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Live At Leeds – a more-than-quaint one-dayer to open up the festival season with a range of acts spanning the indie and pop spectrum. I would be lying if I said the main reason I wanted to go wasn’t the premise of sitting on a sunny hillside with a beer at the nostalgic Temple Newsam site – a place my …

Since the last time I interviewed Set It Off in 2019, a lot has changed, and I’m not just referring to most of our hair colors. With their most recent single ‘Fake Ass Friends’ the band is embarking on a new era on their journey as an independent band which brings on plenty of new possibilities. While tons of fans …

And here’s another show where I missed the opening band, because either my kids fuck these things for me or my day job does … So sadly, I didn’t catch Snakes in the Pit and also missed half of MARCH’s set – but at least I still managed to see (roughly) the second half of their show. And. It. Was. …

My biggest question on that rainy Manchester evening night was the same one I have at every metalcore show – is the band’s multi-thousand-pound rig, with every guitar tone, harmony and ambient synth track mixed to a scalpel’s point, going to be even remotely audible? Or is it simply going to get lost behind the drummer’s crashing and the outdated, …

Macklemore’s “The Ben Tour” was nothing short of electrifying, for a sold-out show of 8000 fans, that was a rollercoaster of energy and emotion. From the moment the crowd began chanting his name the anticipation was unmistakable. When Macklemore finally entered the stage at 8:06, the venue erupted in cheers. Dressed in an open white button up over a white …

One of the hardest working musicians, if not the hardest ever, just released his tenth studio album Undefeated as well as his 50/50 tour documentary about him touring all 50 American states and playing 50 shows within 50 days. And as if that wasn’t enough, at the beginning of May he set off to break the world record for played …