With each release, Calva Louise are maturing and demanding more from their listeners. Each song packs in at least five different songs, but there’s never a pressure to analyse what’s happening. You ...

Overnight rain hasn’t dampened our spirits or soothed our sunburn as we rise for day two of Download. We’ve got a packed schedule ahead of us, with sound clashes across the stages ensuring that ...

Victory fills the air as day three of Download dawns: we made it! We lived, laughed and slammed our way through the greatest ...

Overnight rain hasn’t dampened our spirits or soothed our sunburn as we rise for day two of Download. We’ve got a packed ...

The sun is relentless, a boot holding a sea of dad caps underfoot. The promise of a storm hangs low in the air. Thankfully the line up at Outbreak Fest in London, organised as part of the Lido ...

Slam Dunk South; traditional kick off to the UK festival season, it delivers the elusive festival highs and global lineup that sets the bar for the rest of the summer. A political undercurrent cuts ...

Andrew Falkous deserves your support. He’s an artist. Check out his blog, it’s a treatise on self-sabotage. For better or, more frequently worse, he will make the choice that allows him to make music.

There was a time when The Menzingers were the favourite band of people with their finger firmly on the pulse of the punk scene. While that’s still the case to an extent, their output in recent years ...

Viagra Boys are anything but ordinary. Spam-mail worthy name aside, they’re a band that cast a glancing eye over the rule book, purely so they know what to avoid. It’s that carefree attitude that has ...

First time around, the Nu-metal era was all a bit embarrassing. Old music was dead, the weird kids were cool and there was a frenzied embrace of something new. Everyone wanted a piece of the pie, the ...

In four hours time, Mike Davenport will play his first show in the UK for a decade. That might rattle some, and there will be more than a few nervous faces onstage in the Monster Energy tent over the ...

There’s no point at which Teen Mortgage’s debut LP ‘Devil Ultrasonic Dream’ doesn’t feel like being inside a sweaty mosh pit. It’s an album that holds you in its embrace even as it kicks you in the ...