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10. Gang Of Youths “angel in realtime.” ***** __________________________________________________________________________________ 09. Madrugada “Chimes At Midnight” ***** It’s 12 songs over 58 minutes that is musically easy on the ear and the typical fan can’t help but fall for the sense of deja-vu which glues Madrugada’s records together, their unique brand of dark, country rock has carried out through their discography. On …

Yes, it’s has arrived, the playlist with the tracks that defined this bizarre year. The only consistent thing this year was terrible news and terrific music to get us through it. This was the year the music would not stop. This is probably the weirdest playlist you will listen to this year, which happens when you put pop punkers, punk …

It’s hard to describe what you’ve been through after seventy minutes of BLOND and songs about irrelevant things in life (or maybe songs about spinach is relevant?) combined with loads of bantering on stage. But one thing’s for sure: it’s not often you leave a show and have learned a few new dance moves or whispering lyrics about spinach on …

The year was 2020 and Beverly Kills had built momentum after being booked to The New Colossus Festival in New York just a few weeks ahead of the release of their debut EP. The band finally got the international attention they deserved but while in New York the pandemic broke out and the band barely made it back home to …

Sweden’s three-piece Barrens craft /post-rockpost-metal that seems to be always airborne, with even its heaviest moments propelled skyward through interwoven synth sounds and pristine instrumentation preserving its floaty, swirling atmosphere. With their roots in bands like Scraps of Tape, Logh, and Cult of Luna, Johan, Kenta and Markku joined forces after a Scraps of Tape tour on which Markku temporarily …

Boy, oh (fan)boy – a new Mantar album! Finally! And OF COURSE I had to get the limited edition deluxe box set – and now I’m faced with a problem … But first things first: With PIFATITE (don’t you love it when album titles can be shortened to weird acronyms?), the gruesome twosome from Bremen/Florida unleash a nasty bit of …