two about all of the above. SAL is a […] The post SAL: SAL & Barney Greenway – EP Review appeared first on Louder Than War .

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Windham Hill Celebrates 50 With All-Star Berkeley Concert

Label touchstones Will Ackerman, Liz Story, Alex de Grassi, Barbara Higbie and Michael Manring were all on hand.

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Teen Photographer’s L.A. Punk Archive Gets Its ‘Shot’

More than four decades after Dina Douglass tucked away the negatives in her childhood bedroom closet, a remarkable photographic record of Los Angeles punk’s formative years is finally coming into focus. Shot As a Teen, a 250-page collection of images taken by Douglass between 1981 and 1985, will be published Nov. 14 by Trust Records […]

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Sufjan Stevens Offers A Christmas Apology

Sufjan Stevens is revisiting the holiday spirit with a little less mistletoe and a little more accountability.

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Nicks, Musgraves, Grohl, The Cure Bolster ‘Hunger Games’

Stevie Nicks, Kacey Musgraves, Ella Langley, Violet Grohl, Depeche Mode and the Cure are among the artists newly confirmed for...

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Morgan Wallen’s Beach Party Has Room For Nelly, Flo Rida, Ying Yang Twins

Morgan Wallen’s Sand In My Boots festival is back for 2027, and its lineup suggests that the country superstar has a pretty expansive definition of a beach playlist.

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Ryan Perdz Unplugs on the Road With Daughtry as ‘Temporary’ Hits Rock Radio

The songs on Ryan Perdz’s debut album, Can’t Cry, began on an acoustic guitar. So it only makes sense that the Buffalo-bred singer-songwriter would be comfortable performing them in an unplugged setting. He’s been doing just that this fall on his first major tour supporting Daughtry — one of his earliest musical heroes. As part […]

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Olivia Rodrigo Readies First Christmas Single

Olivia Rodrigo is adding a little seasonal cheer to her catalog.

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We Have Access to More Music Than Ever. So Why Are We Letting the Best Performances Disappear?

Over the last fifteen years, most of us stopped owning music and started renting access to all of it. We’ve gone from collecting CDs and flipping through album covers to having just about every song at our fingertips. It’s never been easier to find music, but there’s something about the excitement of discovering a new […]

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Melt-Banana's remix of Salvo Beta finally arrives on streaming

]]> Melt-Banana’s remix of Salvo Beta’s track "Alpha Boost" is out today as the first taste of Evil Against Evil: The Kids in the Neighborhood Grab Their Bats & Remix Abrasive Stuttering. The 2002 remix album, which has never been available on streaming services, will be reissued digitally and on CD by Someoddpilot Records on 4 December.

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Sufjan Stevens releases first Christmas song in 15 years

]]> Having released more than 100 Christmas songs over the years, Sufjan Stevens has finally ended his festive hiatus with "On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better)" ahead of his new Christmas hits compilation, Worst Christmas Ever!, arriving this Friday.

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Roscoe Roscoe announce debut album and share “Bossa 916”

]]> East London wall-of-sounders Roscoe Roscoe have detailed their debut album, One Day I’ll Return To You With Loving Arms, arriving on 18 January 2027. The new instrumental single “Bossa 916” is out now.

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Gee Vaucher Foundation launches campaign to archive work of seminal protest-artist

]]> The Gee Vaucher Foundation has launched a £100,000 fundraising campaign to archive more than 2,000 works by the artist Gee Vaucher, who was a member of the anarcho-punk band Crass and whose work was a seminal part of the protest-art movement of the 1980s. T-shirts, cards, and posters are available to supporters through the foundation's website.

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Sofia and the Antoinettes shares “Eden” and announces first of a two-part release

]]> London alt-pop one-to-watch Sofia and the Antoinettes has shared new single “Eden” and announced Existential in High Heels Part 1, the first half of a two-part release, out on 20 November.

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Joyeria announces Live At The Windmill album

]]> London-via-Canada indie rock bizarro Joyeria has announced that later this month he will release Live At The Windmill, a live album recorded at the Brixton venue back in August. Fun fact: It will be the first live recording from the Windmill to be released on vinyl.

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Mighty Hoopla announces Robyn and The Pussycat Dolls for 10th birthday edition

]]> "The UK's biggest pop festival," Mighty Hoopla, has announced the first wave of artists for its 10th birthday edition, with Robyn and The Pussycat Dolls headlining Brockwell Park on 5 June and 6 June 2027.

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Four unearthed Pixies songs arrive on streaming platforms

]]> Pixies have rolled out four previously buried songs – “Dig For Fire (Albini Version)”, “Go Man Go”, “Brackish Boy”, and “Punk Loop” – after they appeared on vinyl as part of Dinked’s remastered versions of Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.

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LEE AARON Announces 'Re-Vamp' Album

Canadian rock icon Lee Aaron, who is known primarily as a solo artist and songwriter, will release her new studio album, "Re-Vamp", on January 22, 2027 via Metalville. Lee's 20th album, "Re-Vamp" is a powerful overview of the very best of Aaron's music to date, featuring eight modern re-recordings o...

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