Reviews

I came across Sprints the first time during the pandemic when I finally had time to listen to new music and found a copy of their debut EP Manifesto in a pile of records I received as promotion copies over the year – and it was love at first listen! …

I remember it like yesterday. It was 1985, I was eleven years old and got up early to switch on the telly to watch Live Aid at Wembley Arena in London, and three performances still stick out from that day: Queen (of course, there’s only one Freddie Mercury), David Bowie, …

Take the best songs off Daft Punk’s epic album Random Access Memory and add even more funk plus an overdose of spacepop and you get French six-piece L’imperatrice. The nu-disco/spacepop band have caused a stir after the pandemic, and after an epic Coachella show in 2022, they’ve played full houses …

Sheffield’s metalcore giants While She Sleeps haven’t been on my radar for long. In fact, it’s one of many great bands I discovered while being in lockdown during the pandemic when there was nothing else to do but listen to music. It all started with the You Are We and …

Canadian two-piece powerhouse METZ is pure, unadulterated, ear-bashing noise rock playing at a volume that threatens to punch an audience’s teeth down their throats. I still have vivid memories of my first METZ gig, at the Roskilde Festival 2013, and the sonic weaponry they unleashed on the smallest stage at …

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Bad Nerves don’t need the punk scene, the punk scene needs Bad Nerves! It’s by far the best that happened to punk music since Black Flag was formed in 1976 (although that’s hardcore), both on record and live. Described as the lovechild …