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Fuzzbox: Back With Mike Bennett Produced Box Set – Mike Bennett...
Louder Than War's Nigel Carr sat down with legendary writer, playwright and record producer Mike Bennett who was in Manchester putting the final touches...
UK’s biggest new arena announced for Manchester
The new venue will surpass Manchester Arena as the biggest in Britain - with the long-standing Victoria Station site currently accommodating 21,000 people.
Stephen Malkmus: Traditional Techniques – album review
STEPHEN MALKMUS TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES Domino LP / CD / DL Out 6th March, 2020 Pavement/Jicks main man, Stephen Malkmus,...
Dealing with Damage: Ask The Questions – album review
Dealing with Damage - Ask The Questions (Little Rocket) CD Out Now London's melodic post-hardcore outfit Dealing...
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Live Reviews
Sleater Kinney: Manchester Academy – live review
Sleater Kinney
Manchester Academy
27th February 2020 Cazz Blase and Melanie...
Bands
Fuzzbox: Back With Mike Bennett Produced Box Set – Mike Bennett Interview
Louder Than War's Nigel Carr sat down with legendary...
Album Reviews
Various Artists: Independent Venue Week Live 2019 – album review
Paul Clarke reviews the Independent Venue Week live album...
Album Reviews
MinaeMinae – Gestrüpp – Album Review
MinaeMinae - Gestrüpp on the Marionette label. Intriguing modern German electronic music.
Blogs
Greta Thunberg is a generation gap that is like the Sex Pistols times a million.
Greta Thunberg is a generation gap that is like the Sex Pistols times a million. Befuddled oldies are suddenly on the wrong side of history. No-one ever likes that feeling!
Live Reviews
Molchat Doma: Night and Day Café, Manchester – live review
Molchat Doma | Private View
Night and Day Café, Manchester
26th...
ALBUM REVIEWS
Dealing with Damage: Ask The Questions – album review
Dealing with Damage - Ask The Questions (Little Rocket) CD Out Now London's melodic post-hardcore outfit Dealing...
Various Artists: Independent Venue Week Live 2019 – album review
Paul Clarke reviews the Independent Venue Week live album celebrating the strength and importance...
MinaeMinae – Gestrüpp – Album Review
MinaeMinae - Gestrüpp on the Marionette label. Intriguing modern German electronic music.
Bona Rays: Poser – Single review – unreleased 1978 single finally gets issued
Single Review Bona Rays – Poser / Getaway Blues (Flashback Records) 7 inch vinyl / download Release...
FESTIVALS
Peel Slowly And See Festival 2020 Review – Featuring Shortparis
Peel Slowly and See festival in Leiden delivers a great edition, with Shortparis and Neighbours Burning Neighbours.
Underneath The Stars Festival – 31 July to 2 August 2020
Underneath the Stars 2020, the seventh iteration of this wonderfully intimate three day festival with a big heart, has three musically excellent headliners in...
Photo Reviews
Starset: O2 Shepherds Bush Empire – photo review
Starset | Sick Joy
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
13th February 2020 Starset beamed into O2 Shepherds Bush Empire to unleash their special brand of Cinematographic rock,...
A Bowie Celebration: O2 Ritz, Manchester – live review
A Bowie Celebration - The Diamond Dogs + more Tour
O2 Ritz, Manchester
23rd January 2020 The magnificent legacy of David Bowie continues unabated...
Book Reviews
Forever Cramped:The 40 Year Ultra Adventures of a Committed Gorehound – book review
Forever Cramped - The 40 Year Ultra Adventures of a Committed Gorehound.
Martin St John
Self-Published Following up his earlier insight into being part of the embryonic...
Personality Crisis: A Novel by TJ McGuire- book review
Book Review Personality Crisis - A Novel TJ McGuire (Paperback only - self published) 9/10 Teen-punk memoir-cum-fiction, seventies style from small town Scotland. Thomas (TJ) McGuire has written...
LIVE REVIEWS
Hatari: Austurbær, Reykjavik – live review
Hatari
Austurbær, Reykjavik
23rd February 2020 Since their debut in 2015, Icelandic techno-punk trio Hatari has gone through a series of transformations. The original band members Matthías...
Goo Goo Dolls: O2 Institute, Birmingham – live review
Goo Goo Dolls
Birmingham O2 Institute
Tuesday 25th February The weather may be bleak in Birmingham, but the Buffalo rock stalwarts bring a scorching show. Sam Lambeth...
Sleater Kinney: Manchester Academy – live review
Sleater Kinney
Manchester Academy
27th February 2020 Cazz Blase and Melanie Smith witness an exceedingly on form Sleater-Kinney on their The Center Won’t Hold Tour, with...
Molchat Doma: Night and Day Café, Manchester – live review
Molchat Doma | Private View
Night and Day Café, Manchester
26th February Rhys Delany went to Manchester's Night and Day Café for a night of Belarussian synth-pop...
Lindemann: O2 Forum, London – live review
Lindemann
O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London
Sunday February 23rd 2020 Sophie Sparham went along to check out Lindemann, a German-Swedish industrial metal super-duo created by Rammstein...
The Murder Capital: Electric Ballroom, London – live review
The Murder Capital's epic music fades away, the audience erupts into cheers, and strangers embrace in grinning confirmation that tonight has indeed been a bit special
INTERVIEWS
Fuzzbox: Back With Mike Bennett Produced Box Set – Mike Bennett Interview
Louder Than War's Nigel Carr sat down with legendary writer, playwright and record producer Mike Bennett who was in Manchester putting the final touches...
Legpuppy : interview with ‘dark Stereolab meets the lost Velvet Underground’
adventures of the Electronic/ Psych/ Punk outfit Legpuppy...............................................
NEW ARTISTS
Listen to this! Wonderful Beasts release debut EP with album news
The results are quite simply wonderful, providing hypnotic, dreamy soundscapes that will whisk the listener away to a lighter, comfortable place.
Bona Rays: Poser – Single review – unreleased 1978 single finally gets issued
Single Review Bona Rays – Poser / Getaway Blues (Flashback Records) 7 inch vinyl / download Release Date: Friday 28 February 2020 This is one for those obsessive...
Film Reviews
Raining in the Mountain – film review
Raining in the Mountain (1979) Director: King Hu
Cast: Feng Hsu, Sun Yueh, Shih Chun
Run time: 121 minutes
Format: Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD)
Language: Mandarin with optional...
Scandal – film review
Scandal (1989) Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen
Run time: 115 mins
Format: Dual format (Blu-ray and DVD)
Release date: 24 February 2020...
SINGLE REVIEWS
Deja Vega: Who We Are – single review
Deja Vega release a superb taster single, Who We Are, ahead of the release of their second album due for release this October.
Trupa Trupa: End Of The Line – single/video review
Trupa Trupa End Of The Line Released: February 13, 2020 Glitterbeat Records (Europe) From: I’ll Find (EP) Release Date: March 6th, 2020 Poland's Trupa Trupa keep up the momentum...
Ist Ist: Wolves – Single & New Album Announcement
Ist Ist releases Wolves from their upcoming album Architecture. Nigel has a listen for Louder Than War.
Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators/The Edible Eyes – Split single
Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators / The Edible Eyes
The Butterfly (Fill The Frame) / You're Void Next Phase : Normal Records Heavyweight 7” Out now All...








