Rock

There are times in life when it feels like darkness will consume the light. Suffering. Loss. The emptiness that follows. At a distance, we can steel ourselves against the grim inevitabilities of disease, dementia and deterioration in old age, but when...

There are seemingly infinite layers of meaning to be found in No-No Boy's third album, Empire Electric. You can listen closely to singer-songwriter Julian Saporiti's lyrics, which juxtapose true stories of struggle from throughout Asia and it's diaspora...

THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY ROCK'N' ROLF KASPAREK IS SO HAPPY WITH BLOOD ON BLOOD. Says Rolf: "We all know the difficulties the cultural sector was faced with during the lockdown. On the other hand, it also gave me and many other artists some extra...

There are moments on Drunk Tank Pink where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's Songs Of Praise. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and...

There are many ways by which a Split album may be crafted and created. Despite of all possible reasons and causes, in order to create a successful split album an awakened state and sense of coherency between the involved bands should be established. But...

There are five of them, five, like the fingers of one hand, a hand ready to form a fist, to slam down hard on a table but also to gently caress the planet. They all grew up in Togo, only a few frontiers away from Benin and Nigeria, several decades...

There are few bands that can, or will, match Sweden's Opeth. Since forming in the tiny Stockholm suburb of Bandhagen in 1990, they have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and crafted 12 stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to...

There are few bands that can, or will, match Sweden's Opeth. Since forming in the tiny Stockholm suburb of Bandhagen in 1990, they have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and crafted 12 stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to...

There are few bands that can, or will, match Sweden's Opeth. Since forming in the tiny Stockholm suburb of Bandhagen in 1990, they have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and crafted 12 stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to...

There are certain bands in this supersaturated, hyper-fragmented, temperamental internet era that rise above ephemeral popularity not because they perpetually reinvent themselves or stay ahead of trends or make headlines with crazy antics or write a mega...

There are bands that play beautiful, engaging concerts, take a bow and go home - and then there are others that open up completely new perspectives, make time stop, and whose clear-cut approach burns itself into the audience's memory...

Thematically, R.Y.F's Everything Burns is a radical confluence of rage and joy; sonically, it is a pressure-cooked combo of dance and punk. The fourth album from the solo project of Italy's Francesca Morello, Everything Burns refuses to be confined by...