Album Review: Blitz Kids – The Good Youth
Cheshire’s Blitz Kids aren’t exactly new faces on the British Rock scene, for the last few years they’ve put in the hard time touring with
Cheshire’s Blitz Kids aren’t exactly new faces on the British Rock scene, for the last few years they’ve put in the hard time touring with
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Love them or hate them, the likes of My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars have done something that few thought was achievable, even
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Venture in the right circles and you’ll find LITE, a name likely unknown to most, to be a band whose new album many a math-rock
For those unaware, Bastions are in the midst of releasing two thematically connected EPs in a series titled ‘Bedfellows’. The EPs included are: ‘Part One: The
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Once I gave my mum a lift in my car and she forced me to turn Jawbreaker off, calling it “meaningless noise”. This is almost
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So Many Ways are completely ridiculous. Somewhere between Avenged Sevenfold and Van Halen is ‘Seer’ and it’s just great fun. Opening track ‘Twisted Heat’, with
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View on Flickr. Photos by Connie Taylor Photography. As I enter the venue, first support band Crooks have just taken to the stage, and my initial thoughts