After last Saturday, I am still pinching myself a little bit. Sure, Mayday Parade has been around since my emo beginnings and the Hot Topic phase that followed but I never listened to them as obsessively as other bands. Now I’m finding myself making up for lost times as here I am, jamming their classic first two albums “A Lesson In Romantics” and “Anywhere But Here” …
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My favorite Scots are back! Ahead of Vukovi’s packed, sold-out show at The Black Heart in Camden, I rallied the troops and caught up with Janine and Hamish after our last encounter at The Kerrang! Tour. As the two reveal, they have been working on their second studio album, which promises to be a new milestone in the band’s career, with ‘poppier but heavier’ songs. …
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I remember listening to this band for the first time in around 2009/10 and being so utterly and completely confused about what was going into my ear canal. I just could not believe or comprehend what I was hearing. Songs like “Juggernaut”, “No Sleep Tonight”, “Gap In The Fence”, “No Sssweat” or “Hectic” combined the most insane musical elements and gave it …
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I absolutely love getting a band in front of my lens that is inches away from their giant break-through. Seeing how they’re slowly easing into their role, not yet equipped with blanket statements and practiced responses, and genuinely overwhelmed by how they ended up in their current position. The hype around The Faim and their EP “Summer Is A Curse” last year …
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It’s been a slow January, but things sped up rapidly once I found out I was going to interview Fucked Up. The Canadian hardcore-punk legends stopped over in London and delivered a typically high energy set at The Garage, tearing down crowd barriers and genre limitations. Very pumped and grateful for this interview – despite the unexpected nightmare I had getting to the …
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Messed!Up had an amazing start-up year and unleashed some sort of a monster that we still try to control. We’ve been growing from those two, poor mag founders doing everything just for a free beer to become the sixteen dude/dudette strong crew we are today. However, that doesn’t mean we’ll stop finding new people, and some of them run their …
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