Featured image: Carolina Faruolo Pound-for-pound, Manchester is one of the world’s best music cities. The arrow of time didn’t stop its flight once (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? came out. Even the swaggering bucket hat brigade aren’t so fixated on the Stone Roses that they’re resistant to new bands – see the local popularity of…
Thrice are back to celebrate their landmark The Artist in the Ambulance album. A masterclass in early ‘00s post-hardcore, it’s one of the genre’s defining releases. Two decades on, its alchemy of aggression and immediacy remains uneclipsed.
There’s no let-up for the faithful, whose perpetual motion could generate enough electricity to power a small country for a week. Expand this sustainable punk energy to a stadium show and we’d never need to burn coal again.
Featured image: Richard Kelly If you were to swing a cat, hammer throw-style by the tail, in the dressing room behind the stage of YES’s Pink Room, the poor feline would come out a gibbering mess. More of a holding pen or an oubliette, its four white crumbly walls no doubt used to be an…
Featured image and gallery: Gracie Hall Huddled around a Yamaha keyboard as though it’s a roaring campfire, Hastings trio Borough Council kick things off with a lusty “Hey!” reverberating around the venue. The spidery riff from new single ‘Casino’ follows, as Haydn Ackerley’s laconic voice flits between octaves. Frontloading with debut outing, ‘Prescribed’, you could…
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