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Live review: TV Smith raises the Face Bar roof in Reading!

By Will Sewell
Punk legend TV Smith may just be one man with an acoustic guitar, but the founder of The Adverts can still fill a room with sound, as evidenced during his first gig at The Face Bar, Reading on 20.02.2025 - what an outstanding show! Tim is a brilliant singer songwriter, and through his vast collection of material, he makes very valid points about how messed up the world we Continue Reading
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Album review: Black Spiders – ‘Cvrses’

By Alex Goose
Isn’t rock n’ roll supposed to be a young person’s game? Then how come so many of the old guard are doing such a great job of breathing new life into the genre? A case in point: Sheffield rockers Black Spiders, who are about to unleash a beast of a fifth album in ‘Cvrses’, and who only seem to have become ever leaner, meaner and hungrier since forming back in 2008.Continue Reading
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Album review: Split Dogs – ‘Here To Destroy’

By Alex Goose
There’s one glaring omission on ‘Here To Destroy’; namely that, unlike a Split Dogs gig, it comes without vocalist Harry Atkins’ utterly magnetic stage presence. Seriously, of all punk rock vocalists currently doing the rounds, they take the crown - for somehow managing to keep up such gloriously frenzied, bug-eyed, confrontational performances night after night. Suffice Continue Reading
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Chaos and hypnosis: A night with the Brian Jonestown Massacre

By Phil Thorns
It was my first visit to the fantastic Albert Hall in Manchester and what a gem it is. Proving to be the perfect backdrop for a mix of 60s-inspired rock and modern psychedelia from The Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM), whose name combines a tribute to Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and a reference to the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, supported by the Swedish band, Les Big Continue Reading
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Album review: rising punks Winona Fighter’s debut ‘My Apologies To The Chef’

By Ruth Rae
Based in Nashville, Winona Fighter - frontwoman and multi-instrumentalist Coco Kinnon, lead guitarist Dan Fuson and bassist/producer Austin Luther - formed after Coco moved there from Boston. The band's debut 'My Apologies To The Chef' is a wonderfully raw and cohesive reflection on life today that bottles the spirited and cathartic energy of the band’s live shows, as well Continue Reading
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Album review: Fight Back Mountain – ‘Death & The Miser’ 

By Alex Goose
The cheerily-titled ‘Death & The Miser’ is the third album from Fight Back Mountain, and if lyricist/guitarist Anjelica Aquilino’s musings on the state of life in the Midwest are to be believed, then it remains true that troubled times can inspire great art. There’s plenty of soul-searching on display here; a sense of faded glory in the here and now, plus uncertainty Continue Reading