Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
We recently published a guest blog post that highlighted the plight of affordable venues and creative spaces, and the need to save them to help Britain's emerging musicians. The topic arose again when we spoke to Newcastle-based electro trio Twist Helix this week. Singer and keys player Bea Garcia Cisneros told us the knock-on impact could be huge: "The... Continue Reading →
Drunken discussions of starting a band with my housemates in Vancouver nearly a decade ago mean I'll always have a certain affinity towards bands with 'Wolf' in their name. The dream of forming 'We Were Wolves' dissipated as quickly as the alcohol that fuelled it disappeared from our systems, but the love for the wolf lived on. But unlike me and... Continue Reading →
East London rockers Chapter And Verse only released their first song in April, but they sold out their first ever show in two weeks and already look set to take the UK rock scene by storm in 2017. Debut EP The Wolves Back Home is a raw blast of massive riffs and addictively piercing vocals that... Continue Reading →
It's always exciting when a band introduces us to a new genre of music, which is exactly what was offered in the form of Riviera's 'Motown Rock'n'Roll.' The new musical definition, for us at least, is the band's play on both their style of music and their location of Morgantown, West Virginia - which is apparently nicknamed Motown by... Continue Reading →
A lot of bands will tell you they're built on friendship and brotherhood, but Surrey rockers Brightlight City probably have a better claim to this than most. Not only are they headed up by the vocalist double act of brothers Jamie and Justin Giarraputo, who also plays guitar, but lead guitarist Jono Staunton is Jamie's... Continue Reading →
There was a time not too long ago when there were so many great Welsh rock bands around it was difficult to keep track of them all. The likes of Funeral For A Friend, Bullet For My Valentine and Lostprophets (I'll say that one quietly) shaped my love for rock music, but Cardiff rockers Calling... Continue Reading →
After a few weeks away over Christmas it'd only be apt to begin 2017 with a bang. And that is duly delivered in the form of 'online sensations' Dorje. We were first introduced to the Brighton-based rockers as being 'the biggest band you won't have heard of,' and from that moment on we were desperate to... Continue Reading →
With just one week until Christmas Day there's probably more than a few of you out there struggling to find last minute gifts for your friends and loved ones. So forget about the X-Factor single or the latest Michael Buble collection,why not let us help you with some music that's actually half decent? Here's our... Continue Reading →
There's not many things I love more than an awesome Scandinavian rock band, so it brings me great pleasure to introduce Sweden's Orbit Culture. The quartet of Niklas Karlsson (guitar and vocals), Richard Hansson (guitar), Fredrik Lennartsson (bass) and Markus Bladh (drums) emerged from Eksjö, in the deep forests of southern Sweden, in 2013. After previously... Continue Reading →
Sixteen years ago singer/songwriter Sami Chohfi drove 3,000 miles or so from Florida to Washington State armed with a Marshall amp and a Fender Jazzmaster with the dream of finding a band in Seattle. In the years since he has worked as a waiter to build his own recording studio and learn the ways of... Continue Reading →
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